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Chris Dalla Riva

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Women are Superstars on Stage, but Still Rarely Get to Write Songs

Songwriting credits since 1958, broken down by gender.

by Chris Dalla Riva, Ashley Cai via The Pudding on July 20, 2023
Teenagers Didn't Always Exist

So where were those angsty kids?

by Chris Dalla Riva via Can't Get Much Higher on March 16, 2023
Why Do Modern Pop Songs Have So Many Credited Writers?

How modern songwriting evolved into a game of aggressive credit—even for the people who didn’t technically do the composing.

by Chris Dalla Riva via Tedium on February 4, 2023
How the Billboard Hot 100 Lost Interest in the Key Change

One of the key changes—pun intended—to the pop charts in the last 60 years is the demise of key changes. What happened?

by Chris Dalla Riva via Tedium on November 9, 2022

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