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> He's not a "household name musician", either. How do we determine who is? Is Vangelis?
by HKH2 4y ago
> He's not a "household name musician", either.
How do we determine who is? Is Vangelis?
- oblio 4y agoAsk a few random folks of various ages, on the street. Check out YouTube views for some of their videos, weighted by decade (videos from the 80s with tens of millions of views can be considered as popular as stuff with high hundreds of millions now). Album sales. Chart rankings from multiple countries. Endorsement revenues. This is not rocket science.
- HKH2 4y agoI don't think the world is as flat as you think.
- oblio 4y agoIt is when someone makes bold claims such as "household name". Artsy musicians ain't it. Vangelis îs a lot closer to that than Eno, amusingly :-)
- HKH2 4y agoHe may have been a household name in England. I have no idea. If you're into electronic music, I think you're bound to see him mentioned somewhere because it seems people like namedropping him. That said, I completely agree that you can't expect any young people to know who he is.