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Re:Analyzing the chords of 1300 popular songs for patterns by arthurdenture on Monday January 14, 2019 @08:34PM (#18908185)
Eb is probably disproportionately popular due to the common practice of tuning guitars down a half step, making Eb instead of E the natural/easy root chord.

I'm not sure why F would be more popular than D and A. One hypothesis would be that it has fewer accidentals; it's not a fun key for guitars, but many contemporary pop songs aren't guitar-driven anyway.

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