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Re: Most-streamed track of the day by country

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Post by Archit3ch »

derefr wrote: post #17
holografix wrote: post #13

I think if I look at this any longer I might slip, fall down and break a hip! Embarrassing how old I am when pretty much ALL of these songs sound like absolute trash to me. Repetitive auto-tuned, formulaic, mysoginistic, materialistic, mundane, simple-minded steam pile of fermenting dog poo.

Pretty sure you'd say that about songs from whatever decade you grew up in, if those could be sorted by "most listened to" as well. Top40 is already pablum, but it still has some tiny amount of curation (and therefore elitist dictation of taste) driving it. This chart, meanwhile, represents pure populist sentiment—it's "what the people want to hear." And populist sentiment has always been pretty much all of those thi…

Also, just because it's popular doesn't mean that people actually prefer that lifestyle.

It reminds me of the opening scene in Office Space where a white man listens to rap during traffic on his way to a typical 9-to-5.

Re: Most-streamed track of the day by country

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Post by yakshaving_jgt »

IMTDb wrote: post #30
tonywastaken wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just because at the moment there is an American song leading the charts doesn't mean that is always the case. You look at those lyrics on their own and they are just words that don't may not make sense. But if you look at the song as a whole, it's an artist's expression. And it seems to resonate with a lot of people around the world. Criticizing the song contradicts your value for "diversity of human cultures".

Nevertheless, my answer explains why some people find a bit sad that today, people in most countries all seem to resonate with the exact same artistic expression. And that this expression which resonates with so many people involve lyrics like : "My daughter a G, she saw me kill a nigga in front of her before the age of two" Which to me don't really sound so happy. So if that is really what moves most of the world to…

It doesn’t move the rest of the world. Most people don’t have taste. People listen to music like that for the same reason people watch The Big Bang Theory: because everyone else does.

Re: Most-streamed track of the day by country

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Post by glomph »

IMTDb wrote: post #30
tonywastaken wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just because at the moment there is an American song leading the charts doesn't mean that is always the case. You look at those lyrics on their own and they are just words that don't may not make sense. But if you look at the song as a whole, it's an artist's expression. And it seems to resonate with a lot of people around the world. Criticizing the song contradicts your value for "diversity of human cultures".

Nevertheless, my answer explains why some people find a bit sad that today, people in most countries all seem to resonate with the exact same artistic expression. And that this expression which resonates with so many people involve lyrics like : "My daughter a G, she saw me kill a nigga in front of her before the age of two" Which to me don't really sound so happy. So if that is really what moves most of the world to…

Things don't have to be happy to be moving.

Re: Most-streamed track of the day by country

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Post by dexterdog »

fein wrote: post #27
rsynnott wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Extremely serious and wholesome hit from 1960: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yw0bLHTOb0 Edit: by the way, you realise that your grandparents were probably moaning about the music your parents listened to? And their parents ditto, and so on. Nothing new about it.

Compared to an autotuned stripper mumbling into a microphone, yes, it is.

They had the same kinds of reaction to Ozzy and his ilk.

Re: Most-streamed track of the day by country

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Post by Ajax45 »

derefr wrote: post #14

Spotify is one of those services that it never occurred to me wasn't already truly-global (i.e. penetration into all markets.) But so many of the countries on this map are dark. (And aren't available in the raw chart data, either.) Is there some other more-popular music-streaming service in these other markets, that's keeping Spotify out? What do they use in China? In Russia? Or is music-streaming as a whole, just no…

Tencent Music is a JV between Tencent/Spotify and is the dominant platform in China.

Re: Most-streamed track of the day by country

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Post by joe5150 »

IMTDb wrote: post #30
tonywastaken wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just because at the moment there is an American song leading the charts doesn't mean that is always the case. You look at those lyrics on their own and they are just words that don't may not make sense. But if you look at the song as a whole, it's an artist's expression. And it seems to resonate with a lot of people around the world. Criticizing the song contradicts your value for "diversity of human cultures".

Nevertheless, my answer explains why some people find a bit sad that today, people in most countries all seem to resonate with the exact same artistic expression. And that this expression which resonates with so many people involve lyrics like : "My daughter a G, she saw me kill a nigga in front of her before the age of two" Which to me don't really sound so happy. So if that is really what moves most of the world to…

if you are that uncomfortable with depictions of violence in song, you will need to reckon with the entire long history of popular music, because it has been a subject in demand since long before now.

Re: Most-streamed track of the day by country

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Post by [deleted] »

holografix wrote: post #13

I think if I look at this any longer I might slip, fall down and break a hip! Embarrassing how old I am when pretty much ALL of these songs sound like absolute trash to me. Repetitive auto-tuned, formulaic, mysoginistic, materialistic, mundane, simple-minded steam pile of fermenting dog poo.

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Re: Most-streamed track of the day by country

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Post by Exmoor »

fein wrote: post #22
apengwin wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

that's probably what your parents were saying about the music you listened to when you were young, too.

And they were for the most part correct. The 90's and early 2ks were filled with trash music. The only nice thing compared to the pop lists today is that those bands still actually played instruments. I look back at what I listened to then and maybe a handful of those groups were actually anything good. The rest was appealing to an unrefined 13 year old, which really says a lot about how shitty that music is. I liste…

I have some spreadsheets* that have every charting hit on the billboard charts. I haven't gone through the general charts that much, but I'd say the ones I have gone through are really surprising. We tend to think we know what the most popular music from the past is, but if you look at the singles that charted the highest throughout modern history you'll find a lot of forgettable crap.

*Technically the data is copyrighted, so sadly I can't share.

Re: Most-streamed track of the day by country

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Post by caf »

cmdshiftf4 wrote: post #4

Somewhat saddening to see countries as diverse as Ireland, the UK, Netherlands, South Africa and Australia all promoting American rap over the output of their own people. On the flip side, it's fantastic to see so many countries not doing so.

If you look beyond position 1 though, in the current global 25 most streamed you have 24 unique artists, of which 15 are from the US, 4 Canadian, 2 English, 1 Scottish, 1 Australian and 1 New Zealander.
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