Current trends in popular music.

Destinie Girigari

Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift is an extremely main-stream successful pop star. It isn't exactly surprising that she is at the top of Billboard's 100 chart songs. 

Her new song 'Look What You Made Me Do' was created due to her on-going criticism and drama that people comment on about her daily life. The visuals used in the music video portray Taylor Swift first digging her own grave to portray the 'old' Taylor Swift is dead and gone. However by the ending shows that she is stronger and is born again but into someone more self-awared of those who criticise who she is.

Genre: Pop.

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Cardi B - Bodak Yellow. 

Cardi B is a new American rapper, which released this song on June 16, 2017. From Atlantic records, which is a major record label. This song's genre falls into : Hip-hop/rap.

Reasons for it's success:

- The use of the hook, beat, lyrics.

- Cardi B is described as a 'natural' as she can use her voice to fill up the minimal beat used for the songs instrumental.

The music video on YouTube has been viewed over 284 million times, and during it's fifth week on the chart had jumped to number 14.  The song topped the Hot Rap Songs chart and reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming the second solo female rap song to top the chart ever and first since Lauryn Hill’s “Doo Wop (That Thing)”debuted at #1 way back in 1998.

Despacito - Lusi Fonsi, Daddy Yankee ft. Justin Bieber.

Genre: Reggaton, latin pop, dance/electronic, pop.

Many latin music are raising high in US charts, an example would be Despacito. Also, from Justin Bieber featuring in the remix version, it has reached top three in the charts.

Even before Justin Bieber had featured on Despacito, it was a 'smash' in the charts, as it is the first YouTube video to hit 4 billion views.

And during early spring/summer, "Despacito" landed a 16th week atop the Billboard Hot 100, the most weeks at No. 1 ever for a single, equaling the reign of Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men's "One Sweet Day," which ruled for a long stretch in 1995-96.

Imagine Dragons - Believer. 

Genre: Pop rock, indie, pop.

The song was released on February 1, 2017 through Interscope and KIDinaKORNER  as the lead singer from the band's third studio album, Evolve. 

"Believer" peaked at number four on the US Billboard hot 100 becoming the band's third top ten hit after 'Radioactive' and 'Demons'. The song played heavily on advertisements such for the Nintendo Switch and various movie trailers and television shows

As of September 28, 2017, the song has sold 1,361,877 copies in the United States.