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I guess we’re not counting a lot of jazz tunes with key changes and time signature changes? Pretty much half of the music I have put out over the last five years has one or the other. Or certain kinds of internalized chromatic movement that switch the keys around. So it may be more common than you think.

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Just looking at the pop charts here

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It would be interesting to know how key changes have fared in music outside of Billboard. I got exposed to a lot of key changes during lowest ebbs in the 2000s because I didn't care about what was on those charts in high school. At that point I could just use iTunes to find other music and with that whatever was on the Billboard pop charts just wasn't as intriguing.

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