Re: Artists with terrible popularity-to-legacy ratios

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Ha!

Here’s a good one (maybe already mentioned?):
****** released nineteen albums that made Billboard's Top 100, fourteen of which ranked in the top 10, and five of which hit the number 1 spot. Four of the group's LPs charted among the 10 top-selling albums for five weeks in November and December 1959,[3] a record unmatched for more than 50 years,[4] and the group still ranks in the all-time lists of many of Billboard's cumulative charts, including those for most weeks with a number 1 album, most total weeks charting an album, most number 1 albums, most consecutive number 1 albums, and most top ten albums.
This is referring, of course, to thrift-store and quarter-bin stand-bys The Kingston Trio.

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Wood Goblin wrote: Fri Jan 10, 2025 2:35 pm Maybe outside of the US that’s true, but I hear that “you got me feeling emotion” song from time to time, and her Christmas song is inescapable.
I'd say she's still pretty popular here in the US, hasn't faded much. Still putting out albums and songs that do pretty well.
And yeah, that Christmas song of hers gets a ton of airplay around the holiday season. Which is a shame, because it was one of the few songs I liked by her, but now I"m just tired of it.
"Whatever happened to that album?"
"I broke it, remember? I threw it against the wall and it like, shattered."

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penningtron wrote: Fri Jan 10, 2025 2:56 pm Watched the Yacht Rock documentary a few weeks ago, and that whole revival, sometimes ironic appreciation saved artists like Christopher Cross from completely vanishing. Dude had the biggest record of 1981!
My Dad - without any apparent understanding of the song - used to say that "Video Killed the Radio Star" was written about Christopher Cross. He was convinced that Christopher Cross's fall in popularity was due to his lack of good looks after he started making TV appearances.

He used to make up stuff like that.
jason (he/him/his) from volo (illinois)

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jfv wrote: Fri Jan 10, 2025 3:45 pmHe was convinced that Christopher Cross's fall in popularity was due to his lack of good looks after he started making TV appearances.

He used to make up stuff like that.
There's some truth in that. It's understandable why Kenny Loggins was able to adapt to the video era better than, say, the members of Toto.

Then again, Mark Knopfler had a big MTV hit so who knows.
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