Cast your eye over the charts from any era before the 2000s, and it feels a little bittersweet. In the 60s, The Beatles dominated, while the 90s was the Britpop era where Blur and Oasis was all anyone listened to. Essentially, chart-topping pop music was good. More recently, the charts have been dominated by TikTok-friendly earworms which no one will be listening to in a year, let alone a decade.
Yet something is shifting. For the first time in years, pop music is cool again, and artists like Charli xcx and Chappell Roan are producing chart-topping songs with actual staying power.
