Check post # 18. I beat ya to it. Not even I am safe from my relentless nitpickery. 
The Tennessee Titans used to be the Houston Oilers. The owners moved them to a town more willing to build a new stadium and yada yada yada. 
I’m 55, and listen to and like all kinds of music from blues to smooth jazz to top 40. I like today’s top 40 stuff as much or more than the songs that were popular when I was 18. Today’s songs and the attitudes that go with 'em are a lot more fun than the music of my youth. Here’s my list, believe it or not…
People I know songs by:
Hoobastank
Usher
Britney Spears
Maroon5
Ludacris
Beyonce
Alicia Keys
P. Diddy
Enya
D12
Outkast
Lil Jon
Juvenile
Switchfoot
Kevin Lyttle
Mario Winans
Petey Pablo
Nina Sky
Jabba
Los Lonely Boys
Spragga Benz
Soulja Slim
People I’ve heard of but don’t know any songs by:
Ashlee Simpson
People I’ve never heard of:
JoJo
Christina Milian
I recognise about 10 songs.
Yep, here’s another old geezer who doesn’t recognise many of those names. Actually I wouldn’t go near the charts, no matter what; they just feel to me like big record companies telling me what to listen to. And up with that I will not put. Also, there’s damn little artistic talent on display from what I can see.
Anyway, I’m pleased to see Marillion’s name in the UK charts. I’m not by any means a fan, but they got dropped by their record company years ago as not fitting the right marketable demographic, so now they publish & distribute their own stuff, a creditable effort and a big poke in the eye for the A&R men.
I’m 22 and I’m already clueless about about the Top 40. I remember when I bought “Weird Al” Yankovic’s new album, “Poodle Hat” there were songs he was parodying that I had no clue about the original.
People I’ve heard of from the list:
Usher
Ludacris
JoJo (only because I think there was an article on her a couple weeks ago in the paper)
Britney Spears
Beyonce Knowles
Alicia Keyes
I know Enya & P.Diddy, and I know there are multiple Winans brothers, so Mario must be one of them.
OutKast
The others I’m clueless about. Soulja Slim is very confusing, because it makes me think of Sister Souljah. Are they separate people? Petey Pablo does sound like a restaurant—some by-the-roadside Mexican dive.
I don’t think I could identify any of their songs except for Enya and Britney Spears (“Oops I Did it Again” is very heavily played on the radio at the gym where I work out).
Oddly (considering I’m American), I’m much more familiar with the artists on the Uk list, perhaps because some of them have been around longer. People I know from that list:
Usher
Morrissey
Britney Spears
Mario Winans,Enya & P Diddy
Elvis Presley
Black Eyed Peas
George Michael
Cassidy & R Kelly
Outkast
Kylie Minogue
Counting Crows
Nelly Furtado
Hoobastank (a 3rd grade insult if I ever heard one) was featured as the “prize” in some commercial a while back. For Mastercard maybe? “Go on the road with Hoobastank!” the first version said. Im sure they got a lot of calls because the next time I saw it, “Go on the road with the band Hoobastank!”
Incidentally, here’s Finland’s Top 40 albums and Top 40 singles.
But that means that (whipping out calculator) you were 18 in the Summer of Luuuuuuuv ™. A lot of people think that was a pinnacle of popular music. Sgt. Pepper and what have you!
(Also my birth year, you fogey! )
I don’t recognize most of the names either.
The reason I don’t recognize the names is because I hear a song on the radio that I think sucks and I don’t stick around long enough to find out the name of the offending band.
But I defend the right of said offensive band to play their brains out. Have at it! They no more care about me than I do about them.
Party on, kiddies.
The only thing I know about Usher is that his house fell down.
Okay, seriously, I’m familiar with some of the people on that list, but probably not most. It’s not that I’ve lost touch with what’s going on today, it’s just that most of it is not my cup of tea. Most of the music I listen to these days has little to no chance of charting. Honestly, would any pop station ever play The Magnetic Fields? This is not really anything new. Take a random week’s top twenty from the '80s and how many beloved classics are you likely to find? Men Without Hats and A-Ha did a whole lot better than The Smiths and XTC.
That said, there are some trends on todays charts that I have noticed.
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Most of it is hip-hop.
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One hit wonders. This seemed to start in the '90s. There are a lot more one hit wonders today than there used to be. This has had a big effect on concert tours. There are few bankable younger stars on the concert trail nowadays.
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“featuring” Seems like every other song nowadays is by Joe Blow featuring M.C. Whatshisface.
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Misspelling is very cool amongst today’s bands.
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British acts are out.
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Amateur talent show contestants are in.
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Female singers must look good in midriffs.
What I think is weird is that when I listen to pop music stations I recognize a lot of the music. This is because a lot of it is just old songs that are sampled a rapped over.
Yes, there was still good music then, and Sgt. Pepper was at the pinnacle. It’s just that in general, I like today’s music better. It’s more fun, it’s catchier, and more in tune with the way people really are and really act.
But a lot of the music prior to the summer of love was pretty insipid, and a lot of the music after that became too heavy and drug-oriented. It was still good music in terms of the talent brought to bear in order to create it, but it wasn’t fun, to me at least.
But still, 1967…Sgt. Pepper…summer of love…olympic-sized swimming pool at the amusement park…all my friends from high school…tossing watermelons from the high dive…beer…hot and cold running babes with tans…yes, that was a very good year. 
I’m so old and out of it that Enya is Maire Brennan’s little sister.