See I don’t think Ed is sh*t at all. He’s a very good musician writing really listenable and well crafted songs. I just don’t think his stuff is groundbreaking or inspiring. That’s not his fault as he doesn’t have to be those things and very few people can be. I’d just prefer him not to be quite so dominant for that reason.

That sums up my thoughts perfectly. Nothing wrong with the guy or his songs, and fair play to him, but the fact that he's up there with the all-time greats because of his achievements is rather saddening. He's hardly broken down barriers or reinvented genres. Heck, his highest metactrictic score is 67 (X and +).

it's not the average, it's an estimate obtained using the machine learning method. Basically you make a model, first you feed it with the all-time Spotify data, so the machine learns how songs perform, then you put the weekly data, and it predicts how they will perform on Thursday...

it's like... imagine for the Titanic... you first feed the model with all the real data of all the passengers, sex, age, social status and if they died or not... then you put your own data, man, 36, poor... and the model tells you: you die :)

Thursday streams are almost identical to Wednesday streams, so easy job anyway for the OCC

Ah ok thanks that's good to hear. Hopefully then Ed should be safe for an 11th week :D

Think most people owned pianos in their homes up until the 1950s so maybe was played on that!

To be fair there's probably some codgers back then moaning about modern pop music being awful.

Only three things in music are constant:

 

1. There are currently people obsessed with telling everyone that music sucks now.

2. 10 years from now, people will pine for the music of now, as they turn into the first point.

3. This will never be self-reflected upon to realise the irony.

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So true^

Preach :clap: nostalgia is a powerful thing. I've been re-listening to my 'every UK #1' playlist recently and in amongst the brilliance there's plenty of rubbish too in every decade :kink:

 

^Thanks, very interesting read. Crazy how in the US, even back then when they were using sheet music, they already added radio airplay :D while the UK never did...

No problem, glad you enjoyed it too! That detail also caught my eye :lol:

Preach :clap: nostalgia is a powerful thing. I've been re-listening to my 'every UK #1' playlist recently and in amongst the brilliance there's plenty of rubbish too in every decade :kink:

No problem, glad you enjoyed it too! That detail also caught my eye :lol:

 

I think time just allows us to forget the absolute shite.

Only three things in music are constant:

 

1. There are currently people obsessed with telling everyone that music sucks now.

2. 10 years from now, people will pine for the music of now, as they turn into the first point.

3. This will never be self-reflected upon to realise the irony.

 

Thank you!

I do pine for some of the music of 10 years ago in a way, that's true - but more than anything I count my lucky stars we're not in 2016. :lol:

I do pine for some of the music of 10 years ago in a way, that's true - but more than anything I count my lucky stars we're not in 2016. :lol:

 

There was some great stuff in 2016. Actually thinking on it some of my favourite songs of the 2010's are from 2016.

Fingers and toes crossed that both ABBA singles stays top 10 by tomorrow.😊

Now wondering if my increased distaste for commercial dance music is truly because the quality of it dramatically fell off a cliff circa 2016 onwards or if it's really just me becoming an old man who moans about current trends.

 

No, it is the children who are wrong.

 

(For what it's worth I don't think the quality of chart music in other genres has declined, in fact I think it has noticeably improved again since a nadir around 2016/17 if my votes in the recent chart survivors / Record of the Decade are anything to go by).

Fingers and toes crossed that both ABBA singles stays top 10 by tomorrow.😊

I'm hoping the same and that they can hold on.

Now wondering if my increased distaste for commercial dance music is truly because the quality of it dramatically fell off a cliff circa 2016 onwards or if it's really just me becoming an old man who moans about current trends.

 

No, it is the children who are wrong.

 

(For what it's worth I don't think the quality of chart music in other genres has declined, in fact I think it has noticeably improved again since a nadir around 2016/17 if my votes in the recent chart survivors / Record of the Decade are anything to go by).

 

Commercial music has certainly declined since the back end of 2016 and early 2017 to now, but given it had been in a boom since 2009 until then but an absolute peak through 2014, 2015 and 2016 it was going to fall again and make way for other genres. There's some good stuff still out their though.

 

Before 1952 the charts were compiled based on the sales of sheet music - like the actual sheet music that other musicians used to play the songs in bars and places likes that.

 

I remember in the 90’s hmv still used to sell sheet music for the biggest records- Nirvana, Oasis etc- but I guess that’s not a thing anymore?

Preach :clap: nostalgia is a powerful thing. I've been re-listening to my 'every UK #1' playlist recently and in amongst the brilliance there's plenty of rubbish too in every decade :kink:

No problem, glad you enjoyed it too! That detail also caught my eye :lol:

The trouble with nostalgia is that it isn't as good as it used to be.

How long until artists start flogging sheet music through their websites to boost an album to the #1 position lmao?

 

Maybe in a bundle with a Fake Cassette and a CD case containing a donwload code.

not until sheet music sales actually count towards the chart (and they won’t). they’re better off flogging t shirts and pretending you have to buy the album to get the shirt.

I remember in the 90’s hmv still used to sell sheet music for the biggest records- Nirvana, Oasis etc- but I guess that’s not a thing anymore?

Some of my favourite Singers songwriters still do, you buy like a book with all the tabs & chords for the album

But now there are many sites and apps for that

You can find anything and is even better than on paper

Cos you can transpose and also autoscroll while playing

not until sheet music sales actually count towards the chart (and they won’t). they’re better off flogging t shirts and pretending you have to buy the album to get the shirt.

 

When I was learning keyboard, you used to get books of songs that came with the CD for the tracks in the book. I'm suprised labels haven't talked to the sheet music sellers at some point to get the download flogged with them on the websites these days to count as a sale.