This is interesting… if you look at the top selling albums for last year… and music trends, it’s all about Taylor Swift, k-pop, and music streaming. What does this mean? Let’s discuss.
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Young kook….I was with you on that one lol
When I only recognized Taylor Swift and Fleetwood Mac out of all the musicians mentioned, I realized I have moved into that echelon of only listening to old music and not new music! I think the tipping point is around 50 yrs old haha
I'm OK with that, statistics are fun! I live in a society that lets us listen to and make any music we want to. THAT is very important!
Tay tay living legend
Fantastic video
Indie store viewpoint here – Not very many of us report sales data of any sort to Soundscan and we sell tons of vinyl. No Taylor Swift, at least not at our store. No slight to her or her fans, of course.
To be fair, the kinds of people buying Taylor Swift on vinyl are probably playing it on Crosley Cruisers a couple of times then listening to the album on streaming services and letting the record gather dust, probably lying flat and without any kind of protective sleeve.
I’m new to vinyl and buy what I can but I only play them a couple of times then stream the rest of the time
Swift fans are insane. It's no surprise she is the top seller, but her RSD release last year (115,000 copies pressed) is already going for $300 on Discogs with no signs of slowing down. I don't blame the fans for wearing diapers to her shows. Paying obscene amounts of money for a concert ticket requires obscene measures to be taken to get your moneys worth! 😂
"Talylor Swift is the biggest pop star on the planet" – Yes, but, WHY?
Gotta say, I didn't buy a single one of these records! Then again, I'm a BOOMER.
Yet if one of her songs came on the radio someone would have to tell me it was Taylor Swift, I'd have no idea.
When has there been another time in music history where there's been an artist as big yet lots of people wouldn't recognise them if they heard them?
Even if you weren't a Michael Jackson fan you knew his songs if you heard them.
I dont think I bought 15 albums in 2023 so no Taylor Swift in my collection
I have nothing against Taylor Swift , but I don’t have any of her albums, I’ve streamed her but it’s not my thing.
I heard Taylor is worth 1.2 billion
I do Uber/Lyft part time in my city. One time, I picked 3 GenZ's for a ride and they were 1) fascinated that I actually had a cd player in my car and 2) I had a stack of cd's. I told them that I had been collecting records and cd's for 30+ years and they thought that was so cool. They put smile on my face and made me feel really old….lol
Im so proud that I have, and will never contribute to those numbers. Taylor swift is just basic level NPC music for people who “listen to everything.”
I wonder if the sheer number of rock artists releasing media today keeps the numbers down as far as "Big Selling Artists" in the rock, alternative & indie categories goes. I hear a ton of new & recent (last 15 years or so) music, but looking at US TV, I rarely know performers on NBC's The Today Show or SNL.
Sorry Frank, we bought well over a hundred new albums and at least 20 used ones last year. Not one was by Taylor Swift.
I’m with you Frank! I think it’s encouraging that younger people are buying records. And hopeful at the possibility that it leads to at least some of them to explore record collecting. About people buying records without turntables…maybe there are family members/friends that don’t have a record player that are buying them as gifts for people that will play them. A thing that I’ve always liked about your channel is that you are fair to and encourage the young generation, where a lot of gen x/older millennials (I happen to be an older millennial), are very negative/dismissive towards them mostly because they don’t like or share their musical tastes
Wow! I wonder if any single act every dominated record sales in that way? 1 in 15. The Beatles? Elvis? MJ?
Those young whippersnappers and their darn Taylor Swift albums. In my day…Hahaha! No, just kidding. It's important for every generation to have a passion for physical media, particularly for vinyl records, because if they don't, it will just become an obscure niche market that will eventually disappear again.
To paraphrase an angry old man comedy sketch by Dana Carvey back in the days when Saturday Night Live was actually funny, "In my day, we didn't have Taylor Swift albums. We would take a squirrel and strap him down to a turntable and play him and we liked it!" 😉
I'm not worried for rock music's future. The music I sought has always been by the underdogs, not the popular stuff. I just received my copy of the Rhino High Fidelity release "Television-Marquee Moon." They only printed 5000 copies of it because they know the average Joe has never heard of them; but for those of us in the know, they are a pivotal band in American music. Ultimately there's room for everyone's taste.
Taylor Swift??
Country??
Man, that's a double gut punch!! 🤮
Taylor Swift is popular with the younger buyers, fine by me. Every generation throws a hero up the pop charts. I tend to think that the vinyl revival hinges on loudness war CD remasters. Vinyl offers music that is compressed, but not distressed.
I swore Newjeans said Headpins when I first saw it. No wonder, as i don't have my glasses on.
I also have no idea what the last newest album I bought was. It's been years, and I'm not really a fan of what's popular out there anyways. My trend is picking up 12" singles from the 80's. But only if they got extended remixes. Sucks when its just the same as the 7" single. Fine as a B side, but bring on the 12" Extended Dance Mixes.
Not that long ago the goodwill in town had an entire shelf of K Pop box sets. Since its all new to me I would assume those sets were worth way more then $5. Can't believe what was all in them but wow. They sure load them up like crazy with photos, stickers, postcards, the kitchen sink.