Prior to the Streaming era, "It's a Small World (After All)" by Robert and Richard Sherman was the most played song of all time."What? There's no way that's true" you're probably asking yourself, but it is. The song was, and still is, performed on loop, for 12-16 hours a day, at the most visited theme parks in the world, for nearly 70 years. And this isn't including additional performances outside the theme parks. Other highly performed songs such as Yesterday by The Beatles don't even come close. By the early 2010s the song was played over 50 million times at Disney parks alone, compared to the roughly 8 million performances of YesterdayThe is exactly the type of number fudging people do when they cite streaming numbers to gauge an artists popularity. This is why the top artists on streaming platforms are almost never artists people actually listen to nearly as often in real life. Streaming numbers aren't a measure of a songs popularity, they're a measure of how many times the song has been played on repeat within a given number of playlists, and said playlists often include background music playlists for businesses. I think most people will agree that "It's a Small World" is NOT the most popular song of all time, despite it being performed so many times and heard by hundreds of millions of people.So how do we gauge an artists popularity? The answer is we really can't. In the past, album and single sales were a far more reliable method of doing this, but streaming having partially supplanted physical media has muddied the waters. It's over
>>127951810Its funny how corporations and shills think it is a measure of popularity. Now you have bad bunny as a halftime show performer when he's just popular because of countless Hispanic restaurants playing his song as background music while people dine lol. Its like saying dean Martin is enormously popular with zoomers because every Italian restaurant plays him
Also the fact that literal AIslop manages to chart on that retarded app doesn't help its credibility
>>127951848The thing is that being in the Super Bowl halftime show doesn't even necessarily mean you're that big of a music star either, Shakira played in 2020 and barely anyone knows who she is either
>>127952882>barely anyone knows who shakira isbruh
The most popular song of all time is probably something extremely mundane like Ode to Joy or Wheels on the Bus or something that everyone just knows without needing it marketed to you>>127952904What did she do again? The Africa song or whatever?
>>127951848stupid white bitches love bad bunny>>127952904is she just another pop star that's being pushed on everyone?
>compared to the roughly 8 million performances of YesterdayHelp!, uponstwhich is Yesterday, has sold around 9 or 10 million copies. if everyone who went out and bought the album only ever played it once thats still >8million plays, and of course most people willve played it way more than that. then add radio plays over the last 60 years and Im starting to suspect that the numbers in that article are a load of old bollocks
if we tried going by highest grossing tours BUT accounting for when ticket prices got fucked up inflating their gross, then the most popular acts would be shit like Rolling Stones, Madonna, Celine Dion, AC/DC, Bruce Springsteen and Cher
>>127952904poptimists gtfo
