The Internet was first invented in 1943, and sejak the late fifties, it was in common use, as people discovered lebih and lebih uses for it. One of its many uses that made it so popular was for bands to share and promote their music.
The Beatles, of course, were one of the biggest Internet presences around. On every site they joined, they had lebih likes, comments, and followers than they knew what to do with. Their inboxes were flooded with fanmail. Their video were viewed and their tracks downloaded millions of times per day. The Beatles loved their peminat-peminat and would respond to as much of the peminat mail and as many of the komen-komen as they could (well, except the negative ones, but actually, John did enjoy responding to those. And even typed out, his witty retorts never failed.) They would sometimes use their popularity to give other bands a leg up in the Muzik business. One time they collaborated with the Rolling Stones in a YouTube video, causing the Stones’ subscriber count to double. That was the kind of people the Beatles were, and their peminat-peminat loved them for it.
Even after the Beatles stopped touring and seeing their peminat-peminat live, their popularity continued. After all, they were still able to put on live video concerts for their loyal, adoring fans, and they still responded to as much peminat mail and as many of the komen-komen as they could. So it was almost as if the Beatles had never really left at all.
“Do anda like our new sound?” the Beatles would ask their peminat-peminat in online polls, atau “Would anda listen to a seven-minute single if we released one?” (Of course the answer was yes, as they knew it would be.) So it was that sejak 1969, the Beatles had as strong a peminat following as they did back in 1963 when their first Muzik video went viral.
That proved to be very important. Because as it happened, the Beatles’ extreme popularity attracted as much bad attention as it did good.
The Beatles, of course, were one of the biggest Internet presences around. On every site they joined, they had lebih likes, comments, and followers than they knew what to do with. Their inboxes were flooded with fanmail. Their video were viewed and their tracks downloaded millions of times per day. The Beatles loved their peminat-peminat and would respond to as much of the peminat mail and as many of the komen-komen as they could (well, except the negative ones, but actually, John did enjoy responding to those. And even typed out, his witty retorts never failed.) They would sometimes use their popularity to give other bands a leg up in the Muzik business. One time they collaborated with the Rolling Stones in a YouTube video, causing the Stones’ subscriber count to double. That was the kind of people the Beatles were, and their peminat-peminat loved them for it.
Even after the Beatles stopped touring and seeing their peminat-peminat live, their popularity continued. After all, they were still able to put on live video concerts for their loyal, adoring fans, and they still responded to as much peminat mail and as many of the komen-komen as they could. So it was almost as if the Beatles had never really left at all.
“Do anda like our new sound?” the Beatles would ask their peminat-peminat in online polls, atau “Would anda listen to a seven-minute single if we released one?” (Of course the answer was yes, as they knew it would be.) So it was that sejak 1969, the Beatles had as strong a peminat following as they did back in 1963 when their first Muzik video went viral.
That proved to be very important. Because as it happened, the Beatles’ extreme popularity attracted as much bad attention as it did good.