Hey y'all, you're listening to It's Been a Minute from NPR.

So it's the last week of 2021,

and we've been talking a lot this month

about what happened in this year of news and pop culture.

And for this episode, I wanna talk about the year in music,

and not just music we loved,

but also how the music industry has been changing

very quickly.

Besides you know the pandemic,

the rise of TikTok and the continued dominance

of streamers like Spotify,

it means the music industry looks even more different now

than it did at the start of 2021.

So I called up my friends Charlie Harding and Nate Sloan.

They're the two co-hosts of one of my favorite podcasts,

Switched On Pop.

And I talked with them both about what changed

in the Pop landscape of 2021,

and what their favorite albums of the year were.

I had so much fun talking with them,

I hope you have fun listening.

Enjoy.

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