[drb91]

Well, if the effect is there, it should be visible after incorporating the rest of the pop corpus. Straightforward to test; easy to reproduce.

[joanofarf]

True. I wonder if now, six years later, more older music, not just the biggest hits, has been digitized as well, so that the sample does not skew so heavily.

[drb91]

Sadly, this makes “pop” an inherently political thing to judge.