I think most people would agree that music is subjective, so why is there such push back on the idea that sales mean a large number of people enjoy someone’s work? I don’t think this means that if 1 artist sells more than another, it means their project is “better.” But that’s rarely the conversation. Typically people make the quality statement when they don’t personally enjoy someone’s work despite it being successful.

I think it’s more accurate to say low sales don’t equal low quality, because some things aren’t as available or made to be embraced by every possible audience.

Because it's does mean they did something better

They did something with a higher quality

because mcdonalds doesnt make the best burger

Is "Transformers" better than "The Godfather"?

High Sales mean that the project has attained a level of quality that makes it palatable to wider, more mainstream audiences

It doesn’t necessarily mean that it is of exemplary quality. Instead, the music itself must be examined. What I do we do about the fact that tastes of casual audiences are not developed at all?

Movies

bc it literally doesn’t. there’s trash platinum albums. You ever look back at something you used to like and think “damn, why was I ever on that?”

Imagine that s*** happening collectively for a million people. It does all the time. sales just mean a lot of niggas liked something at the time

ANOTHER SALES THREAD

Because it doesn’t

That’s all it amounts to

Drake is a glorified salesman

how else we supposed to be edgy and different

If sales can be a metric of quality then quality can be measured, to an extent, by an objective metric

ergo music is not (entirely) subjective

the logical extent of the postmodernist rallying cry that "music is subjective" must be that we deny that sales are reflective of quality at all

we all heard the AOL Dial Up sound too does that make it good?

The people who say sales don't equal quality are nerds. I can't imagine listening to more than a handful of the most popular albums every year. I am only interested in art that appeals to the widest swath of the population.

We have all gotten the call about our car extended warranty so it must have value right?

Eminem sold s*** albums for a decade and was outselling Drake until streaming

Also sales speak about demand, not quality

Sales can be manipulated

I listen to music to be social and not because I enjoy music

Very good point

Exactly. Anytime I hear a song I make sure to look around nervously to gauge how I should react to it.

these threads are so f***ing washed like bro