Outro (or Coda) Like the intro, the outro or coda is a section of song that takes us out of the song’s emotional landscape. It can be as simple as a bit of verse or chorus repeated several times, or it can be an entirely new section of music.

In music, the introduction is a passage or section which opens a movement or a separate piece, preceding the theme or lyrics. In popular music, this is often known as the song intro or just the intro. The introduction establishes melodic, harmonic or rhythmic material related to the main body of a piece.

A hook is a musical idea, often a short riff, passage, or phrase, that is used in popular music to make a song appealing and to “catch the ear of the listener”.

One of the best places to end a song is after the final chords or melody in your chorus. One of the common ways to finish a song is to repeat the chorus with slightly altered melodies, chords, or lyrics. Many musicians use the final chorus to express the MOST important ideas of the song in lyrics.

The Top 50 most iconic songs of all time

• Smells Like Teen Spirit – Nirvana.
• Imagine – John Lennon.
• One – U2.
• Billie Jean – Michael Jackson.
• Bohemian Rhapsody – Queen.
• Hey Jude – The Beatles.
• Like A Rolling Stone – Bob Dylan.
• I Can’t Get No Satisfaction – Rolling Stones.

“Blinding Lights” by The Weeknd was the best-performing song of the year and broke the record for most weeks in the top five and top ten of the Hot 100.

“I’ll Never Smile Again” (1940) Why it might be the one: The first #1 song on the Billboard charts—and it introduced the first pop star who drove his fans wild.

3 to 5 minutes

The root of the “three-minute” length is likely derived from the original format of 78 rpm-speed phonograph records; at about 3 to 5 minutes per side, it’s just long enough for the recording of a complete song.

3 minutes and 30 seconds

Some of the longest Pop music songs include:

• “Purple Rain” – Prince & the Revolution (8 Min., 42 Sec.)
• “Too Long” – Daft Punk (10 Min., 0 Sec.)
• “Papa Was a Rolling Stone” – The Temptations (12 Min., 2 Sec.)
• “Love to Love You Baby” – Donna Summer (16 Min., 53 Sec.)
• “In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida” – Iron Butterfly (17 Min., 4 Sec.)

The only reason you should ever worry about song length is if it doesn’t seem finished to you or if you are writing for a specific thing like the radio or whatever. You can make songs from 1 minute long to 10 minutes long work so long as it’s ‘done right’.

The low streaming music layouts have caused song length to decrease, and since Spotify pays major artists between $0.004 and $0.008 per stream, this gives artists an incentive to create shorter tracks. Two of the best examples that reflect this change are Drake and Kanye West’s last two albums.