That seems like a certainty. Isn't it true that there are more people alive now, than have every lived before? Geometric growth works like that. So conceivably, everything is more popular in absolute terms, than it can every have been in history.
Only works that are still remembered would be more popular (in absolute or relative terms). There are countless authors whose works were enjoyed at their time of publication, but have been completely forgotten. This is the fate of almost every one hit wonder.
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That seems like a certainty. Isn't it true that there are more people alive now, than have every lived before? Geometric growth works like that. So conceivably, everything is more popular in absolute terms, than it can every have been in history.
Only works that are still remembered would be more popular (in absolute or relative terms). There are countless authors whose works were enjoyed at their time of publication, but have been completely forgotten. This is the fate of almost every one hit wonder.