https://www.rollingstone....-top-10-record-745712/

Guess I've heard of Drake, but I've never listened to his music.  So I did and now I'm depressed.

I am old and out of touch and I will never understand the appeal of Billboard Hot 100 music. Ranting about it
goes nowhere. The beauty of the melody is gone. Bands actually playing instruments is gone. It's all about the video and not the song. And yadda yadda. Just accept it.

'Bands actually playing instruments' are everywhere Bjorn. Why do you care if they're in the top 100 or not?
 
Here's a nice melodic song to cheer you up.
 

How many sales of each single were needed to reach the Top 10 in the Beatles' day were needed compared to now?
 
As for the "Bands actually playing instruments", that's a complaint I've been hearing for over 30 years ever since dance music (not EDM) started to dominate the charts (in the UK at least).
 
 

Thanks James. That was really nice. (Really)
But where are all the young ladies shaking their behinds at the camera and the dude with all the naughty words?

bjornpdx
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But where are all the young ladies shaking their behinds ... ? 

 
That's what I've been asking most of my life
 

Proof we are witnessing the end of civilization.

'Tis all about streaming, makes it possible to have lots of top ten songs at the same time, didn't Ed Shenan have all the top ten of the UK chart to himself at one point.

There is great music if you look but sadly the bands don't make much from it. I am going to see this band this evening, http://www.lunarossa.co/

jamesg1213
'Bands actually playing instruments' are everywhere Bjorn. Why do you care if they're in the top 100 or not?
 
Here's a nice melodic song to cheer you up.
 

Can't go wrong with BBT.

Wibbles
How many sales of each single were needed to reach the Top 10 in the Beatles' day were needed compared to now?
  

Does that list include only physical record sales or dl and streaming as well? IMO more important would be to know how many households with how many devices for music listening. Today the two teenagers of an average family can easily consume 10-100 times more music (different songs, radio listening excluded) than in the 60's.

Physical death is looking better all the time. I'm ready for a new reality. This one has gone to hell.
 
And my groupies (both of them) aren't getting any younger. I'm not sure them "shaking" anything would be a pleasant experience for any us.
 
Bill