“The percentage of explicit songs on Spotify’s Top 50 chart has fallen from 74% in 2018 to 13% today”: New data reveals that explicit lyrics are in decline - but why?

Explicit Music.

This writer is old enough to remember the days when picking up a CD album emblazoned with that iconic black-and-white sticker; ‘Parental Advisory: Explicit Content', triggered a giddy rush of subversion.

If anything, the warning made us even more eager to take it to the till.