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[avv.livejournal.com]

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

Comments

[ms-bracken.livejournal.com]

"'Dance' for Manchester"

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.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Perhaps the top result in each category was actually "Oh a bit of everything as long as it's good"?