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> Virtually everyone knows a Beatles song OK, Boomer… Obviously, the Beatles were an enormous global phenomenon for baby boomers and for GenXers like myself.

> Virtually everyone knows a Beatles song OK, Boomer… Obviously, the Beatles were an enormous global phenomenon for baby boomers and for GenXers like myself. But if you were to poll my children and their classmates how many Beatles songs they could name, you might end up in the single digits. Not that Miles Davis, whom I prefer, would fare any better, mind you.

WastingMyTime89 5y ago
> OK, Boomer… A quick Google search for the age of the Beatles listeners led me to the Spotify statistics for 2019. The Beatles were streamed 1.7 billions time in 2019. 10% of the total Spotify user base listened to at least one Beatles song during the year. Of these listeners, 30% were between 18- and 24-year-olds, 17% between 25- to 29-year-olds. Hardly what I would call a boomer band. Amusingly this is second time in this thread that I have been asked to somehow justify the cultural relevance of what is the most successful and most likely the most famous band in the history of humanity. I think we have reached peak HN.
- cooperadymas 5y ago
  > Amusingly this is second time in this thread that I have been asked to somehow justify the cultural relevance of what is the most successful and most likely the most famous band in the history of humanity. Living up to your username, mate. It's a lost cause :-)
- microtherion 5y ago
  > The Beatles were streamed 1.7 billions time in 2019 Ed Sheeran, who I doubt will ever be regarded as the most famous musician in the history of humanity, has 4 _songs_ with more streams than that each: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-streamed_songs_on_Spotify https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-streamed_songs_on... > 10% of the total Spotify user base listened to at least one Beatles song during the year. That's hardly "virtually everyone", though, is it? And were they listening to the song because they sought it out, or because it happened to be on a playlist? > Hardly what I would call a boomer band. I think they wrote a number of songs which have stood the test of time. But massively overstating their enduring cultural relevance is quintessential boomerism in my opinion.
  - WastingMyTime89 5y ago
    I was planning to write a point by point reply but then I realise that the simple fact that we are in 2021 and you feel the need to take this extremely contrarian and slightly disingenuous position to argue that the Beatles are less culturally relevant that I’m implying is the ultimate proof to my point. They are so culturally relevant that people have strong opinion about them 50 years after they disbanded.

WastingMyTime89 5y ago

> OK, Boomer… A quick Google search for the age of the Beatles listeners led me to the Spotify statistics for 2019. The Beatles were streamed 1.7 billions time in 2019. 10% of the total Spotify user base listened to at least one Beatles song during the year. Of these listeners, 30% were between 18- and 24-year-olds, 17% between 25- to 29-year-olds. Hardly what I would call a boomer band. Amusingly this is second time in this thread that I have been asked to somehow justify the cultural relevance of what is the most successful and most likely the most famous band in the history of humanity. I think we have reached peak HN.

cooperadymas 5y ago
> Amusingly this is second time in this thread that I have been asked to somehow justify the cultural relevance of what is the most successful and most likely the most famous band in the history of humanity. Living up to your username, mate. It's a lost cause :-)
microtherion 5y ago
> The Beatles were streamed 1.7 billions time in 2019 Ed Sheeran, who I doubt will ever be regarded as the most famous musician in the history of humanity, has 4 _songs_ with more streams than that each: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-streamed_songs_on_Spotify https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-streamed_songs_on... > 10% of the total Spotify user base listened to at least one Beatles song during the year. That's hardly "virtually everyone", though, is it? And were they listening to the song because they sought it out, or because it happened to be on a playlist? > Hardly what I would call a boomer band. I think they wrote a number of songs which have stood the test of time. But massively overstating their enduring cultural relevance is quintessential boomerism in my opinion.
- WastingMyTime89 5y ago
  I was planning to write a point by point reply but then I realise that the simple fact that we are in 2021 and you feel the need to take this extremely contrarian and slightly disingenuous position to argue that the Beatles are less culturally relevant that I’m implying is the ultimate proof to my point. They are so culturally relevant that people have strong opinion about them 50 years after they disbanded.