Introduction Music producers are adapting their songs for modern technology. Researchers have found long instrumental introductions to pop songs have become almost extinct. Neil and Rob discuss this new trend and teach you some vocabulary. This week's questionIn 2017 Luis Fonsi's summer hit Despacito officially became the most streamed song of all time. Do you know approximately, how many times it was streamed? Was it: a) 1.6 billion times, b) 3.6 billion times, or c) 4.6 billion times? Listen to the programme to find out the answer. Vocabularystreaming
describes the activity of listening or watching music, radio or videos directly from the internet as a continuous stream commercial success
something that is popular and makes lots of money – like a new computer game or pop song catchy
something that attracts attention and is easy to remember playlist
list of songs that a radio station plans to play or list of songs you compile yourself on a streaming service driving
(here) having a strong influence register
record, count or measure something – like the download of a file Transcript Note: This is not a word for word transcript
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