Originally Posted by
PTravel
...There are specific art forms that have very specific and limited appeal. Whether it's country, hip hop....
Despite the fall in record sales throughout the music industry,[67] hip-hop has remained a popular genre, with hip-hop artists still regularly topping the Billboard 200 Charts. In the first half of 2009 alone artists such as Eminem,[68] Rick Ross,[69] Black Eyed Peas,[70] and Fabolous[71] all had albums that reached the #1 position on the Billboard 200 charts. Eminem's album Relapse was one of the fastest selling album of 2009.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hip_hop_music
Country music is America's best liked music. According to a Harris
survey, 60% of the adult population likes country music.
Today's expanding country music audience has created a market for
2,6000 full time country radio stations. Up 92% since 1978!
64% of the country music audience is in the powerful 25 - 54 age
group, the peak buying years for American consumers.
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=514540
"Each week over 43,875,000 adults listen to country radio stations nationwide. More radio stations continue to program Country music than any other format."
http://www.cmaworld.com/media/pdf/ma...tener_2003.pdf
WQDR, the Triangle's top-rated station, is also the only country
station in the top 15. So its listener audience provides a good
snapshot of the local fan base for country music. Here's a statistical look at the audience of the Triangle's dominant country station, WQDR, 94.7 FM:
HOW THEY LIVE
42 percent own homes with a value of $125,000 to $199,000
56.3 percent have no children. [NOTE: this should please you]
Reports show that nearly 42 million adults listen
to Country Radio on a weekly basis. A listener profile shows that
almost 43 percent of adult Country Radio listeners are between the
ages of 25-44. Country Radio reaches more adults than any other
format, with a weekly cumulative rating of adults 18 years and older
at nearly 21 percent, making it America?s leading radio format.
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=514540
I wonder what the stats for music that didn't have such "limited appeal" [sic] would look like?
The real issue is that you don't like the music. But disguising your taste by cloaking it under objectively false claims to actual expertise about its "limited appeal" makes for an intellectually dishonest contention.
And it sounds to me like the club's management is actually pretty savvy about tastes, no?