I went to ABBA Voyage with my mother last Christmas, and it’s incredible to see how the band triggers so many emotions, especially happiness. She cried, but she cried saying she was happy. I was shocked by the music quality! Despite the holograms, the band and backing vocals are live. 10/10 for sure.
The never ending relevance and success of ABBA has always seemed logic-defying to me, interesting stuff. I was wondering about the graph showing the total streams of pre-'80s artists: would be interesting to see the stream-spread among different songs - how many of them have over 100 million for example, or do some artists rely on a very small cluster of tracks to carry their overall numbers.
I grew up in the UK and vividly remember ABBA winning Eurovision. I was 9 years old and was mesmerized by them. Their music has a very European style of melody which is why they dominated the charts in the 1970s into the very early 80’s. They also pioneered the music video - til then, artists had to appear on a TV show to get noticed, but with ABBA they simply broadcast their video. It was all very innovative at the time! It felt like ABBA was nowhere and everywhere - their Arrival album cover summed it up well. Were they landing in a helicopter or about to leave? I bought the singles and the albums the moment they came out and played them endlessly. I still play ABBA music in the car - and singing along is mandatory even when alone (or especially when alone). The commercialization of ABBA is inevitable - their allure today works like it did then. They’re everywhere and nowhere still.
The thought occurs - what does the figure showing acts by musical positivity look like if it is relative to other songs released over the contemporary period?
Take an ABBA or Kool & The Gang release, compare with songs released during a window of 6~9 months before and after? Or, possibly shorten the after window in case other acts jump onto the apparent bandwagon.
Added: Come to think of it, what does the relative positivity performance look like five, ten or more years later?
Genuinely loved going to the ABBA Voyage show and recommend it to everyone going to London. The sincerity of loving colorful, campy pop was a joy to be around.
Tangentially, the standup hour comedian James Acaster is currently on the road performing has a very long bit about how ABBA Voyage has killed the tribute band industry. He makes lots of jokes about not adapting his show for the US audience who has no idea what he’s talking about and I felt glad to get it 😂
I went to ABBA Voyage with my mother last Christmas, and it’s incredible to see how the band triggers so many emotions, especially happiness. She cried, but she cried saying she was happy. I was shocked by the music quality! Despite the holograms, the band and backing vocals are live. 10/10 for sure.
The never ending relevance and success of ABBA has always seemed logic-defying to me, interesting stuff. I was wondering about the graph showing the total streams of pre-'80s artists: would be interesting to see the stream-spread among different songs - how many of them have over 100 million for example, or do some artists rely on a very small cluster of tracks to carry their overall numbers.
I grew up in the UK and vividly remember ABBA winning Eurovision. I was 9 years old and was mesmerized by them. Their music has a very European style of melody which is why they dominated the charts in the 1970s into the very early 80’s. They also pioneered the music video - til then, artists had to appear on a TV show to get noticed, but with ABBA they simply broadcast their video. It was all very innovative at the time! It felt like ABBA was nowhere and everywhere - their Arrival album cover summed it up well. Were they landing in a helicopter or about to leave? I bought the singles and the albums the moment they came out and played them endlessly. I still play ABBA music in the car - and singing along is mandatory even when alone (or especially when alone). The commercialization of ABBA is inevitable - their allure today works like it did then. They’re everywhere and nowhere still.
The thought occurs - what does the figure showing acts by musical positivity look like if it is relative to other songs released over the contemporary period?
Take an ABBA or Kool & The Gang release, compare with songs released during a window of 6~9 months before and after? Or, possibly shorten the after window in case other acts jump onto the apparent bandwagon.
Added: Come to think of it, what does the relative positivity performance look like five, ten or more years later?
Genuinely loved going to the ABBA Voyage show and recommend it to everyone going to London. The sincerity of loving colorful, campy pop was a joy to be around.
Tangentially, the standup hour comedian James Acaster is currently on the road performing has a very long bit about how ABBA Voyage has killed the tribute band industry. He makes lots of jokes about not adapting his show for the US audience who has no idea what he’s talking about and I felt glad to get it 😂