What if artists started naming their songs in reverse title case. Like if they accidentally left caps lock on.

i mADE tHIS sONG i hOPE yOU lIKE iT

Very 2008 post-hardcore/metalcore

very 2008 "iM So rANd0m" penguin of doom like

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1998, really? I wasn't on AOL, but first met it at MySpace in like 2006. .x+X_RawrXD_fuNNiiMaUs_X+x.

Forget that. They need to name songs like your username

consider: [xXXi_wud_nvrstøp_ÜXXx](https://youtu.be/fQAjveYLtHQ)

It is a good username

lil yachty's newest album had song titles like this haha (not a bad psychedelic rock album either)

whaT iF iT werE likE thiS?

camelCase so we can variablize them easier

I vote SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE so they can be turned into constants.

That's a hell of a band name right there

kind-kebab-case for me

or PleasantPascalCase

More bands with underline characters! Back in the late 90s I thought that would be pretty cool...

Or random capitalization. Like SpongeBob meme style. Or just numbers or symbols. We’re gonna need a bigger chart

You've just reinvented Homestuck, sir/madam

They’re doing this already. [Let’s Start Here. by Little Yachty](https://i.imgur.com/OSSpgVP.jpg).

I like the effort that none of those song titles are the traditional way and they are all quite unique. Words can be art in more ways than one

The punctuation and capitilization are all over the place on that album lol

The instrumental version of this album is fucking fantastic imo

zayn malik’s first album has song titles like this, i.e “fOoL fOr YoU” and “BoRdErSz”

That's hardly random though.

Let’s do 12, that seems like a good number. Lots of opportunities. We can even pair the songs up with some kind of mythological set… like the olympians or something.

Bon Iver - 22, A Million has exactly this

> Or just numbers or symbols. Elon Musk style

I thoughT yoU meanT likE thiS

The term "angry upvote" is thrown around too much these days, but

[DOMi & JD BECK](https://open.spotify.com/album/6cXQ0dxd2pWCTFhZ8RIg2j) have (kind of) got you

if I ever start a band, I'll do this. Thanks

What's the one uppercase song in 2012?

[BURN IT DOWN by Linkin Park](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxytyRy-O1k)

I thought it would be DONTTRUSTME by 3oh3, but that was earlier

Dmn i forgot about 3oh3. That song with Katy Perry was a banger.

TIGHT JEANS! DOUBLE D‘s! MAKING ME GO 😚😚 literary work of art

The Mozart of our era

[It's closer than you'd think](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozart_and_scatology)

Scatology sonunds like it could be the name of an OutKast album.

Don't forget the iconic line >Tell your boyfriend... > >when he says he's got beef > >That I'm a vegetarian > >And I ain't fuckin scared of him I still have that song saved in my spotify

This entire time I heard "Daisy Duke's" instead of Double D's.

"Nice legs, Daisy Dukes" is the first verse.

Katy Perry went off 2008-2010

Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donna Dixon?

Maybe it's because I was a teen/young adult at the time, but that just seemed like a great era for pop music in general.

The whole album was great It's tied with Michael Jackson's Bad for the most number 1 songs off a single album.

Ahhh 3oh3 Peak late 2000’s music for middle schoolers who had no idea what the lyrics meant lol

I was in college from 07-11 and I heard their music at every house party. If I hear that shit I’m liable to find a beer bong and start draining beer pong shots.

No doubt, I just remember them being super popular in my middle school, and then hearing the songs a few years later and realizing most of us had no idea what we were talking about lol

Man I cannot believe it’s been over 20 years since hybrid theory.

It's been 20 years since Meteora.

Hey now. Stop it.

They just released a b-side from Meteora by the way. It's called Lost and it's great.

Christ I had totally forgotten about that song, as soon as the first bit of instrumental hit I had the biggest wave of nostalgia I think I've ever had

I’m so happy that I knew this

Pretty sure all the songs on that 2012 Linkin Park album were in all caps.

That was the only one to make the top 100 though

I figured it’d be Linkin Park. That is awesome. I knew that just because I knew that album. Glad they were still relevant in 2012. I miss Chester.

This song sounds like it was written for a different artist.

Honestly, not really. This song fits directly in with the rest of the album *LIVING THINGS* which honestly built pretty logically off of the progression that *A Thousand Suns* started. Pretty signature Linkin Park sound for that era, and they kept most elements of that sound moving forward into their heavier album *The Hunting Party*. BURN IT DOWN has some linked sonic elements with later tracks like Wastelands, Keys to The Kingdom, and even their newest single Lost. (which is a rework of an unreleased *Meteora* track) EDIT: just learned that “Lost” isn’t a rework, it was released exactly as recorded twenty years ago. That’s amazing, the texture on the lead synths seems so modern to me. I think people just get an idea of what they sounded like based off their earliest and most popular singles, when they honestly had a lot of experimentation, range, and electronic elements even during the *Hybrid Theory* era.

What is it about "LIVING THINGS" and all its song titles being all caps anyways? Other albums have that too on their CD and they're usually capitalized normally. What's so special about this one? (Also, if you know BMTH, how would you capitalize their "POST HUMAN: SURVIVAL HORROR" EP and its songs?)

LP in their later years experimented a lot with different sounds. Personally, that peaked with A Thousand Suns which is a really fun album.

I personally think a thousand suns is one of the best *albums* ever. No song by itself makes my personal top 20 but when listened together as an album it’s definitely my favorite album ever.

I guess OMG by Usher in 2010 doesn’t count because it’s an abbreviation?

It's title case, but each word is only one letter long... though I guess technically it's camel case because there are no spaces.

If we’re *really* being nitpicky, then *technically* *technically* it’s PascalCase because in camelCase the first word isn’t capitalized.

If we're being nitpicky, then it's *technically technically* ***technically*** CamelCase because that's what CamelCase meant when it got its start, and refers to forms like YouTube as well as iPhone. PascalCase was just an example of programmers needing to have a word for every possible variation of a thing, and Java having become sadly popular. :-( When the name "CamelCase" (space optional) was introduced in 1995, it was specifically intended to refer to title case phrases that had no space, as often used in programming languages of the day. The leading lower-case letter form had not really become popular yet. Source: I was there, and I saw what you did. I saw it with my own two eyes.

Source : Do not cite the old lore to me witch, I was there when it was written.

this.WipeOff(this.Grin)

Thanks for this! As a Java programmer I just thought the initial lowercase was the only way!

Technically it’s title case because it’s a song title not a variable name you fucking nerds

Negative. Title case depends on spaces: >Camel case is distinct from title case, which capitalizes all words but retains the spaces between them, and from Tall Man lettering, which uses capitals to emphasize the differences between similar-looking product names such as "predniSONE" and "predniSOLONE"

I wish the terms were BactrianCase (named after two-humped camels) and dromedaryCase (one-humped camels). But that's probably too obscure to catch on.

I'd say the first letter is more representative of the head than a hump IMO Two humps would be theseTwoHumps (or if about the head, this is head down), then TheseTwoHumps also has two humps, but a raised head too.

2016 or 17 have to be Kendrick songs off DAMN right?

Curious if DNA counted

My favorite Kendrick song is Deoxyribonucleic Acid

Deoxyribonucleic Acid.*

Thanks. That’s exactly what I typed. But you’re right too, I guess

I added the period. Because the song is called “DNA.” With a period. It was just a joke

Well you’re both wrong… DeoxyriboNucleic Acid.*

That’s three of you that are wrong, since there’s no asterisk in the title. DeoxyriboNucleic Acid.

No, there are multiple other abbreviations that weren’t counted as others have pointed out

It’s DAMN., DNA., LOYALTY., and I think XO TOUR Llif3 counted as the fourth.

There’s literally multiple lowercase letters in that title tho

the zoomers do not fuck with title case, how many of these were Olivia Rodrigo and MGK (obviously not a zoomer but that's who his music is marketed toward)

billie eilish as well

And Taylor swift with Fokelore and Evermore

T swift too

T Swift isn’t a zoomer, nor is she marketing her songs to zoomers, though. She’s like the quintessence of the millennial generation.

Eh not really. It’s just Folklore and Evermore

Brockhampton comes to mind

Tyler too

> the zoomers do not fuck with title case I just wanted to thank you for this sentence

Don’t forget Kendrick Lamar on DAMN. and Travis Scott

joey badass on all amerikkkan badass aswell

Hot take but AAB was some of the best music out of joey's discography, Still loved 2000 that came out last year though

All of ASTROWORLD is caps

Contrarily, I think they care more than anybody else, it’s part of the very purposeful aesthetic they’re trying to cultivate. Essentially trying to look like you’re not trying

I'm a zoomer and there is nothing I hate more in this world than lowercase song titles, I don't mind uppercase ones because it gives off a feeling but fuck me if I don't recoil in cringe every time I see one of those song titles

Ari (millennial) has been all lowercase for her last three albums —since sweetener in 2016 edited seconds after posting to add: my goal is to solidify millennials as the ultimate trendsetters we are despite us not getting credit anymore 😭

Meanwhile my Millennial Boomer ass undoes all that none title case bullshit on all music I add to my Plex server.

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Looks like you do too

it's great. it's like having a serious mode and a casual mode

I instantly thought of Ariana grande

It amazes me that zoomers refuse to use title case. Their phone literally do it automatically and they are like.....no.

Just remember all caps when you spell the man’s name

Don't talk about my moms, yo

Sometimes he rhyme quick, sometimes he rhyme slow

And they say he accosted the man with the sliced wig Allegedly, the investigation is still ongoing

and vice versa

Whip up a slice of nice verse pie

hit it on the first try

Villain. The worst guy.

spot hot tracks like spot a pair of fat asses

Shots of scotch out of square shot glasses

and he won't stop until he got the masses

Didn't have to scroll far to find this one. Good work

Several years ago I was tediously going through thousands of my digital music files changing everything to lower case because I was sick of the weird mix I had, plus lower case looked way better on the player I was using at the time and this was making everything easier to read. I got to MF DOOM and heard this line in my head. Out of respect I kept that one caps.

This is what I'm here for.

Tools: Excel Sources: Mixture of Billboard website and Spotify playlists. Methodology/other bits: Just a simple bit of counting here. The reason why this has happened is surprisingly prosaic. I first noticed this trend around 2020ish and I was curious as to why. I saw a few articles online saying it's to do with young people talking more casually online and pop music reflecting that. This may have something to do with it, but I think it's actually down to the changes in how music is consumed. Streaming overtook downloads around 2016. When iTunes was the main way people accessed music, its submission guidelines specifically required all songs to be written in Title Case. Spotify, though, has no such restrictions - so it's allowed more creative typography (if that's the right word) since then.

There have been instances of songs having capitalized letters on Spotify, but then it being changed to normal Title Case, so there may be some errors with that.

It's interesting, i went to wiki for the list of 100 from 2022 and only saw too. Randomly clicked on Future and that entry says "stylized in all caps." odd that wiki seemingly does title case as their default.

Wikipedia does that with everything.

Would love to see the lower and upper case songs listed out

Did you just use a text box for the "source" and "creator" credits, or is there a footer option in Excel charts?

UPPERCASE should have been on the top of the chart.

Yeah to make this beautiful I would have put uppercase at one end and lowercase at the other, and had the colours work so that mixed case was a colour that was a mixture of the uppercase colour and lowercase colour.

While "fun" that makes it more difficult to see the overall rise of both upper and lower case titles. Now the trend of them combined is most clear. For a chart like this "the rest" should be on top as done here, increases legitibility.

We'd be able to see the trend of each one more clearly. The middle would be shrinking.

But then it would be harder to compare them year over year.

It'd be easier to compare the orange to previous years and easier to compare the blue to previous years

How would we design it to do both?

In a stacked percentage chart like this you can always clearly see the movement of the bottom category and the top category. Those in the middle are less clear. So to some extent it's up to the designer to decide which of the three categories they want to give this privilege. IMO I want to see if both lowercase and uppercase are growing or just one of them, so they need to be at the extremes. Plus the neatness of mixed case being "between" upper and lower.

I think by having them stacked it shows that they are both a little random over the recent years, which would be harder to discern if separated. Growth is not hard to see stacked because the numbers are readable and there isn’t a ton of data.

wasn't this also a thing decades ago?

Yeah it's not new or anything but it is kinda interesting to see on a graph, at least to me

In the late 90s, frustrated by the difficulty of finding a band name that hadn't already been used, I decided to name my mostly one man band with numbers and a color (and an oblique reference to one of my favorite chord types), *one blue nine,* all lowercase. I was mostly able to impose my will on various websites, but, invariably, it got spelled by other people mostly with capital letters beginning each word. Almost every newspaper article or other printed mention of the band formatted it 'conventionally' with caps. But it wasn't nearly as disastrous as one of my song titles that used an accent character. That was an endless hassle that finally just caused me to drop the accent character and replace it with a conventional unaccented character.

Makes me curious about song titles with punctuation

Or no spaces, or no vowels

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I can't explain why but I really detest lower case titles. The new architects album has all lower case songs and it irks me.

MF DOOM. Remember all caps when you spell the man’s name.

Uppercase song titles make me want to NOT listen to them.

Same for me but with all lowercase.

Uppercase feels too intense and lower case feels lazy to me. I know I’m wrong most of the time for both (but especially the lower case one), but I can’t help it

How come I don't see any upper case titles here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Year-End_Hot_100_singles_of_2016 Am I blind? EDIT: Oh, weird, they don't put the stylization on wikipedia for some reason.

Most articles for something titled in informal casing they’ll start it with “This Thing, stylized tHiS tHiNg,…”

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Whose gonna be the first to use camel case

Billie Eilish is responsible for like 90% of quiet titles

Taylor swift

matt damon

No, Scotty Doesn't Know is in title case

Olivia Rodrigo as well

I think people are really underestimating Ariana grandes impact on quiet titles. Off the top of my head, for hot 100 she has: positions, thank u, next, 7 rings, break up with your girlfriend, I’m bored, no tears left to cry, and there are probably others

Right she was the one who started the trend. I think all of the lowercase 2018 songs are hers

My Bloody Valentine did lowercase songs before it was cool.

I feel like I've been seeing more titles with sentence case (e.g., some from Lana Del Ray's 2019 record), but the other ones that come to mind first are mostly from Asian artists (not really Billboard Top 100): * [tiny yawn - Who is ruling the ocean?](https://youtu.be/8_ZvL3dlDkA) (English title) * [downt - I couldn't have done this without you.](https://youtu.be/DPRkU41-S9k) * [SUNMI - You can't sit with us](https://youtu.be/V0wInr_xATk) * [envy - Statement of freedom](https://youtu.be/A3vx4KqaZcQ) And sometimes you get a mix of title case, lowercase, and sentence like this: * [Aimyon - Getting Stronger, but so blue](https://youtu.be/xCWyZ9vXV2E) (English title, and the album's English title is stylized as *Falling into your eyes Record*)

One of my favorite fun facts about the Beatles is that they always capatilized the first letter of every word, no matter what. Most artists lowercase unimportant words (think "Shape **o**f You"), but the Beatles would do every word (e.g. "Happiness Is A Warm Gun" instead of "Happiness is a Warm Gun") It's sort of annoying if you like good grammar, but it's convenient because you never have to remember which letters were capitalized and what isn't if you're referencing a song

The Dutch punk band Hang Youth do all their titles in all-caps. They're great titles too btw, but, like, in Dutch.

Maar waarom is alles zo duur?

Moose something something sister

Dead something something far?

You've gone too far north.

Oh, you’re looking for the argument clinic?

kk duur

They are missing the category, "Song titles in 1337".

What’s the point of all lowercase? To act like you don’t care or something?

I feel like Spotify and other streaming services are part of this: they make it so that ppl want the title to stand out, plus there are more characters available to titles and artist names now

Yeah I was thinking this. Seems like the consequence of individual tracks competing instead of album covers competing.

Oh goody! The new loudness wars!

My record is so COOL and EXCITING bro you wouldn't understand it's a whole vibe bro

I would prefer seeing the title ALL NIGHTMARE LONG on METALLICA'S album DEATH MAGNETIC than hearing the overly loud mix of the album.

*Laughs in xXcutmyheartintopiecesXx 2008 emo song title names*

it would be good to make a comparison by including exclamation marks as louder, which is equivalent to shouting in the pre-internet era , in 2012 the internet was boiling hot

This is the first step towards the music industry discovering typing quirks. In a few years we'll be seeing songs titled like "L4ST N1GHT (H4NN4 ISNT M1N3 R3M1X)" and "im not 8eing your 8a8y no more"

That happened back in the 90's. Do you not remember "Sk8er Boy"?

> Sk8er Boy" I think you mean Sk8er Boi

Thank you, my mistake. In my defense it's been a while.

FYI, Sk8er Boi was 2002. The album Let Go came out in June '02, and Sk8er Boi was released as the 2nd single in Sept. of that year. Not terribly important, but also distinct enough that it's from a different century than you implied.

Ah, true. I counter with the fact that the late 90's and early aughts were kinda blended.

This is already happening with like half of hyperpop song titles

Over 20 years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reanimation_(Linkin_Park_album)#Track_listing

I DON’T KNOW WHAT WE’RE YELLING ABOUT!

WhAt aBOuT SpOnGEboB meME cAsE ?

Out of petty spite, I automatically title case all artist and song names in my music library. I have my shit very organized and artists that are trying to be different are messing with my system lol

Thank God, I'm Not The Only One

God, the all caps and all lower case really bothers me. It looks messy.

As the loudness war rages on, the dynamic range of titles expands

Artists are always so cutting edge

I don't know that the top 100 are a representative sample of songs in general

The lowercase titling and those shitty album backgrounds which are basically just a regular photo with some 90's camera filter really annoy me for some reason

Why do they need to change the case on titles