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Am I the Only One Who Doesn’t Know 1 Song By the Artist With the Most Top 40 Songs of All-Time?

Thursday, 21 February 2019, 12:42 BFH Uncategorized 71

How out of touch can a person be?

I guess the only people more out of touch are the people who never heard of the artist. Thanks to Obongo, I’ve at least heard of the guy.

It’s Drake. 

This “singer” has 94 Top 40 hits. NINETY-FOUR! And I never heard of any of them.

I put singer in quotes because I listened to his biggest hits and I noticed that they are auto-tuning him even though he’s essentially “singing” a 3 note range. This is the artistry of rap.

Here’s a guy who broke the record by The Beatles for simultaneous slots in the top 10. The Beatles once held the top 5 positions at once.

This Drake dude had 7 singles in the Top10 at once… AND I DON’T KNOW ANY OF THEM!

This is like the Twilight Zone.

Want another name?

Future.

Yep, Future. This is apparently a big star. He, she, it, they (I have no idea) once spent 166 consecutive weeks on the Top 100 charts.

Who holds the record?

That’s right… Drake. 431 Weeks. I said, 431 weeks.

And here’s another Twilight Zone moment for me. Buried in a list of people I’ve heard of, like Rhianna, Katy Perry and DRAKE, is a band called the Chainsmokers. They are second all-time for most consecutive weeks in the top 10 (61) with 4 separate songs.

Who the hell are they?

What’s going on?

 

71 Comments on Am I the Only One Who Doesn’t Know 1 Song By the Artist With the Most Top 40 Songs of All-Time?

  2. As time progresses, I find that most music is getting more simplistic and cruder with less variety or originality then trying to make up for it by being louder.

    Which is why I don’t know of these people, I don’t listen to music any more.

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  4. “Dark Side of the Moon” produced two singles: “Money” and “Us and Them”. The album topped the Billboard chart for one week, and remained on the chart for 741 weeks from 1973 to 1988.

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  7. Like Seinfeld says – hate the Drake. Unlistenable noises to satiate the moron masses. Like Jay Leno once said about the Peoples Choice awards…”I don’t know who these people are, but we need to take their freedom of choice away.”

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  13. There is a video online telling how most of the songs today are written by one of two people. Perhaps the charts today are calculated the same way likes on Twitter are, where a Tweet by AOC shot up by well over 10,000 likes in 15 seconds. Since a big chunk of the charts are based on downloads, how hard would it be to use bots to download those songs? The companies could have funds for doing that as they are going to get most of it back anyway.

    Personally, if it was recorded after 1997 I probably don’t know it.

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  14. You are not alone, Furr. I gave up a long time ago. I draw a blank on pretty much all the current recording and movie/TV “stars”. Now my satellite radio is tuned to talk or the Country stations. I used to hate Country back in my Rock N Roll days and now I love it.

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  18. Used to be the “Top 40” were the most often bought songs. Because listeners liked them.
    Today, the free obamaphone gimmes are forcefed this pablum without them needing to do a thing but swipe. Or not even that.

    My kids were pissed when a U2 song was forced onto their iPhone and couldn’t be removed.

    Fake music, fake artists, fake popularity. Sure JayZ and Benancy are awesome artists. Another lie so these kids can’t deal with reality.

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  21. What I hate more than music from these alleged singers is their “moves.” Specifically when they mention “love” or “heart” or “caring” and then make that retarded heart symbol with fingers curled together and thumbs pointing down in some sort of visualization attempt. I don’t know what it is about that specific gesture that makes me want to jump thru the screen and rip their juglars out. On top of it all they’ve infected the younger generation and everyone under 25 is making heart symbols with their hands in some sort of relation to these morons. Then you’ve got idiots in main stream media “journalists” doing the same fucking thing. Just STOP THE MADNESS, all of them look retarded. Not one person can perform the heart gesture and look normal. Don’t get me started when a retard makes the heart and duck lips at the same time.

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  29. Drake? Derka-derka

    I rarely listen to music at home any more. When I’m driving and I want music, I’ve got a handful of CDs in the changer, and all are Greek or Russian Orthodox sacred music, mostly a capella male chorus. Very calming; I simply do not ever feel road rage (when I screw with deserving asshole drivers, it is serenely…and for their own good).

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  33. @ecp:

    What I hate more than music from these alleged singers is their “moves.” Specifically when they mention “love” or “heart” or “caring” and then make that retarded heart symbol with fingers curled together and thumbs pointing down in some sort of visualization attempt.

    Think of it as a “twat” symbol, based on the visual from the U.S. sense of the word (lady bits), but semantically in the Brit sense (berk, arse).

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  36. “Am I the Only One Who Doesn’t Know 1 Song By the Artist With the Most Top 40 Songs of All-Time?”

    …well, since he doesn’t have ANYTHING you can actually call a “song”, the question is moot…

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  38. Why is enjoying music like eating a candy bar? First you have to remove the wrapper.

    I’ve heard his name but if you threatened to make me kiss Hillary Clinton I still couldn’t name one song he did.

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  39. islam is to religion
    Fake News is to current events
    transgender competitors are to athletic competition (aka fair sports)
    college grads are to educated people
    government employees are to public servants

    feel free to supplement this list

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  40. Grampy Fur’s getting old. I know, it’s a rude awakening, but welcome to the club. Have a 27 year old daughter who thinks Drake is TO DIE FOR talented. Sigh. I miss the sugar hill gang.

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  46. I gotta wonder why they define it as music, Drake and the other clowns couldn’t play a musical instrument if it meant their life. All their crap is juvenile rhymes repeated to an irritating drone. Nothing but garbage vomited up by simple minded thugs and shoved on the public by unscrupulous money grubbing opportunists.

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  48. If anything defines dumbing culture down, it is rap and hip hop music. The current “artists” are to 1960-70 Motown as modern art is to the masters of old. Most is pure garbage by people of questionable talent.

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  49. With downloads and digital files the music industry has fragmented to such an extent that it’s very hard to build a sizable audience for any musician, unlike the old days when the only fragmenting was the genre on the radio and the record store.

    Find music and artist you like and stick with them.

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  50. Remember when we complained about Disco?
    But seriously, Nielsen Soundscan is no longer being reported to by most retailers. I know. I was in the industry for a few decades and did the reporting. At this point they’re making it up.

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  62. Here in Vegas the DJ’s are all promoted like rock stars.
    They play bullshit, incessant EDM- Electronic Dance Music for hours on end.
    They sample other peoples work, basically stealing intellectual property.
    They sell 750mL bottles of booze for $100.
    I don’t go to clubs but the ignorant masses line up in segregated rows.
    VIP, V-VIP, Schlub, Moron, Tool…

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  64. Loco, I’m not a VIP or a V-VIP. I don’t t think I’m a moron or a tool, so I guess they would put me in the Schlub section. It could be worse, all those fancy clubs have urinal attendants, I’d rather die than be a urinal attendant.

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  65. You become #1 by the amount of cash your PR/record co is willing to pay DJs and radio stations.

    I use Spotify, XM and all that so I don’t have to listen to the same song played on the radio 100 times within 3 hours.

    The only reasons I know some of the current people are because they’ve gone to jail, been deported, got beaten up or said something stupid about politics.

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