Apparently "Here Comes the Sun" is the most popular Beatles song with millennials. Huh?!?

Is there a link for this "apparent" story?

Maybe the OP should let Google in on this news.

 

Shouldn’t we be happy that people still love the Beatles all these years later? Why grip about why a certain (amazing) song is popular with the youth instead of another (amazing) song?

Troll thread

 

They did just have an almost billion dollar film come out.

On Youtube Bohemain Rhapsody has just reached 1 billion views, more than 500 million of those came in the last 18 months.

YouTube Stats of Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody (Official Video Remastered)

 

I'm glad that 'Millennials' (I'm really starting to hate generational generalizations!) are discovering the Beatles in their own fashion. I'm sure there are plenty that like "Hey Jude"*, too, and plenty off discovering new music to claim as their own. God bless 'em ...



*A perfectly okay Fabs number.

 

Has the OP responded yet or was this another way to rile people up again?

 

Oof. I remember that one. Still, it produced some useful tidbits of hard info. Such as, the Beatles were subservient to Queen in the streaming space in a couple of well-populated Latin American territories.

 

Is it a Beatles song, performed by the Beatles, on a Beatles album?

 

Here Comes the Sun was being raved in reviews of Abbey Road. It made the Blue album, few b-level Beatle songs did (though a few slipped through).

Technically Hey Jude, being almost three times as long as Here Comes the Sun, had been listened to more on Spotify and is the second most popular Beatle song on Youtube, so it is up there.

 

By YOU.

I’ve always considered it top shelf. Great song.


(In before the lock )

 

Gen X here, born in 1969 not quite 8 when he died: to the extent that Elvis existed to me and my friends at all, he was a tacky joke. Bad movies, ugly house, drugs, black velvet paintings. Musically, he was a non-entity.

 

Indeed. This is actually the first time that I read that Hey Jude was the most defining.

 

Lack of historical awareness? So that’s how we should choose which art appeals to us?
Huh. I never knew that.

 

Probably Spotify stats. Which, to be fair, are a pretty good indicator to what the millennials listen. Here Comes The Sun is by far and away the most listened Beatles track there.

 

Poor Nina Simone with her lack of historical awareness.

 

There was an idiotic troll thread about Here Comes The Sun yesterday, was it the same member? Can’t find his profile.

 

Okay, so I'm not a certified and sanctioned 70's music expert. I just think, although well produced, Here Comes The Sun has too much moog synthesizer to be a slick 70's product. And it came out in 1969. But yes, since it is The Beatles and they do transcend decades, your point is valid. HCTS reeks of the 70's. And foretells the future of music. And remains beloved as we speak. You win. I lose. The Beatles reign.

 

I'm only a year older than you. We're Gen X?? Woah.

 

Great song. But I must admit it depresses the hell out of me mid-Winter.

 

I was just thinking yesterday how subtle the Moog is on HCTS. It doesn’t make it sound dated at all, compared to how The Monkees used it. (Huge fan of The Monkees btw, I don’t care if it sounds dated, I love it anyway).

 

See I don’t care for that song, it wouldn’t make my top 75 Elvis songs, but I’m not gonna make a thread ranting about lack of historical awareness. Instead I just hope it leads them to From Elvis in Memphis and all those great songs!

 

Not for the first time, I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.

 

How about you make a topic with your top? This forum could use a bit of fresh positive threads.

 

"Good Morning Starshine" (No. 3 in the US, July 1969) from the show "Hair" used to drive me up the freakin' wall EVERY time it came on the radio. And since it was a Summertime hit, I guess I didn't need the season for my (rage) reason.

Was this musical atrocity maybe why HCTS was not considered for a single from "Abbey Road" (released 09/1969)?

 

Nothing to get hung about. Not surprising that one of their most modern sounding poppy songs with an upbeat, simple theme gets widespread listens. Anyone think walrus or revolution nine is going to dominate playlist because of history or innovation?

Neither is this. Here is a band with many anthem-riffic singles with interesting things going on sonically who have had cultural through-lines and steady, timely chart re-emergences from the late 80s onward. No surprise that the expanded audience is reflected in streaming numbers.

 

The “media” made the remix? What in Hades is going on in this thread?????!