Twenty years from now, oldies will look a lot different than they do today.
On this week’s iTunes top 20, five of the tracks are Ai. They’re not humans, they’re created from dust and computers.
Imael Angel, Bob Dominator, Bjorn Bonebreaker, and Topher Ryan are the “artists.”
I guarantee you there will be a Grammys Best AI record category in 2028.
Otherwise, the record biz — with record low numbers — was dominated this week by Taylor Swift. She has three different versions of her song “Patient Zero” at the top of iTunes.
Britney Spears dusted off a 25 year old record she wrote or produced with long ago ex, Justin Timberlake, and that’s at number 5.
In the flashback world, the Beatles sold 56,000 copies of the new “Rubber Soul Super Deluxe” two CD or box set.
Much of the album chart is oldies: catalog albums from Michael Jackson, Fleetwood Mac, Journey, The Eagles, Queen and so on.
And Miley Cyrus? Her abandoned new album, “Bass Persuades,” is gone after a couple of weeks. Completely gone. Second release in a row that sank to the bottom of the music ocean without a trace.
