In Q3, there were 23 songs that landed in the Billboard Hot 100 Top 10 and only two that peaked at #1: Despacito & Look What You Made Me Do.

After surpassing Pop in Q2 with 40% of the Top 10, Hip Hop and Pop tied in Q3, accounting for 30% of songs, each. However, Hip Hop as an influence rose to a new high, influencing 78% of all songs both within and outside the Hip Hop/Rap primary genre. The two #1 hits, Despacito and Look What You Made Me Do, stem from the Latin and Pop genres, respectively.

Men continued to dominate the Top 10 with 70% of all songs featuring exclusively male lead vocals. Only 13% of songs in Q3 featured exclusively female leads.

Minor keys surged in prominence and the popularity of claps/snaps held steady, being utilized in 78% of Top 10 songs such as Believer, Body Like a Back Road and I’m the One, to name a few.

Larger songwriting teams were still by far the most prominent, with 83% of songs featuring four or more credited writers.

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