In the same vein as my last post on the most popular ’60s bands/artists on Last.FM this one is on the 10 most listened to bands/artists on Last.FM that have never achieved a lot of mainstream success. There are a lot of ways to define “a lot of mainstream success” so I have to set [...]

I think it’s interesting to see which classic bands/artists continue to reach new listeners (the great majority of Last.FM users weren’t even alive in the 1960s) so in that vein I’m creating this list of the 10 most popular bands/artists of the 1960s on the Last.FM website. Two notes: (1) I’m only considering bands/artists that [...]

With the release of their 8th studio album (The King of Limbs) on Friday, Radiohead dominated the listener charts on Last.FM for the week. They went from 103K listeners and 942K plays last week (which was good for 2nd place behind The Beatles) to 173K listeners and 3.3 million plays this week (good for 1st [...]

John Lennon was born 70 years ago today on October 9th of 1940. Celebrate his birthday by buying the new Lennon Signature Box which includes remastered versions of all of his solo work along with a disc of previously unreleased recordings and/or The Beatles in Stereo Box Set featuring remastered versions of all of The [...]

Commercials success vs. artistic success. In the long run the good stuff wins out, that’s my theory. I’m using Engelbert Humperdink (commercial success) and Leonard Cohen (artistic success) as an example of what I mean. They both released their first album in 1967.

Radiohead has released seven studio albums to date. What if you were to take the top two most played tracks on Last.FM (using the last 6 months rankings) from each of those albums and put them on a mix? It seems like this mix would be a pretty good introductory overview of Radiohead’s career to [...]

As a huge Radiohead fan and big fan of the Last.FM site I came with this idea of ranking Radiohead’s songs by which ones are most “shouted” on the site. I will also compare the rankings of most “shouted” vs. most played. There would seem to be a direct correlation, but are there some songs [...]

I was just checking out Last.FM (if you don’t know what it is, check it out) and I noticed that The Beatles have a total of over 222 million plays. This got me to wondering: “Does anyone have more than that? What would a Last.FM all time top plays list look like?” So I did [...]

One of my favorite things about Last.FM is that you can pretty much put in any adjective (“tag”) into the radio search bar and it’ll randomly play songs that users have tagged with that word. The more often people have tagged a song, the more likely it is that it’ll be played on that radio [...]

Last.FM has released their “best of 2009” top ten albums released from October 1, 2008 through November 19, 2009. The chart is is based on which albums’ songs have had the most “scrobbles.” Live albums and greatest hits compilations are not included. Here’s the top ten: #10 Kanye West – 808s and Heartbreak – 6.6 [...]