92% of Top Ten Billboard Songs Are About Sex
"Approximately 92% of the 174 songs that made it into the Billboard Top 10 in 2009 contained reproductive messages," said Dawn R. Hobbs, psychology professor at the State University Of New York and lead author of the study in Evolutionary Psychology.
Proof, if it were still needed, that sex sells - but it's not a new strategy.
Elsewhere in her study, Professor Hobbs found that did the trend not only stretch back to the birth of rock'n'roll, but to opera.
"While the frequency of some of the themes differ," she added, "these findings clearly show that the same reproductive categories derived from the content analysis of our initial sample of 2009 contemporary songs map surprisingly well onto the lyrics from opera and arts songs dating back hundreds of years."
Read more and get a link to the study that found the best-selling songs had "an average of 10.49 sex-related phrases per song" here in The Atlantic Wire.
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