Originally Posted by Janszoon

Crap has always sold well and probably always will. Here's the best-selling albums in the US for each year of 1960s for example:

1960: The Sound of Music, Original Cast Recording.
1961: Camelot, Original Cast Recording.
1962: West Side Story Soundtrack.
1963: West Side Story Soundtrack.
1964: Hello, Dolly!, Original Cast Recording.
1965: Mary Poppins Soundtrack.
1966: Whipped Cream & Other Delights, by Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass.
1967: More of The Monkees, by The Monkees.
1968: Are You Experienced?, by The Jimi Hendrix Experience.
1969: In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, by Iron Butterfly.

Note that 8 out of 10 of these are utter garbage.