1: Number of No. 1 songs from 2010 to 2020 that changed keys
18%: Percent of noise-polluted marine parks in Australia estimated as exposed to unsafe shipping traffic
14%: Percent rise since last year in noise complaints at the second largest airport in the Netherlands
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¹Footnotes
Key: npr.org (the exception was Travis Scott’s “Sicko Mode,” featuring Drake). Australia: cosmosmagazine.com. Netherlands: eindhovennews.com.
Does first figure, one no. one tune that changes key, include the oft used up a whole tone modulation (heard in pop tune era of yore to keep groove momentum while creating some sense of variety).
Not missing that approach (hearing all over the place) nor sophisticated enough to know any discernable difference twixt A and B.