Hit Parade: Rolling in God’s Royal Uptown Road Edition

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🗓️ 27 November 2019

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

All decades of pop music swing between trends and fads—but the 2010s was swingier than most. From the maximalist EDM of the early ’10s to the downbeat hip-hop of the late ’10s, the pop pendulum oscillated more widely than you may remember. The same decade that gave us Adele’s stately balladry, Katy Perry’s electro-froth and Taylor Swift’s country-to-pop crossover also gave us the Weeknd’s bleary indie-R&B and Drake’s moody rap. And Bieber—so. Much. Bieber. With just weeks to go before the end of 2019, Hit Parade walks through the last decade of the Hot 100, year by year, and asks: What was that? Arguably, what drove pop in the ’10s wasn’t just the production sounds of dance music or hip-hop but the technologies we used to consume music, as the shift from downloads to streams changed the contours of chart success. And in the end, one multigenre queen navigated these shifts better than most, finding pop love in a hopeless place. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Louis Thruu Interviews is back on BBC I Player.
0:04.0	Thank you for letting us in.
0:05.0	Letting you in, we've taken over.
0:07.0	I'll be having honest chats with some well-known faces,
0:10.0	like Anthony Joshua.
0:12.0	When I be the champions of the division, then you'll see me exciting.
0:14.0	If you beat Tyson Fury,
0:16.0	I'll be able to move.
0:17.0	Ray.
0:18.0	I don't know how I would handle some things that I've experienced without music.
0:21.0	And Ashley Walters.
0:23.0	I had no reason to be out on the street, do you know what I'm saying?
0:25.9	Louis Thru interviews.
0:27.4	Watch on BBC Eye Player.
0:38.8	Welcome to Hit Parade, a podcast of Pop Chart History from Slate magazine about the hits from Coast to Coast.
0:40.2	I'm Chris Malanfi, Chart Analysts, critic, and writer of Slates, Why Is This Song Number One series?
0:47.0	On today's show, The End of 2019 is just weeks away, which means the end of another decade we don't quite
0:56.8	know what to call. The teens, the tens, I'm going with the tens. No matter what you call it or where you reside along
1:06.8	the cultural, political, or musical divide, I think we can all agree. This has been a pretty flukee decade, particularly on the pop charts.
1:17.0	In movies, the TENS will be remembered, for better and worse, as the decade of the Marvel Cinematic
1:29.6	universe.
1:31.1	On television, we will remember the tens as a golden age of peak TV, from Breaking Bad to Game
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