It's no secret that pop songs have been progressively decreasing in length for the past few decades: the Washington Post recently found that since 1990, the average length of a song on the Billboad Hot 100 has decreased by almost a minute, from over four to around three.
One of the artists spearheading this Great Truncation is PinkPantheress, who averaged a song length of 1 minute and 18 seconds on her 2021 album to hell with it, which came to a total runtime of only 18 minutes. Her latest single, Turn it up, comes in at 2 minutes and 27 seconds, while her longest so far is 2023's Capable of love, which clocks in at three minutes and 43 seconds.
