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Early/Renaissance
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Hildegard von Bingen
William Byrd
Carlo Gesualdo
Orlando Gibbons
John Dowland
Claudio Monteverdi
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Josquin des Prez
John Wilbye

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Baroque
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Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni
Johann Sebastian Bach
Georg Friedrich Händel
Henry Purcell
Antonio Vivaldi

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Classical
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Franz Joseph Haydn
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Franz Schubert

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Romantic
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Mily Balakirev
Georges Bizet
Alexander Borodin
Frédéric Chopin
Antonín Dvořák
Sir Edward Elgar
Gustav Holst
Franz Liszt
Jules Massenet
Felix Mendelssohn
Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky
Giacomo Puccini
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Camille Saint-Saëns
Robert Schumann
Alexander Scriabin
Jean Sibelius
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Giuseppe Verdi
Richard Wagner
Ralph Vaughan Williams

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Modern
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Samuel Barber
John Cage
Henry Cowell
Claude Debussy
György Ligeti
Arvo Pärt
Sergei Prokofiev
Maurice Ravel
Erik Satie
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Richard Strauss
Peter Warlock
Nicholas Wright

Godfather1388's top albums (overall)
1. Дэфолиант - Бестселлер (343) 2. Deep Forest - Essence Of The Forest (337) 3. Nautilus Pompilius - Крылья (295) 4. Sting - Greatest Hits CD1 (295) 5. Queen - Greatest Hits I (The Platinum Collection) (285) 6. Ант - Антрэпология (261) 7. The Offspring - Rise And Fall, Rage And Grace (247) 8. Amethystium - Aphelion (220) 9. Иезекииль 25:17 - Засада. Крепче стали (217) 10. Amethystium - Evermind (214) 11. Queen - Innuendo (207) 12. Amethystium - Isabliss (198) 13. Justice - † (Cross) (161) 14. Daft Punk - Discovery (160) 15. The Offspring - Greatest Hits (158) 16. Queen - Greatest Hits II (The Platinum Collection) (157) 17. Lesiëm - Auracle (151) 18. Пилот - Сказка о Прыгуне и Скользящем (150) 19. Secret Garden - Songs From A Secret Garden - 528 230-2 Mercury (150) 20. Antonio Vivaldi - Vivaldi-The Four Seasons and Violin Concertos (147) 21. Amethystium - Odonata (145) 22. Агата Кристи - Опиум (145) 23. Amethystium - Emblem [Selected Pieces] (143) 24. 25/17 - Только для своих (137) 25. Enigma - M C M X C a. D. (136) 26. ДДТ - Пролетела (Переиздание XXI век) (131) 27. Indian's Sacred Spirit - More Chants And Dances Of The Native Americans (128) 28. Paul Mauriat - The Best Of Paul Mauriat Vol.1 (128) 29. Queen - A Kind of Magic (128) 30. Basement Jaxx - The Singles (127) 31. Пилот - 1+1=1 (114) 32. Queen - A Night At The Opera (110) 33. The Offspring - Splinter (108) 34. Beatles - GOLDEN BEATLES (108) 35. Madonna - Celebration (94) 36. Queen - Jazz (90) 37. Queen - Works (90) 38. Daft Punk - Musique Vol. 1 (1993 - 2005) (90) 39. ДДТ и Юрий Шевчук - Прекрасная любовь (88) 40. Paul Mauriat - The Best of Paul Mauriat VOL II (87) 41. Enigma - Enigma Greatest Hits (86) 42. The Cure - Greatest Hits (86) 43. Depeche Mode - The Best Of - Volume 1 (82) 44. Пилот - Содружество (81) 45. Pet Shop Boys - Yes (Disc 1 - Yes) (73) 46. Queen - The Miracle (73) 47. Lesiëm - Mystic Spirit Voices (73) 48. Пилот - Война (Акустика) (72) 49. DotsFam - Zombusiness (71) 50. The Prodigy - Invaders Must Die (70)

My favorite artists by genre. Just making this so later on I can see how my taste has changed. At least 2 artists per genre, no more than 10. Artists can appear more than once if they work with many genres.


Ambient:

1. Solar Fields
2. Carbon Based Lifeforms
3. Banco de Gaia
4. Solar Quest
5. Cell
6. Aes Dana
7. Yagya
8. Hol Baumann
9. Adham Shaikh
10. Asura

General Chillout:

1. Adham Shaikh
2. Kaya Project
3. Moby
3. Angel Tears
4. Chicane
5. Enigma
6. SnakeStyle
7. Gaudi

Classical:

1 .Ludwig van Beethoven
2. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
3. Antonio Vivaldi
3. Johann Sebastian Bach
4. Frédéric Chopin

Dubstep:

1. Burial
2. Boxcutter

Hip- Hop:

1. Kaliber 44
2. Paktofonika
3. O.S.T.R.
4. Cannibal Ox
5. Coolio

IDM:

1. Kettel
2. Secede
3. Hibernation
4. Nalepa

Metal (all sub-genres included):

1. Iron Maiden
2. Falkenbach
3. Summoning
4. Arkona (Pol)
5. Korpiklaani
6. Blind Guardian
7. Burzum
8. Ensiferum

Neofolk:

1. Current 93
2. Blood Axis
3. Of the Wand and the Moon
4. Nature and Organisation
5. Kiss the Anus of a Black Cat
6. Death in June

Psychill and Psydub:

1. Shpongle
2. Ott
3. Androcell / Distant System
4. Slackbaba
5. Phutureprimitive
6. Puff Dragon
7. Aural Planet
8. Celtic Cross
9. The Peaking Goddess Collective
10. Tripswitch

Punk:

1. Misfits
2. Dezerter
3. Kazik
4. The Analogs
5. KSU

Rock:

1. Pink Floyd
2. Led Zeppelin
3. Dire Straits
4. The Rolling Stones
5. Guns N' Roses
6. The Doors
7. Kult / Kazik
8. The Who
9. Lynyrd Skynyrd
10. Queen

Singer-Songwriter kind of thing (I don't like this tag, but it works well here):

1. Bob Dylan
2. Lou Reed
3. Cat Stevens
4. Leonard Cohen
5. Iggy Pop

Sung Poetry:

1. Stare Dobre Małżeństwo
2. Raz Dwa, Trzy
3. Wolna Grupa Bukowina
4. Pod Budą
5. Grzegorz Turnau

Non-psychedelic Trance:

1. Art of Trance
2. Union Jack
3. L.S.G.
4. Cygnus X
5. Underworld
6. Orbital
7. Cosmic Baby

Psychedelic Trance (including goa, psytrance etc.):

1. Hallucinogen
2. Dimension 5
3. Blue Planet Corporation
4. Cosmosis
5. X-Dream
6. Filteria
7. Transwave
8. Jaïa
9. Man With No Name
10. Khetzal

Gorąco polecam posłuchać, Antonio Vivaldi, zobaczyć i pomyśleć... Jak ten nasz świat jest dla nas pięknie urządzony. Ile radości i wzruszeń może nam przynieść. Ile różnorodności dla naszych przyjemności. Kochajmy więc Życie!

10 countries, total 27.067 plays from 40.508
created on 1.10.2009 at 10 p.m.

Italy: 17 artists, 13.970 plays (51.61 %)
1. Lucio Battisti ☞
2. Franco Battiato ☞
3. Ricardo Cocciante ☞
5. Adriano Celentano ☟
6. Simone Cristicchi ☟
8. Tiromancino ☟
9. Vinicio Capossela ☟
17. Antonello Venditti ☟
23. Eugenio Bennato ☟
27. Umberto Tozzi ☟
32. Francesco Guccini ☟
35. Duffy Punk ☟
38. Antonio Vivaldi ☝
44. Vasco Rossi ☝
45. Marco Masini ☟
47. CapaRezza ☟
48. Zucchero ☟


The Czech Republic: 9 artists, 5.047 plays (18.65 %)
4. UDG ☝
7. Daniel Landa ☝
14. Divokej Bill ☝
15. Karel Kryl ☟
19. Marpo ☟
25. Traband ☟
26. Southpaw ☝
29. Sunflower Caravan ☝
31. Jaromír Nohavica ☟


The USA: 7 artists, 2.861 plays (10.57 %)
12. Devics ☟
16. System of a Down ☝
18. Scars on Broadway ☝
20. Cake ☟
21. Serj Tankian ☝
30. Metric ☟
41. The Killers ☝


The United Kingdom: 8 artists, 2.548 plays (9.41 %)
10. Franz Ferdinand ☝
22. Uriah Heep ☟
24. Tindersticks ☟
34. Amy Macdonald ☟
37. Cat Stevens ☟
40. Anathema ☟
42. The Smiths ☝
46. Robbie Williams ☝


France: 3 artists, 1.041 plays (3.85 %)
13. Les Ogres de Barback ☟
33. Yann Tiersen ☟
49. Debout Sur Le Zinc ☝


Canada: 1 artist, 635 plays (2.35 %)
11. Arcade Fire ☟


Austria: 1 artist, 325 plays (1.20 %)
28. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ☝


Croatia: 1 artist, 249 plays (0.92 %)
36. Hladno Pivo ☟


Slovakia: 1 artisti, 221 plays (0.82 %)
39. Elán ☟


Germany: 1 artist, 170 plays (0.63 %)
50. Beatsteaks ☟

METAL / ROCK etc...

A

Accept
-Balls to the Wall
-Breaker
-Death Row
-Metal Heart
-Objection Overruled
-Predator
-Restless and Wild
-Russian Roulette

Alice Cooper
-Trash

Amorphis
-Tales From the Thousand Lakes

Andi Deris
-Come in From the Rain

Angra
-Angels Cry
-Aurora Consurgens
-Fireworks
-Freedom Call EP
-Holy Land
-Holy Live EP
-Hunters and Prey EP
-Rainy Nights CDS
-Rebirth
-Temple of Shadows

Avantasia
-Lost in space Part 1 EP
-Lost in space Part 2 EP
-The Metal Opera
-The Metal Opera, Part II
-The Scarecrow

Ayreon
-01011001
-Universal Migrator, Pt. 1: The Dream Sequencer
-Universal Migrator, Pt. 2: Flight of the Universal Migrator

B

Bathory
-Hammerheart

Battlelore
-...Where the Shadows Lie
-Sword's Song

Black Sabbath
-Black Sabbath
-Born Again
-Cross Purposes
-Dehumanizer
-Headless Cross
-Heaven And Hell
-Master Of Reality
-Mob Rules
-Never Say Die!
-Paranoid
-Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
-Sabotage
-Technical Ecstasy
-The Eternal Idol
-Vol. 4

Blind Guardian
-A Night at the Opera
-A Twist in the Myth
-Another Stranger Me EP
-Battalions of Fear
-Fly CDS
-Follow The Blind
-Imaginations From The Other Side
-Live
-Mr. Sandman CDS
-Nightfall in Middle-Earth
-Somewhere Far Beyond
-Tales From The Twilight World
-The Bard's Song (In the Forest) CDS
-The Forgotten Tales
-Tokyo Tales

Bruce Dickinson
-The Best Of
-Tyranny of Souls

C

Candlemass
-Nightfall

Cans
-Beyond the Gates

Children of Bodom
-Are You Dead Yet?
-Follow the Reaper
-Hate Crew Deathroll
-Hatebreeder
-In Your Face CDS
-Something Wild

Cradle of Filth
-Live Bait for the Dead
-Midian
-Nymphetamine

D

Deep Purple
-Burn
-Fireball
-In Rock
-Purpendicular
-Purple Hits
-The Platinum Collection

Demons & Wizards
-Demons & Wizards
-Touched by the Crimson King

Dimmu Borgir
-Death Cult Armageddon
-Enthrone Darkness Triumphant
-For all tid
-Godless Savage Garden EP
-In Sorte Diaboli
-Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia
-Spiritual Black Dimensions
-Stormblåst (2005)

Dio
-Angry Machines
-Dream Evil
-Evil or Divine
-Holy Diver
-Killing the Dragon
-Lock Up The Wolves
-Magica
-Master of the Moon
-Sacred Heart
-Strange Highways
-The Last in Line

DragonForce
-Valley Of The Damned

Dream Theater
-A Change of Seasons EP
-Awake
-Falling Into Infinity
-Images and Words
-Metropolis Part 2: Scenes From a Memory
-Octavarium
-Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
-Systematic Chaos
-Train of Thought
-When Dream and Day Unite

Dreamtale
-Beyond Reality

E

Edguy
-Hall of Flames
-Hellfire Club
-King of Fools EP
-Lavatory Love Machine CDS
-Mandrake
-Rocket Ride
-Superheroes EP
-Vain Glory Opera

Elf
-Carolina County Ball
-Elf
-Trying to Burn the Sun

Ensiferum
-Dragonheads EP
-Ensiferum
-Iron
-Victory Songs

Entwine
-Time of Despair

Eternal Tears of Sorrow
-A Virgin and a Whore
-Before the Bleeding Sun
-Vilda Mánnu

Europe
-The Final Countdown

F

Fates Warning
-A Pleasant Shade of Gray
-Awaken the Guardian
-Disconnected
-Inside Out

Finntroll
-Jaktens Tid
-Midnattens Widunder
-Nattfödd
-Trollhammaren EP
-Ur Jordens Djup
-Visor Om Slutet EP

G

Gamma Ray
-Alive '95
-Heading for Tomorrow
-Insanity And Genius
-Land Of The Free
-Land of the free Pt. II
-Majestic
-No World Order
-Powerplant
-Sigh No More
-Skeletons In The Closet
-Somewhere Out In Space

Guns N' Roses
-Appetite For Destruction

H

HammerFall
-Blood Bound CDS
-Chapter V: Unbent, Unbowed, Unbroken
-Crimson Thunder
-Glory to the Brave
-Legacy of Kings
-Renegade

Helloween
-Better Than Raw
-Chameleon
-Gambling With The Devil
-High Live
-Keeper of the Seven Keys (Part 1)
-Keeper of the Seven Keys (Part 2)
-Keeper of the seven Keys - The Legacy
-Keepers Live
-Light The Universe CDS
-Master of the Rings
-Metal Jukebox
-Mrs. God CDS
-Pink Bubbles Go Ape
-Rabbit Don't Come Easy
-The Best, the Rest, the Rare
-The Dark Ride
-The Time of the Oath
-Treasure Chest
-Walls of Jericho

I

Iced Earth
-Framing Armageddon (Something Wicked Part I)
-Horror Show

In Flames
-Clayman

Insomnium
-Since the Day it All Came Down

Iron Maiden
-A Matter of Life and Death
-A Real Live Dead One
-Brave New World
-Dance of Death
-Death On The Road
-Edward the Great
-Fear Of The Dark
-Iron Maiden
-Killers
-Man on the Edge CDS
-No Prayer For The Dying
-Out of the Silent Planet CDS
-Piece of Mind
-Powerslave
-Rainmaker
-Rock in Rio
-Run to the Hills CDS (re-release)
-Run to the Hills CDS (live)
-Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son
-Somewhere in Time
-The Number of the Beast
-The Wicker Man CDS
-The X Factor
-Wildest Dreams CDS
-Virtual XI
-Virus CDS

J

Judas Priest
-Angel of Retribution
-British Steel
-Defenders of the Faith
-Demolition
-Jugulator
-Killing Machine
-Nostradamus
-Painkiller
-Point of Entry
-Priest...Live!
-Ram It Down
-Rocka Rolla
-Sad Wings of Destiny
-Screaming for Vengeance
-Sin After Sin
-Stained Class
-Turbo
-Unleashed in the East

K

Kamelot
-Epica
-Ghost Opera
-Karma
-Siége Perilous
-The Black Halo
-The Fourth Legacy

Kansas
-Leftoverture

Korpiklaani
-Spirit of the Forest

Kotipelto
-Beginning CDS
-Coldness
-Serenity
-Sleep well CDS
-Take Me Away CDS
-Waiting for the Dawn

L

Lacuna Coil
-Comalies
-Halflife EP

Led Zeppelin
-Led Zeppelin II
-Led Zeppelin III
-Led Zeppelin IV

Lordi
-Get Heavy
-The Arockalypse
-The Monsterican Dream
-They Only Come Out At Night CDS

Luca Turilli
-Ancient Forest of Elves CDS
-Demonheart EP
-King of the Nordic Twilight
-Prophet of The Last Eclipse
-The Infinite Wonders of Creation

Luca Turilli's Dreamquest
-Lost Horizons
-Virus CDS

M

Manowar
-Battle Hymns
-Fighting the World
-Gods of War
-Hail to England
-Into Glory Ride
-Kings of Metal
-Louder Than Hell
-Sign of the Hammer
-The Dawn of Battle CDS
-The Sons of Odin EP
-The Triumph of Steel
-Warriors of the World

Masterplan
-Aeronautics

Metallica
-Death Magnetic
-Master of Puppets
-Metallica
-Re-Load
-S&M

Michael Pinnella
-Enter by the Twelfth Gate

Moonsorrow
-Kivenkantaja
-Suden Uni
-Suden Uni (re-release)
-Tämä Ikuinen Talvi (demo)
-Verisäkeet
-Voimasta ja kunniasta

N

Nightwish
-Amaranth CDS
-Angels Fall First
-Century Child
-Dark Passion Play
-Erämaan Viimeinen CDS
-Oceanborn
-Once
-Over The Hills And Far Away EP
-Wishmaster

O

Ozzy Osbourne
-Bark at the Moon
-Blizzard of Ozz
-No More Tears

P

Pantera
-Cowboys From Hell
-Far Beyond Driven
-The Great Southern Trendkill
-Vulgar Display of Power

Pink Cream 69
-Pink Cream 69

Primal Fear
-Devil's Ground

Q

Queen
-A Night At The Opera

Queensrÿche
-Empire
-Operation: Mindcrime
-Operation: Mindcrime II
-Queensrÿche EP
-Rage for Order
-The Warning

R

Rainbow
-Bent Out of Shape
-Difficult To Cure
-Down To Earth
-Long Live Rock 'n' Roll
-On Stage
-Rising
-Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow
-Straight Between The Eyes
-Stranger in Us All
-The Very Best of Rainbow

Revolution Renaissance
-Age Of Aquarius

Rhapsody / Rhapsody of Fire
-Dawn of Victory
-Holy Thunderforce CDS
-Legendary Tales
-Live in Canada 2005: The Dark Secret
-Power of the Dragonflame
-Rain of a Thousand Flames EP
-Symphony of Enchanted Lands
-Symphony of Enchanted Lands II: The Dark Secret
-The Dark Secret EP
-The Magic of the Wizard's Dream CDS
-Triumph Or Agony

Running Wild
-20 Years In History
-Black Hand Inn
-Branded And Exiled
-Death or Glory
-Pile of Skulls
-Under Jolly Roger

Rush
-2112
-Moving Pictures
-Snakes & Arrows

S

Savage Circus
-Dreamland Manor

Savatage
-Dead Winter Dead
-Edge of Thorns
-Gutter Ballet
-Hall Of The Mountain King
-Handful of Rain
-Poets and Madmen
-Streets: A Rock Opera
-The Wake of Magellan

Scorpions
-Blackout
-Love At First Sting

Shaman
-Ritual

Sinergy
-Suicide by My Side

Skid Row
-Skid Row

Sonata Arctica
-Ecliptica
-Paid In Full CDS
-Reckoning Night
-Shamandalie CDS
-Silence
-Songs Of Silence - Live In Tokyo
-Successor EP
-The Last Amazing Grays CDS
-Unia
-Winterheart's Guild

Star One
-Space Metal

Strapping Young Lad
-City
-Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing
-The New Black

Stratovarius
-A Million Light Years Away CDS
-Deep Unknown CDS
-Destiny
-Dreamspace
-Eagleheart CDS
-Elements, Part 1
-Elements, Part 2
-Episode
-Fourth Dimension
-Fright Night
-Hunting High and Low CDS
-I Walk to My Own Song CDS
-Infinite
-Intermission
-Maniac Dance CDS
-Polaris
-Sos CDS
-Stratovarius
-The Chosen Ones
-Twilight Time
-Visions
-Visions of Europe

SupaRed
-SupaRed

Symphony X
-Paradise Lost
-Symphony X
-The Damnation Game
-The Divine Wings of Tragedy
-The Odyssey
-Twilight in Olympus
-V: The New Mythology Suite

System of a Down
-Hypnotize
-Mezmerize

T

Tarot
-Crows Fly Black
-Follow Me Into Madness
-For the Glory of Nothing
-Suffer Our Pleasures
-The Spell of Iron
-You CDS

Therion
-Lemuria
-Sirius B

Thunderstone
-Tools of Destruction

Thyrfing
-Urkraft

Timo Tolkki
-Classical Variations and Themes
-Hymn to Life

Turisas
-Battle Metal

Twilight Guardians
-Sintrade

Twisted Sister
-Stay Hungry

Type O Negative
-World Coming Down

U

Uriah Heep
-Demons and Wizards

W

Wintersun
-Wintersun

Y

Yngwie Malmsteen
-Fire & Ice
-Marching Out
-Odyssey
-Trilogy
-Unleash the Fury




SOUNDTRACKS / MUSICAL

Andrew Lloyd Webber
-The London Stage Ensemble Plays Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber

Danny Elfman
-Batman OST
-Edward Scissorhands OST
-Planet of the Apes OST

Ennio Morricone
-The Good, the Bad and the Ugly OST

Howard Shore
-Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring OST
-Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King OST
-Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers OST

John Williams
-Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace OST
-Star Wars Episode III: Revenge Of The Sith OST
-Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope OST
-Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back OST
-Star Wars Episode VI: Return Of The Jedi OST

Nino Rota
-The Godfather OST

Various
-Pulp Fiction OST




CLASSICAL
(Some of these are a little too obscure or perhaps only released in Finland, so it's hard to link these to correct albums. I just put the exact name that reads on the CD-case.)

Antonín Dvořák
-Collection - 'From The New World' - Slavonic Dances And Symphony
-Slavonic Dances

Antonio Vivaldi
-Concerto For Mandolin & Strings RV 425 - Sinfonia In C Major
-L'Estro Armonico Op.3 No.1-7
-Sonates For Violin & Harsichord
-The Four Seasons - Violinconcerto - Concerti Per Archi E Cembalo

Carl Orff
-Carmina Burana

Edvard Grieg
-Peer Gynt Suites - Six Orchestral Songs

Franz Joseph Haydn
-Memo Without Symphony No. 94

Frédéric Chopin
-Balades, Etudes & Impromptus
-Pianoconcertos
-Pianoworks, Mazurkas, Impromptus
-Pianoworks, Preludes, Sonatas

Gustav Holst
-The Planets

Igor Stravinsky
-Collection

Jean Sibelius
-Musiikin mestarit - Sibelius

Johann Sebastian Bach
-Baroque Masterpieces
-Musiikin mestarit - Bach

Johann Strauss II
-Waltzes Spectacular

Johannes Brahms
-Symphony No.4 -Hungarian Dances No.s 1-3

Ludwig van Beethoven
-Romances Nos 1 & 2, Moonlight, Waldstein, Pathétique
-Symphony 1 & 2
-Symphony 3 & 5
-Symphony 4 & 6
-Symphony 9

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
-Highlights From- Nutcracker-Sleeping Beauty-Swan Lake
-Nutcracker Suite - Swan Lake
-Pianoconcerto No.1 - Ouverture 1812
-Symphony No.3 D-Dur Op.29 'Polnische'-Capricco Italien Op.45-Valse As-Dur Op.40-8
-Symphony No.6 'Pathetique'-Ouverture 'Romeo And Julia'
-Symphony No. 6 In B Minor
-The Best Of Tchaikovsky

Richard Wagner
-The Best Of Wagner

Sergei Prokofiev
-The Best Of Prokofiev

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
-Taitoa ja mielikuvitusta
-The Early Years
-The Last Years
-The Mature Years

Николай Римский-Корсаков
-Scheherazade

Various
-Largo And Other Golden Melodies From The Classics
-The Classical Collection Volume 2
-The Classical Collection Volume 3




DVD


Blind Guardian
-Imaginations Through The Looking Class

Children of Bodom
-Chaos Ridden Years - Stockholm Knockout Live

Bruce Dickinson
-Anthology

Dimmu Borgir
-The Invaluable Darkness

Dio
-Evil Or Divine - Live In New York City
-Holy Diver Live

Dream Theater
.Metropolis 2000: Scenes From New York
-Score

Ensiferum
-10th Anniversary Live

Gamma Ray
-Heading For The East
-Hell Yeah!!! The Awesome Foursome (And The Finnish Keyboarder Who Didn't Want To Wear His Donald Duck Costume) - Live In Montreal

HammerFall
-One Crimson Night

Heaven & Hell
-Live From Radio City Music Hall

Helloween
-Hellish Videos
-High Live
-Keeper Of The Seven Keys - The Legacy World Tour 2005/2006: Live On 3 Continents

Iron Maiden
-The History Of Iron Maiden Part 1: The Early Days
-Rock In Rio
-Visions Of The Beast

Judas Priest
-Electric Eye
-Rising In The East

Kamelot
-One Cold Winter's Night

Manowar
-The Day The Earth Shook - The Absolute Power

Nightwish
-End Of An Era
-From Wishes To Eternity (VHS)

Queensrÿche
-Mindcrime At The Moore

Sonata Arctica
-For The Sake Of Revenge

Stratovarius
-Infinite Visions (VHS)

Tarot
-Undead Indeed Live


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EDIT: 7th September 2009: Added DVDs and some 15 items I forgot

Дамы и господа, сегодня обсуждается статистика Last.fm по классической музыке.

Ladies and gentlemen, today our talk would be about classical music stats on Last.fm

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Сначала наше традиционное упорядочение по количеству прослушиваний и слушателей.

First of all, our traditional arrangement with respect to number of plays and number of listeners.








Признаться честно, здесь не 100 исполнителей как обычно, а всего 85. Всяких авторов музыки к блокбастерам я безжалостно удалил из статистики. Тем не менее, эти графики демонстрируют нам кое-что, чего не наблюдалось ранее: резкое падение популярности ближе к концу выборки. Такое впечатление, что существует некий стандартный набор классических композиторов, за пределами которого - полная безызвестность.

To be honest, there are not 100 artists as usual, but only 85, because I deleted all the authors of popular movies' soundtracks without a trace of pity. The graphs exhibit something new to us: a rapid decrease of popularity near the end. It seems like there's a standard set of classical composers, and composers out of that set are rather obscure.




А здесь видно, что "музыку заказывают" три самых известных композитора: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven. Отрыв от общей массы довольно большой.

From that plot we can see, that three most famous composers dominate in classical music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven.





А это график удельного числа прослушиваний для различных "классиков". Здесь ситуация еще хуже, чем в джазе - среднее значение составляет всего 9.5, максимальное значение этого показателя имеет неведомая широким массам D'Oyly Carte Opera Company - 36 прослушиваний на слушателя.

Here is specific number of scrobbles for classical composers and performers. The situation here is even worse than with jazz music. The average value is 9.5 and the maximal value belongs to quite unheard-of D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, which has 36 plays per listener.




Гистограмма лишь подтверждает то, что классику народ слушает без энтузиазма.

The histogram just confirms the fact that nowadays people listen to classical music without enthusiasm.




Наибольшее число сообщений в рупоре имеют наиболее популярные композиторы, как и следовало ожидать.

As one can expect, the most popular composers have the largest number of messages in their shoutboxes.




А здесь мы вновь видим эффект "потенциального баръера", заключающийся в том, что лишь исполнители с удельным числом прослушиваний выше среднего могут иметь большое число сообщений в рупоре. Правда, здесь он несколько хуже выражен из-за малости этого среднего значения.

And here I see the effect of "potential barrier" again: only artists with more-than-average number of plays per listener can have a lot of shouts. But in classical music it is less present than in another genres because of low average specific number of scrobbles.

P.S. Суммарное число прослушиваний классики на last.fm - 150 миллионов.
The total playcount of classical music on last.fm is 150 millions.


P.P.S. Спасибо Hzlqgmnzhh за полезный скрипт.
Thanks to Hzlqgmnzhh for his script.

List of considered artists:

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, Philip Glass, Frédéric Chopin, Antonio Vivaldi, Andrea Bocelli, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Ludovico Einaudi, Carl Orff, Claude Debussy, Erik Satie, Johannes Brahms, Franz Schubert, Edvard Grieg, Antonín Dvořák, Yo-Yo Ma, Michael Nyman, Arvo Pärt, Georg Friedrich Händel, Max Richter, Franz Liszt, Gustav Holst, Glenn Gould, Felix Mendelssohn, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Josh Groban, Richard Wagner, Camille Saint-Saëns, Igor Stravinsky, Giuseppe Verdi, Ennio Morricone, Maurice Ravel, Hayley Westenra, Dmitri Shostakovich, Sir Edward Elgar, Johann Pachelbel, Franz Joseph Haydn, Gustav Mahler, Il Divo, Jean Sibelius, Steve Reich, Sergei Prokofiev, Georges Bizet, Gabriel Fauré, Luciano Pavarotti, London Symphony Orchestr, Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky, Hector Berlioz, Richard Strauss, Giacomo Puccini, Gioacchino Rossini, Samuel Barber, Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov, Robert Schumann, George Gershwin, Enrique Granados, Zbigniew Preisner, Kronos Quartet, William S. Gilbert, Luigi Boccherini, Paul Potts, Katherine Jenkins, Leoš Janáček, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Jan Dismas Zelenka, Johann Strauss II, Fernando Sor, D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, Bohuslav Martinů, Itzhak Perlman, Peter Broderick, Bedřich Smetana, Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni, Henry Purcell, Georg Philipp Telemann, Nicolaus Esterhazy Sinfonia, Arthur Rubinstein, Nino Rota

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