I meant that the music that's publicized today is the music that's made today. So if even with this handicap, older music is as popular as the new, one explanat

I meant that the music that's publicized today is the music that's made today. So if even with this handicap, older music is as popular as the new, one explanation could be that it was intrinsically catchier. The graphic that I saw: https://x.com/antonello/status/1781197022910947492 https://x.com/antonello/status/1781197022910947492 To be clear: I'm not arguing that it was better, just more memorable, uplifting or touching. Actually, in ye olden times, "commercial music" was a synonym of bad and "quality music" was expected to be minoritary.