Does Rock or Pop rule your day, and you can rattle off the names of the members of bands such as The Beetles, Credence Clearwater Revival, The Stooges and The Rolling Stones in one breath? If your answer is ‘Yes’, the Google Music Timeline is just for you.

Music Timeline is a recently released visualisation, created by Google’s research department, which attempts to chart the rise and fall of different musical genres in terms of their relative popularity.