BILLIONS CLUB: Maroon 5 (9/381)

BILLIONS CLUB
Maroon 5 (9/381)

114/381 =  30%

   30% done!  So the Artists who got profiled between 20 and 30 percent are: Adele (5), Rhianna (6), Bad Bunny (6), Coldplay (6), Billie Eilish (5) & Maroon 5 (9).  Apologies to Maroon 5- they belonged in that top 10 percent- nine billions club members puts them above Drake, Dua Lipa and everyone except Sheeran, Post Malone and Ariana Grande.   So the chart would look like this:

0-10%

Ed Sheeran (11)

Post Malone (9)

Drake (8)

Dua Lipa (7)

10-20%

Ariana Grande (9)

Bruno Mars (8)

XXXtensasion (6)

Eminem (7)

Queen (5)

20-30%

Adele (5)

Rhianna (6)

Bad Bunny (6)

Coldplay (6)

Billie Eilish (5)

Maroon 5 (9)

     That is...a pretty grim list.  The majority of these fifteen artists are still in hit making mode.  Only two are no longer in existence and three (Eminem, Rihanna & Adele) are arguably past their prime.  The rest are still raring to go.   It is amazing that only 15 artists could comprise 30 percent of the BILLIONS CLUB but there you go.

       As for Maroon 5 themselves.  25th biggest Act in the world on Spotify and the last band standing from a generation of Adult Contemporary/Rock hitmakers.  I think, at one point, they probably still could have been considered a rock band, these days they are the very definition of a pop band as seen by their 2010 hit, Moves Like Jagger which sounds more like a pop song made by an AI than anything a rock band would put out.  Even if you compare them to rockish acts in the Billions Club, they are at the pop end of any rock spectrum.  Maroon 5 also continues to plop out billion streamer hits- including one from their 2021 record- featuring Wiz Khalifa of all people.