I just noticed Facebook publish aggregate statistics of what users in each geographical network list as their top interests. The music listings are... totally depressing. I only looked at the ones in the UK (you can't get listings for the UK as a whole), but you can get them for US cities as well in the 'Browse All Networks' bit.
| Aberdeen 1 Muse 2 The Killers 3 Snow Patrol 4 Razorlight 5 Oasis 6 Coldplay 7 Bloc Party 8 The Kooks 9 U2 10 Foo Fighters |
Brighton & Hove 1 Snow Patrol 2 The Killers 3 Razorlight 4 Muse 5 The Kooks 6 Oasis 7 Bloc Party 8 Foo Fighters 9 Coldplay 10 Radiohead |
Bristol 1 Snow Patrol 2 Muse 3 Razorlight 4 The Killers 5 The Kooks 6 Oasis 7 Jack Johnson 8 Foo Fighters 9 Bloc Party 10 Coldplay |
Dundee 1 The View 2 The Kooks 3 Snow Patrol 4 The Killers 5 Oasis 6 The Beatles 7 Razorlight 8 Placebo 9 Kasabian 10 Stereophonics |
Edinburgh 1 Snow Patrol 2 The Killers 3 Muse 4 Razorlight 5 Oasis 6 Radiohead 7 The Kooks 8 The Beatles 9 Coldplay 10 Jack Johnson |
| Glasgow 1 Snow Patrol 2 The Killers 3 Muse 4 Razorlight 5 Oasis 6 The Kooks 7 Radiohead 8 Foo Fighters 9 Coldplay 10 The Fratellis |
Leeds 1 Oasis 2 Razorlight 3 Snow Patrol 4 The Killers 5 Muse 6 Arctic Monkeys 7 Kasabian 8 The Kooks 9 Bloc Party |
Leicester 1 Snow Patrol 2 The Killers 3 Oasis 4 Razorlight 5 Muse 6 Kasabian 7 The Kooks 8 Bloc Party 9 Arctic Monkeys 10 Coldplay |
London 1 The Killers 2 Snow Patrol 3 Razorlight 4 Muse 5 Oasis 6 The Kooks 7 Bloc Party 8 Radiohead 9 Coldplay 10 Arctic Monkeys |
Manchester 1 Oasis 2 The Killers 3 Razorlight 4 Snow Patrol 5 Muse 6 The Kooks 7 Arctic Monkeys 8 Kasabian 9 Foo Fighters 10 Dance |
| Newcastle 1 The Killers 2 Oasis 3 Razorlight 4 Snow Patrol 5 Muse 6 The Kooks 7 Arctic Monkeys 8 Kasabian 9 Bloc Party 10 Foo Fighters |
Nottingham 1 Oasis 2 The Killers 3 Snow Patrol 4 Razorlight 5 Muse 6 Arctic Monkeys 7 The Kooks 8 Bloc Party 9 Kasabian 10 Coldplay |
Plymouth 1 Oasis 2 Muse 3 Razorlight 4 Snow Patrol 5 The Killers 6 Jack Johnson 7 Foo Fighters 8 The Kooks 9 Incubus 10 Bloc Party |
Portsmouth 1 Snow Patrol 2 Muse 3 Razorlight 4 The Killers 5 Oasis 6 The Kooks 7 Foo Fighters 8 Coldplay 9 Bloc Party 10 Jack Johnson |
Sheffield 1 Oasis 2 Arctic Monkeys 3 Razorlight 4 Snow Patrol 5 Muse 6 The Killers 7 Bloc Party 8 The Kooks 9 Kasabian 10 Foo Fighters |
| Wales 1 Snow Patrol 2 Razorlight 3 The Killers 4 Oasis 5 Muse 6 Foo Fighters 7 Stereophonics 8 The Kooks 9 Jack Johnson |
West Midlands 1 Snow Patrol 2 Oasis 3 Muse 4 The Killers 5 Razorlight 6 The Kooks 7 Bloc Party 8 Foo Fighters 9 Kasabian 10 Arctic Monkeys |
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Date: 2007-10-08 03:51 pm (UTC)The only surprising artist in that list is Incubus for Plymouth! (Hahahaha and 'Dance' for Manchester, love it).
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Date: 2007-10-08 04:09 pm (UTC)It takes very few people to skew the stats like this - one of the 'top books' for one of my networks was 'do magazines count'. Still, I would have hoped that this would have skewed the stats more in favour of awesomeness, so I'm pretty much debating this with myself now.
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Date: 2007-10-08 04:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-08 04:39 pm (UTC)(also amusing is the fact that Drinking makes it into the top 10 interests, and often top 3, in just about every British network and none of the others I looked at!)