Simple Songs
03/25/2016 |
The Friday file: In the 1960s, 8.8% of songs in the Billboard Hot 100 had a one word title. That jumped to 9.7% in the 70s, 11.1% in the 80s, 13.2% in the 90s, 19.9% in the 00s and 23.2% in the 10s. Since 1960, Drake is the artist with the shortest average number of words/song title at 2.47, followed by Taylor Swift at 2.48 and Justin Bieber at 2.53.