{"id":43665,"date":"2011-09-20T00:56:32","date_gmt":"2011-09-20T08:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=13935"},"modified":"2011-09-20T00:56:32","modified_gmt":"2011-09-20T08:56:32","slug":"40-hits-in-40-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2011\/09\/20\/40-hits-in-40-years\/","title":{"rendered":"40 hits in 40 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not very interested in music compared to the average person. But I&#8217;m curious about changing tastes in music over time, because it&#8217;s part of our cultural fabric. Since I lack real &#8220;thick&#8221; knowledge in this domain, I started to think of crutches to allow me to get a slice of perception as a function of time. So what I did was look at all the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Billboard_Year-End#Billboard_year-end_number_ones\">top songs by year since 1970<\/a>, and found them on YouTube. I created a &#8220;playlist&#8221; which I could listen to all at once.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-13935\"><\/span><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"340\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/videoseries?list=PL170F4B9A057D68A0&amp;hl=en_US\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/GeneExpressionBlog\/~4\/DNA3otoAluY\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not very interested in music compared to the average person. But I&#8217;m curious about changing tastes in music over time, because it&#8217;s part of our cultural fabric. Since I lack real &#8220;thick&#8221; knowledge in this domain, I started to think of crutches to allow me to get a slice of perception as a function [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1725],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43665"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44778,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43665\/revisions\/44778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}