What are you listening to? What would you recommend?
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Taylor Swift, though, likely has the most meteoric career. So much younger than the others. She only started her career in 2006 and is currently charting still (not just working, but actually charting) and is already 10% past Brittany Spears. Taylor is at 110m in sales. And considering that she is a single act, not a band, and that she writes her own music (all of it, I think, but maybe that's not true) she is definitely into competition with the individual Beatles ranges in personal revenue and she has plenty of time to catch pretty much any act if she just holds it together and doesn't freak out.
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Now what is going to be hard, is that the old acts made their records by selling records (pun intended.) The rankings are normally by album sales. But the era of albums is long over. Sure they exist, but few people buy "by the album" anymore and many artists don't release music that way. So tracking sales in that manner is misleading. TS, for example, many years ago was the leading artist, of all time, in digital download sales. That isn't just a few background sales, those are huge percentages of her sales and often they don't count towards the rankings.
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It makes me sad, though, that Elton John and Madonna are in the top ten. What a sad statement that is for the rock and pop worlds that these are the best that they could come up with. I can't stand the Beatles either, but I understand why they are so prominent. I like a good number of the top twenty artists, but a few are real stinkers.
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If i could listen to music right now.. i want some music of Air Supply soft rock.
@scottalanmiller last time i said Air Supply is from America I was wrong .
Air Supply is an Australian soft rock duo..
P.s.
And Since i saw a lot of post from @scottalanmiller and @thanksaj in FB and here (ML) i checked out the song All about the Bass lols.. -
@Joyfano said:
If i could listen to music right now.. i want some music of Air Supply soft rock.
I have heard of your love for Air Supply. It is legend... wait for it.
Dairy.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@thanksaj said:
The only one who is pretty close as far as a standout is Eminem. The only decent rapper on the market for decades now...
Did you look that up? I just did and I was surprised by how well he has done. He is now ahead of Garth Brooks. Somewhere around the 15th biggest act of all time. Rihanna is pretty high up there too. I had no idea.
Nope. That one I knew. Eminem has been one of the most influential artists of the past two decades. I give the guy major props too...when a lot of artists talk about coming from nothing, they have NOTHING on Eminem...
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@scottalanmiller said:
It makes me sad, though, that Elton John and Madonna are in the top ten. What a sad statement that is for the rock and pop worlds that these are the best that they could come up with. I can't stand the Beatles either, but I understand why they are so prominent. I like a good number of the top twenty artists, but a few are real stinkers.
Elton John has a couple good songs but is just weird. Madonna...not going there...the Beatles I could never get into but I also understand why they were so popular. I personally are a HUGE fan of Taylor Swift. I believe she writes all her own stuff, and her latest album 1989 broke all kinds of records. Her music is catchy and she's quite cute, albeit a bit of a drama queen. Then again, she's managed to turn that to her favor. Her latest hit "Blank Space" is supposed to be about how the media portrays her as a "serial dater" and kind of crazy, so she embraced it and made a very popular hit-song out of it. Also, like you said, she's young. I actually think what would be the demise of her career is if she decided to join a band or team up with another person for more than just one song.
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@thanksaj oh yeah, Elton has some good stuff. He can be a good artist. But in the top ten? How can that be? In the top ten thousand, sure. But top ten of all time? What is wrong with that.
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@thanksaj said:
I personally are a HUGE fan of Taylor Swift.
All of you?
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@scottalanmiller said:
@thanksaj oh yeah, Elton has some good stuff. He can be a good artist. But in the top ten? How can that be? In the top ten thousand, sure. But top ten of all time? What is wrong with that.
Agreed. It's interesting because you often heard about big things Elton John did (like singing the theme song for The Lion King!) but I don't often think of hearing of Elton John as a big deal. Individual actions being big deals, but never him as an artist being made into a big deal...he's been knighted, sure...but so what?
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@scottalanmiller said:
@thanksaj said:
I personally are a HUGE fan of Taylor Swift.
All of you?
Yes, me, myself, yo soy, and I.
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Listening to "How You Get the Girl" by Taylor Swift.
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@thanksaj said:
Listening to "How You Get the Girl" by Taylor Swift.
Can't get a video because the only one I could easily find on YouTube had the lyrics but YouTube had muted the audio for "copyright reasons".
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@scottalanmiller said:
Now what is going to be hard, is that the old acts made their records by selling records (pun intended.) The rankings are normally by album sales. But the era of albums is long over. Sure they exist, but few people buy "by the album" anymore and many artists don't release music that way. So tracking sales in that manner is misleading. TS, for example, many years ago was the leading artist, of all time, in digital download sales. That isn't just a few background sales, those are huge percentages of her sales and often they don't count towards the rankings.
I'm < 30 and I still buy whole albums. I can't help it.
The era of the album is definitely long gone (long gone as in tech industry length of time not archeological length of time).I will always find a song that I like on any Album... by like I mean like the most on that album.
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@nadnerB said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Now what is going to be hard, is that the old acts made their records by selling records (pun intended.) The rankings are normally by album sales. But the era of albums is long over. Sure they exist, but few people buy "by the album" anymore and many artists don't release music that way. So tracking sales in that manner is misleading. TS, for example, many years ago was the leading artist, of all time, in digital download sales. That isn't just a few background sales, those are huge percentages of her sales and often they don't count towards the rankings.
I'm < 30 and I still buy whole albums. I can't help it.
The era of the album is definitely long gone (long gone as in tech industry length of time not archeological length of time).I will always find a song that I like on any Album... by like I mean like the most on that album.
As far as I remember, I'm yet to find an album that I disliked 100%.Yeah, as a rule I buy albums, not songs.
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@thanksaj said:
@nadnerB said:
I'm < 30 and I still buy whole albums. I can't help it.
The era of the album is definitely long gone (long gone as in tech industry length of time not archeological length of time).I will always find a song that I like on any Album... by like I mean like the most on that album.
As far as I remember, I'm yet to find an album that I disliked 100%.Yeah, as a rule I buy albums, not songs.
It messes with my head far too much to buy just one song and also, I usually end up liking another song on the album better than the one I bought the album for.
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I bought albums for years. I had over 1,200 CDs by the time I was in my later college years. I had lots of cassettes (maybe 50) and some vinyl too (maybe 30-40.) I had DVD Audio and SuperCD too, but not in large quantities. But now nearly everything that I get is individual songs.
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@scottalanmiller said:
I bought albums for years. I had over 1,200 CDs by the time I was in my later college years. I had lots of cassettes (maybe 50) and some vinyl too (maybe 30-40.) I had DVD Audio and SuperCD too, but not in large quantities. But now nearly everything that I get is individual songs.
It's very rare that I get new music and rarer that I buy it (I don't torrent it either). I have other priorities.
I usually encourage people to by my movies/music for Christmas and/or my birthday as I wouldn't normally buy them myself.
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@nadnerB I have an Amazon account and buy DRM-free music. Anytime I want a song, I just buy it. It's not that often that I want something. I definitely don't top $5 a month. But I always get the songs that I want. Works out pretty well.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@nadnerB I have an Amazon account and buy DRM-free music. Anytime I want a song, I just buy it. It's not that often that I want something. I definitely don't top $5 a month. But I always get the songs that I want. Works out pretty well.
I've worked towards buying more music as of late, although I can't afford to buy everything I'd like to...so I often resort to...alternative methods to obtain my music...
