they matter for putting food on your plate and a sports car in your garage but they don't mean s*** sonically

higher numbers gives artists an argument for larger budgets for albums tho

Music is a form of artistic expression and people perceive art differently and consume it differently. If the artist fulfills their expression through their music then that's all that matters

true but i wouldn't say bigger budget correlates with better music

Reddit

From idiots that make the “vanilla ice sold 10x platinum ONCE”

Same dudes that try to make the rings dont matter cuz “Robert horry has 7” argument

Have no sense of what longevity and consistency at the top means

Unable to use their mentals correctly

it matters in a social sense but I would prefer to just talk about the art

The thing is there are 3 sides here
Side A: Sales = Better music

No1 makes this argument

Side B: Sales dont matter at all
Most of this website and a lot of internet heads make this argument

Side C: Sales matter but they aren't the only thing that matter
Some people make this argument.

Im referring to side c.

Because going pop, going commercial, and dumbing a subject down to increase sales typically sacrifices quality.

It's not that sales "don't matter in music" but that "sales does not equate to quality". It's a business so sales have always mattered, but we don't care how much money a label made off a project. We just care about the sounds comin out the speakers.

i don't think that it sets a precedent though because there are number one albums that make me nauseous and albums with less than 1000 plays on spotify that i'm sure would blow my mind. it's all about what it's in relation to. it's all relative

i'm on this website wayyyy too much

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i'm leaving for a week

This is not an airport, no need to announce your departure.

well obviously sales dont equate to you personally liking or disliking something. dont think any people who talk about sales all the time have said that.

Knowing a song went platinum or did 100 million streams doesn't make me enjoy a song more or less. If some people rock like that, it's weird and I don't get it

Besides how important it is for the artists and labels, from a fan standpoint sales only matter in a GOAT discussion when using evidence to show why one artist touched the people in a big way, but besides that - no they don't matter to how much I like the music

Sometimes it's fun to look at sales tho just to look at size in numbers

- BRAVE

😂😂 like nigga just log out

LMAO

No but people use sales as a qualifying factor for defending an album as good or a classic. That’s when someone will say sales don’t matter. But they don’t think sales literally don’t matter. They understand the concept of a business.

Pretentious a******s in here like they don’t only listen to signed artists. Creative section a ghost town for a reason. The industry is professional tastemakers and y’all listen while pretending u came up with it smh.