Date: June 23rd, 2026 6:04 PM Author: cordovan partner
This is a mind-blowing statistic. Go out on the street probably 10 out of 10 strangers have heard of The Beatles. I don't think I've ever met one person who knew of The Neighbourhood. How is this possible?
Date: June 23rd, 2026 6:12 PM Author: cordovan partner
Cr I have heard this song a million times but I have never heard of any of their other 4 billion stream bangers. I tried just now and it put me to sleep.
Date: June 23rd, 2026 6:13 PM Author: Cruel-hearted vigorous box office water buffalo
yeah I don't recognize the titles. I wonder if their label does fake streams, some of them do. or if they're just on giant corporate playlists or something
Date: June 23rd, 2026 6:14 PM Author: cordovan partner
It's definitely a Playlist thing. It's such boring non-music this has to be the stuff that plays at the dentist's office. No one has ever bought tickets to sit in the front row for this shit.
Date: June 23rd, 2026 6:12 PM Author: Cruel-hearted vigorous box office water buffalo
borinnnngggggg
before anyone comes at me, yes I agree they were influential and that they were creative AT THE TIME but their music is soOooOOOooooo boring by today's standards
Date: June 23rd, 2026 6:13 PM Author: cordovan partner
False. Although I did feel the way you do through most of my 20s. As I got older I eventually came to like it somehow. I thought it was boring af when I was like 16 tho.
The Beatles are amazing but yeah I don't see how someone is just becoming aware that streaming #s are going to be dominated by the type of music younger people who do the most streaming listen to the most.
In other news, slop kids like have the most views on YouTube and dominate classic masterpiece films!
Millennials also predominantly stream and of course older songs that are enjoyed by people who stream are going to dominate the top all time because they've had a much longer time to rack up streams.
Date: June 23rd, 2026 6:24 PM Author: Cruel-hearted vigorous box office water buffalo
how is that mutually exclusive with what he said? (other than "dominate", but the part about millennials is only mutually exclusive if you don't think millennials listen to newer music too)
Zoomer shit is going to eclipse millennial shit over time, millennials just had a head start. And then, if streaming remains dominant, gen alpha music, and so on.
This is all self-evident and obvious. Why, what's your theory on why The Beatles don't have more streams?
Date: June 23rd, 2026 6:27 PM Author: cordovan partner
My theory is that streams aren't the metric for cultural dominance. I think the shopping mall playlist effect can boost your numbers a lot without much cultural penetration.
Date: June 23rd, 2026 6:32 PM Author: Cruel-hearted vigorous box office water buffalo
corpo playlists and streaming demographics are both factors, also wasn't your initial claim that it's mindblowing or some shit like that? we are saying it isn't surprising
Date: June 23rd, 2026 6:33 PM Author: cordovan partner
I think it's surprising in the digital age that you can get so famous from making background music. I blame The xx - Intro for inventing the Spotifycore genre.
No one ITT, including you, said anything about cultural dominance. You made a thread about The Beatles having fewer 1m streamed songs than some other band. I gave you my theory why, and asked if you had an alternative theory.
Date: June 23rd, 2026 6:36 PM Author: cordovan partner
I think it's dentist offices and shopping malls. I bet any random slice of the population can hum Hey Jude and Penny Lane and 99% don't know K Pop Demon Hunters.
Date: June 23rd, 2026 6:39 PM Author: Cruel-hearted vigorous box office water buffalo
(and yeah even just within millennials and zoomers and gen alpha, Hey Jude probably has the edge [although for gen alpha I wouldn't be surprised if e.g. Golden wins]. but most young people know Hey Jude involuntarily; they don't seek it out)
Date: June 23rd, 2026 6:52 PM Author: Cruel-hearted vigorous box office water buffalo
well I definitely agree based on the KPop I've heard, and to be fair that's just the sample that PENETRATED far enough to reach me in the U.S., but honestly I'm comfortable extrapolating and agreeing with your claim because American pop (if you're just talking about modern stuff) is complete slop.
but JPop and JRock are even better imo. I love how they DGAF about genre and make music that's pretty much a mix of everything, it's sooooo 180. ex.: https://youtu.be/wBGlbW16mw0 or https://youtu.be/Wmt86RKEkuY or the Tokyo Ghoul theme
Date: June 23rd, 2026 7:17 PM Author: cordovan partner
Probably true. But will they still care about Golden when they're 25? Like most slop it fades away. Hey Jude isn't eternal. A better question is will Golden be as big with Gen Omicron in 60 years as Hey Jude is now. BTW there's a clip on late night of BTS singing Hey Jude so it's obviously had cultural PENETRATION. Will Koreans in 60 years be singing Golden? My guess is that it's too slop coded to have lasting impact.
I'd bet classic rock like the Beatles is streamed into dentist offices and shopping malls more than K Pop Demon Hunters precisely because it has broad cultural relevance most people are familiar with. But hey maybe you just got a Root Canal to "Golden", maybe I'm the outlier and boomer dentists are streaming "Soda Pop" to their boomer patients, and that's whats driving the numbers, not the legions of zoomers who stream it on repeat 24/7.
Date: June 23rd, 2026 6:47 PM Author: cordovan partner
It's neither. It's Spotifycore which is what The Neighbourhood is. It's really mellow background music your brain can't retain. It's like the stuff they used to play on the soft pop station. Beach Boys and The Girl From Ipanema. It's muzak/elevator music for the digital generation. People are calling it Spotifycore now because it gets in heavy rotation on playlists businesses put on every day.
This is retarded. My kids listen to this shit on repeat 24/7 and when I go to the store they're playing hits from the 2000s and older. Maybe you live in a bizarro world where your dentist is playing fucking K Pop Demon Hunters. I have no clue why you're resistent to the obvious conclusion that the most streamed songs are from people streaming music, not BIGDENTIST juicing the stats for some reason.
Yes. The song poasted has nearly a billion views on Youtube (not a common way businesses stream music) and 200k comments. The album went double platinum. Without a doubt the majority of streams are from people who enjoy the music, not dentists who are conspiring to play music no one likes.
I see that they're on tour and selling out arenas worldwide, and I believe people are attending them and this isn't just another aspect of a BIGDENTIST conspiracy.
Date: June 23rd, 2026 8:11 PM Author: cordovan partner
Lots of cheap seats still available on resell. Bet these are hundred dollar faces max. Never underestimate the power of the general public to demand endless thingdoing. They're an institution. They're there. Nobody actually cares about this shit at all.
Are you retarded? You asked about their shows and I did a quick search and saw they're on a sold out arena tour, and now you're talking about ticket prices and people just "do things?" to downplay the metric you brought up? HFS.
Date: June 24th, 2026 11:13 AM Author: cordovan partner
They were like 20 when most boomer were born. Way too old to be boomers. By contrast Boomers grew up listening to The Beatles and made shit like Van Halen and Meat Loaf and shit.