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Old 07-12-2014, 06:28 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Default Average song length, 1944 to 2008

Been noticing this with some of the recent albums I've bought: There's a lot more long songs - or at least fewer short ones (like, 2 min) - nowadays than there were in the 60's and even 70's. Though it seems to have peaked in the early 90's:
https://plot.ly/~RhettAllain/131/average-song-length/
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