"If it's mainstream, it's not good enough"

Well there at 1st on the UK rock charts and 12th on the album chart.

Of all the albums to do it, one of their worst. Oh well, I'm still happy for them.

PS - And ironic that this is the one to do it, since Tuomas has been crying about how much more common piracy has gotten and how it's destroying the music industry.

Written by The Melting Snow on 11.04.2015 at 17:56

"If it's mainstream, it's not good enough"

like Iron Maiden...

What the fuck you mean by Hard Music Albums?

Written by SoUnDs LiKe PoP on 11.04.2015 at 20:17

Of all the albums to do it, one of their worst. Oh well, I'm still happy for them.

PS - And ironic that this is the one to do it, since Tuomas has been crying about how much more common piracy has gotten and how it's destroying the music industry.

Agreed.

Written by SoUnDs LiKe PoP on 11.04.2015 at 20:17

Of all the albums to do it, one of their worst. Oh well, I'm still happy for them.

PS - And ironic that this is the one to do it, since Tuomas has been crying about how much more common piracy has gotten and how it's destroying the music industry.

Oh, I don't know if it's quite like that. I don't it requires as high of sales as it used to. I mean, Weird Al was able to take #1 with selling just 50,000 copies of his latest. That probably would even make Top 100 in the charts in the 80s when the record industry was at it's height.

Things have changed and people aren't as inclined to buy music like they used to, and this isn't saying "piracy is evil" or whatever. More and more people using streaming services for a lot of their entertainment, and music is heading that way as well. The idea of "owning" music ( or movies or whatever) might be considered more of a distinct hobby than something ubiquitous that everybody does.

Essentially, what I'm getting at is that charts like Billboard aren't as representative of what is "popular" as they used to be, and they are going to be more and more irrelevant as time passes and people start streaming more often than buying their music. Congrats to Nightwish and all, but (as much as I loved seeing Weird Al get #1) getting a good position on Billboard just isn't as hard as it used to be. Sure, pop stars will get their millions, but it certainly doesn't happen as much as it used to.

News of this nature shouldn't even be bothered with

Written by Cynic Metalhead on 11.04.2015 at 22:00

What the fuck you mean by Hard Music Albums?

Hard/hardish rock, metal, etc., I assume. Probably some types of rap and industrial, too.

Either it's Hard Rock or Hardcore albums. So far what i have heard.

Hard Music albums? What a stupid generalization.

"With hip hop guidelines, I state I never liked authority
When sales control stats, I place no faith in the majority"
-Company Flow

Written by SoUnDs LiKe PoP on 11.04.2015 at 20:17

Of all the albums to do it, one of their worst. Oh well, I'm still happy for them.

PS - And ironic that this is the one to do it, since Tuomas has been crying about how much more common piracy has gotten and how it's destroying the music industry.

Nothing ironic about that.
Nowadays you reach the position Nightwish reaches with only a handful of albums being sold whereas back in the day they would at least needed to have sold more like 30-50-fold of what they sold now.