Beaten into your head all winter and spring of 2013 and then abruptly vanished.
ITT: Hit songs that aged very poorly
abruptly vanished
more daily streams than any Madonna, U2 or Led Zeppelin song
Because Papa Johns is contractually obligated to pay bots to stream it in order to pay for her to endorse their product.
When you grow up you'll realize Taylor Swift isn't actually popular and it's just a few million raving lunatics who obsessively listen to her and only her and replay her songs just to make her stream count go up
Just a few million
Name other musicians that have few million fans. Also she's everywhere, there's a need for that music, a need for whatever radio music that isn't offensive. You let that play in family reunions or something idk what americans do with it
My grandpa had good music at his funeral.
Shake It Off also disappeared quickly despite being played to death in 2014.
All 50s-early 60s hits that were not rock or doo-wop have been airbrushed out of history. Basically all the Doris Day kind of pop.
That's because Taylor plagerized Florence and the Machine.
You Light Up My Life was super-massive in 1977 but it's never heard anymore, I've heard lots of 70s playlists in stores over the years but they never play that one despite the nonstop Billy Joel and KC & The Sunshine Band rotation.
You're Having My Baby although I understand why since it was a topical song about Roe v. Wade.
You Light Up My Life was super-massive in 1977 but it's never heard anymore, I've heard lots of 70s playlists in stores over the years but they never play that one despite the nonstop Billy Joel and KC & The Sunshine Band rotation.
idk i think it's a matter of whether the song did well in focus group tests or if it fits into the "image" the people making the playlist want to do. i guess a lot of people (maybe understandably) hate that song. you also find that with Bobby Goldsboro's Honey or Roberta Flack's Killing Me Softly With His Song (Bobby Goldsboro had a lot of hits that are totally airbrushed from memory in favor of nonstop Sugar, Sugar spam)
When you grow up you'll realize Taylor Swift isn't actually popular
so growing up makes you retarded? she has 140 million followers on Spotify alone btw
Shake It Off also disappeared quickly
more daily streams than any Beatles song
Pre Crooner Pop is even more forgotten
People forget how Much Crooners changed music in America, almost as much as Rockers did
Ok, and how many hours of content does she have. 10. 12. And you think these people aren't mentally unwell listening over and over again.
i mean, Al Jolson was huge in the 1920s until Bing Crosby wiped him out of relevance (he managed a bit of a comeback after WW2)
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I reckon none of the Osmonds' hits have held up at all.
Mary MacGregor's Torn Between Two Lovers, another huge 77 hit that has vanished. I guess it was too tied into the sexual politics of that era to hold up. Also it was written by Peter Yarrow who has since been cancelled for gross indecency. (^:
Gary Puckett and the Union Gap - Young Girl
Rod Stewart Tonight's The Night, another #1 1977 hit which has creepy as fuck lyrics so I can understand why it's forgotten.
The Stones/Beatles/Dylan have a couple tunes that have not held up and are definitely not among their catalog high points.
As The Tears Go By (big 66 hit)
Angie (#1 73 hit)
Michelle
Rainy Day Woman Nos 12 and 35
Dubstep, house and and adjacent electronic genres (Skrillex, Marshmello, Tiësto etc) seem to have taken a complete downfall since the late 2010s. Might just be oblivious here but I haven't heard a single electronic song on the radio since like 2019
The 70s had a lot more trash on the charts than most people realize so one could be thankful that Roxy Music, Wire, etc were there to avoid you from Disco Duck or Muskrat Love.
The apple doesn't fall far from the tree as they say. Her old man's (numerous) 50s hits are all airbrushed out of history, and for good cause.
All 80s Heart hits have aged like old milk, all Desmond Child power ballad cheese. I only consider the "real" Heart to be Dreamboat Annie through Bebe Le Strange and nothing after that matters.
Shania Twain's hits have also aged like old milk, overproduced slick 90s pop masquerading as "country."
Jimmy Gilmer and the Fireballs - Sugar Shack. The Beatles couldn't have come soon enough.
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This song is often laughed at as the quintessential example of early 60s corn right before the British Invasion, the kind of music that died with President Kennedy in November 1963. Also it was Dot Records which was Pat Boone's label and a legendary cheese factory. All there was of "rock" from 59-63 was this light pop rock stuff made for little kids.
Chuck Berry's only #1 hit unfortunately is also his worst song.
Chuck Berry's only #1 hit unfortunately is also his worst song.
it's too bad as well; his classics unfortunately didn't have a chance to make the top 10 due to the biases both racial and audience of the day which is why Pat Boone got multiple and totally undeserved top 10 hits. he also had a lot of legal issues. the sex trafficking conviction was definitely trumped up bullshit and shouldn't have happened but i don't think Chuck had much chance of acquittal in that era. i think he did become a lot more cynical and bitter as a person from that experience.
any classic rock songs about statutory rape deserve to be forgotten and should be by everyone that isn't a Dump supporter
Not even the only time Chuck did time. First was in 1944 when he was 18 and stole a car at gunpoint with a couple buddies of his. He served three years in the Missouri state pen. He also got convicted of tax evasion in 1979 and served another three years.
Carl Perkins who was good friends with Chuck said that he wasn't the same guy after getting out of jail from the sex trafficking conviction. They toured the UK together after Chuck's parole in '63 and Carl said he was a lot more bitter and distrustful of people, also a lot stingier. He would hire pickup bands from local bars to do his shows and would demand to be paid under the table before he'd perform (a consequence of which he got busted for tax evasion in '79)
The UK charts in the 70s are full of absolute rubbish like novelty songs, forgotten one hit wonders, songs recorded by football players, etc.
A friend of mine worked at a classic hits station in Iowa for a bit and said there are a lot of big 70s hits that they never played (Angel "The Devil In Your Arms" comes to mind as one). Point is classic hits playlists pick and choose songs based on the advertising/marketing image they want to sell or what they think their listeners will like and make no pretense of playing everything that ever made the Top 20 in a given year. That is why for example '50s playlists include Earth Angel and not The Wayward Wind.
Nobody in the UK gave a shit about '70s Heart while their '80s pop hits were huge here.
I love how retarded woke morons think that just censoring shit is gonna make it go away. I guess "creepy" doesn't exist anymore cuz it's now dated lol
the issue with MOR hits like YLUML or The Wayward Wind is that only suburban housewives listened to those songs so they didn't have a cool image or anything
That is true although in retrospect why does anyone care? Pop this decade is far more cheesy. This shit makes Sabrina carpenter look like Nirvana in comparison
I started liking the cheesy late 50s early 60s pre Beatles pop a lot. It's a guilty pleasure but at the same time I shouldn't feel guilty if zoomers are going to plug the most cringe mid music just because a hot woman sings it
Not music.
Convoy. Speaking of 70s hits that didn't transcend that era.
"Short People" despite the fact that Randy Newman has been adamant that it's an anti-prejudice song.
Half-Breed. Guess what? Cher has since discovered that she has absolutely no NA ancestry.
I love LA though it was sarcastic wasn't it
all of them
As I said above, oldies playlists are cherry picked to mostly have songs deemed as culturally significant or influential on later generations of musicians or which are perceived as still being good songs that current day audiences would like. There's lots of product that gets ground out, played for a short time, and dropped because it didn't hold up or its particular context is lost on today's listeners.
For example in the early 60s there was a lot of dreck like Blue Velvet, Sugar Shack, or Only In America that were big hits then while now we've created the impression that Roy Orbison, the Beach Boys etc were the only thing on the radio back then. So when you're making a 60s classic hits playlist, the image you're trying to sell listeners is a 60s defined by Satisfaction and Born To Be Wild rather than My Coloring Book or Something Stupid.
What I mean is it depends on the specific audience you want to target, since of course My Coloring Book and BTBW don't appeal to the same kind of listener, not then or now.
that's a point well taken. Perry Como's "Pocket Full of Stars" was a big 1958 hit, even got him a Grammy at the first Grammy Awards but it would sound mightly awkward if you played it alongside "At The Hop" or "Heartbreak Hotel."
That is very true and it's fucking gay. I wanna hear more songs you don't hear played more often. I wanna hear as many of those old forgotten hits as possible. Normies are retards just wanting the same shit over and over again
It gets worse with country due to the sheer amount of material many classic country singers had. Johnny Cash had about 30 or 40 "hits" nobody remembers anymore in contrast to the major songs like A Boy Named Sue and Ring of Fire. Skeeter Davis had numerous country hits and even a few pop hits but is mostly just remembered now for "The End of the World."
I wish they would forget Kung Fu Fighting and all Billy Joel hits but those are sadly eternal.
They play that one at Dodgers games but I never hear it outside there.
He likely wouldn't have gotten in trouble for it had he been white, but he was still obviously guilty of sex trafficking. Why else would he bring a fourteen-year-old girl from off an Indian reservation to "work at his restaraunt"?
I like his music too, but Chuck Berry was every bit as awful a guy as the most criminally inclined SoundCloud rapper.
Al Jolson had been a big star since the 1910s. It's just records from the pre-electronic recording era sound awful compared to what came after, so he has a much smaller modern footprint. But he did thankfully re-record many of his old hits in the '40s, and they hold up well. Todays audience deserves to give Jolson more love:
I used to listen to a lot of 80s country when I was a kid (because I'm old and was around back then) and was consistently surprised at how many absolutely dire pieces of dreck became hits, even reaching #1 at times. One example that comes to mind is Ronnie McDowell's "Watching Girls Go By" from 1981 which made #4 on the Billboard country chart. The lyrics could have been written by a 15 year old and I can't see what appeal the song would have to anyone older than 16.
Another one was Eddy Raven's "Joe Knows How To Live" from 1985 which got to #1 and was again absolutely banal dreck, even though he had several other songs I enjoyed. Even when I was 13 I thought it insulted my intelligence.
Unfortunately dumb ass modern cucks just see him as the racist guy that wore blackface.
Those early acoustic records were made by shout-singing into a recording horn. Jolson basically couldn't adapt once electric recording and microphones arrived in the late 1920s while Crosby quickly mastered the new tech to create crooning.
1966
I am forgotten
The Byrds are another extreme example of this, literally no one gave a fuck about them once more sophisticated psychdelic/prog acts came on the scene by 1968-1969, mostly from the UK
Crosby's female counterpart Kate Smith was also a mega star during the Depression era. She fell off after WW2 because she got displaced by younger girl singers like Jo Stafford, Doris Day, etc. She did have a bit of a 60s comeback though.
Maybe modern music is that sad but I kind of want to compile a bunch of those old cheesy 80s country songs. I want to hear more older country that wasn't on my radar at all. Never heard much country growing up and it was laughed at by my family. Now it sounds more novel than everything else cuz pop modern rock rap all the popular stuff is really boring
For some reason, most pop songs from after 1987 and before the TRL era (1997). There's a handful of exceptions, but most of the least-streamed hit of the 90s are from 90-93. And out of the three big pop stars from that era (Janet, Whitney, Mariah), Whitney's most well-known songs are before that period, Janet after and Mariah is just Mrs. Claus at this point
The only real hit she's had in the past 5 years is Anti-Hero. She's an artist with a cult following whose cult happens to have tens of millions of people
Billy Joel is the best to ever do it though.