Beatles #1 Saved The Beatles From Falling From The Top of the Chart

[countrykidanthony]

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According to the Recording Industry Association of America, the top-selling artists in history are, in order: The Beatles, Garth Brooks and Elvis Presley.

But in mid-90s, The Beatles' crown was threatened when Garth surpassed them as bestselling artist of all time. Thank God for George Martin and EMI, on year 2000 they released a compilation of all the band's number one songs and named it Beatles #1 with an orange-red Cd sleeve.

And that single album in 200 brought The Beatles back to the top of the official RIAA lists.

The only thing that's puzzling is, of all the great entertainers in the 90s, why Garth Brooks? what's his charisma? Why not Nirvana or Shania Twain or some accessible boybands for the masses?


YouTube - Garth Brooks Medley

[rata]

selling records cannot count to greatness... eventually any top selling artists will be toppled down.... besides, nobody cares anymore if Beatles is still on top of the charts or not. what they did is already marked on history that no one can put down on.

Rolling stones is the one of the top 5 richest band in history...and they didnt just earn it through selling records. (just a cent of mention there...hehehe)

its funny you asked those questions since your the guy here most known for being into country music.... maybe i should ask you in return....

[EZRA]

Very true.. selling record can't really count to greatness... not anymore anyways. Case in point - check countrykid's thread about the top selling album of the decade.
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As for Garth Brooks... you have to realize how many country listeners there are in the U.S. The Southern states alone - you have to consider that this region is plagued with the country-music-listening truck-driving rednecks... then there's the midwest.

[rata]

Very true.. selling record can't really count to greatness... not anymore anyways. Case in point - check countrykid's thread about the top selling album of the decade.
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As for Garth Brooks... you have to realize how many country listeners there are in the U.S. The Southern states alone - you have to consider that this region is plagued with the country-music-listening truck-driving rednecks... then there's the midwest.

hehe id rather not check it out... for sure its already plagued with country artists(no pun inteded). ...

the closest thing to country music that i listen is Southern-rock/metal... i cant even stand Rebel Meets Rebel..

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one of my childhood traumas was when my teacher forced us to dance that Billy Ray Cyrus song...(there goes my useless piece of personal history..lols)

[countrykidanthony]

yah its true its no longer the basis for greatness nowadays. unlike before. even before its not that much but atleast there are more good things in the charts back then.

I raised the Garth question cause i was wondering how on earth did he sold that much record when he's not even famous in other parts of the world and did that in just a span of a year and a half.

[countrykidanthony]

@rata: hehehe although i like some of what nashville has to offer but i do agree, most of them are trash existed just for the $ sake.

however the kind of country i do listen to most of the times are the likes of A.J Downing, Rodney Crowell, Wrinkle Neck Mules, Whiskeytown, Steve Earle, The Great Divide, etc. But some people are no longer calling it country since country is totally now the marketing word for "nashville sound". They prefer to cal it as americana or insurgent or even alt.country. It's like an umbrella term for everything not-mainstream from cowpunk to bluegrass to punkgrass and in betweens.

But me personally since i dont work for radio or any media outlet, i just call them country. i can listen to Wilco or Jerry Douglas next to Carrie Underwood (especially her faith based songs)...



Southern Rock is great.

One disappointing traits i found in most mainstream country fans is they don't like it when their artists would go beyond his comfort zone. Case in point is Brad Paisley. Country fans know Brad's music and is comfortable knowing in every album, that will never change. Until he released the album Play in 2008 mostly guitar instrumentals of different kind from surf rock to blues to hard rock with guess ranging from BB King to Alvin Lee to Steve Wariner. And that album didn't even sell that much.

Same thing with the traditional country music fan. They want their country to be all homogenized Hank Williams and Ernest Tubb or Geroge Strait and Alan Jackson in modern context and hate everything with a pop or rock flavor like Faith Hill, Taylor Swift, and Wilco(who showed the world that gram parsons and radiohead could co-exist on the same album)

What i like are these insurgent and progressive country fans because they know their country music. They can listen to all kinds of country music and judge an artist by his input/output and not by its popularity or if its mainstream or indie. Sure they know their roots but also embrace the branches. These are the people who can listen to Robert Plant/Alison Krauss, Nickel Creek, Robert Earle Keen, The Jayhawks, Whiskeytown, Tim McGraw, Bill Monroe, Hank Williams, and Band of Heathens as if it were one and the same..

[berserker]

this may sound strange to you peeps but i have yet to hear of a garth brooks' song. way botbot.

[rata]

this may sound strange to you peeps but i have yet to hear of a garth brooks' song. way botbot.

hehe ok rana oi... ive heard and seen a couple of his videos numerous times and i still cant remember how it sounds..