Imagine Dragons has sold Diamond. How?

Because based on the pop-rock scene on FM, they must be the only thing going that is good. I assume vinyl sales also might be helping....

Imagine that !! This is my Kingdom Come, and it's gone .............
Anything I can't stand, will go platinum, it's coming...............

Any group of guys that have sold that many albums and songs after the 1990's is basically boy bands. Even if they write their own songs, producers make sure their songs are radio ready. Even if they play their own instruments, they aren't in the group because they are good at their instruments. They are in the group because they can sell. Hell, even metal does it. A kind gentleman I know in Tennessee played bass on several albums down there but they wouldn't let him even become the touring bassist because he refused to grow out a beard or get tattoos. Yeap. Everything that makes money is a calculated conspiracy to manipulate young minds into demanding money from their parents for it.

Smurph wrote: Any group of guys that have sold that many albums and songs after the 1990's is basically boy bands. Even if they write their own songs, producers make sure their songs are radio ready. Even if they play their own instruments, they aren't in the group because they are good at their instruments. They are in the group because they can sell. Hell, even metal does it. A kind gentleman I know in Tennessee played bass on several albums down there but they wouldn't let him even become the touring bassist because he refused to grow out a beard or get tattoos. Yeap. Everything that makes money is a calculated conspiracy to manipulate young minds into demanding money from their parents for it. All groups that I dislike the most sell the most records. That's pretty much been the case since I started caring about music more than anything.

So...ah...how do feel about girl bands?

^Hmm, Girl bands don't get enough love!

I don't even know what they sound like ...only heard the name a few times.

Smurph wrote: RIAA awards diamond plaques to singles and albums that reach 10x platinum status. That once was the equivalent of selling 10 million songs or albums, but has changed since RIAA began incorporating streaming from YouTube, Spotify and others. "Radioactive" has sold 7.7 million tracks, according to Nielsen SoundScan, and the band's record label, Interscope Records, said the song has been streamed more than 366 million times.

And thanks for the succinct clarification Mr. Smurf. It definitely answers the question.

^You sound like you need air. Why don't you throw a rock and break a window.

Edited by SteveG - July 10 2015 at 17:48

^Sorry bro, I forgot the laugh emitcon.  My bad.

SteveG wrote: Smurph wrote: Any group of guys that have sold that many albums and songs after the 1990's is basically boy bands. Even if they write their own songs, producers make sure their songs are radio ready. Even if they play their own instruments, they aren't in the group because they are good at their instruments. They are in the group because they can sell. Hell, even metal does it. A kind gentleman I know in Tennessee played bass on several albums down there but they wouldn't let him even become the touring bassist because he refused to grow out a beard or get tattoos. Yeap. Everything that makes money is a calculated conspiracy to manipulate young minds into demanding money from their parents for it. All groups that I dislike the most sell the most records. That's pretty much been the case since I started caring about music more than anything. So...ah...how do feel about girl bands?