Explore FM's Rise and Fall on Google Timeline

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Wired by Katie Collins, January 17, 2014

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/...music-timeline


Explore the rise and fall of your favourite artists with Google's Music Timeline

Google's research department has released an interactive timeline that explores the popularity of music genres across the years from the 1950s to the present day.

The visualisation has been constructed based on how many Google Play users have specific albums or artists in their libraries. The thickness of each stripe along the timeline correlates with the popularity of that particular genre in each year.

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To explore each genre in more detail, you can click on its stripe to find out about the waxing and waning popularity of its various subgenres and fusion genres. Alternatively, you can also search for specific albums or artists. The music Fleetwood Mac produced in the mid 70s, for example, has been dramatically more popular than anything else the band has released before or since. Unsurprisingly, this coincides almost perfectly with the release of the album Rumours in 1977.