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Chris Dalla Riva
Personal blog · cantgetmuchhigher.com/pculturedata
Chris Dalla Riva writes Can't Get Much Higher, a personal blog at cantgetmuchhigher.com about culture and data. Since 2024, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 20 times, most often “History of Reddit's Lostwave Community”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked from a thread on a theory that the world is run by large adult children. The one comment cites Rick Beato's data on the decline of key changes in Billboard number-one hits, without judging the post.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The intersection of music and data.
Most-linked posts?
- History of Reddit's Lostwave Community2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-10-08
- The Greatest Two-Hit Wonder2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-03-21
- The Return of the "Elderly" Pop Star2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-07-10
What Hacker News says?
It's not just compression. Rick Beato has talked about this a lot. Popular music no longer has any key changes: From 1960 to 1995, between 20% and 35% of Billboard Hot 100 number one hits in any given year contained a key change. Around the turn of the millennium that rate started to dip until it hit 0% by the end of the 2000s. [1] I believe that simple 4/4 time has also become more prevalent as compared to more com…
Comment linking /p/revisiting-the-death-of-the-key-change
on “A Theory of the World as run by large adult children”Submitted I analyzed chord progressions in 680k songs as a story · 308 points
HN discussionSubmitted How many artists' careers did the Beatles kill? as a story · 213 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using data to find which music stars are being forgotten the fastest as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Greatest Two-Hit Wonder as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Did Frank Sinatra Really Perform at My Grandma's High School? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Return of the "Elderly" Pop Star as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Do People Tell Sad Stories in YouTube Comments? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Worst Taylor Swift Song as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Return of the "Elderly" Pop Star as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Pop Music Became a Sport as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Encores Are Becoming Less Common at Concerts as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted History of Reddit's Lostwave Community as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Can Music Change How We Speak? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Comparing Pop Artists at 35 Years Old: Is Taylor Swift an Overrated 35-Year-Old? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The 18 Best Podcast Episodes about Music as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Greatest Two-Hit Wonders as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Who Owns AI-Generated Music? I Asked People That Make It as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Needles in Haystacks: The Lostwave Story as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Look at Personalization on Spotify as a story · 1 points
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