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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

[offensive-mango.livejournal.com]

It's not really what people in those areas *like*, though--it's what people are most *likely to include* on their profiles. So while loads of people might like loads of esoteric things, if they only include The Killers as their one mainstream band, that still counts in the The Killers numbers. I mean, I like a lot of bizarre things, but I also like Muse--and loads of people are likely to include them in their potentially widely-varied lists too.

[celentari.livejournal.com]

This is what I was going to say and now I don't have to - ta.