Justin Bieber is Still on the Charts; Discrediting All of His Haters!

I love Justin Bieber; here is a young kid bringing that wholesome, All-American pop music back and everyone hates him! He has been active since 2007, but it was not until his debut release My World was certified platinum that people really began to take him seriously. His follow up My World 2.0 released this year, sold 283,000 copies the first week making him the youngest artist to top the chart since Stevie Wonder did so back in 1963!

You have to love it; in fact his second release is already certified platinum and it will be interesting to see just how far Justin Bieber can go this time around. The irony of Justin Bieber is that his work is a contradiction between the traditional pop sound, and forward leaning records with recording artists such as Ludacris and Sean Kingston. He has something for everyone and is not another Hanson or Jonas Brothers, as many of his detractors seem to be convinced that he is. The way that I see it he isn't hurting anyone and just giving young 12 year old girls what they want. His work really is not for my generation at all; I can see why young adults in their twenties hate him, but at my age you shouldn't loose any sleep over him one way or the other.

I have done the thing with music being "hard" and "authentic" ten years ago and am sort of over it. These days I just want clean, straightforward music without a lot of the hidden rhetoric and symbolism you find with so many of the pop acts out there and Justin Bieber delivers on that promise. Those who are not familiar with his work may be confused as videos for songs like One Time and Baby are actually off of two different records. One Time and One Less Lonely Girl were actually off of his last record, and Baby was the first single off of his new work. Baby has actually placed higher on the charts than those other two songs.

As interesting as Justin Bieber as a lot of his support comes from social networking sites like Twitter, where a search on his name reveals that he is pretty much one of the ten largest searched terms on Twitter every single day. Occasionally he drops off of the list but then he will return the very next day. I noticed the phenomenon after Michael Jackson dropped off of the list as the events surrounding his death made him a heavily searched topic last year. If that is the case on the Internet in general is unsure, but a Google search will yield over 31 million results, which is far more than Ludacris and Nicki Minaj have combined.

It is anyone's guess when the phenomenon of Justin Bieber will become a distant memory, if it ever does. While going platinum in this climate is impressive, adults probably will not take him seriously until he sells three or four times as many records. Even then, it is hard to take someone seriously whose flame could die out as quickly as it came about. Then again if Justin Bieber has learned anything about this business, it is how to extend that fifteen minutes of fame across more than just two albums.