Perfect Mainstream Albums

[dad]

Closer was the quintessential lapdance song!

if that's not mainstream I don't know what is.

are you calling my mom a stripper?!

if she was she used that song!

[Jorge]

"Lose Yourself" won a fucking Oscar

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[Farmer John]

Matters made it very clear on page 3!

I wanna play but how exactly do we define mainstream?

If my mom has heard of it then it’s mainstream.

[Jorge]

Then we should ask Matters's mom if she's heard of Eminem

[dad]

a large majority of the albums that have been named are fucking ancient, and songs from them were played on terrestrial radio. some still are!

not a lot of people listen to the radio anymore, unless, of course, it's satellite radio, which...I bet one would hear a "mainstream" artist on satellite.

if a song is/was played on mainstream radio, it's part of the mainstream, which is why no one has listed The Feelies or Television or Pixies here. Although...I think Here Comes Your Man got mainstream airplay...not certain.

[dad]

Then we should ask Matters's mom if she's heard of Eminem

you have to ask her.

[Norah]

my concern is that by your logic, someone like Eminem suddenly becomes "mainstream"

... you mean one of the highest selling rappers and recording artists of all time?

Eminem is absolutely one million percent mainstream in my opinion

Yeah "mainstream" is a squishy term which is why I was asking for SOME DIRECTION on page 1

who the fuck would ever argue that eminem is not mainstream?

oh, trag.

[tragabigzanda]

Top 10 maybe?
Hello Morning
Close Captioned
The Kill
Place/Position
Do You Like Me?
Latest Disgrace
Recap Modotti
Nightshop
Break
Life & Limb

I'd maybe bump Life & Limb for Epic Problem

[Farmer John]

Then we should ask Matters's mom if she's heard of Eminem

no, we should ask her if she knows any of his songs

She does.

[dad]

[wease]

Huey Lewis and the News- Sports

[dad]

fuck yeah, now we're talking.

[Farmer John]

Huey Lewis and the News- Sports

I can't speak to the quality of the music, but that's an incredible album title.

[Jorge]

Yeah, I've always liked that

[Kevin Davis]

My impression of this topic is that we're talking about albums that had major crossover appeal, like how Scar Tissue would show up on Adult Contemporary radio, or how You Don't Know How It Feels would get played on grocery store subscription services.

I worked in retail for years and there are a lot of songs that get played on those store subscription services that are way, way less familiar to the general public than some of the things that are getting mentioned here. For every song by Kelly Clarkson or Phil Collins there are probably at least five by some comparatively lesser-known singer songwriter whose music only exists to take up space on playlists like that. I'm not sure this line of thinking is the best metric for whether something qualifies as "mainstream." I think most everything listed in this thread so far probably qualifies as mainstream.

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[Norah]

trag: Eminem is not mainstream but someone named Cheyanne Jackson is

[Jorge]

"Lose Yourself" spent four weeks at #1 of the Mainstream Top 40 airplay chart in 2003

I sort of see Trag's point if I squint real hard, but Eminem is just an egregiously bad example

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