Why do they think the music that makes the charts or that gets to No.1, is an indicator of this generations music tastes or that the music that is in the charts is the be all and end all, of the music being made today?
Let me explain something.
1) Having your music make the charts, means absolutely nothing in this day and age. All it really means, is that particular piece of music has been heard by a wider audience, that it's been played on the radio and therefore more people have heard it around the same time, meaning it's going to sell more around the same time, making it chart.
2) When you think about how many people there are in the UK and then look at the number of people who are actually buying these records, really it is actually quite a small percentage of our population.
3) There is a common assumption, that it's mainly young people and more specifically teenage girls buying this 'manufactured crap' when actually, that's not true and I'd say it's the other way round. Being young and female myself, I've known many guys that only listen to chart music and I also find that it's mainly middle aged parents, that buy and listen to most chart music.
4) Listening to and finding music to suit your tastes has become much more personal for young people. There are so many different ways to discover music, so many different genres and so many different people putting out new music each and every day, that it's become much easier to have your own individual tastes and that even if you and a friend are into exactly the same genres, the tracks and artists/producers you've discovered, actually like and have bought, will probably be different to eachothers.
5) With so many different places to discover music and the fact so many people are now uploading their music to the Internet, people aren't all going to come across the same artist or producer at the exactly the same time. Therefore, over a period of time that person may end up selling loads of their music and will gain a fan base but it's never going to make it into the Charts because not enough people will be discovering and buying that music, in exactly the same week.
6) Just because somebody may buy a couple of songs that have charted, it does not automatically mean that they have terrible taste and that they don't also listen to more obscure and 'real music' as people here, like to call it. I've seen people say things like "This generation seems to be the first generation that doesn't actually care about music and are happy to be spoonfed manafactured crap." This is such an ignorant thing to say and anyone thinking in this way, is truly out of touch with young people and music.
7) YouTube views now count towards chart positions. Many music videos today, are getting tons of hits, not because young people actually like the music, but because of the controversial and sexual content. Also if you actually click on these videos and read the comments, it seems a large proportion of the people visiting the video, have only done so, to leave a negative comment. So just because the video has lots of views, it's not an indicator of its musical content actually being popular and just goes to show how irrelevant the charts actually are, in terms of popularity amongst the young.
The charts no longer matter, having a number one no longer matters and people need to give up on all this "music today is crap" "young people today have terrible taste and are sheep" mentality.
Let me explain something.
1) Having your music make the charts, means absolutely nothing in this day and age. All it really means, is that particular piece of music has been heard by a wider audience, that it's been played on the radio and therefore more people have heard it around the same time, meaning it's going to sell more around the same time, making it chart.
2) When you think about how many people there are in the UK and then look at the number of people who are actually buying these records, really it is actually quite a small percentage of our population.
3) There is a common assumption, that it's mainly young people and more specifically teenage girls buying this 'manufactured crap' when actually, that's not true and I'd say it's the other way round. Being young and female myself, I've known many guys that only listen to chart music and I also find that it's mainly middle aged parents, that buy and listen to most chart music.
4) Listening to and finding music to suit your tastes has become much more personal for young people. There are so many different ways to discover music, so many different genres and so many different people putting out new music each and every day, that it's become much easier to have your own individual tastes and that even if you and a friend are into exactly the same genres, the tracks and artists/producers you've discovered, actually like and have bought, will probably be different to eachothers.
5) With so many different places to discover music and the fact so many people are now uploading their music to the Internet, people aren't all going to come across the same artist or producer at the exactly the same time. Therefore, over a period of time that person may end up selling loads of their music and will gain a fan base but it's never going to make it into the Charts because not enough people will be discovering and buying that music, in exactly the same week.
6) Just because somebody may buy a couple of songs that have charted, it does not automatically mean that they have terrible taste and that they don't also listen to more obscure and 'real music' as people here, like to call it. I've seen people say things like "This generation seems to be the first generation that doesn't actually care about music and are happy to be spoonfed manafactured crap." This is such an ignorant thing to say and anyone thinking in this way, is truly out of touch with young people and music.
7) YouTube views now count towards chart positions. Many music videos today, are getting tons of hits, not because young people actually like the music, but because of the controversial and sexual content. Also if you actually click on these videos and read the comments, it seems a large proportion of the people visiting the video, have only done so, to leave a negative comment. So just because the video has lots of views, it's not an indicator of its musical content actually being popular and just goes to show how irrelevant the charts actually are, in terms of popularity amongst the young.
The charts no longer matter, having a number one no longer matters and people need to give up on all this "music today is crap" "young people today have terrible taste and are sheep" mentality.
