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With that in mind, it’s probably not a coincidence that the only number one hit to use a key change during the 2010s is also one of the most iconic: Travis Scott’s “SICKO MODE.”

That can't be true, surely? Only one number one song with a key change in a whole decade? (I assume we're talking US charts?)

Crazy by Gnarls Barkely has some nice key changes but it only got to number 2 apparently.

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> Crazy by Gnarls Barkely

Starts and ends in the same key. There's some minor<->major mode shifting over the course of the song, but the tonic remains the same.

Ah I see, it does some unusual stuff with chords, I was hearing it as a key change

https://flypaper.soundfly.com/produce/the-flurry-of-harmonic...

Do people not consider parallel key shifts to be key changes?

(btw whoever invented the name "parallel key" for majors and minors with the same tonic did a terrible job)

I thought Beyonce's "Love on Top" might qualify. Pretty iconic use of key changes, but it apparently peaked at #20 on the hot 100.

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