The article posits that the beatles and the nineties were BAD for artists, ruining careers and making them one-hit-wonders (where presumably they would have had more than one hit?).
I would argue that it was GREAT for artists and the reason there are so many one hit wonders is that those times opened up and created public appetite for new music. Those artists (who he argues would have had more than one hit) I argue would not have had ANY hits as they never would have gotten airplay to begin with.
How many artists did the Beatles kill? Maybe a better question is – How many artists did the Beatles help produce?
Even more, googling, I get about 100k working musicians currently in the US. It should be obvious that most of those aren't hit-producers for major labels and things likely weren't that different back in the 1960s. Back in the day, they were live performers, teachers and performers in radio-orchestras. Presently they are live performers, teachers, session musicians , and composers-of-themes for movie, TV-shows, commercials, video games and so-forth.
I would argue that it was GREAT for artists and the reason there are so many one hit wonders is that those times opened up and created public appetite for new music. Those artists (who he argues would have had more than one hit) I argue would not have had ANY hits as they never would have gotten airplay to begin with.
How many artists did the Beatles kill? Maybe a better question is – How many artists did the Beatles help produce?