Im to lazy to do this myself, but if you look at record sales and award show ratings and everything else music related, I’d bet money that you’d find a direct correlation between current demographics and sales/ratings.
I know that the US tween and teen population peaked ‘97-00, then went into heavy bust mode, which directly correlates with the rise of the last teen pop trend and the trend going bust.
My hunch would be that our teen and early 20 demographics are probably still in bust mode, which is probably why the shows are coming in a the lower end of their historical ratings scale. I do know that the tween demo is in growth mode, which likely explains the rise of ‘Disney pop’ over the last year and a half.
“I’d bet money that you’d find a direct correlation between current demographics and sales/ratings.”
The fact that not very many of the watch-cap wearing, saggy pants skateboarders can hold down a job contributes to their lack of buying power.