R+P Post 6: Current trends in Popular Music

Due to the proliferation of mobile technology over the last decade there has been a clear shift on how music is consumed. This shift has led to streaming services and the online purchase of music overtaking the number of purchases of physical copies of music.

Mark Mulligan made a graph to show the shift of the measurements of success for a new generation of digital age artists:



The top 10 charts for singles and albums give me a good insight in to what the trends are like.

Top 10 Albums

Top 10 Singles

From looking at the charts I was able to see that there are a lot of R&B and Rap songs in the top charts with the likes of Post Malone, Camilla Cabello, Rag'N'Bone Man and Ed Sheeran. There is also a demand for more 'old-school' music as Elvis Presley and George Micheal, this could be because younger people want to experience the "golden days of music" and experience a different variety of music compared to what music is like today.