92% of Top Ten Billboard Songs Are About Sex

Friday, October 7th, 2011

Approximately 92% of the 174 songs that made it into the [Billboard] Top 10 in 2009 contained reproductive messages.

“The 174 top-selling songs were analyzed in order to determine how many sexy messages they contained in any of 18 sexy categories, including “arousal,” “sexual prowess,” and “genitalia.” There was an average of 10.49 sex-related phrases per song, with R&B being head-and-shoulders(-and-maybe-some-other-body-parts) above the two other musical genres analyzed, country and pop,” says Dino Grandoni.

“Sexual appeal” was the most popular theme among both R&B and pop songs, while “commitment” (yawn) was most prevalent in country music.

Dino Grandoni is an Atlantic Media Fellow at Atlantic Media Company

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