Musicians Of Today - 30 Years From Now

[HardkorSB]

The question I'm asking is: Which - if any - of today's chart-toppers are going to be remembered 30 odd years down the line? Who of today's music will be looked back on in the same way as The Beatles and The Stones?

Unless they will still be making music 30 years from now, no one.
There's too much competition today, you're gone for 2-3 years and suddenly 10 other artists take your place. That wasn't the case in the 60's and 70's.
With the way the internet works, artists get incredibly popular for a brief period of time an then they disappear (or at least stay in the background) unless they keep making stuff that appeals to wide audiences.

There's also the fact that a lot of the really good artists don't sign to record labels and don't get their music played on TV and the radio.
You can make a recording studio at home, promote yourself through social media, sell your music and merchandise online and do live shows, without ever touching the mainstream. You couldn't do that in the 60's or 70's.

Um...Gorillaz? I was hearing about them all through the 90s and they still come up every now and then, which isn't bad.

All through the 90's?
That's incredible considering they started in 1998.

 

[Barbas]

Um...Gorillaz? I was hearing about them all through the 90s and they still come up every now and then, which isn't bad.

All through the 90's?
That's incredible considering they started in 1998.

Really?

Spoiler: Oh.

Maybe the Prodigy, then? They had a brief comeback a few years ago. Aside from them, there aren't many bands I can remember from the 90s, sadly. :<

 

[lechat]

at the rate that this generation dismisses fads i can't imagine them remembering any artist they once enjoyed 40 years prior.
gaga might be in with a chance given her quirky nature but odds are beiber will be win just for the "lolz remeberberz when we like that guy beibz and we waz all like WTF FML YOLO im a belieber?"

 

[FPLOON]

I'm pretty sure any "artist" that has been on the mainstream music top charts multiple times using multiple "different" songs from more than one particular [main] album would be remembered 30+ years down the line by various music historians as well as those wanting to listen to music from "the old days"... However, given how anyone can just boot up "Fruity Loops" or some type of music mixing program on their computer, make a song, and, in turn, find their own audience even before a recording company even decides to pick them up to try to get them more noticed by the mainstream audience through various radio/TV station alike, unless they're [prominently] featured in the official music history books, they're nothing more than either [failed] "one-hit wonders" or had a [failed] "underground following", if we're generalizing here...

With that said, I barely listen to anything mainstream-related nowadays unless it was through a commercial or through Weird Al, respectfully... So, there's that...

 

[shootthebandit]

Arctic monkeys id happily put money on being popular. Them and the black keys (although the black keys arent hugely successful in the UK) are the only 2 recent rock bands that still have a sort of rawness to them. Arctic monkeys new album AM is superb. "Call me when youre high" and "arabella" are great. Along with their classics "mardy bum", "look good on the dancefloor" and "flouresant adolesant"