Tracking the Rise and Fall of Hit Songs about Places
Source: Billboard
Tools: Pandas, Excel, Datawrapper
I saw someone musing online the other day that back in the day people used to sing about obscure places more often, like Chattanooga and Kalamazoo. Using 80 years of hit song data from Billboard, I mined song titles to see if we are actually singing about places less frequently. We are. I have a longer write-up https://www.cantgetmuchhigher.com/p/no-one-sings-about-kalamazoo-anymore speculating as to why here if you are curious #education source