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Record sales are not a good way to judge the quality of the band or artist?

  • Because if their opinion is based off a chart and they use that as a factual quality source, they're gonna have a bad time. Do you think ABBA are a genuinely good band? Their record sales were fantastic! How about AC/DC, the most boring rock band on the planet, where every song is a rehash of the last one. This is just my opinion though, maybe you should go get a genuine one.

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    Of course sales do not necessarily equal quality. Of course, by the same token, they don't reflect lack of quality either. They're two different things. Sales reflect trends, personal tastes, successful marketing. What's more telling is what endures. To use one of your examples, Abba was almost forgotten by the time they broke up in the early 80s but a good proportion of their sales have come in the last 15 years. Their music has lasted much longer than some of the stuff that was popular when it was first released. You remember "You Light up My Life" by Debby Boone? It was perfectly awful piece of dreck that was the biggest hit of 1977, 10 weeks at #1. It's all but forgotten today. Abba's "Dancing Queen" was #1 for only a week that year but is still one of the best-selling singles ever. Abba in fact is recognized as one of the most innovative bands in pop: their writing and production have been called "models of impeccable craft" and they were pioneers of digital recording. Their last album is, in fact, probably the first major digital recording and the studio they built in Stockholm produced most of the major acts of the 80s and 90s. So, yeah, whether you like Abba's pop sound or not, what they produced was very high quality.

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I disagree. For example, Pink Floyd. Dark Side of the Moon has sold billions of copies, and they are good.

Big Bang Theorist

Big Bang, "Dark Side of the Moon" was a masterpiece, but it didn't sell BILLIONS. Opinions are subjetive--ALWAYS. Part of it is the media, telling you what you SHOULD like. Some groups like the Guess who never got voted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and probably never will. AC/DC? I agree with you in part. They were deemed "popular" because they were "bad boys". Anhd Bruce Springsteen? The guy does good music, but critics ought to face it--he borrowed heavily from a lot of musicians before him--so he was hardly originall. A LOT of of this problem rests with the media becuase publications such as Rolling Stone are so biased that it isn't funny. They made up their minds a long time ago who the "movers and shakers" were in the music business, so WHATEVER they have to say is what you should accept as the truth. Take Nirvana, for instance. I have a few of their CDs but I'm frankly tired of hearing about Kurt Cobain some 18 years after his passing. One could look at the "formula bands" like Styx, Heart, Kansas, Jouiney, and such, and honestly say that their music was based on somebody else's sound and style and that these groups mmerely put their signature on it. But then you see a lot of good bands shoved off to the side because publications such as Rolling Stone have made up your mind for you and deemed them mediocre. Go figure.

Shafter

I agree. Record sales are not a good way of judging the quality and talent of a band. Let's put it this way: One Direction has sold millions and millions and millions of album, and while they're catchy and cute, they are NOWHERE near as talented as bands such as All Time Low, You Me At Six, and Sleeping With Sirens, who have sold less records but have worked for years and years and years to build up intensely loyal fan-bases from scratch.

Ginny

their are a lot of band that weren't that good that had great record sales.for example,Limp Bizkit,Lincoln Park,Ace Of Base,Madonna,The Beeges,the Grease soundtrack,Asia,Phil Collins,Lionel Richy,the spice girls but their are some great ones.for example,Guns N roses(appetite for destruction),prince-purple rain,Dire straights-brother in arms,Boston-debut

Moshitup

Yeah, I agree. I don't see how this warrants discussion, it's pretty much an objective fact that there's going to be at least some music outside the charts for everyone to enjoy. I just feel bad for people who don't realize this.

Record sales CAN tell something (MJ's thriller definitely told the world something) but ALOT of the times they don't show ****. the bands you mentioned rule

Bats

You're right, but it doesn't exactly take a genius to figure that out...

Seederman

Ginny, all of your bands are considered the worst of our generation. Hush.

Of course I agree with this. It is in no way a measurement system

That Metal Guy

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