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| quote: | Originally posted by nennon
PointyDC, I refuse to classify Fragma and Alice Deejay as Pop music. They should not be in the same category as Nsync and Britney Spears.. that's just wrong..
Alice Deejay is Top 40 club music. It's not mindblowing, and it's not even great, but it's easy to dance to, and the girls of Alice Deejay are great in person - I'm not ashamed to admit that I've seen them live twice. They burst with energy on stage, and it's fun to be there when they perform. They are good dancers.. and the crowd gets involved. It's a happy experience going to their shows.. But anyways..
Fragma is crap music, there is no doubt about it.. But even then, a lot of us liked it at some point. Toca's Miracle was huge, Everytime You Need Me was pretty catchy. The new single, which I just downloaded an SVCD video for, is decent too.. It could be great if remixed into a harder dance song. Btw, the single is called "You are alive".
So anyway.. here's a better breakdown of genres and their popularity:
1: Pop - Britney Spears, Nsync, Backstreet Boys, Mandy Moore
2: Rap/Mainstream RnB - Destiny's Child, DMX, Jay-Z, Nelly
3: Rock - Matchbox 20, Coldplay, Blink 182, Linkin Park, many others.
4: Top40 Euro hits - ATC, Spice Girls, Craig David, S Club 7
5: Hip Hop - More underground/audience specific music - Wyclef Jean, Black Eyed Peas, The Fugees, The Roots, etc.
6: Meaningful pop music - Nelly Furtado, Sarah McLachlan, No Doubt, Jewel, Dido, David Gray, Jag Star
7: Top 40 remixes and mainstream dance music - Mel C, Whitney Houston, Brooklyn Bounce, Jennifer Lopez
8: Mainstream club music (different from #7 by genre.. it's electronic to begin with, not R&B or pop) - Alice Deejay, Fragma, Daft Punk, Darude
9: Rave/mainstream trance - Airscape, famous Paul Van Dyk songs, Miss Shiva, ATB, Lost Witness, Voodoo & Serano
10: House and various tranceaddict.com music - the stuff that's listed in this forum, and most people in clubs and raves don't know by name
11: Songs that are too complicated for the mainstream crowd to remember - Tiesto's Flight643, various progressive trance without vocals, etc. Not MTV material.
12: New music - only trance addicts and DJs know the names of new songs before the crowds do. Regardless of the music, this ranks pretty low on the popularity scale.. until the new songs hit it big, of course.
So that's my breakdown of it.. Pop/Rap on top, Euro music and Rock 2nd, Hip Hop/Serious pop music 3rd, top 40 remixes and mainstream crowd-pleasers 4th, rave trance 5th, tranceaddict music 6th, complex trance 7th, new music 8th.
Oldies and country music were emitted for obvious reasons. |
Believe it or not...
The top music genere in the U.S. IS Country. Go figure....
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