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Originally Posted by aoFrantic
it's hard to compare "pop" acts like Britney Spears, Rihanna, Beyonce and such to Radiohead, Muse, Coldplay in terms of popularity.
Popularity can be pretty directly related to how many people like you. What does genre have to do with that?. Beyonce and Briteny dwarf Radiohead in terms of number of fans, so they're a lot more popular. The top-billing at a festival argument is dumb since festivals are a pretty tiny portion of actual popularity among the 300 or so million people in this country.
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Originally Posted by nath
All I said was Radiohead is more popular than the television series Arrested Development, and people are trying to figure out ways to prove they're not the most popular musical act in the world.
This is fair. I don't like comparing them at all either, and it's not just because I think AD was the GOAT and you'd have to pay me to sit through a Radiohead album.