Who’s the biggest hit in pop?
ROGER WATERS, a founder member of supergroup Pink Floyd, says he is ‘far, far, far more important’ than Canadian singer-songwriter The Weeknd (Mail).
As tastes in popular music differ, it is impossible to say who is better. What can be judged are how long an artist’s music has lasted and how many people have bought it. Roger Waters and Pink Floyd have sold 250 million records, while The Weeknd is the most streamed artist in the world, with more than 36 million monthly listeners.
But if you calculate that everyone who bought a Pink Floyd album has listened to it 100 times on average (a not unreasonable assumption, given that the band has been releasing albums since 1967), that makes 25 billion listeners and rising. Waters is probably right — but only time will tell.
Mr H. WESTGARTH, Enfield, North London.
HAS anyone else noticed that, despite being one of the five founder members of the Rolling Stones and playing in the band for 30 years, bassist Bill Wyman seems to have been forgotten? The BBC2 series My Life As A Rolling Stone has profiles of Mick, Keith, Ronnie and Charlie, but not Bill. What did he do to upset Sir Mick?
DAVID MARTIN, Botley, Hants.