Recorded music and market research both came into their own at about the same time, so it's not an entirely spurious comparison. (View Post)

However there's also a massive fragmentation of the music market. Between the 1960s and 1990s, you needed to buy actual physical media. Shops would only carry a relatively small number of single… (View Post)

As an aside, throughout history, 60 year old men think what they listened to in their 20s was peak music. That's not an opinion: there's cold, hard polling data that backs that up. (View Post)

It's an interesting question, and my gut is that Trump will be remembered more, in the same way that Kennedy, Churchill or Hitler or Roosevelt is remembered. On the other hand, more people can p… (View Post)

"People Smuggler? We've devised the ultimate punishment. 20 minutes, alone with Keir Starmer in a locked room. If you can't do the boredom, don't do the crime." (View Post)