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Uncharted Territory
What Numbers Tell Us about the Biggest Hit Songs and Ourselves
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Popular music history collides with data analytics, charts, and numbers in this insightful and surprising look at the greatest hits and musicians, fads, forgotten artists, and much more. Data analyst and musician Chris Dalla Riva reframes everything you thought you knew about music. Did you know...
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This insightful and surprising history based on data and numbers will reframe everything you thought you knew about popular music over the last 6 decades.
This insightful and surprising history based on data and numbers will reframe everything you thought you knew about popular music over the last 6 decades.
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Popular music history collides with data analytics, charts, and numbers in this insightful and surprising look at the greatest hits and musicians, fads, forgotten artists, and much more. Data analyst and musician Chris Dalla Riva reframes everything you thought you knew about music.
Did you know that hit songs in the late 1950s were regularly about gruesome death? That a US vice president wrote a number one hit? That while TikTok has spawned countless hits, it's made artists more anonymous than ever before? That pop songs have shaped race relations in the United States? That the key change died around 2003? And that's just the beginning.
Coupling hard data with engaging anecdotes, Uncharted Territory is both a takedown and celebration of popular music and provides new ways to think about your favourite songs, genres, and artists from the last six decades using unexpected statistics and playful visualisations. This entertaining history is filled with the most popular musicians of all time, from The Beatles and The Bee Gees to Michael Jackson, Mariah Carey, and beyond. Whether you danced the twist or the dougie at your senior prom, you're sure to never listen to music again in the same way.
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9798765149843
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 13 November 2025
Country: United States
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 26.0mm
Width: 160.0mm
Height: 232.0mm
Weight: 680g
Pages: 352
About the Author
Chris Dalla Riva lives at the intersection of music and data. Playing in bands and recording music since his teenage years, Dalla Riva is currently a Senior Product Manager at Audiomack where he focuses on data analytics and personalization. He writes the popular newsletter Can’t Get Much Higher and has had his work featured by The Economist, Business Insider, The Wall Street Journal, the London School of Economics, and NPR, among many others. He currently lives in Hoboken, New Jersey with his four guitars. Tiktok: @cdallarivamusic / cantgetmuchhigher.com.
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