[OC] The Popularity of Christmas Music and Rock Music, 1940-2020
This charts the frequency of popular Christmas song releases (per Wikipedia) against the rise and fall of Rock music entries on Billboards HOT 100 list (per The DataFace).
Wikipedia data scrape and DataFace crosstab download were assembled in R, output via SVG, and then refined in Adobe Illustrator.
Wikipedia, List of popular Christmas singles in the United States,
If this was the UK then the explanation for the 1970s and 1980s would be Slade.
I think we have a chart that clearly explains why everything in the world has gone wrong.
The War on Christmas is finally over
So The Rock popularity is plotted over time. But the Christmas songs are plotted over release date? Isn’t that kind of misleading?
So all this is saying is that people today don’t like Christmas music made in the ’70s and ’80s And that rock music was most popular in the ’70s and ’80s.
If you plotted this 10 years ago the red line would look the same but the Blue bars might look completely different!
So the question is why do people today not like Christmas music that was released during the rock era?
I have a sneaking suspicion that it has to do with pop singers having a hard time making and selling covers of Christmas rock songs.
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[OC] The Popularity of Christmas Music and Rock Music, 1940-2020
This charts the frequency of popular Christmas song releases (per Wikipedia) against the rise and fall of Rock music entries on Billboards HOT 100 list (per The DataFace).
Wikipedia data scrape and DataFace crosstab download were assembled in R, output via SVG, and then refined in Adobe Illustrator.
Wikipedia, List of popular Christmas singles in the United States,
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_popular_Christmas_singles_in_the_United_States](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_popular_Christmas_singles_in_the_United_States)
The DataFace, The Evolution of Music Genre Popularity (2016),
[https://thedataface.com/2016/09/culture/genre-lifecycles](https://thedataface.com/2016/09/culture/genre-lifecycles)
If this was the UK then the explanation for the 1970s and 1980s would be Slade.
I think we have a chart that clearly explains why everything in the world has gone wrong.
The War on Christmas is finally over
So The Rock popularity is plotted over time. But the Christmas songs are plotted over release date? Isn’t that kind of misleading?
So all this is saying is that people today don’t like Christmas music made in the ’70s and ’80s And that rock music was most popular in the ’70s and ’80s.
If you plotted this 10 years ago the red line would look the same but the Blue bars might look completely different!
So the question is why do people today not like Christmas music that was released during the rock era?
I have a sneaking suspicion that it has to do with pop singers having a hard time making and selling covers of Christmas rock songs.
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