>>/3824/
> I think it depends how one rates mainstream cultural trends? Is this it's death or a stagnation that will choke out oxygen in the long run?
I don´t know but what I know is that managers will kick them and serve as living banks for those companies. See what happened to Avicii, the poor guy couldn´t hold up because he had to run concerts really tired and they wanted to bring him out when he was in the hospital. That´s a crime. He had everything, the money he gained with those festivals was robbed by his manager and his death should make us think how dark this industry truly is. It´s downright creepy how it devastates those people, used as tools for benefits of people who see them as charts of the Wall Street. 
> if social media continues to consolidate and been hearded by the "safe" and the "tame".I was quite surprised when vaporwave broke through.
not only that. Internet is sometimes a beautiful thing:
https://www.stereogum.com/2031432/dinosaur-jr-japan-chart-over-your-shoulder/news/
https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/8283889/a-meme-pushes-fleetwood-macs-dreams-onto-hot-rock-songs-chart


 >>/3826/
> thanks for the list. 
you are welcome but I still give a few spins in my head about those 3 or 4 albums that I ask constantly if I should have put them in the chart.
 
> as I've said, most of the music I know is random ill defined mix of prog and obscure from my father with some general hits and a few add ons by myself 
yeah, I see that you are more into random songs rather than having a series of albums that you love as a whole. I started developing my own taste around 2012 (the Iron Sea was the first record for me.) and after discovering the MLP fanbase and 4chan, I began lurking on /mu/ as well. In addition to this, I have a few songs that I know from my guitar classes that are wildly popular and classic as hell.
 
> I've never fully bothered to define my own musical taste. Have things I like, and I know I lean to a lot of stuff up that alley, but I have only haphazardly looked around myself and rarely become a fan of more than some haphazard songs over bands I can say I like. 
so yeah, you are more into singles than enjoying the full experience and checking the whole quality of the album itself. That´s fine although I will say that most companies used that trick to fool the masses. Most of the time people often bought a record because of its singles and the rest lets down enormously and simply work as filler. I know that it serves to know lots of artists and their hits but is that the best they can offer to a listener? And sometimes, I have loved songs that were in the tracklist but are nowhere popular as their hits and that would have made me lose appreciation about them. For example, I thought at first that The Cure was another pop band from the 80s but as soon as I listened to the dark trilogy, my appreciation escalated quickly and I hold Robert Smith in a very high regard because of not only great singles, but great albums and experiences. 

Each to their own. My method is by checking an artist´s most beloved record(s) and enjoy it all the way through or check how it sounds like at least.Now it´s more complicated and it requires a ton of time but the pay off is a worthy experience once it clicks.