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Fun with metrics: Coldplay is bigger than The Beatles. Here’s why and how.

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Determining The Biggest Band of All Time® was once easy. Which group sold the most records? Case closed, right?

Not today, though. We have many more ways of measuring a band’s popularity. Cameron Gordon over at Completely Ignored looked at things this way. Click on the image to see the entire study.

Alan Cross

is an internationally known broadcaster, interviewer, writer, consultant, blogger and speaker. In his 30+ years in the music business, Alan has interviewed the biggest names in rock, from David Bowie and U2 to Pearl Jam and the Foo Fighters. He’s also known as a musicologist and documentarian through programs like The Ongoing History of New Music.

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2 thoughts on “Fun with metrics: Coldplay is bigger than The Beatles. Here’s why and how.”

  • Jeremy
    June 6, 2018 at 1:04 pm
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    Yeah I mean of course Coldplay is more popular right now.. the Beatles are 39 years older, they aren’t mainstream anymore like Coldplay is. The only way to compare popularity would be to compare Coldplay’s height (around 2003 album wise, 2008 single wise, or right now concert wise) with the height of the Beatles in their own time.

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    • Dan
      June 7, 2018 at 7:44 am
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      This is exactly right. The idea that Coldplay is bigger than the Beatles based off of CURRENT data, especially streaming data, is plain stupid.

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