re: Old music is outselling new music for the first time in history

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Might explain why 80s and 90s songs are played daily on numerous radio stations that one could be forgiven if they thought they were back in those decades. Meanwhile all 6 songs of the current generation well they tend to suck.

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, there are much more modern stations (hip-hop, Top 40, country, etc.) than there are oldies stations, even if you include 90s and 2000s stations. Of course every station is going to play something older than 18 months every so often, but what do you expect? There isn't a time in history where you could have played all popular, modern tracks and filled the content required for a 24-hour day.

Every one of these past vs. present debates tends to be filled with people who struggle to understand how nostalgia works. You're not dropping some groundbreaking knowledge when you state that the music from the 80s, or 70s, or any other decade is better than what is on the radio today. You're lumping the 20 or 30 songs you loved from 10 years worth of music against music that has come out in the last 1-2 years, of course the old stuff is going to be better.

I'm not sure if I should be impressed or disappointed that there are people who think this kind of information is an indictment of current music.

Yeah but the outselling part is disingenuous because of paid streaming and I've had too much coffee and picked this battle

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don't think "triggered Millennials" are arguing against the quality of old music more than they are arguing with the logic that led you to that statement. Your OP doesn't suggest anything about the quality of current music vs. old music. Furthermore, one of the specific reasons listed in the article suggests that the popularity of vinyl albums has a lot to do with it. Guess who is the most popular connoisseur of vinyl albums? Yep, hipsters, who are almost unanimously going to be millennials as well.

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I know this may come as a shock to you but my statement in the OP.....

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Just further proof that 99.9% of music being made today is pure dog shite...

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Was meant nothing more than my own opinion. Taste in music is 100% subjective. I personally think 99.9% of the music being made today is indeed pure dog shite. You can't rationalize, quantify, measure, prove or disprove my statement because it's an opinion on a subjective matter.

As for the article, guess what... I didn't write it. Don't like what is says? Want to refute what the author said? Email him.

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I like old music more.

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I only listen to music once it becomes old.

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I only listen to music once it becomes old.

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So I am stupid cause I like older music ???? frick off jack hole.

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You're stupid (or drunk again) because you completely misunderstood my very simple post which said the opposite.

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I know this may come as a shock to you but my statement in the OP..... Just further proof that 99.9% of music being made today is pure dog shite... Was meant nothing more than my own opinion.

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Proof =/= opinion.

You can say that older music is better than newer music and I won't give a shite because it is subjective.

You cannot say that this article is proof that 99.9% of music today is dogshit. Do you see the difference?

I know it may be semantics to you, but someone like myself or TheCaterpillar are going to call it out because we're into that kind of weird shite and we prefer to use numbers that actually tell the story. I tend to agree with your sentiment that older music is better than most things today, but this article isn't proof of that whatsoever.

Slo you disappoint me. I figgered it was time for one of your "things are better than ever" posts, and you'd have FBI crime stats to back it up

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If Katy Perry sells 60 million albums now and the Beatles sold it then, then yes, the masses of youth had objectively better taste back then. I don't even think at that point its subjective

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There will be a time in the next 40 years where people will argue that Katy Perry is classic music compared to the shite on the airwaves in 2055. Let that sink in for a moment.