tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post1632294894197677823..comments2024-03-28T21:56:51.675-04:00Comments on Face to Face: The mirage of rap's popularity: How streaming stats mislead vs. sales and airplayagnostichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-81813029571356661122021-01-10T07:59:23.212-05:002021-01-10T07:59:23.212-05:00When it comes to rap and "latino" music ...When it comes to rap and "latino" music (more afro-caribbean than latin) their purpose to trigger animal-like mate rituals and a correspondent mindset, that audience is always emotion-driven in constrast with fans of Classical European Music (a label ranging from late romantics to ars antiqua). <br /><br />Interestingly, Metalheads have both emotion (because of the variety and complexity of its melody depending of the sub-genre) and intelectual drive (metal lyrics tend to be more elaborated, again depending of the genre.)Templo Iniciático Anarquista de Chuck Norrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06441772200208092403noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-3068293466064045432020-12-22T21:14:59.032-05:002020-12-22T21:14:59.032-05:00I worked in radio for several decades and still fo...I worked in radio for several decades and still follow it. In markets with large black populations the Urban AC format is extremely dominant over Urban Contemporary (which plays a lot of rap). I have never seen the gap so large. <br /><br />Perhaps a reason for this is the more 18-34 oriented Urban audience streams more than listen to the radio while the 35-54 Urban AC audience still heavily uses radio.Jay Finknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-72054631952447945792020-12-20T03:27:06.761-05:002020-12-20T03:27:06.761-05:00Probably since 2013, when they began using streami...Probably since 2013, when they began using streaming stats to boost "Harlem Shake" by Baauer (lots of YouTube plays, not much in sales).<br /><br />That's also the decade of wokeness taking over.<br /><br />I just checked the 2008 Hot 100 chart, and the rap songs were mostly familiar. They were all big in dance clubs, including those that were not specifically rap / hip-hop oriented ("Low," "Lollipop," etc.).<br /><br />For rap to cross over, there has to be some dance appeal. Otherwise it's just black punk, limited to niche emo audiences.<br /><br />That goes back to "Rapper's Delight," Run DMC, "Baby Got Back," crunk, Nicki Minaj, and "WAP" from this year (which did show up on the sales chart because it was a truly popular rap hit, with a stripper-ography dance of its own, which went viral on Tik Tok as well).<br /><br />As far as dance-less rap goes, that peaked way back in the '90s with gangsta rap.<br /><br />The first song that signaled their own awareness of dance-less rap being a dead end with audiences, and having to cross over with dance club appeal, was "Back That Azz Up" by Juvenile in the late '90s.<br /><br />But the whole "spittin' lyrics about what a badass I am / what a punkass bitch you are" has been dead since then. Eminem was the last one to ride that wave to mainstream popularity, in the early 2000s.agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-38217336865128212062020-12-19T23:52:51.198-05:002020-12-19T23:52:51.198-05:00Makes you wonder how long they have been doing thi...Makes you wonder how long they have been doing this. The entire history of the Billboard charts? I can remember in like 1990 Sir Mix A Lot's "Baby Got Back" being the #1 or #2 song, for instance.<br /><br />I can remember examples of songs that seemed massively popular, but showed up with low rank on the Billboard charts. Nellie Furtado's "Turn off the Lights", in 2001, which seemed omnipresent on the radio my senior year of college; yet only ranked #98 for that year.<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOL7aeIDruA<br /><br /><br />Another example - Chingy's "One Call Away" in 2004; ranked #30 or so, I believe. The song is hip-hop, yet was criticized for being more melodic than most rap(in other words, more appealing to normies). But I can remember it being played all the time.<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhPiBZLun5kCurtisnoreply@blogger.com