12 Extremely Disappointing Facts About Popular Mus

I agree with Schubert… with the exception of one Elvis CD (that actually belongs to my wife… so technically that doesn’t count), there’s not one CD in my collection from any of the artists identified in that link.

Schubert must be somewhat popular in that his music is still reknowned years later, as is the case with many famous classical composers.

So are you saying that Schubert should be topping the charts and not the BEPs or Katy Perry?

Will today's pop acts still be popular 100 years from now? Time is the true test no doubt. It will be a different world then for sure.....

BAch, Teleman and Handel are pretty much the only original modern music makers of note to western civilization (can't speak for eastern or other non western civilizations or cultures which might have a different perspective) that have achieved or retained a high relative level of popularity hundreds of years later. I suspect only a select few acts from teh last 100 years will achieve a similar legacy 300 years from now.

Silly,classical music is the highest acheivement of the wetern world,there are a hundred great composers with a high level of popularity among those with the taste and refinement to listen to same.Even allmighty Bach has no real populsr popularity.
I suspect(strongely) there were be NO current acts even known a hundred much less three hundred years from now.
Popular music is utter garbage plain and simple.

'classical music is the highest acheivement of the wetern world'

Or any other world!! It conquers everyhere it goes. Witness all the asian artist.

The test of time can be misleading. Historical happenstance, political/economics and cultural nationalism have as much an influence over what art survives hundreds of years as the quality of the art.

Classical music - the highest achievement in western history? Very debatable, at best. My short list of higher ranking achievements:

collected works of Wm. Shakespeare
theory of natural selection
men landing on the moon/Voyager 1 & 2
"Moby Dick"
KAJ's skyhook
the Allied victory over the Axis
Albert Einstein