“Around the World”—Daft Punk
60 Songs That Explain the '90s
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Are Pop Lyrics Getting More Repetitive?
The most repetitive song of 2014 was Turn Down for What by DJ Snake and Lil Jon. In 2017, Colin Morris analyzed a data set of 15,000 songs that charted on the Billboard Hot 100 between 1958 and 2017. The Lempel-Ziv algorithm compresses repeated sections of the text and then it forget it.
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