Hit Parade: Rolling in Gods Royal Uptown Road Edition
b'All decades of pop music swing between trends and fads\\u2014but the 2010s was swingier than most. From the maximalist EDM of the early \\u201910s to the downbeat hip-hop of the late \\u201910s, the pop pendulum oscillated more widely than you may remember. The same decade that gave us Adele\\u2019s stately balladry, Katy Perry\\u2019s electro-froth and Taylor Swift\\u2019s country-to-pop crossover also gave us the Weeknd\\u2019s bleary indie-R&B and Drake\\u2019s moody rap. And Bieber\\u2014so. Much. Bieber.\\nWith just weeks to go before the end of 2019, Hit Parade walks through the last decade of the Hot 100, year by year, and asks: What was that? Arguably, what drove pop in the \\u201910s wasn\\u2019t just the production sounds of dance music or hip-hop but the technologies we used to consume music, as the shift from downloads to streams changed the contours of chart success. And in the end, one multigenre queen navigated these shifts better than most, finding pop love in a hopeless place.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'