Music writer Brad Shoup explains why he makes exhaustive year-specific music mixes on Spotify: “With each new mix, my research methods improved – as did the source databases – and now, any playlist from 1969 on routinely features 1500 tracks, minimum.”
A break down of research methods and a tribute to the playlists that inspired the project, from Michael Daddino’s 170-track survey of 1950 to Jonathan Bogart’s 24-hour meditation on the year of his birth, 1977.
Previously: 1950: The Bomb in the Heart of the Century