Paul Smeenus

The other thing that's nothing new would be music/artists that have big hits on top 40 radio that will not be popular AT ALL in a few short years. Look at the top 40 charts from the 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's 00's, you'll see a litany of "where are they now" and "who the hell were they even then' acts. These things have a way of sorting themselves out.

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Ninetales

People are going to remember what they want to remember. Some people like poison some people like public image ltd. people will remember bieber the same way people remember Alice cooper

Zer0

You're only really mentioning a small handful of artists from the past 50 years of music history. I've never really liked Michael Jackson that much and although I like The Beatles, you could nearly accuse them in their early days of preconfiguring the boyband craze that would take hold many years later, where teenage girls would run screaming after them on the street.

Also back in the 80's you had the Stock Aitken Waterman production team churning out disposable pop artists like a factory production line. Even though I only saw the 80's through the eyes of a toddler and was too young to experience it first hand, plenty of older music fans have told me that the quality of 80's chart music was no different to what it is now.

Even if there is a difference, blame the record company executives. Not music fans or the artists.

I agree. The music industry in the 60's seemed to have been built on producing hits and as a result there were tons of one-hit wonders. Looking at this list god knows where most of them are now.

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