Are newly released songs losing their cultural foothold? By some measures, yes. Tracks released over 10 years ago now account for around 20 percent of the Spotify Top 100. As of this writing, the following songs have made the Spotify Top 100 every day for the last three months: “Mr. Brightside” by The Killers, “Dreams” by Fleetwood Mac, “Iris” by Goo Goo Dolls, “Creep” by Radiohead, “Sweater Weather” by The Neighbourhood and “505” by Arctic Monkeys. This growing appetite for older music has reshaped the chart itself: Songs are lingering in the Top 100 for longer, fewer new tracks are breaking through each year and, perhaps most surprisingly, the one-hit wonder may be going extinct.
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