What makes a song famous?
This thread is just to go a bit deeper in what actually makes a song famous. Answers such as "Songs get famous because they are good" are way too simple answers.

Do songs get famous because of their originality or simply because a famous artist made them? I guess it's a bit of both.

Q1: Would an extremely well made and original song get famous if it was created by an unkown artist?

Q2: Can kind of bad songs get famous if the artist just is good on spreading them?




What makes a song good?
First of all. What is the definition of the word "good"?
If you search for "define: good" on google something like this will be the result:

Q1: What makes music good?
One thing that makes music good is the switch between different notes. Some notes doesn't fit after other notes etc. So there comes another question.

Q2: What makes some notes fit after others?
Is this something that is in our brain when we get born, or do we get so used to common music so we think that the notes after each other used in them are the ones that sound good?

Q3: How much is music taste affected by family and friends?
My opinion is that it is totally affected by family and friends in most cases.

Personally, I do not really have a special music taste. I like most kinds of music as long as they are well done.

I think it is about how it appeals to the listener's taste for music. Then, it usually becomes famous because a large group of people feel it's appealing and start to buy it.

For example: Say 15 of 20 likes Hip-Hop
Then about 15 million of 20 million likes hip-hop.
Then there is a hip-hop song that came out.
Which means probably an estimate of 10-15million + will buy that song because it appeals to their music tastes.

@tarektarek Oh yeah, I forgot the point of appearance. Music videos can be very appealing for some people. I usually don't judge on appearance/music video but I have to say that if someone looks really ugly and you got a bad first impression of them, it seems as they sound worse than they do.

In some cases people that look like they just came out of the trash can can sing extremely good though. When that happens, it sounds like they sing awesome though.

You made me get a new question with the last thing you wrote.
*What makes music with no melody sound good?

@52x32x52x1 I want you to avoid answers like this because you actually didn't answer the question. What is "good"? Explain more.

@RedDevil Totally forgot about music chat. Probably because I never lurk there. My bad.

@TehCaek Try to explain more about what gives people their music tastes.

@RedDevil You are totally right in one way and I felt that you kind of owned me there. However, with Q1 I mean more like: "Would people think that a song would be much better if it was made by a famous artist than if it was made by an unknown artist."

I will take a look at the wikipedia links you posted.

Answer to your "P.S": There are many questions that need to be answered by personal opinions. That makes discussion, right?

@m0o I agree on your points there. I like the metaphor you used.

It's not necessarily an easy way to explain, but I'll try.

It's the way they react to the music. Some might say at a hip-hop concert, woo this is awesome! Then they start cheering, shouting, souvenirs, and getting autographs. Maybe even buy it.

If they don't like it, they'll just ignore it, or diss it and go to their favorite.

It's the action that says it.

@TehCaek The action? What about the old people that listen to old music? That's their music taste.

Dodekus: What more do you need?

Elderly like the classical music because that was the music they heard at the time of their childhood. If a child is born here, 50 years later, they listen to modern and hip-hop like now.