Opinion | Maura Johnston: How Ariana Grande beat The Beatles’ 55-year chart record with ‘thank u,next’Comparing any contemporary-day pop act to The Beatles is a fool’s game — rock purists will sneer at the implication that anyone existing in the contemporary world could exist alongside The Fab Four.
But Ariana Grande’s commanding of the top three spots on this week’s Hot 100 singles chart, which ties a record set by The Beatles in 1964, or does display how music consumption has changed since the days of Beatlemania,with the unison screams of the sixties now echoed in excitable fans’ tweets of 2019.
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