Dean Winchester
05-12-2005, 11:09 PM
one thing I've noticed lately is that a lot of people, especially my age, have come to the conclusion that todays mainstream is for the most part crap. Lately it seems that a lot of artists who hit their commercial peak around a decade ago are coming back.
I think it started with Green Day's American Idiot. Considering their last hit was Minority in 2000, and their last smash was Time Of Your Life in 1998, I think most people expected the album to have a nice debut week and fly off the charts in no time. Especially since the kings of MTV poseur teeny-punk Good Charlotte were coming out with a highly hyped new album at the same time. Yet, GD's Idiot has sold 3.6 million and counting, compared to Good Charlottes 1.0 million. I don't think anybody expected GD to leave GC in the dust the way they did, especially since GC was following up a huge album.
And I think it's definately proven that Green Day aren't the only ones, when Beck has released his most successful chartwise album to date, 11 years after "Loser". Plus Mariah Carey, who was the queen of 90's r&b and AC, came back with her biggest set in years and in 4 weeks, sold twice what 00's "diva" J. Lo has done with her lastest pile of poo. And even 90's goth icons Nine Inch Nails released a new album the same day as (c)rap-rockers Limp Bizkit (them and Kid Rock almost completely destroyed rock when they hit the scene), yet NIN's album opened up at #1 while Limp debuted at #24. NIN;s peak was 94, Limp's peak was more recent.
Needless to say, I wouldn't be surprised if Weezer's new cd opens in at #1 also next week.
Who else thinks that people have started looking to artists from the not-too-distant past because they remember how good those artists were compared to the crap MTV's been shoving down their throats since.
I almost wonder if this means we might have a Hootie revival as well, lol.
I think it started with Green Day's American Idiot. Considering their last hit was Minority in 2000, and their last smash was Time Of Your Life in 1998, I think most people expected the album to have a nice debut week and fly off the charts in no time. Especially since the kings of MTV poseur teeny-punk Good Charlotte were coming out with a highly hyped new album at the same time. Yet, GD's Idiot has sold 3.6 million and counting, compared to Good Charlottes 1.0 million. I don't think anybody expected GD to leave GC in the dust the way they did, especially since GC was following up a huge album.
And I think it's definately proven that Green Day aren't the only ones, when Beck has released his most successful chartwise album to date, 11 years after "Loser". Plus Mariah Carey, who was the queen of 90's r&b and AC, came back with her biggest set in years and in 4 weeks, sold twice what 00's "diva" J. Lo has done with her lastest pile of poo. And even 90's goth icons Nine Inch Nails released a new album the same day as (c)rap-rockers Limp Bizkit (them and Kid Rock almost completely destroyed rock when they hit the scene), yet NIN's album opened up at #1 while Limp debuted at #24. NIN;s peak was 94, Limp's peak was more recent.
Needless to say, I wouldn't be surprised if Weezer's new cd opens in at #1 also next week.
Who else thinks that people have started looking to artists from the not-too-distant past because they remember how good those artists were compared to the crap MTV's been shoving down their throats since.
I almost wonder if this means we might have a Hootie revival as well, lol.