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Study: Lyrics Of No. 1 Hit Songs Average A Third-grade Reading Level
According to a new study conducted by data wiz Andrew Powell-Morse, the lyrics for the last decade’s No. 1 hit songs average a third-grade reading level. Powell-Morse analyzed 225 songs that had spent three or more weeks atop the Billboard charts in four different genres (R&B/Hip-Hop, Country, Pop, and Rock) and found that a second-grader with slightly higher-than-average reading comprehension skills would have no problem grasping the lyrics.
While the study’s findings seem obvious to anyone who has flipped on a radio in the last few years, there are a number of surprising points in the data.
According to the study, country music is the “smartest” genre lyrically, with an average grade-level of 3.3. Pop and rock tie at 2.9, while today’s hip-hop could be fairly well-understood by a second-grader in the latter half of the school year …. http://www.breitbart.com
Source: http://luismmx.blogspot.com/2015/05/study-lyrics-of-no-1-hit-songs-average.html
