Jaycorn
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_albums_worldwide
I find this list absolutely fascinating. Did albums just stop selling in 2000 or something? Like actually, the only exception is Usher in 2004, and he's at the very bottom. Oh and Norah Jones.
Would it be ignorant of me to say that music just started to suck at the turn of the century (and especially at the beginning of this particular decade)? And by that I obviously don't mean ALL music, because some new stuff is awesome, but just in general. Or is this all just a matter of Internet piracy? I was pretty sure people that a lot of people still did buy music legally.
Another thing might just be that music is more niche-y nowadays. Most people lean towards certain genres, and those don't appeal to everyone in the way that the classics did. It's also now cool to like stuff that no one else likes, which I think is kinda dumb.
Also, anyone who can guess which of the artists on that page went to high school with my parents on their first try gets an Internet cookie.
I find this list absolutely fascinating. Did albums just stop selling in 2000 or something? Like actually, the only exception is Usher in 2004, and he's at the very bottom. Oh and Norah Jones.
Would it be ignorant of me to say that music just started to suck at the turn of the century (and especially at the beginning of this particular decade)? And by that I obviously don't mean ALL music, because some new stuff is awesome, but just in general. Or is this all just a matter of Internet piracy? I was pretty sure people that a lot of people still did buy music legally.
Another thing might just be that music is more niche-y nowadays. Most people lean towards certain genres, and those don't appeal to everyone in the way that the classics did. It's also now cool to like stuff that no one else likes, which I think is kinda dumb.
Also, anyone who can guess which of the artists on that page went to high school with my parents on their first try gets an Internet cookie.
Piracy is certainly a factor, but even on the legal side you have the fact that the methods for selling music have completely changed. Ten years ago, I'd have to buy an album if I wanted that one song I heard on the radio and loved. If I hear a song today, I can get an MP3 of that one song from iTunes or Amazon for $1 or so. It's worth buying an album if I like the artist, but otherwise it's a lot cheaper to just get one or two songs and skip the album entirely.
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