Happiness makes hit songs: study
May 16, 2018
Hit songs today are "happier", more danceable and more likely to be sung by women than songs that fail to make it to the charts, a study into 30 years of musical evolution revealed Wednesday.
But also it noted a somber trend: while people clearly prefer happy music, there is less and less of it.
"More and more unhappy songs are being released each year," a research team from the University of California Irvine reported in the journal Royal Society Open Science.
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