Let's take a known scale for popularity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_music_artists

The only artist in this list I've recently voluntarily listened to is Metallica (#35) because they recorded another album with a symphonic orchestra and I was curious. I listened to some others at some point mostly when I was a teenager and I didn't have Spotify's recommendations.

Listening now to any other on this list for me ranges from polite entertainment to solid boredom.