When did capitalism take over the minds and actions of the people? Thats the real question.

incredible database to use to find music, idk another site where you can instantly get a recommendation list of stuff like

"best salsa albums as rated by users in latin america"
"best live rock albums with both male and female vocalists"
"best non-electronic singles/albums/EPs from Warp Records"
"best post-bop jazz albums from 1975-1985"

etc etc

yeah ofc the list it gives you isnt gonna be the same ranking that agrees with your opinion but thats not the point. you can just use it to find tons of great recs and just keep scrolling the lists until you find something interesting

It's nothing new like lots of ppl itt are saying but it doesn't make it less pathetic.

I think it used to be more of a way to gauge competition between the artists at the top but I'm not sure we live in that environment anymore.

I'm not old enough to remember for ex. GRODT v Grad but I highly doubt the parasocial attachment that I see in nicki/Drake/etc fans was as much a thing back then

More alienated ppl nowadays that want to feel success through celebrities. S***s weird.

Pretty good music !

I just don't see myself enjoying what their average user would recommend

youre slow as hell man im telling you the point of the site isn't to get the recommendation from the "average user", you can pick who to get recommendations from

Yeah I just don't see myself ever using it but thanks

I’m gonna go out on a limb and say you imagined where I said Drake was the first or only one to do this (I think I even acknowledge Pac and 50 did variations of the sales over everything first in my first post in here): lol Hov was on another level in a different lane with the d*** and mafioso s*** intertwined. drake solely kept it to again the record sales and success up until around 2017 or so with the increase in mob talk

how am I going “Canada man bad” when I said it’s not necessarily a bad thing? It’s actually kind of dope. Lmaoo y’all got dude in yalls throats crazy. It seems that is an easy way to get likes

Nah it is but definitely a n00b top 10

as they should

doesn’t matter lmao, if we’re going to use numbers ™️ to bolster up our pet albums and artists, then critic scores should lowkey count

you can’t have it one way and then not the other, not saying you did but it’s an interesting double standard i see on here

Not controversial at all

It's not controversial it's just the most basic take lmfao

Like listen to some other bands for once

yeah he was saying that RYM is a better metric and I don't really see that as much better, since it caters heavily to one type of listener most times

I don't understand why Wish You Were Here would be there

DSOTM I can understand but some variety would be cool

in recent years? maybe akademiks?

blogs always reported on sales and i always checked on hitsdailydouble but i think only super music nerds that want to be in the industry cared about that stuff

but maybe akademiks being a mainstream platform that’s for casual passive fans, him posting numbers made them start to become aware. then a lot of rappers began to talk about it

Great Depression era

yeah that site is hipster central lmao, if it isn’t indie rock or some dad rock band it isn’t gonna be held very highly

any hip-hop that isn’t experimental/abstract (or the opposite of a mainstream project) doesn’t get the nod either, very corny place

good database for music discovery though

Wish you were here is the best concept album ever actually

“Only niggas moving units em,pimp juice and us”

in the 2000s, 50 cent reading niggas numbers on the radio, kanye vs 50 and wayne doing a million in a week all made people more aware of sales too

F*** you