Polling Without Context

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

[Poll #1018696]

Comments

Re: Other questions

[whalefish.livejournal.com]

Death Cab For Cutie are a bit surprising. I knew they were a pretty big cult sort of thing in the US, didn't realise they were actually massively popular though...

Re: Other questions

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Well "massive" here is a slightly rogue term. The most popular artist - RHCP, toppling the Beatles from that position this week - has around 58,000 listeners - this wd be enough to get a #1 UK single most weeks, incidentally. So the question is - how many people use last.FM, what percentage of them listen to the RHCP, and what kind of listeners AREN'T using it.

It may be that 90% of all Death Cab listeners are also on last.fm after all, but only 9% of, say, T.I. listeners.

Re: Other questions

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

I don't know what it means though - is it "most people who have listened to a track today" or "most tracks listened to ever"?

Similarly I don't quite have a handle on "do you like" - most songs? some songs? One great track?

Re: Other questions

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

1. It's number of listeners to anything by that act in the last week.
2. Find a criteria that works for you!