Pic related went triple platinum in a year
Drake's Views only went double platinum after nine weeks at number one
Smash Mouth > Drake
I know Smash Mouth was a meme from birth, but I actually really like them so please stop.
>>66482692
Walkin' on the Sun is great. The rest of their music is bad.
SOME
>>66483012
BODY
>>66483021
ONCE
>>66483030
TOLD
Is it bad that I actually like smashmouth?
Christgau gave Smash Mouth's first album an A-
>>66483121
Yes it is you slave morality having piece of shit.
people bought a lot more albums in the late 90s
>>66483516
Why thank you pardner!
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>>66483571
yeah this. Smashmouth came out out during the highest peak of music sales in history
>>66483721
Damn, I didn't think digital sales would decline like that
>>66483721
What happened in the 80s?
>>66484406
Decade began with a big recession.
>>66484352
digital sales are going up, just not nearly enough to offset the physical decline
>>66484602
Do they count digital sales for record certifications?
>>66484556
I think that and demographic reasons--the baby boomers all grew up and stopped buying music by 1980. After them came the much smaller Gen Xer population.
>>66484830
But that doesn't explain the massive 90s music boom. for there being half as many Gen Xers as boomers, they were selling 2x more records than in the 70s.
>>66484913
Protip: It's not the population size, it's the format. CDs made the cost of recorded music cheaper than ever before. Vinyl albums were expensive and people couldn't afford to buy as many, especially not in the recession-choked 70s. That music sales were still high in that era had to do with the large boomer population.
The 90s had a better economy, also a string of mega albums like Jagged Little Pill, Californication, and all boyband/girlband albums which sold like a bazillion copies.
>>66484913
music was better in the 90s ;^)
>>66485361
only in the early 90s
>>66485361
80s>90s
punk/hardcore
industrial
post punk/new wave
"alternative" music before it went corporate
the only thing the 90s had going for it is god tier hip hop and electronic music
>>66483012
>>66483021
>>66483030
>>66483050
Got fucking dammit its stuck in my head now.
Drake > Smash Mouth
The early 80s music dropoff could also have been the increased fragmentation of the market into rock, punk, metal, and alternative scenes. Rock was not as monolithic as it had been 10 years earlier. I think U2 were the nearest thing the 80s had to a Led Zeppelin level of big rock group.
