>>20491588Rap has never been more popular than rock.
You can say that Spotify spins is the best way to measure such things. And Rap might get more Spotify spins than Rock.
Then you look at the Pirate Bay chart, today. Flac. It's mostly rock. Mostly classic rock, but it's rock. Today's top rock bands are competing for ears with Classic albums from the last 60 years. It's pretty easy to make 10 clicks and get everything from Beatles, Stones, Zeppelin, Metallica, and name 6 more. perfect 24 bit Flacs. And some people just listen to great albums on Flacs. Especially in rural areas where it's not easy to get great reliable
What's really important, really where the money is made is Live. And rock, every form of rock, is everywhere live. At no point did rap ever approach rock no matter how you measured it.
Rock is such a broad category going from folk-rock, bluegrass-rock, country-rock, singer songwriter soft rock to punk-metal with AAA, Alternative and Active Rock.
If there were 1000 rappers rapping in New York City every night, and at the same rate in the 20 largest cities, that would make up for all the 3 set cover bands, some country, mostly rock in rural towns who have entertainment on weekends. In one of the smallest Metros of the 255 I think it is radio metros, there is a big outdoor venue, Live Nation. Godsmack this year, a bunch of country. Not a lot of rap. In smaller venues, art centers, there's Powerman 5000 coming to a 800 or so cap room $30, 200 cap room for originals, usually rock, but sometimes rap and sometimes drag. $ And there are a lot of classic rock bands, often the same ones, playing 3 sets, $5 cover. That's in the city and the immediate metro. Going 10 miles outside, you can find more original venues, but typically classic rock, perhaps with some jam bands, Dead covers, Basically, many different types of rock (also country) covering all but the biggest cities.
