What are you listening to? What would you recommend?
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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...
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However, small artists, like MHJR for example, I ALWAYS buy. I'm a strong believer in supporting the little guy.
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@art_of_shred said:
So you want to put album sales and concert ticket sales head to head between Coldplay and Journey? Good luck with that one
Sure. Why not? Coldplay worldwide album sales 56.5 million. Journey 39.6 million. Or take someone like Usher, (who I've never even heard of!!!) and yet has still sold 40 million albums. And this in an era where for every album sale there are problem two pirated downloads.
I don't know how to compare concert ticket sales, but Coldplay sold $181 million worth of tickets on their last tour alone. I find it hard to believe that Journey were bigger or more popular than Coldplay.
I can't stand either of them, for what it's worth. I don't think Journey were ever that big in the UK anyway.
@art_of_shred said:
I think maybe you're too young to remember what music used to be like and the cultural impact it had
How old do you think I am?
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@Carnival-Boy said:
@art_of_shred said:
So you want to put album sales and concert ticket sales head to head between Coldplay and Journey? Good luck with that one
Sure. Why not? Coldplay worldwide album sales 56.5 million. Journey 39.6 million. Or take someone like Usher, (who I've never even heard of!!!) and yet has still sold 40 million albums. And this in an era where for every album sale there are problem two pirated downloads.
I don't know how to compare concert ticket sales, but Coldplay sold $181 million worth of tickets on their last tour alone. I find it hard to believe that Journey were bigger or more popular than Coldplay.
I can't stand either of them, for what it's worth. I don't think Journey were ever that big in the UK anyway.
@art_of_shred said:
I think maybe you're too young to remember what music used to be like and the cultural impact it had
How old do you think I am?
Yes, but Coldplay will never be viewed as a "classic" band like Journey. Also, are those numbers adjusted for inflation?
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@thanksaj said:
Yes, but Coldplay will never be viewed as a "classic" band like Journey. Also, are those numbers adjusted for inflation?
Firstly, why not? Who gets to say whether a band is classic or not? I bet in the sixties people assumed the Rolling Stones were just a fad that would be quickly forgotten. No-one would have predicted that they'd be selling millions of dollars of concert tickets when they're in their seventies.
Secondly, the figures are unit sales not dollar sales.
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@Carnival-Boy said:
@thanksaj said:
Yes, but Coldplay will never be viewed as a "classic" band like Journey. Also, are those numbers adjusted for inflation?
Firstly, why not? Who gets to say whether a band is classic or not? I bet in the sixties people assumed the Rolling Stones were just a fad that would be quickly forgotten. No-one would have predicted that they'd be selling millions of dollars of concert tickets when they're in their seventies.
Secondly, the figures are unit sales not dollar sales.
Journey is still popular but their peak popularity was during an age where the world was not so connected yet. For a car to have a cassette player installed in it when Journey was at their peak was a big deal! That being said, I get where you're coming from, but I don't think you can quite compare it as apples to apples.
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@thanksaj said:
Yes, but Coldplay will never be viewed as a "classic" band like Journey. Also, are those numbers adjusted for inflation?
What does inflation mean in regards to albums? I'm not sure what you are picturing.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@thanksaj said:
Yes, but Coldplay will never be viewed as a "classic" band like Journey. Also, are those numbers adjusted for inflation?
What does inflation mean in regards to albums? I'm not sure what you are picturing.
I misread the millions in sales in terms of units as dollar sales. My mistake.
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@thanksaj Oh those would be small numbers then. At their peak, Abba was the largest exporter in Sweden, and Sweden is not a small economy.
