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Why are people obsessed with quantity of #1 singles and album sales figures? |
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Why are people obsessed with quantity of #1 singles and album sales figures?
Why are so many people seemingly obsessed with quantity of number ones and album sales figures?
You do realise that these are simply an indicator of units shifted over a given period and not any indicator of quality, or talent or superiority over other some other artist? It all comes across as a bit shallow and rather childish. About as useful as telling us something is 'amazing' but being unwilling or unable to show why this is. Is it just the kids who do this or do many adults concern themselves with such irrelevant measures of supposed musical hierarchy? When I was twelve I certainly wasn't going out to buy records by the artists that rose highest in the charts or that the largest number of people seemed to be 'into', or using the sales of one artist to bash down some other singer/band that was perceived as a rival. It's more easy to enjoy an artist's music purely for what it is, rather than seeing the situation as some sort of competition with the fans of some other 'rival' artist. |
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Personally, it's not the be all and end all of an artist I like, heck a lot of them haven't even SEEN the UK charts in years, if at all... but I think for me, if an artist I like gets to be high up in the charts, or sells really well, I feel a sense of achievement for them. If that makes sense, a bit like a proud parent haha.
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a few years ago great songs would enter at number 45 or something then climb to the top 10. Now a simple R&B song about nigga's, sexy chicks, guns and fast cars goes straight to number one, and usually has niki minaj or "mr worldwide" on it
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I blame Twitter and ATRL
![]() Kidding aside, ever since simple fans started having access to the actual numbers, things got out of hand. It was already bad enough with the chart positions, the peaks, the new entries, the much desired top spot etc, but when every fan could see how many units their favorite artist sold precisely, how many spins the artist's song got on radio and how many downloads it got on iTunes, people started obsessing over it. I remember that in the 90's and 00's, it really didn't matter that much. An album could debut at #70, but stay there for months and go platinum, so it was a hit. Now, if the album or song does not debut in the top 5 or, God forbid, somewhere in the top 10, it's a flop, a massive failure and a trainwreck... |
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