Polling Without Context

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

[Poll #1018696]

Comments

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

cis's comments upthread re: who last.fm listeners are OTM, and that's the main issue with the overall charts I think. a close second are the tagging issues ("Ciera" vs. "Ciera ft." vs. "Ciera and") and the streaming issues (artists who have tracks that stream, and more of them, will place higher).

re: various comments about the lack of "pop" - is it fair to say that pop has a shorter shelf life than whatever this mass of stuff - ie., radiohead listeners katstevens and alexmacpherson aside) will listen, at least occasionally, to them for years and years, whereas we may not play any Madge, Britney, or Bouncy in those weeks/months/years in between releases, when our passions are somewhere else.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

That doesn't chime with MY experience of "pop" or of "non-pop" really, but I may well be an unusual case. I tend to listen to everything in the same way - intense periods of listening, sometimes but not always clustering round a new record, and then long fallow stretches.