Is there any research on how music "quality" depends on its popularity?

mwR · 11-04-2016, 03:32 PM

Sorry for such a stupid question and my bad English.

Suppose, we could arrange all music by its “quality”, influence on people, etc. Suppose, there are some music compositions which are better than the others, some are really bad, some are good. Suppose, this does not depend on the popularity of the music composition.
Is there any research that confirms that most of “really good” music compositions are a (very?) little known? That confirms that most of the well-known music compositions are pretty “bad”? (I used a word “well-known”. I don’t know, can I say “popular”, I think it’s confusing because of the genre “pop-music”)

If there is some research that confirms that, should “really good” bands stay unknown in the future? Will their music be worse if they will become well-known (mainstream)?

PS. I don’t relate this question to popular pieces of classical music.

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mwR Groupie Join Date: Nov 2016 Posts: 1	Is there any research on how music "quality" depends on its popularity? Sorry for such a stupid question and my bad English. Suppose, we could arrange all music by its “quality”, influence on people, etc. Suppose, there are some music compositions which are better than the others, some are really bad, some are good. Suppose, this does not depend on the popularity of the music composition. Is there any research that confirms that most of “really good” music compositions are a (very?) little known? That confirms that most of the well-known music compositions are pretty “bad”? (I used a word “well-known”. I don’t know, can I say “popular”, I think it’s confusing because of the genre “pop-music”) If there is some research that confirms that, should “really good” bands stay unknown in the future? Will their music be worse if they will become well-known (mainstream)? PS. I don’t relate this question to popular pieces of classical music.