Is record breaking losing significance?

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  • Mar 12, 2021
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    blachaze

    Back flipping ass mofo talking about cultural relevance mfer Billie Jean a way bigger song than I gotta feeling u just don’t want to swallow ur words and admit that BILLBOARD AINT THE END ALL BE ALL

    i think u 2 r just using 2 different definitions of "bigger song"

  • Mmm Hmm 😆
    Mar 12, 2021

    It been lost its significance a long time ago

  • Mar 12, 2021
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    safe

    I literally responded right below I just cbf having this conversation w you

    I gotta feeling could be objectively bigger than Billie jean
    You gotta take into account differences in consumption though - I gotta feeling could be purchased as an individual track upon release Billie jean not so easily
    Considering thriller is the best selling album ever it’s hard to really say that I gotta feeling is definitively bigger

    But regardless Billie jean is clearly the more culturally relevant song regardless of if it was the BIGGER song

    I’ve got the best one yet is life is good bigger than Billie Jean? According to your logic it is

  • Mar 12, 2021
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    frenchpress

    i think u 2 r just using 2 different definitions of "bigger song"

    Man no matter what using his logic life is good by future and drake is bigger than Billie Jean by Michael Jackson

  • Mar 12, 2021
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    blachaze

    Man no matter what using his logic life is good by future and drake is bigger than Billie Jean by Michael Jackson

    das what i'm sayin w/ the diff definitions. your def of bigger song incorporates a lot of cultural relevance that's hard to determine but likely as you say it to be, his involves less cultural relevance but more reliably determined data

  • Mar 12, 2021
    blachaze

    I’ve got the best one yet is life is good bigger than Billie Jean? According to your logic it is

    Niggas gonna say Old Town Road's a bigger song than Hey Ya by Outkast next. Lol

  • Mar 12, 2021
    frenchpress

    das what i'm sayin w/ the diff definitions. your def of bigger song incorporates a lot of cultural relevance that's hard to determine but likely as you say it to be, his involves less cultural relevance but more reliably determined data

    People talking about the billboard data being "objective" but a decision to place so much emphasis on it is still a subjective choice. This is a complicated question. As is life

  • Mar 12, 2021
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    blachaze

    I’ve got the best one yet is life is good bigger than Billie Jean? According to your logic it is

    You’re being deliberately obtuse and not getting the larger point of what people are saying here

  • Mar 12, 2021
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    I thought we were talking about what constitutes a bigger song. Even the definition of "bigger" requires some interpretation

  • Mar 12, 2021
    Sinewave

    You’re being deliberately obtuse and not getting the larger point of what people are saying here

    How ironic it’s literally the opposite way around this is a forum where we discuss topics relating to music you’re gonna be mad at me for doing just that i’m elaborating on the exact reason that I made this thread

  • Mar 12, 2021
    HURRYUPSONIC

    I actually think it is bigger than Billie Jean from what i see. Is it a better song? of course not.

    but i also didnt live thru when the song got popular. I didn’t live through the heights of MJ. and obviously MJ is bigger than BEP

    So keep that logic. Life is good is bigger than Billie Jean

  • Mar 12, 2021
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    Go looks at OPs thread history and tell me he not a corny boomer core lame an

  • Mar 12, 2021
    HURRYUPSONIC

    I actually think it is bigger than Billie Jean from what i see. Is it a better song? of course not.

    but i also didnt live thru when the song got popular. I didn’t live through the heights of MJ. and obviously MJ is bigger than BEP

    Is life is good bigger than bohemian rhapsody?

  • Mar 12, 2021
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    freekodak

    Go looks at OPs thread history and tell me he not a corny boomer core lame an

    How bout focus on what’s being said according with this logic life is good is bigger than Bohemian Rhapsod

  • Mar 12, 2021

    no. records are meant to be broken

  • Mar 12, 2021
    blachaze

    How bout focus on what’s being said according with this logic life is good is bigger than Bohemian Rhapsod

    OP just making s*** up so he can argue with himself like wtf lol

  • Mar 12, 2021
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    frenchpress

    mby. habits are more intertwined with suggestions these days via playlists and "up next" kinda things

    versus a past where a monolithic mainstream culture dictated people’s habits and interests

  • Mar 12, 2021
    americana

    versus a past where a monolithic mainstream culture dictated people’s habits and interests

    ya fair enuf there's always been suggestion involved

  • Mar 12, 2021

    I would never support any ignition remix slander, first few pages wildin

  • Mar 12, 2021
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    safe

    Ignition remix literally didn’t even go #1 lmfao

    still classic
    Even more of a classic by rkelly
    "I believe I can fly"

    I don't even know where that charted but I've seen/heard numerous renditions of it

    It's a staple for ballad singers too

  • Mar 12, 2021

    record breaking only has lost significance if you’re stuck in the past and can’t let go of old records and embrace the new landscape of music.

  • Mar 12, 2021

    Ignition Remix, Crazy(Gnarls Barkley), Hotline Bling, Nuthing But A G Thang, Gangnam Style, and Bad Romance are all much bigger hits than a lot of number 1s today despite being number 2.

    They were totally inescapable. Things are just way different today, although Blinding Lights is still a genuinely huge song.

  • Mar 12, 2021
    ragedsycokiller

    Yall arguing about different things and semantics in this thread lol. Records are easier to break but they are easier to lose now. It's a double edge sword. You got to measure by longetivity now instead of the award itself. Kinda like the wwe championship.

    Anyone can cop it, but not everyone can hold it

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