How can a group sell 1 million albums and not have a hit song?
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Some fandoms aren't good at streaming
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The same way a band can hold the record for largest concert audience in the US for nearly 50 years without a single hit song... having dedicated fans.
The oldest 100,000-crowd concert reported to Billboard Boxscore is Grateful Dead's gig at the Raceway Park, Englishtown, New Jersey on September 3, 1977. The concert was attended by 107,019 people, which remains the largest ticketed concert in the United States to date.
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They are a big lol
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and some groups have hit songs but can't sell million tho
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The same way a band can hold the record for largest concert audience in the US for nearly 50 years without a single hit song... having dedicated fans.
The oldest 100,000-crowd concert reported to Billboard Boxscore is Grateful Dead's gig at the Raceway Park, Englishtown, New Jersey on September 3, 1977. The concert was attended by 107,019 people, which remains the largest ticketed concert in the United States to date.
This.
How does a song have 200 million streams but can't sell 1 million albums? How does a song have 200 million streams but the group can only play a venue that seats 5,000?
The answer of course is because a group has large casual appeal but that does not necessarily translate into paying for a group's album or concert. The inverse is equally true - because a group has an intensely devoted fandom does not necessarily translate to lots of streams. I might buy concert tickets and Beyond Lives and t-shirts, I might preorder the album from Target. But I might only stream a song or two each day while driving to and from work.
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