Not only that, but the long tail has been much much more representative than the days of the short tail ever was.

Everyone knew that there was a huge audience for hip hop, but we’ve only seen how huge that audience was since it came to dominate streaming charts.

According to Chuck Klosterman in his book on 'The Nineties' more people watched an average episode of Seinfeld than watch the finale of Game of Thrones or The Sopranos.

About the only thing that remains for mass audiences is sport. Even there on demand replays of sports are changing things.

Also don't best selling records or streams or whatever actually indicate far less revenue and a far smaller share of what people are listening to than they used to ?

I thought it was great when Klinger got married.

This nightmare of Hawkeye's is something I'll never forget.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XO3_iRh2Ryk

Mid tail