Part of that surge was about musical videos with CGI, especially with Madonna. Dione made it big from the early 90s perhaps. One year only (1999-2000) is too small a sample to analyse.
One reason why your post is valid though, is because of the way the music industry works these days. Older stars like Lionel Richie, Elton John, Pearl Jam have been producing music. It's just that they are not being marketed to heavy listeners or young people.
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Sarmoviefan26 (1368)
a year ago
Exactly that was part of my point how in the past mainstream radio stations did play older singers music and those older singers were able to get a big new generational fandom in the millennials
Late 90s early 2000s older musicians were still cool for younger crowds but that didn’t last.
I remember how in 2006 when I was like the biggest Madonna fan ( you know if like you talked about Madonna I would have thrown something at you lol 😂 ) I remember getting into forums and fans were angry radio stations didn’t play Hung up.
So that’s why I specified that the good days for older stars stayed till 2001 probably it stretched to 2002 but by 2004. The mainstream radio stations closed the doors to older artists.
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Luffy (837)
a year ago
Good points altogether! Also, Spotify killed the radio stars.
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Sarmoviefan26 (1368)
a year ago
So True about Spotify killing the radio star and the sad thing is that I love Spotify. It’s honestly really cool for us listeners to have all our music in an App
Though it makes me feel really sad for artists, I wished this comfortability didn’t come with the sacrifice of no more radio stars or our favorite singers or bands having to look for other media to make money.
Just like sometimes I wished the movie star era didn’t end either but sadly streaming killed the movie star or franchises killed the movie star who knows.
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