Sporting Events FAQ, Liveblog, and BANGERS - Page 545 - Sporting Events and Fantasy Sports

Their last five albums have debuted in the U.S. Billboard top 3. They've sold more than 30 million albums lifetime and they sell out huge venues wherever they tour.

Quote

08-19-2011 , 04:18 PM

#13602

kevin21

SE Spokesman

Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 62,020

Radiohead suck. Never seen Arrested Development but I'll say it sucks too, American comedies just aren't funny.

Quote

08-19-2011 , 04:21 PM

#13603

ikestoys

banned

Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 94,424

Quote:

Originally Posted by nath

Their last five albums have debuted in the U.S. Billboard top 3. They've sold more than 30 million albums lifetime and they sell out huge venues wherever they tour.

Guess who else has sold more than 30 million albums lifetime?

Spoiler:

Quote

08-19-2011 , 04:22 PM

#13604

aoFrantic

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 25,221

Quote:

Originally Posted by nath

Their last five albums have debuted in the U.S. Billboard top 3. They've sold more than 30 million albums lifetime and they sell out huge venues wherever they tour.

I don't know if there is any band in the world that would get top billing at a festival over them in the last 5-6 years. Maybe U2?

Quote

08-19-2011 , 04:25 PM

#13605

The Rat

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 5,620

Radiohead is our generation's The Beatles.

Quote

08-19-2011 , 04:25 PM

#13606

tschubauer

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: May 2010 Posts: 7,458

Here are some actually popular artists

Last edited by tschubauer; 08-19-2011 at 04:26 PM. Reason: Yeah, rat. They've only sold 1/30th of the albums the Beatles have

Quote

08-19-2011 , 04:28 PM

#13607

Karak

ELIte

Join Date: May 2004 Posts: 62,726

abba!!!!

Abba - Dancing Queen

Quote

08-19-2011 , 04:28 PM

#13608

Karak

ELIte

Join Date: May 2004 Posts: 62,726

see that girl
watch that scene
diggin the dancing queen!

Quote

08-19-2011 , 04:38 PM

#13609

aoFrantic

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 25,221

Quote:

Originally Posted by tschubauer

Here are some actually popular artists

Using record sales as a metric for popularity in the last decade show you really don't pay much attention to the industry. You realize Beyonce is the most popular artist in their "prime" according to your sortbyrecordsales popularity theory?

Quote

08-19-2011 , 04:40 PM

#13610

tschubauer

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: May 2010 Posts: 7,458

Beyonce being the most popular seems completely reasonable. You're a RH fanboy i get it.

Quote

08-19-2011 , 04:43 PM

#13611

Bitchface

banned

Join Date: Oct 2010 Posts: 6,917

Quote:

Originally Posted by aoFrantic

Are you implying Beyonce isn't massively more popular than Radiohead?

Quote

08-19-2011 , 04:44 PM

#13612

BobboFitos

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 72,763

Quote:

Originally Posted by tschubauer

Here are some actually popular artists

I've seen this list a bunch of times, and what I'd like to know...
How the **** is ABBA 4th? Never makes ANY sense. Like, Beatles, Elvis, Michael Jackson, yeah those are no brainers. But ABBA????

Quote

08-19-2011 , 04:45 PM

#13613

Karak

ELIte

Join Date: May 2004 Posts: 62,726

lol i was fairly shocked at abba too, but i think the loleuros that love soc.cer love abba too.

Quote

08-19-2011 , 04:46 PM

#13614

tschubauer

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: May 2010 Posts: 7,458

Quote:

Originally Posted by BobboFitos

I've seen this list a bunch of times, and what I'd like to know...
How the **** is ABBA 4th? Never makes ANY sense. Like, Beatles, Elvis, Michael Jackson, yeah those are no brainers. But ABBA????

LolEuros I believe is the answer

Last edited by tschubauer; 08-19-2011 at 04:46 PM. Reason: dammit Karak slow pony

Quote

08-19-2011 , 04:48 PM

#13615

aoFrantic

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 25,221

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bitchface

Are you implying Beyonce isn't massively more popular than Radiohead?

She is one of the best and biggest mainstream artists currently. Is anyone arguing Radiohead are, or have ever been a huge mainstream act in the same way?

Quote

08-19-2011 , 04:49 PM

#13616

BobboFitos

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 72,763

Even w/ LolEuroes, it's ABBA. I mean, fine, whatever, but 4th on that list is amazingly prestigious. She's ahead of Madonna, Elton John, Mariah Carey,... I mean, if you polled 100 people that weren't affiliated with this sort of thing, how many would actually think ABBA has sold more records?

Quote

08-19-2011 , 04:50 PM

#13617

Fallen Hero

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 21,439

Quote:

Originally Posted by aoFrantic

She is one of the best and biggest mainstream artists currently. Is anyone arguing Radiohead are, or have ever been a huge mainstream act in the same way?

isn't being mainstream pretty much a requirement for being extremely popular?

Quote

08-19-2011 , 04:51 PM

#13618

tschubauer

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: May 2010 Posts: 7,458

Quote:

Originally Posted by aoFrantic

She is one of the best and biggest mainstream artists currently. Is anyone arguing Radiohead are, or have ever been a huge mainstream act in the same way?

Unless there's some strange alternate definition of "popular" that I don't know about, my response is as follows:

wat.

Quote

08-19-2011 , 04:52 PM

#13619

tschubauer

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: May 2010 Posts: 7,458

Quote:

Originally Posted by BobboFitos

Depends how many of the 100 people were Lol Euros.

Quote

08-19-2011 , 04:54 PM

#13620

nath

the second coming of the second coming

Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 68,687

Quote:

Originally Posted by ikestoys

Guess who else has sold more than 30 million albums lifetime?

Spoiler:

She's been pretty popular too, and had a surprisingly sustained career for what's supposed to be teen throwaway pop... so I'm not sure what your point is.

Quote

08-19-2011 , 04:55 PM

#13621

aoFrantic

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 25,221

We can say they've transcended the alternative label they used to have, but they aren't a "pop" act or mainstream in the same way that an artist like Beyonce, Rihanna or others are. Even if they would be billed above them at festivals and whatnot, they're very different acts and it's hard to compare "pop" acts like Britney Spears, Rihanna, Beyonce and such to Radiohead, Muse, Coldplay in terms of popularity.

Quote

08-19-2011 , 04:57 PM

#13622

Fallen Hero

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 21,439

Quote:

Originally Posted by aoFrantic

no, it's actually really really simple, pop acts are more popular by almost any definition of the word.

Quote

08-19-2011 , 04:58 PM

#13623

nath

the second coming of the second coming

Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 68,687

Quote:

Originally Posted by aoFrantic

You have a valid point given the nature of the music industry nowadays (and how many people would rather download and spend their money on live shows), although in this case Beyonce is really popular

Quote:

Originally Posted by tschubauer

Here are some actually popular artists

You see the problem here is that you've listed some bands that have had 30-40 years, if not more, to accumulate those record sales

Quote

08-19-2011 , 04:59 PM

#13624

nath

the second coming of the second coming

Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 68,687

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.

Quote

08-19-2011 , 05:03 PM

#13625

Bitchface

banned

Join Date: Oct 2010 Posts: 6,917

Quote:

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.

Quote:

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.

Quote

Page 545 of 9458

First

45 345 445 495 525 535 540 541 542 543 544 545 546 547 548 549 550 555 565 595 645 745 1045 1545

Last

Post Reply Subscribe

...

Page 545 of 9458

First

45 345 445 495 525 535 540 541 542 543 544 545 546 547 548 549 550 555 565 595 645 745 1045 1545

Last