Here we go again 
Why is it so hard to understand the difference between having a hardcore niche following versus a wide spread casual following? (of course in relative terms)
believe me 
fandoms of these million sellers that you are always shading (coughnctcough) do in fact love and stream their music, but they are pretty much the only people that do so, that's why they don't have high streams like groups with more casual fans and listeners
The issue is that fans of groups with high album sales believe having higher album sales makes the group more popular than groups with lower album sales which is simply not the case and never was.
The issue is that fans of groups with high album sales believe having higher album sales makes the group more popular than groups with lower album sales which is simply not the case and never was.
It's more complicated than that, because we need first to define what popularity is to begin with. is it having millions of people dedicated to you as a music act, buying your albums merch and concert tickets? or having millions of people streaming your songs but not bothering to buy your albums, attend your concerts and stick around for the long haul?
of course there are groups that have both, but those are actually rare.
anyway, i don't see people discuss this specific point as much as people who just brush the whole thing off by throwing veiled misogynistic remarks and insults at fangirls in general.
The issue is that fans of groups with high album sales believe having higher album sales makes the group more popular than groups with lower album sales which is simply not the case and never was.
Having more streams doesn't automatically make you more popular though. That can mean you either have an extremely streams focused fandom (which some groups definitely do) or you have a song that's highly popular which doesn't automatically correlate to group popularity.
Like Imagine Dragons are in the top 10 most streamed Spotify artists of all time... do you think they're more popular than Bruno Mars? Drake? Adele? Because they're ahead of all of them. Or do they just have a few songs that were widely liked?
The issue is that fans of groups with high album sales believe having higher album sales makes the group more popular than groups with lower album sales which is simply not the case and never was.
Literally no one ever said that, album sales are a very important source of income but neither streams or sales equals to popularity, which is a subjective measure anyways.
Like Imagine Dragons are in the top 10 most streamed Spotify artists of all time... do you think they're more popular than Bruno Mars? Drake? Adele? Because they're ahead of all of them. Or do they just have a few songs that were widely liked?
Imagine dragons is 19th most streamed artist of all time on spotify. Drake is #1 most streamed artist. The biggest on spotify. Bruno #26 and that's because his catalog is very small overall.
my bad I got the charts mixed up and was looking at monthly listeners, but the point still stands... stream totals don't automatically correlate to popularity just like charting doesn't.
Literally no one ever said that, album sales are a very important source of income but neither streams or sales equals to popularity, which is a subjective measure anyways.
Disagree. I suggest you check some of those annoying 4th gen threads.
Disagree. I suggest you check some of those annoying 4th gen threads.
Well I'm talking from my fandom pov, I don't usually enter on the 4th gen discussions (specially from bgs) so that might explain it.
Maybe some are popular, but not famous
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