Do you prefer songs to be longer or shorter?

Research has revealed that pop songs are getting longer again.

There had been a trend in recent years for shorter songs, to fit in with streaming services and video sharing apps such as TikTok.

With artists like Sabrina Carpenter mostly keeping songs under three minutes, analysis by the BBC has shown other artists such as Chappell Roan, are increasingly dropping songs that push past the four and even five minute mark.

Different trends in terms of the length of pop songs is nothing new.

When famous British band The Beatles released their debut single Love Me Do in 1962, it was a little over two minutes long.

Six years later, another of their songs, Hey Jude became one of the UK's longest chart hits, lasting over seven minutes.

The perfect duration for a pop song has been debated ever since.

Take part in our vote below and let us know what you think in the comments, do you prefer longer or shorter songs?

For comparison, recent hits like Chappell Roan's Pink Pony Club is four minutes 18 seconds long, while one of her shorter tracks, HOT TO GO, is just over three minutes long.

However, fellow chart-topper Sabrina Carpenter's Espresso is just two minutes 55 seconds and her song Taste is even shorter.

Mark Savage, music reporter for BBC News, says things like TikTok and Spotify have encouraged artists to make their songs as short and as catchy as possible.

"So people would drop the introduction to a song. They would start with a chorus. 
The idea was that on Spotify, and other services like that, you only get paid when a song is being played for 30 seconds. So you've got to avoid being skipped.

"But what seems to be happening now from the songwriters I've been talking to is there's a bit of a pushback against that. Artists like Chappell Roan have a message that they want to convey.

"And it feels like listeners are responding to that. They want songs of substance again."

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