In recent years, several studies have found that popular songs have been steadily decreasing in length since the 1990s, a trend spurred on in the past decade by the rise of streaming services and social media.
PinkPantheress made the headlines last year when the British artist, who averaged a song length of 1 minute and 18 seconds on her 2021 album To Hell With It, made the bold claim that a song "doesn't need to be longer than 2 minutes 30 seconds".
