Is music today trending sadder?

Is music today trending sadder?

By AllMusic Staff

Sep. 30, 2013

Today The Echo Nest is examining a recent BBC World Service report which included such findings as "music has been growing increasingly minor, which is the mode associated with sad emotions." Digging deeper -- the BBC only looked at 1,000 songs total -- the folks at the Echo Nest studied 17 million songs going back to 1960 to see if they arrived at the same conclusions.

How do you think the data compared? Find out in the story.

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