What artist has the most songs that the most people know?

titans&bucs&bearsohmy! · July 21, 2017

If those huge populations have heard her, and almost all the medium and smaller pops have, yet the medium and smaller pops don't necessarily hear the artists big in China or India...then...

This might be Algebra.

The 13-25 set have heard of them. Older people haven't. It's just like anywhere else. Older people don't keep up.

And Korean pop is far more popular here than American.

naomi · July 21, 2017

It sounds like they need to hear Johnny Cash if they are wooed by Hey Jude.

titans&bucs&bearsohmy! · July 21, 2017

It sounds like they need to hear Johnny Cash if they are wooed by Hey Jude.

It wasn't really hey Jude. It was a bad chinky karaoke interpretation.

One of the things that sucks as an American abroad is, only the most sh!tty, mass marketed drek from our culture gets popular here. Food? McDonald's, KFC, and Pizza Hut. Probably the worst of their respective genres.

Music? Mainly just the pop trash.

Movies? Animated sh!t, Star Wars reboots, super hero crap. Etc.

And for a while they actually aired game of thrones here. But they edited all the nudity, violence, and "politically subversive dialogue" out.

I had a friend say GOT sucks. I told him he'd never actually seen it, and copied the real version over for him. He likes it now.

Gepetto · July 21, 2017

Hook Echo · July 21, 2017

Elton John

dain11279 · July 21, 2017

they certainly did

:first:

peenie · July 21, 2017

The Beatles?

What radio station is playing them?

What movies use their music?

Which artists remake their songs?

Elton John trump's the Beatles.

Tom Petty?????? Haha haha!

Why young and old know more Elton John over the Beatles?

The Lion King

Can you feel the love tonight

Circle of life

Princess Diana died so Candle in the wind was popular

George Michael remade Don't let the sun go down on me or whatever it's called

Kids don't know any Beatles songs even though I do.

I'm talking black, white, Latino young, old. They have heard the Lion King songs and could sing along. What Beatles song or Tom Petty (ridiculous) song could a 10 year old sing?

Herbivore · July 21, 2017

For this exercise, who cares what a 10 year old thinks, in a few years they are going to realize what ever they are listening to stinks

iam90sbaby · July 21, 2017

No one said Queen?

wiffleball · July 21, 2017

No one said Queen?

Just not to your face.

Sho Nuff · July 21, 2017

Michael Jackson and the Beatles were the first two I thought of.

Same here...it's a ton of songs and seems to cross races and even cultures.

Queen has a lot too.

Bert · July 21, 2017

The Beatles?

What radio station is playing them?

What movies use their music?

Which artists remake their songs?

Elton John trump's the Beatles.

Tom Petty?????? Haha haha!

Why young and old know more Elton John over the Beatles?

The Lion King

Can you feel the love tonight

Circle of life

Princess Diana died so Candle in the wind was popular

George Michael remade Don't let the sun go down on me or whatever it's called

Kids don't know any Beatles songs even though I do.

I'm talking black, white, Latino young, old. They have heard the Lion King songs and could sing along. What Beatles song or Tom Petty (ridiculous) song could a 10 year old sing?

Oh I don't know, Amy Winehouse, Usher, Jennifer Hudson, Guns & Roses, Godsmack, Aerosmith, Motley Crue, Boyz II Men, Stevie Wonder, Bon Jovi, Linken Park..............maybe you haven't heard of these groups.

Sho Nuff · July 21, 2017

No one said Queen?

I did...after yours but before I read the second page.

Sho Nuff · July 21, 2017

Oh I don't know, Amy Winehouse, Usher, Jennifer Hudson, Guns & Roses, Godsmack, Aerosmith, Motley Crue, Boyz II Men, Stevie Wonder, Bon Jovi, Linken Park..............maybe you haven't heard of these groups.

Yeah...that was a crazy post. The Beatles get remade and sampled a ton.

Cruzer · July 21, 2017

Really?

Hot Rocks is the best selling best of any band.

The Eagles ate a clean second.

Really.. Was never a Stones fan, I guess maybe bcoz my parents weren't either - never heard them growing up... I appreciate their contribution to Rock, but they do nothing for me.

Cruzer · July 21, 2017

No one said Queen?

I think everyone is getting off track.... It went from: what bands most people know, to what bands most people posting in this thread know.. Queen is great, but we're talking about "most people" in general.

That's why I said Madonna... Half the people on the planet are women, are they more likely to know Queen or Madonna?

vuduchile · July 21, 2017

The Beatles?

What radio station is playing them?

What movies use their music?

Which artists remake their songs?

Elton John trump's the Beatles.

Tom Petty?????? Haha haha!

Why young and old know more Elton John over the Beatles?

The Lion King

Can you feel the love tonight

Circle of life

Princess Diana died so Candle in the wind was popular

George Michael remade Don't let the sun go down on me or whatever it's called

Kids don't know any Beatles songs even though I do.

I'm talking black, white, Latino young, old. They have heard the Lion King songs and could sing along. What Beatles song or Tom Petty (ridiculous) song could a 10 year old sing?

Classic Rock Stations still play the Beatles, there was also an immensly popular tribute act that toured the world.

In 2014, Maroon 5, John Legend, Alicia Keys, John Mayer,

Keith Urban, Pharrel Williams, Katy Perry, Imagine Dragon, Dave Groohl and others were on a CBS special covering Beatles songs as a tribute to the band.

Here are Some Covers from other artists:

https://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/lists/2010/11/the-50-best-beatles-covers-of-all-time.html?a=1

One of Elton's hits was his cover of Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds

One of the most popular videos circulating the web in the wake of Prince's death was of him playing lead guitar on While My Guitar Gently Weeps.

Their songs have been used in dozens of movies TV shows and commercials. The first time a Beatles song was ever used in a commercial was when Nike used Revolution in their commercial for running shoes.

Some others:

Ferris Bueller

Children of Men

American Beauty

The Royal Tannenbaums

The Social Network

I am Sam

A Bronx Tale

The Wonder Years

Bowling for Columbine

Target commercial

Kohl's commercial

2007's Across the Universe was a movie that features all Beatles Music

You stand corrected.

iam90sbaby · July 21, 2017

I think everyone is getting off track.... It went from: what bands most people know, to what bands most people posting in this thread know.. Queen is great, but we're talking about "most people" in general.

That's why I said Madonna... Half the people on the planet are women, are they more likely to know Queen or Madonna?

Who is Madonna?

titans&bucs&bearsohmy! · July 21, 2017

Classic Rock Stations still play the Beatles, there was also an immensly popular tribute act that toured the world.

In 2014, Maroon 5, John Legend, Alicia Keys, John Mayer,

Keith Urban, Pharrel Williams, Katy Perry, Imagine Dragon, Dave Groohl and others were on a CBS special covering Beatles songs as a tribute to the band.

Here are Some Covers from other artists:

https://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/lists/2010/11/the-50-best-beatles-covers-of-all-time.html?a=1

One of Elton's hits was his cover of Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds

One of the most popular videos circulating the web in the wake of Prince's death was of him playing lead guitar on While My Guitar Gently Weeps.

Their songs have been used in dozens of movies TV shows and commercials. The first time a Beatles song was ever used in a commercial was when Nike used Revolution in their commercial for running shoes.

Some others:

Ferris Bueller

Children of Men

American Beauty

The Royal Tannenbaums

The Social Network

I am Sam

A Bronx Tale

The Wonder Years

Bowling for Columbine

Target commercial

Kohl's commercial

2007's Across the Universe was a movie that features all Beatles Music

You stand corrected.

Thank you for doing that far more thoroughly than I had the inclination to do.

You forgot that the cirque de soleil show that toured worldwide as well.

The Beatles are the most covered act of all time. Bar none.

All three editions of the Beatles anthology were monster sellers. Every kid in my high school had it. This was released decades after they broke up.

Even people who say they don't know the Beatles do. You play a few songs and they are like "oh yeah, I know this."

vuduchile · July 21, 2017

Thank you for doing that far more thoroughly than I had the inclination to do.

You forgot that the cirque de soleil show that toured worldwide as well.

The Beatles are the most covered act of all time. Bar none.

All three editions of the Beatles anthology were monster sellers. Every kid in my high school had it. This was released decades after they broke up.

Even people who say they don't know the Beatles do. You play a few songs and they are like "oh yeah, I know this."

Yeah. I think most people who claim not to know or like the Beatles are just being postyish for the helluvit.

parrot · July 21, 2017

Even people who say they don't know the Beatles do. You play a few songs and they are like "oh yeah, I know this."

Just last week I was kind of singing along to "I saw her standing there" playing on Muzak in line at the grocery store. My daughter's friend laughed and said "You're singing Tiffany!" I was like "That's the Beatles you little Philistine."