> ... how will humanity ever learn to be creative if everyone keeps doing the same thing over and over this charted for the yearly top 100 selling songs over t

> ... how will humanity ever learn to be creative if everyone keeps doing the same thing over and over this charted for the yearly top 100 selling songs over the last ~80 years would clearly show the dumbing down of popular music. The Standard Songbook contains music that everyday people sang and danced to, but has a creative variety of chord progressions.