And then you google their respective (estimated) net worth and it's even more ridiculous.. 12-14 million vs 3/4 of a billion dollars.
Metro Booming is a rap producer and Karol G is Latina pop star, Latin and Korean artists charting so much was like the one cool thing this year haha
Wallen's album actually came out this year and is 36 songs long, so it gets a big boost over Midnights from both of those factors. Wallen's previous was a double album, so if you think about it, he's got like six albums worth of material on the charts between those three albums. Still wild that he's that close to Taylor's total number given the utter dominance the Era's Tour has had over all aspects of music commerce this year.
I’m more hyped metro boomin reached that high but he also had like 3 different versions of the album so I wonder if they all count or just one.
I feel like everyone toured their pandemic releases in 2021/2022, and now they’re taking a break and making new albums for next year
Yeah, I think there's probably something to that. I guess I'm mostly surprised that it seems to span all genres, big artists and less well known artists, etc. I mean, some of this could also just be me not looking in the right places, but I usually have 1-2 things I'm really looking forward to every week in the summer and this summer has been super barren, comparatively.
I think everybody's just off-cycle after a postpandemic 2022. August 25 is going to be a great release week!
When the heck did Noah Kahan get so big? I enjoyed that song Stick Season when it came out last year but I didn’t realize he was so popular. Yeah this has been a disappointing year overall, but don’t sleep on that new The Maine album! Perfect summer pop rock album. Also Softcult’s new EP is really good. It’s like Olivia if she listened to only shoegaze and Nirvana.
Now I’m getting sad imagining the alternate universe where Schlesinger has a couple co-writing credits on this thing
I don't know, I missed the Noah Kahan thing completely. Guess I should check him out. The Maine's record is growing on me. Not going to end up in their upper echelon for me, but it's been getting a lot of play, partially because nothing else of a ton of interest has come out lately. He would have been the perfect collaborator for her. I really wish we had gotten to see it happen.
I was anecdotally just taking to a friend in real life this week who agreed that it’s been a slow year of releases. That said, I’m loving The Hives’ new album.