Which artists will be remembered 200 years from now?

Writers and composers at best, Lennon & McCartney, Dylan maybe. The number will be so few only those that have had huge cultural impact, and there are not really many of those.

 

I don't think many 20th century artists will be popular 200 years from now but I think many will be "remembered" as long as there is a music distribution system that provides access to nearly all recordings all the time anywhere on earth for a low price. Convenience and accessibility will keep many artists alive for a very long time especially if the powers that be can make money off it.

I can imagine a 23rd century man coming home from work and commanding his robot: "Alexa, play popular music from the 20th century."

 

Mozart elevator muzak

 

I'm gonna have to go with Bach. Oh, and Scott Walker.

 

Possibly. I think the cultural context will be lost so it would run the gamut of all popular artists from the century.

 

Do I even need to say it?

 

Milli Vanilli?

 

LOL not even a real band. They were forgotten like in five years.

Hint : a deluxe release is coming out in THREE DAYS. So pumped!

 

Teasing.

The Beatles, surely.

 

King David

 

...don't forget there is a completed 2nd, real Milli Vanilli album lurking somewhere that was never released.

 

The Beatles
The Stones
Dylan
Bowie
Elvis

 

I think all rock music will be called "Beatles music", the way people who are unfamiliar with classical music hear something and just say "Mozart" or "Beethoven". Music historians will know that there were different genres and sub genres.

 

Neil Young.

Henry Rollins. Now I know some may say, that singer? But I take into account everything else he has done as well. A marvelous commentator on all things cultural and author of over 30 books.

 

Love me while you can, 'fore I'm a dead ol' man.

 

I hope they remember the Ramones, for their own good.

 

Elvis
Stooges
Tupac
Dylan
Fela
James Brown

 

60s & 70s rock music will be studied in 200 yrs.

 

Milli Vanilli
Mylie Vanilli
Vanilli Ice
Billie Rae Vanilli

 

I have a different take on the op's question...

Perhaps anyone and everyone will be listened to, sporadically and occasionally.

Today, we have the benefit of recording and storing vast amounts of information.
Something they didn't have eons ago.
So man archives everything now and surely will continue to as memory space gets bigger and cheaper.

Technology will enable anyone to "live on" and "be heard" .

Kids in the future will constantly be rediscovering someone from "today"
cause they will more-than-likely
Be carrying zillions of songs around with them wherever they go with whatever media device exists then.
( Maybe hardwired into them?)

 

Beatles.
Only a 150 years to go.

 

The Beatles
Bob Dylan

 

Robert Johnson
Chuck Berry
Elvis
Sinatra
Bach

 

For every Mendelssohn, Lizst, and Grieg, there were hundreds of lesser, "popular" composers of songs and light chamber music, not to mention a fair amount of more "serious" composers and performers that are not, today, household names. The same applies to the popular music boom of the last century, I think, with the notable difference being the wealth of data archived 'out there', which will mean those lesser luminaries will always be a google search away.

The 20th century will remain on record - pardon the pun - as the period of recorded music. The span of what happened in music during the last century is staggering and will preoccupy musicologists and music fans for a very long time. Further, the future promises next to unlimited access to data, instantly and for free (or for a small sum), so all of it will remain available and will be consumed in many different ways over the next 100-200 years.

All that said, I guarantee that some Louis Armstrong will come streaming out of whatever audio playback device is around in 200 years.

 

Just from the 20th:

Chuck Berry, Louis Armstrong, George Gershwin, Robert Johnson, Elvis, The Stooges, Sinatra, Little Richard, Brian Wilson, Aretha Franklin, James Brown, The Beatles, David Bowie, The Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Muddy Waters, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, Charlie Parker, Bob Dylan, and hopefully WU-TANG.