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Dog 3000

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Latest sign of the (popular music) apocalypse

Feb 16, 2011, 17:41

I thought this news clipping was rather stunning:

"NEW YORK (AP) — The act with the most songs on the Billboard Hot 100 chart isn't the Beatles, Elvis or Michael Jackson. It's the cast of "Glee."

In just 18 months of appearing on the charts, the Fox TV series has set the record for the most songs on the Billboard chart in the chart's 52-year history.

This week, "Glee" debuts six songs on the chart, giving them 113 songs in total — five more than the now second-place Elvis Presley, who had 108."

113 hit singles in 18 months is a rate of 6 songs making the charts EVERY MONTH!

And in case you don't know what "Glee" music sounds like, it's your basic generic overproduced "Pop Idol TV show" sounds, and as far as I know they are almost all (entirely?) covers of old hit songs.

Here's the biggest charting of those Glee hits:

1. Don't Stop Believin' (Journey)
2. Teenage Dream (Katy Perry)
3. Forget You (Cee-Lo Green censored)
4. Toxic (Britney Spears)
5. Total Eclipse Of The Heart (Bonnie Tyler)

TV actors oversinging hits of yesteryear (and yesterweek) are now the most popular artist in history?

ROCK IS DEAD!!! says I (again!)

Or at least, "popular music is irrelevant AS MUSIC" -- these days "popular music" is just the soundtrack for what happens on your video screen.

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Latest sign of the (popular music) apocalypse – Dog 3000, Feb 16, 2011, 17:41


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