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Why "timeless"? When I use that word to talk about music, it means that the music has evaded its contemporary trappings. Its opposite is "dated".

Why lasting popularity as a measure of timelessness?

How do you account for longer trends? Some of Bach's children were more popular than he was for quite a while.

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I actually think that "longevity" is a better term. But I only realized that after I wrote the article. Here's another version of the article that never really was released, which focused on longevity over timeless: http://poly-graph.co/timeless/nodiggity.html

We only have two data points in this work: today and release date. So longer trends like the one you pointed out might be lost in time.

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