Wu Tang and the Long Tail of Hip Hop

A friend just recommended the new Wu-Tang album Legendary Weapons and it got me thinking about how the Wu has moved along the long tail of music. It's my gut feeling that the hip hop tail has gotten flatter and will continue to get flatter. So where on the tail does the Wu-Tang sit nowadays?

Back in 2000 it would have been easy to argue the the Wu-Tang were definitely amongst the top groups in hip hop, thus they would have been near the head of the tail. But with the recent decline in music sales experienced in the industry over the last 10 years together with the decline in Wu-Tang album sales...well what are you thoughts.

BTW in case you haven't had a chance to check out Chris Anderson's book 'The Long Tail' here is a great clip of him from TED explaining the concept: http://www.ted.com/talks/chris_anderson_of_wired_on_tech_s_long_tail.html

Alternatively check out the original Wired article here: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.10/tail.html