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Something I said on the Other Place w.r.t. this BBC article:

If you look at the lists of #1 UK albums it's really only from 1964 that youth-targeted music dominates (and even then the Sound of Music OST is a massive seller in 66-67). I'd guess that listening to and socially enjoying popular music has been primarily an all-ages activity for almost all British history, barring maybe 40 years in the late 20th century. Which we happened to grow up in, so we think this trend is odd.

Is this true, or fair, or significant?

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[(Anonymous)]

And taking r&b as the framework, I don't think you get "tunes dominating then, grooves dominating now" as your history. I think it goes back and forth. (And most hip-hop/r&b that charts these days is verse-chorus.)

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