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Strange Patterns

Something intriguing in the behavior of songs with sexual content

As I dive deeper into the gender dynamics of songs with sexual content in the charts, a few interesting threads have emerged. One that I am currently pulling is based on a chart showing a mysterious relationship between songs with sexual content by male performers and a female performers respectively. I first noticed this pattern hidden within the general yearly performance averages when I was putting together my initial article. It emerges when that broader trend of declining chart performance of songs with sexual content is seperated into chart performance by gender and plotted with monthly average chart position. It is a pattern that has occured every year in the past 4 years.

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