Why are songs getting shorter?
When Szu Yu Chen, a graphics reporter at The Washington Post, was covering this year\u2019s Grammy Awards, she couldn\u2019t help but notice how many nominated songs came in under three minutes. The more she looked into it \u2013 analyzing Billboard charts and interviewing artists \u2013 the more she realized this was a real trend. Meanwhile, when \u201cPost Reports\u201d audio engineer Sean Carter was working in a recording studio in Atlanta, he kept observing a similar shift, too.
Today, Carter guest hosts \u201cPost Reports,\u201d in conversation with Chen, exploring what\u2019s driving this change in music, and what\u2019s gained and lost as a result.
Today\u2019s show was produced by Elana Gordon, edited by Monica Campbell and mixed by Rennie Svirnovsky.
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