Rock still on top of the pops

[David KOS]

1. Nielsen Ranks Jazz Least Popular Music Genre in America (page 1) - Yehoodi.com
   
   Good news for rock - it ain't dead!
   
   "based on physical and digital album sales, digital track sales, and online audio stream listen counts.
   
   
   
   
   
   Rock is the most popular genre, according to Nielson at 29%, followed by R&B/Hip-hop at 17.2%."
   
   Unfortunately, my other styles of music, jazz and classical, rank at the bottom.
   
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[Bocc69]

Nice to see Good news!

Rock will always live in my house too

 

[smitty_p]

I'd like to see them break down R&B and Hip-Hop and see which of those two has the larger consumption.

I'd actually like to see a breakdown just for Motown, but I suppose that is part of R&B, though to me it is a a little different.

 

[DonP]

In the UK a new imperative has landed on us to reconsider how chart success is calculated. Ed Sheeran is the cause of this - nine of the current top ten are his, and all tracks of his latest release are in the top twenty.

Ed Sheeran is now the God of music after smashing seven chart records

I'd like to see a chart based on actual sales rather than free and non-demanded streams which can be manipulated simply by the recording company.

 

[Gahr]

Where does blues fit in the list? Is it lumped in with R&B/hip hop (God forbid!)?

 

[Chubbles]

I've got 2 teenagers, my son is 17, my daughter is 14. I hear what pases for top 40, and I think it stinks. Synthetic music, and the vocals sound very nasal. (Only my opinion)

 

[iblive]

Rock in our house. Always has been, always will be. For you Dave. I 've had the had the Jazz channel queued up on satellite radio in my car for the drive home from work. Helps keep me in a frame of mind NOT to road rage on some of the bozo drivers I'm surrounded by.

 

[eSGEe]

I like em all. Jazz being one of my favorite.

 

[Six String]

And again... Rock Rocks on! :dood:

 

[chilipeppermaniac]

I like em all. Jazz being one of my favorite.

I agree with ESG. I love well done music. In my college days, I took a history of Jazz class. I learned a lot and have a fondness for the innovative and unique creations by some of the greats all the way back to Huddie Ledbetter, Robert Johnson, Thelonius Monk, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Coltrane, Dizzy Gillespie, Charles Mingus, Wynton Marsalis and so many more.

 

[smitty_p]

... the vocals sound very nasal. (Only my opinion)

I think what you're hearing is Autotune. A lot of vocals in modern pop music are run through Autotune, which can give the vocals that effect. It's done on purpose.

Here's an excerpt from CNN on Autotune:

"Auto-Tune alters the pitch of a singing voice to make everyone sound perfectly in tune. When used properly, it's subtle enough that it can't be detected.
But Cher's producers played with the idea of cranking it up to 11, creating the now-familiar effect that is part human synthesizer, part robotic voice."

The invention that changed music forever - CNN.com


You can rest easy...you're not just hearing things!

 

[DonP]

The problem with Autotune is that no pop producer simply uses it to tune a singer, they now all use it to impart a robotic tone to the voice - it is what singing is presumed to sound like these days.

 

[WavMixer]

It's not surprising that rock is on the top of the list. After all look at all of the baby boomers that were raised on rock. Add in the fact that there are many different types of rock such as 50s early Chuck Barry style, 60s gave us surf rock, acid rock, psychedelic rock, hard rock, soft rock. The 70s was a mix of all kinds of rock including metal. The 80s hair bands brought us more guitar screaming rock, speed metal, grunge and the list goes on. I love the old classic rock, but after 40-50 years of hearing the same old stuff, I've been acclimated to electric blues which a lot of it sounds like rock, with a new beat and lyrics.