this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b65PYwVrHuo&feature=emb_logo)
I thought this video was really cool to watch. The format is kind of mesmerizing, and it provides a really interesting way of seeing how some people shot up the charts, plummeted down the charts and how dominant they were at times.
I know my impressions are primarily a function of age, but a few thoughts/surprises to me as I watched it:
- Elton John has been a big, big deal for a long, long time.
- Not a surprise, but Michael Jackson was certainly dominant for a while, wasn't he? And fell fast.
- I thought there would be more U2.
- Never realized that Eminem was quite that huge.
- Or Rihanna.
- Or Drake.
- I had to google to figure out who Luis Fonsi even was; I didn't recall ever hearing his name.
- I was surprised that there was no Van Halen. Or Sting/The Police. Or a lot of other 80s fixtures (e.g., Duran Duran, Bryan Adams, Def Leppard, Motley Crue, REM, etc.) -- unless, of course, I just missed them.
There was really a pretty huge gap in my awareness of popular music between my college days when I was more immersed in it, and my kids' getting to HS when I started hearing more of their music (i.e., the 20 years between the early nineties and the early teens).
I would love to know how the artists from older than 5 years ago would have done with singles only sold. Yes, you could buy the 45's, but scale was way different.