There was a drop in the mid-1940s after an initial rise in the early to mid-1920s just as we found in tempo and dance-ability. The first thing we notice from the chart is how it follows the pattern of tempo and dance-ability from the 1920s to the 1980s. While those with low valence are sad, depressing, and angry. Thus, tracks with high valence are usually more positive, happy, cheerful or euphoric. Valence is a measure that describes the music positiveness conveyed by a track. The chart above shows the history of the valence of tracks from the 1920s. These platforms contain music that was created even before these technologies and platforms were created. Other variations of Spotify may include but not limited to iTunes, Deezer, etc. This is an online platform (with a mobile application version) that gives access to millions of music from different artists and genres from all over the world, usually for a monthly subscription. One of these applications that have brought music closer to us is called Spotify.

The advent of technologies such as smartphones which also led to the surge in application and software development put music right at the fingertip of everyone who could afford smartphones (and smartphones have gotten really cheap over the years).

The way we, as humans have listened and enjoyed our music have changed tremendously over the past 25 years. Virtually everyone loves and listens to some type of music in one way or the other. Did our taste in Music change over the years?

Spotify music taste