I am surprised the volumes of the most streamed song is that low. My favorite YouTube channels get millions of views.
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#142This is kind of interesting to see because, for today, pretty much 90% of the most-streamed tracks seem to be hip-hop/rap. I guess it's really the most popular genre right now, rock's time has passed by. I'm sure bands like Imagine Dragons or some other radio-friendly arena rock could get the top spot for a week or two, but rap seems to be dominating. Wonder how long this will keep up?
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#143I 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.
What you describe is actually a very common thing, there's a very intelligent South Park episode on this.
When I hear new music I try to understand what's good about it, in the end if younger people enjoys it there's a reason. Doing so helps me to stay connected with where new trends are going, which is kinda useful.
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From a quick spot check of this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Billboard_number-one... I’d say the quality of “most listened to” music peaked in the 80’s, with each decade that followed being the worst ever. Most of my favorite artists are from the 90’s-2010’s, with a few exceptions scattered in the 40’s, 70’s and 80’s. It could be that music got more diverse in the 90’s, and the billboard chart stopped bei…
Intrigued that you mentioned the 1940s. Glenn Miller?
And all the other stuff that was going on in Jazz in the 30's and 40's
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#145Something to keep in mind: the top track in the world right now is ROCKSTAR, with about 5 million streams per day. The song lasts about 3 minutes, which means the song was streamed for 250k hours around the world. Spotify streams an average of 234 million hours per day, though, which means the number one song represents about 0.1% of the total. We have an unprecedented level of access to all sorts of different genres…
I heard this being refered to as the Muhammad Effect.
Tabloids love to write articles about most popular name for newborn kids in each country. And in countries with non-negligible Muslim minorities that name is often Muhammad (or some variation of it), because Muslims names have higher peak.
So there might be 50 times as much kids with non-Muslim names, but they have roughly even spread between names and don't show up in that statistic.
Then people freak out they are taken over by imigrants :)
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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…
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.
Extremely serious and wholesome hit from 1960
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#147Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
Yes but: 1) Chart toppers from previous eras are still listenable. Almost nothing on the charts today will be listenable in 2 years. Out-of-touch grandparents in the 1960s could have been convinced to listen to the Beatles. Nobody of a certain age will put up with Top 40 today. 2) It's not quite as democratic as you'd imagine. There are promotions, placements, trends, people sucking kids into clicks in big herds. A m…
> Chart toppers from previous eras are still listenable. Almost nothing on the charts today will be listenable in 2 years. Out-of-touch grandparents in the 1960s could have been convinced to listen to the Beatles. Nobody of a certain age will put up with Top 40 today.
That feels like being quite selective. The Beatles were not the only band existing in the 60s, and a lot of stuff that did top the charts in the 60s was entirely ephemeral.
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#148Spotify 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…
>In Russia? Yandex seems to provide every service a Russian needs, from email, finding apartments, to taxis. Yandex Music seems to be the preferred streaming app.
According to Yandex Music chart (https://music.yandex.ru/chart), currently the most listened track in Russia is "Плачу на техно" by Cream Soda, Хлеб. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1Snj1Pt-Hs Surprisingly, it's not rap.
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#149I 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.
I thought the same. I've felt this about all pop music after the 90s, though. During the 90s I think there were some genuinely great songs. But since then it's just been recycling the same old crap over and over again.
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#150I am surprised the volumes of the most streamed song is that low. My favorite YouTube channels get millions of views.
There's a huge long tail to music, especially these days with radio stations no longer dictating taste to any great extent. Youtube, probably not so much; the almighty suggestion algorithm takes care of that.