Ace of Base - Happy Nation (Lyrics) YouTube video by Cassiopeia

This is specifically about youtu.be/6vNnB4oLZNo?..., which is made worse by the fact that it was cowritten by the ex-skinhead member of the group

Also I’m curious what data you’re using if not Whitburn! :O

making all this open source if I can once I’m finished, but I can email it to you if you want it prior! (2/2)

Fair enough! One thing I’m doing to try to give better context is turn the weeks charted, peak, and debut of each song in Billboard and Whitburn’s history into a percentile compared to other songs from the year. Makes it easier to compare years like 1988 to year like 2005. I’m planning on (1/2)

these people know how extreme they are

It’s also worth noting that the timescales early on are underexaggerated - weeks charted would more accurately be portrayed as months charted. Not to say it can’t be used as a source, though it should be used with a biiig asterisk. timbrooks.net/review-whitb... (2/2).

Are you using spreadsheets sourced from Joel Whitburn’s Pop Memories? If you are, I would be cautious about definitively citing songs listed as being #1 hits before around 1940, as there wasn’t definitive charts around then, and people have called into question some of the methods used. (1/2)

taylor swift ai situation is crazy YouTube video by wasabiato

I’ve been on thin ice with Taylor Swift for quite some time, but if she doesn’t immediately walk back this undeniable use of generative AI to promote her album, rather than using her billions of dollars to hire artists, I’m condemning her. There’s no excuse for this. youtu.be/Zy_ot3YyQZk?...

My personal timeline is full of autistic people trying to explain that there isn't more autism than before, it's just that we're better at detecting it, and there's nothing more autistic than hoping explaining something at length will help matters when nobody is really listening.

I think the phrase that Forbes searches in vain for is "greed apocalypse." When tax breaks for billionaires suction the life savings out of Social Security and force people who would have comfortably retired back into the workforce at the same time new college grads are competing with ai for jobs 🙄

join the movement.
geoblock your music in israel in protest of the genocide against Palestinians.

nomusicforgenocide.org#page-2

#nomusicforgenocide

Priorities.

thread to look at later

The symphony is Auschwitz Oratorium by Penderecki by the way. INCREDIBLE, hair-raising piece.

(I love my partners so much <3333)

In case anyone’s wondering what it’s like in a house of music majors, my partners took sleeping pills and are listening to an atonal orchestral piece about the holocaust to see if they get nightmares when they fall asleep. Our poor neighbors…

I’ve known about it for a while! I think I found about it when I discovered the original song in 2019, and didn’t think much of it, but I revisited Tina’s version when she passed, and it quickly became one of my favorite songs of all time.

“go to hell” is basic. “i hope your favorite one hit wonder
disappears and returns 23 years later releasing AI slop” is smart. it’s possible. it’s terrifying.

Albums being bloated on release or burdened with Deluxe Edition after Deluxe Edition damages the art of these albums. It forces artists to pump out filler and ruins the quality of these albums. Teddy Swims has put out like four versions of the same album, which now has 31 songs. It’s horrendous.

Similarly disgusting was Taylor Swift’s 31-track album, with no long-term hits, blocking Billie Eilish (11-tracks) and Chappell Roan (14), whose tracks did SO much better and were much bigger events, from #1 last year for weeks on end.

Screenshot of album chart predictions from Talk of the Charts on the other app. Morgan Wallen’s 37-track album I’m The Problem has 140,000 album equivalent units, 40,000 better than the 12-track soundtrack KPop Demon Hunters.

Streaming for albums really needs to be divided by the number of tracks on the album. Morgan Wallen’s 37-track album performing 1.5x better than the 12-track KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack, which has 8 songs in the top 40 right now, is a gross mischaracterization of what the more popular album is.

A group of global civil society organizations have placed the US on a watchlist for urgent concern over the health of its civic society, alongside Turkey, Serbia, El Salvador, Indonesia and Kenya.

Interesting thing actually is you can point to the earlier 1940s music strike as the start of the fall of big bands (I have yet to confirm this emperically for myself) en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1942%E2...

the difference between “sound” & “noise” is cultural/culturally mediated

I’m sure I’m very late to the train on this but it needs to be said that once you get rid of your bias against mumble rap there’s a lot of really good things to enjoy in the genre.

i'm even less of a TV/movie/anime watcher but i'd like to get more seriously into that soon! i like (in no order), Everything Everywhere, But I'm a Cheerleader, My Little Pony FIM, Saiki K, Death Note. my favorite movie of all time is The Room, genuinely, ive seen it like 5 times.

speaking of Pokémon, i'm not a huge gamer but i do play things casually from time to time. my current (lol) games i'm playing are Pokémon Trozei, Mad Games Tycoon 2, Paper Mario TTYD, Fossil Fighters, Undertale, Ace Attorney DD, and some casual games on Roblox.

i dig all kinds of music from R&B to Country to Classical to Video Game Soundtracks to Drum & Bass to Punk to regional folk music. My current favorite things are, in no order: Jimmy Buffett, Dead Kennedys, Boards of Canada, Prince, The Beatles, Piero Piccioni, and some Pokémon soundtracks.

hey all! i'm ashley, a historian of popular music! i also make lush, warm synthpop under the name Cascken, available basically everywhere. i'm planning on making a youtube channel analyzing and reviewing popular music, i'll put it here when it's made! i'll also post random fun personal stuff here.