its not streaming its radio

its literallty number 1 on the billboard goat list lmao

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This doesn’t just apply to Abel though. This is a common thing for every popular artist. “X artist’s old stuff is better”

Anywho NAHWC > H&V

no

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HNVM > Take Care

Or maybe music is just subjective

you sure? cuz CLB rn is at 3.4B so that means it must have dont at least 2B streams in 2021

Forbidden knowledge itt

This. Artists have to battle against fans having nostalgia about their past work and recency bias for their latest work. The truth is somewhere in-between that.

I don't think it matters which work of an artist you prefer since it's still work by the same artist.

Abel is still making good music (it's just more commercialized now). He has fans who fell in love with the non-Pop version of his sound and who think his songwriting/musicianship was better back then and then he has fans who think the opposite. No one is wrong and no one is right.

no it wasn't
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Okay I had to switch the flow up on ktt2
S*** was getting too predictable

we talking about global bruh

CLB> both

again that doesn't mean its the biggest song of all time 💀

An artist can improve by all those technical metrics but whether or not the work actually exceeds their early lightning in a bottle type breakthroughs is pretty subjective and up to taste

I’m sure Abel’s vocal performances have improved a lot but Max Martin beats might be technically better than HOB production, better microphones in use, more budget and more people to perfect it

But surely you can see how for some people that’s not going to be better than the raw, unpolished early stuff where an artist is first establishing who they are. There’s often a magic there. Especially in a case like this where the sounds are so radically different. I’m indifferent on Abel as a whole but there’s a definite unique vibe of the early production, and sometimes just getting better at your craft isn’t going to mean your music is more interesting.

As far as Abel I feel like it’s up to taste. I can see why people would prefer his old or new stuff, neither opinion is invalid or crazy

you mean Spotify global? cause thats what that was

CLB > Take Care, yes

It lost that record to Heat Waves. Blinding Lights was around 80 weeks and Heat Waves was around 90? HW is the biggest Billboard song now

ok bruh. i dont have the energy to argue about stupid posts like this

What the f*** is heat waves

Seemed like it was insufferable on arrival

Drake Stan’s answering no, non Stan’s answering yes. KTT in a nutshell