> The Beatles were streamed 1.7 billions time in 2019

Ed Sheeran, who I doubt will ever be regarded as the most famous musician in the history of humanity, has 4 _songs_ with more streams than that each:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-streamed_songs_on...

> 10% of the total Spotify user base listened to at least one Beatles song during the year.

That's hardly "virtually everyone", though, is it?

And were they listening to the song because they sought it out, or because it happened to be on a playlist?

> Hardly what I would call a boomer band.

I think they wrote a number of songs which have stood the test of time. But massively overstating their enduring cultural relevance is quintessential boomerism in my opinion.

I was planning to write a point by point reply but then I realise that the simple fact that we are in 2021 and you feel the need to take this extremely contrarian and slightly disingenuous position to argue that the Beatles are less culturally relevant that I’m implying is the ultimate proof to my point. They are so culturally relevant that people have strong opinion about them 50 years after they disbanded.

> Amusingly this is second time in this thread that I have been asked to somehow justify the cultural relevance of what is the most successful and most likely the most famous band in the history of humanity.

Living up to your username, mate. It's a lost cause :-)