As streaming booms, songs getting faster: study


  • TECH
  • Friday, 07 Apr 2017

NEW YORK: Streaming is making it quicker not only to play music. A new study finds that pop songs themselves are getting faster as listeners’ attention spans diminish. 

Instrumental openings to songs have shrunk dramatically over the past three decades and, to a lesser extent, the average tempo of hit singles has been speeding up, the research found. 

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