yea it's good to see that half the top 10 totals come from rock music. there is still a fire.
i work at a high school and find it not only sad, but very much pathetic to hear so much black/pop music coming from every source. it is strange to hear no new rock music being listened to by the yutes these days.
I think that once kids get out of high school they some times realize how bad pop, and especially rap, are and switch to rock.
On the other hand, I some times think that there is no hope. When I was in college I worked at a restaurant where high school kids worked too. They all knew who ez-e was, but none had heard of Alice in Chains. There was also a general consensus among them that rock is angry music, or rock only has gay/sappy lyrics, whereas rap with lyrics talking about getting crunk in the club is masculine.
Rap is dying as most record sales numbers suggest, but groups like the Black eyed peas remain popular for some reason.
Sadly, country is booming. In a few years country will be the most popular music. The shift in country to sound more like rock has spurred this rise in popularity in my opinion. Country stars like Keith Urban and the other tight-jeaned queers would have been rock stars 10 years ago based upon their music sound and dress style, not country stars.
