Chart music hasn’t changed much in 20 years

[TeamSleep]

It’s been at least a decade since I regularly listened to radio one. I decided to listen to the charts yesterday on a long car journey and I really don’t feel like chart music has changed much since the early 2000s. When I was young (approx 5 years either side of the year 2000) music from the early 90s, 80s, 70s and 60s sounded so different to the stuff I was listening to. AIBU to think that chart hits from the early to mid 2000s could be released today and still feel fresh (and actually much better than a lot of what’s being released now). Or am I just getting old?

The early 2000s music is getting a resurgence in the current time, so that's why it probably sounds the same.

There has definitely been different trends throughout the last decade- 2000s sort of pop punk/rock era moved onto grunge/rap came back for a period, then dance, songs with foreign language chorus mash-ups (although admittedly followed very close to dance) and now pop rock seems to be coming back round again.

I'm not really a chart follower so May have missed certain eras, but there have been noticeable shifts. The pop/dance movement seems to have stuck around longest in the mainstream though and never really goes away.