Posted on 07/29/2017 4:21:02 AM PDT by Trump20162020
If Drake looks smug and Dave Grohl looks a little stricken in the photos above, there's a good reason: Nielsen tracking indicates hip-hop and R&B have officially become the most dominant form of popular music in the United States for the first time ever.
As HuffPo reports, the reason for hip-hop's supremacy—25 percent of the retail music market over 23 percent for rock—may not be a big surprise.
The reason for hip-hop and R&B overtaking rock is simple: online streaming. When it comes to album sales, rock continues to dominate, claiming 43 percent of physical album sales and 37 percent of digital album sales.
But R&B and hip-hop have come to utterly dominate the online streaming market, where they make up 29 percent of all songs streamed online ― that’s almost the exact same amount as rock and pop combined.
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Oh well, I still believe in the song “Rock and Roll is King” by ELO.
Ugh.
I hate that crappy noise.
It all sounds like war drums from old Tarzan movies.
Within every genre, there is good music and bad.
What Rock and Roll ?
It died when the Beatles came over
All I hear when “Hip Hop” is blaring is the sound of young angry African Americans yelling scary crap.
Hip Hop is NOT music...it’s bitchin’ about cops, and whitey, to a drumbeat. It’s an “accepted” way of saying what would be frowned upon if spoken normally.
I play four instruments, over my life I’ve been in several bands, and hip hop - while being the most ‘promoted’ theme right now, will never replace rock and roll.
Too bad they don’t track how many of us still listen to oldies on a daily basis.
What happened to Bach, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Chopin, Liszt, Brahms, Tschaikowsky?
What happened to Rembrandt, Leonardo da Vinci, Michaelangelo, Raphael?
What happened to Shakespeare, Goethe, Milton, Heine, Dante, Petrarch, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky?
Ok, please post a link to a “good” hip hop song.
My brother told me “when you’ve heard one angry screaming black man you’ve heard them all”.
The fitness club I struggle with blasts that stuff passing as music.
They were white , ergo ( insert derogative adjective ) .
You mean the sound of angry young black men yelling “Cill witey” doesn’t enhance your work out experience? Racist....
Which genre has the most commercial radio stations?
Not that long ago it was country. Which surprised me but it really surprised the rapper chick who thought otherwise.
Rap hip hop will always have limited appeal. Are those millennial going to grow old and sit around the assisted living center reminiscing about their youth listening to that filth?
Fake news.
The so-called music mirrors the degraded state of the language. People speak in chunks now. It’s all — look, it’s — kinda, sorta, really, really, at the end of the day, REALLY kind of — I dunno.
Somewhere on the list of obsolete jobs, after lamplighter: lyricist.
It's been a few years since I took a cross-country road trip, but on every road trip, I can't help but notice that a country station is always in range, while it is difficult to find any rock/pop/whatever you want to call it station, often for hundreds of miles at a stretch. This is why I got satellite radio, and bring a collection of CDs on every road trip.
The only thing I can say is that the sound is pumped up so much that it’s all distorted.
Blasting and distorted sound at events seems to be normal and one reason of many why I don’t go to hardly anything.
I’ll stay in my quiet building with my old jeeps and blazer turning wrenches listening to normal music on a droid.
I collect soundtracks, especially older TV shows for some reason. Recently I got the incidental music set of the Wild Wild West series that I need to bump over.
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