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Re: Most-streamed track of the day by country

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Post by TulliusCicero »

satvikpendem wrote: post #157
ajuc wrote: post #145

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Similarly, in the Western world, the most popular name seems to be some form of John.

Yes, though proportionally I think there are far more Mohammed's. Wikipedia says:

> It is thought to be the most popular name in the world, being given to an estimated 150 million men and boys.

One of my teammates recently gave birth to a boy, she talked a little about figuring out whether to name the kid Mohammed or not, with the major downside being that yeah, it's insanely common, especially among her nationality.

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sacred_numbers wrote: post #105

Something 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…

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Post by Kye »

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.

I have some bad news about all the music you grew up with. A lot of it was bad, too. Some of it was good, and that's what you remember. The rest was unmemorable.

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Post by TulliusCicero »

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.

And why won't those kids get off my lawn?!

"No no, the previous generation before me was unreasonable and condescending for no reason, but THIS time the music really does suck! Really!!"

No, it's the same as it ever was: like each generation before you, you're frowning on the darned inexplicable habits of the rising generation.

You're just noticing the mediocre but popular songs of today, while forgetting all the mediocre but then-popular songs of your own heyday that have since faded from memory (because they were mediocre).

I see the same thing sometimes in the gaming community when people try to laud old retro games. There were plenty of awful or completely forgettable games from the NES and SNES era, people just forget about them while remembering the standouts like Mario, Contra, Megaman, etc. Same thing with music, or TV, or movies, or books.

Re: Most-streamed track of the day by country

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Post by satvikpendem »

satvikpendem wrote: post #157
ajuc wrote: post #145

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Similarly, in the Western world, the most popular name seems to be some form of John.

From this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5O2Yjn3OXRk

Actually it seems to have started as Yohanan, Yo coming from Yahweh (god in Hebrew), and hanan (gracious).

Re: Most-streamed track of the day by country

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Post by TulliusCicero »

fh973 wrote: post #102
derefr wrote: post #17

Earlier 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…

I beg to differ, at least for the genres I have some attachment. Kids that are into hip-hop still listen to 90s hip-hop, now called golden era. On the other side 90s electronic music has great stuff, but the field has much advanced in quality and depth.

Yeah, and people twenty years from now will listen to some subset of the popular music being produced today. They just won't listen to the mediocre parts, just like people don't listen to mediocre 90's hip hop.

Re: Most-streamed track of the day by country

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Post by Kye »

fh973 wrote: post #102
derefr wrote: post #17

Earlier 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…

I beg to differ, at least for the genres I have some attachment. Kids that are into hip-hop still listen to 90s hip-hop, now called golden era. On the other side 90s electronic music has great stuff, but the field has much advanced in quality and depth.

Everyone remembers "I'm Blue," an electronic music classic, but everyone tries to forget the music video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgV1O0X4uXI

Re: Most-streamed track of the day by country

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Post by poppabox »

indigodaddy wrote: post #113
sacred_numbers wrote: post #105

Something 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…

Interesting took me a bit to get what you were trying to say but of course it makes sense. Basically, 99% of people are listening to “anything besides ROCKSTAR”, it’s just that that “anything else” doesn’t overlap with too many others “anything else”

Except that anything else is just other pop music EDM or hip-hop also.

Re: Most-streamed track of the day by country

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Post by TulliusCicero »

agumonkey wrote: post #61
apengwin wrote: post #15

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

There's part old subjective rant part truth in this; I've listened to countless hours of any genre of music [0] and this generation fails to appeal to any part of my brain most of the time it's flabbergasting. Every time I hear something that makes me feel 'yeah.. finally' turns out it was some old tune I just didn't know about. There's no feel, no harmonic subtlety, no grit .. I think the pop ethos of music died a f…

This happens to most: "I'm not getting old, the music is getting worse! Really!!"

Nope, you're just getting older and more out of touch, and your own out of touched-ness stops you from recognizing it as such. It's kind of like the Dunning-Kruger effect that way.

There's a ton of variety and good music out there if you bother to look. If you can't find any, that says something.

I think part of it is that people become more calcified in interests and habits as they get older. For example, when I worked at Costco I noticed how much more stubborn older customers were -- contrary to stereotype, younger customers were generally far nicer and more flexible. In high school, people my age were open to all sorts of things; now that I'm in my 30's, people have more established interests. My own wife has pointed out that I'm fairly particular about friends now sharing similar interests.

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