re: Post Malone is now currently the most listened to artist in the world.

They have and have mostly been correct yet as a 90s teenager, pop then was better than pop now and the 80s pop was better than 90s pop, this crap now is unbearable. It all sounds exactly the same. The formula, an 808 bassline, sing songy hook and some variation of the same voice changeover/autotune/whatever synthesizing crap they do now.
Take a rundown of the top "pop" artists and you'll see they are all the same thing. To at least give Post Malone some credit his sound is somewhat different but yet still the same formula. The singers all sound the same and follow the same formula of hit. The rock is an abomination and the so called rap isn't really rap

Rap/hip hop influence gets the blame for these days putrid sound and for what they've let it become it deserves a lot of it. However, again as a late 80s ,90s era teen , what they call rap these days is not really rap. It's why the ultimate rappers sell what they do, excluding Drake, as h is the epitomy of the mainstream, follow the trend, type artist. The talent of now's artists is unarguable it's just that the formula they follow is extremely flawed.