man and machine
Wild Horses
Last.fm's just published their 2011 review along with a subset the data and it makes for an interesting view of what people (on last.fm at least) are actually listening too...
Just dumped the data into excel quick. They've published artist overall plays and artist reach, so simple division shows the average play per user, which makes for a very interesting alternate perspective on the chart. These in particular jumped out as I was scanning through:
Lady Gaga [2 overall] 56 plays/fan
Radiohead [9 overall] 87 plays/fan
Katy B [27 overall] 12 plays/fan
Florence + the Machine [37 overall] 51 plays/fan
Mogwai [56 overall] 45 plays/fan
The Weekend [70 overall] 40 plays/fan
Tyler, the creator [87 overall] 43 plays/fan
Skepta [218 overall] 8 plays/fan
Emalkay [355 overall] 8 plays/fan
Joker [369 overall] 8 plays/fan
Devin Townsend Project [379 overall] 76 plays/fan
Rustie [487 overall] 11 plays/fan
Sepalcure [573 overall] 11 plays/fan
Chipmunk [579 overall] 7 plays/fan
Pusha T [611 overall] 7 plays/fan
Egyptrixx [701 overall] 8 plays/fan
the GazettE [724 overall] 196 plays/fan
Belong [798 overall] 13 plays/fan
DELS [800 overall] 7 plays/fan
Seefeel [868 overall] 10 plays/fan
Kode9 & the Spaceape [956 overall] 11 plays/fan
FaltyDL [999 overall] 15 plays/fan
On the one hand you've got artists that have massive reach but on average people only listen to their album once or twice and others who people may not have and big a reach but make music people spend much more time with... [eg. the GazettE (some jpop band) who average close to 200 listens per fan.]
There's the long standing gripe that play count does not give a true indication of time spent listening, mogwai and belong would be good examples, but still makes for interesting statistics.
Just dumped the data into excel quick. They've published artist overall plays and artist reach, so simple division shows the average play per user, which makes for a very interesting alternate perspective on the chart. These in particular jumped out as I was scanning through:
Lady Gaga [2 overall] 56 plays/fan
Radiohead [9 overall] 87 plays/fan
Katy B [27 overall] 12 plays/fan
Florence + the Machine [37 overall] 51 plays/fan
Mogwai [56 overall] 45 plays/fan
The Weekend [70 overall] 40 plays/fan
Tyler, the creator [87 overall] 43 plays/fan
Skepta [218 overall] 8 plays/fan
Emalkay [355 overall] 8 plays/fan
Joker [369 overall] 8 plays/fan
Devin Townsend Project [379 overall] 76 plays/fan
Rustie [487 overall] 11 plays/fan
Sepalcure [573 overall] 11 plays/fan
Chipmunk [579 overall] 7 plays/fan
Pusha T [611 overall] 7 plays/fan
Egyptrixx [701 overall] 8 plays/fan
the GazettE [724 overall] 196 plays/fan
Belong [798 overall] 13 plays/fan
DELS [800 overall] 7 plays/fan
Seefeel [868 overall] 10 plays/fan
Kode9 & the Spaceape [956 overall] 11 plays/fan
FaltyDL [999 overall] 15 plays/fan
On the one hand you've got artists that have massive reach but on average people only listen to their album once or twice and others who people may not have and big a reach but make music people spend much more time with... [eg. the GazettE (some jpop band) who average close to 200 listens per fan.]
There's the long standing gripe that play count does not give a true indication of time spent listening, mogwai and belong would be good examples, but still makes for interesting statistics.