Changing Use of Seventh Chords: A Replication of Mauch et al. (2015) by Hubert Léveillé Gauvin

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Meeting in the Middle: Sociophonetic Convergence of Bad Bunny and J Balvin’s Coda /s/ in Their Artistic Performance Speech by Elizabeth Naranjo Hayes

“…The artistic performance of identity by top Latin music artists can be heard on many Top-40 US radio stations, since, as of July 2023, 20% of the Billboard Hot 100 is (Spanish language) Latin music. This study aims to determine the variants found in the pronunciation of coda /s/, a robust phonetic differentiator of regional and social dialects, in the top songs versus in the spontaneous speech of the two top Latin music artists in the global market. …”
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The evolution of popular music: USA 1960–2010 by Matthias Mauch, Robert M. MacCallum, Mark Levy, Armand M. Leroi

“…To rectify this, we investigate the US Billboard Hot 100 between 1960 and 2010. Using music information retrieval and text-mining tools, we analyse the musical properties of approximately 17 000 recordings that appeared in the charts and demonstrate quantitative trends in their harmonic and timbral properties. …”
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Novelty and cultural evolution in modern popular music by Katherine O’Toole, Emőke-Ágnes Horvát

“…Using Music Information Retrieval (MIR) data and lyrics from Billboard Hot 100 songs between 1974-2013, we calculate a novelty score for each song’s aural attributes and lyrics. …”
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Essen as a Corpus of Early Musical Experience by Niels J. Verosky

“…Overall, profiles of scale-degree behavior from the children’s song corpus match profiles from Essen more closely than do profiles from another corpus of music widely familiar to contemporary listeners (Billboard Hot 100 songs) and similarly closely as a corpus of nineteenth-century common-practice German vocal music (Schubert songs). …”
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A Five Star Flop: The Collision of Music Industry Machinations, Genre Maintenance, and Black Britishness in 1980s Pop by Anthony Kwame Harrison

“…The group never cracked the US market – their highest Billboard Hot 100 song being the 1986 single, “Can’t Wait Another Minute ” (peaking at Number 41) – and remain virtually unknown to most American music fans. …”
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