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| quote: | Originally posted by Trance-MB
And I thought Trance wasn't very popular when I listened it in 1994. Compared to then IMO it's massively popular now.
Probably more people now listen to a weekly A.S.O.T. show then back then listened to trance all over the world, which would have been just Europe probably. |
It's another kind of popularity, in 1994 trance had just bornt, but i'd say in the 2000-2005 trance was massively popular, not the good records but the most commercial stuff in the form of eurodance, hard dance, but clubs played it daily wasn't something fresh like it would be now when you rarely hear a trance tune in a mainstream club.
Surely ASOT has now more listeners than ever (15 millions i believe, stunning) but go ask 100 people in the street about :
-Armin van Buuren
-Ferry Corsten
-Oliver Lieb
-Sasha
Possibly 10 out 100 would know who AvB is 2-3 in the case of Ferry and for statistical beauty we will count 1 for Lieb and Sasha.
Now ask the same 100 about :
-David Guetta
-Swedish House Mafia
-Rihanna
-Afrojack
You'll see that 90% have heard about most of them.
So in conclussion trance now has attracted more people but the world seems more unaware of trance than ever.
This is illogical but it is what it happens, last week Leon Bolier was a worldwide Twitter trend topic, there must be a lot of hidden trance fans, maybe confessing you are a trance addict is now embarrasing, otherwise i can't understand why if the "#trancefamily" is so big you rarely find trance heads around you.
However the current commercial house is focused to casual edm listeners, they don't know what the fuck the djmag is, IDMAS or ASOT is but conform a big fanbase for this djs.
PS: IDMAS this year are more a joke than ever, must be a leaked hoax.
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