What country still has music?

I'm sure there are plenty of legends in their living rooms. Everybody seemingly has a pat excuse for why they're not rich and famous. The fact that you might not have the tenacity, balls, talent or will power has nothing to do with it. If the world would just beat a path to your front door, then you'd show 'em.

Duanegoosen, at least you admit that it could be hard. Some people insists that it's so simple.

When you look backwards you selectively limit your view to the best music of an era, whereas the music of today benefits from no such filter and of course seems worse in comparison. An interesting take on this effect are the Owen Wilson and Marion Cotilliard characters in the film "Midnight In Paris".

Here's a listing of best selling artist by decade. Basically, from from the 1980s onward Madonna and U2 rule. Click on the links at the top of the page and you can narrow your data to specific years.

As far as I can tell there was always good music and really bad music popular in any selected year.

If it's so simple to programs some beats, then please tell us what beats you've come up with, sold for large sums of money and have been used in hit records. According to you it ain't even hard work!