They've been gigging regularly and are one of the biggest draws for corporate events, rich people parties, resorts, and casinos. Lewis has a net worth these days of $30 million. The band commands $150K+ per show. He say's he's doing just fine.

And Back to the Future.

Nobody said ****ty dad rock that was dad rock the day it was released can't take money from tasteless cretins.

Because of American Psycho.

They're no longer news.

Or maybe because of 19 top ten singles, a bunch of really successful videos, an Academy Award nomination, 3 platinum and 2 gold albums, and 30 million in worldwide album sales?

Oh wait, I talking with "If it's popular it sucks" Frumpster.

I don't know what rich fogies trying to relive the 80s when they still understood the world listen to, but the rest of the world couldn't give a **** about Huey Lewis. They are so far beyond passe that my generation and beyond have no idea they even exist. I'm a member of this site and I didn't even know about them until a couple years ago.

But mainly American Psycho, which drove a lot of those things.

Ftfy

What artists from my last.fm make you think that I dislike Huey Lewis and the News for any reason other than it being garbage? Childish grudges need not apply.

Yeah, they were definitely popular in the 80s. That doesn't mean they're a great band though. I enjoy some of their songs because they're nostalgic for me, but they're not a band I ever go out of my way to listen to.

Like a lot of bands who had hits in the 80s, Huey Lewis and the News had a brief period where they were really popular (I mean, really popular: Batty you may be too young but there was a time when you couldn't turn on a radio without hearing "If this is it", and then he had that big lawsuit with Ray Parker Jr - who I hear you say? Ghostbusters theme?) - but it was a few years and then everyone forgot about them. I don't even know what was so great about them: just for one shining moment they were "the thing", then people moved on. I suppose MTV as usual had a lot to do with it. And those two movies.

But after Sports and in a smaller way Fore! I don't think anyone seriously gave a crap, and I certainly never bought any of their albums. "If this is it", "I want a new drug", "Heart of rock and roll", "The power of love" - they've been dining out on those hit singles for decades now. Look at their releases after, say, 1986: few if any broke the top 40, and as for their albums - six since Sports and by the 90s they were no longer troubling the charts, with their latest way outside even the top 100. I know chart success is not necessarily a measure of quality, but it is usually a measure of popularity, at least in general, and going from those stats, as Batty says, nobody cares about Huey Lewis any more.