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Lamm’s “History of Music” project details every song on Billboard’s Year-End Hot 100 list since 1960. Each colored rectangle in the visualization represents one song, and each column represents one ...

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A previous version of this article contained a graphic with the best letter combinations in the wrong order. This graphic has been updated with the correct order. Posts of green, yellow and grey ...

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