Success of a music track has little to do with quality.
Even Top 40 hit lovers would have a hard time denying the claim that popular music generally sounds rather repeating. This assertion feels so intuitive that even detailed scientific studies that support this, shrug. Although it is hardly an indication of good art, repetition and simplicity are not all bad. In fact, most listeners tend to balance familiar and new, two factors that “affect not only how we perceive popular music, but also how it is produced,” according to researchers behind a PLOS One study who explores how a style is, the musical complexity increases or decreases over time with regard to the sale of albums.
Popularity
In the Medical University of Vienna, Austria, scientists found that the more popular a musical style grew, the more generic it became. Partly because of the abundance of artists who are flocking to a burgeoning sound and the drop-off in innovation that tends to accompany demand. The study looked at the 'instrumental complexity' of more than half a million albums from 1955 to 2011, in 15 genres and 374 styles as diverse as' hyphy ', 'viking metal', 'acid jazz' and 'Korean court'. music.” Within those styles, researchers analyzed the use of nearly 500 instruments. Styles that used generic instruments in many other styles had low complexity, while styles with a wider range of instruments used in fewer styles had high complexity.
