No Weeknd or Drake?

hm strange. Thrift Shop is Macklemore's only diamond certified song, therefore it must be his most popular.

Maybe most of its sales come from digital downloads rather than streams

See You Again is also awful

couldn't cut the radio on for s*** when that song was out

i think the 20s some type rock crazy will come back through

it doesn't need to be brand new, the strokes, the white stripes & interpol all received huge attention without being original

2010s is such a weird f***ing decade. We went from buying CDs to streaming, within the span of a couple of years. On top of that, vinyl sold more copies than CDs. That’s insane

its also funny that where i live we have quite popular rock scene over here which has gained lots of attention

honestly if your looking for new bands listen to you have gold mine of good Aussie bands

theres like 3 pop songs on here from post-2015

Australia been popping. King Gizzard, Tame Impala, Kirin J Callinan and Alex Cameron made some real waves on the internet

i actually think it happened earlier
rock was done after Hendrix died but ran on fumes for a few years afterwards
that's around the time funk and disco started and england appreciated those genres better than racist ass Amerikkka
so when disco "died" in 1980, england appropriated it in a lot of their "rock" music to keep the spirit of mainstream rock going but america completely ignored it throughout the '80s, '90s, and '00s
this is why american rock bands from 1980-2010 were mostly lame as f***

Bruno gonna restore the feeling
gonna feel like The Police meets James Brown

so we don't consider grunge part of rock family?? or am i over estimating how huge it was

"grunge" is a made up term, which is why all "post-grunge" bands were ass. you ever realize every "grunge" band didn't sound remotely similar to each other? in fact, the only grunge bands that sounded similar to each other had the same members

make a thread

List made me realize how awful Mainstream pop music has been in the last 3-4 years.

Dua lupa is the only good one

So you gonna totally disregard the existence of punk?

Damn that’s a whole lotta trash lol

Is punk "mainstream rock"?

you don't like anything in here at all?

Ariana getting better too

closer

call me maybe

party rock anthem

royals

From punk, you got a lot of new wave and post-punk acts that made it big so yeah I’d definitely say so.

yes i know that, the big 4 "grunge" bands were all quite different. They only really put in same bracket due to fact they came from same city

i still think grunge was last big push that industry

I honestly don't think anything they have is as milquetoast as what I have in OP

that's different
just cause The Cure made an iconic song doesn't mean they're mainstream artists
The Police were never "really" a punk band to begin with

S*** if we take the surge of edm going into the 2010s (the same time rock and r&b died in the mainstream) then there’s really no room for any blues influence in the production, songwriting, aesthetics or anything

And if everyone started doing that as the industry standard for “sung” music, what space is there for the main blues influenced genres to thrive like they did in the entire decade prior?