Showbiz411 reports that nearly one-third — actually 28 — of the top 100 iTunes are oldies. Some aren’t even Golden Oldies. They want to know what gives.
The late great Ronnie Spector singing “Be My Baby” is back in the top 100, along with several tracks from Credence Clearwater Revival, including “Have You Ever Seen the Rain,” at number 17.
Some are from late 90s bands Nickelback and 3 Doors Down.
The strangest entry is the Edison Lighthouse single, “Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes,” from 1970. That was a one off hit in bubblegum pop history.
Also floating around the top 100 are The Police’s “Every Breath You Take” and Bon Jovi’s “Livin on a Prayer.”
Adele’s new song is frozen at 18, and other new tunes aren’t catching on.
The Weeknd’s new music, released just a week ago. His single, “Sacrifice” is number 80. The album. “Dawn FM,” is falling out of the top 5. This is s shocking collapse after his monster hit, “After Hours,” ran the charts for months and months.
The authors ask what’s going on. Is it an iTunes promotion clogging the chart? Or a lack of interest in current music? Or both?
We’re hoping people are sick of the horrible music and will build on the old favorites. The new music mostly stinks, but that’s my opinion. What do you think?
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When you listen to the opera for a while, pretty soon you really appreciate the difference between actual singing and shrieking into a mike while posing.
I grew up in the 60s (yeah, I’m old) listening to the Beatles like everyone else back then. So, for 25 years it was the rock that everyone knows from that period, but in the late eighties, rock was changing for the worse. There was heavy metal, hard rock, punk, disco crap, and rap. I hated it all. Started listening to classical on the radio on my daily commute just for the hell of it, and loved it, especially piano solos, and piano concertos. Classical is vastly more complex structure than pretty much all of what you hear today. About all you need to know now days is about 3 or 4 chords and a melody and your in business. Probably 90% of the last 20 years of “rock” use the same old chords. No creativity IMO. At all.
Amen!
I could not tell you why today’s music sucks. I don’t listen to any. I prefer the music from the 60’s thru the 90’s.
biggest oxymoron from this story is “today’s music”………….music? right.