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Take your top 20 artists. For each of these artists, collect the top 5 similar artists. The resulting number of unique artists is your eclectic score. If the score is small (extreme = 5) your musical preferences are very limited, and if it is large (larger than 80, extreme = 100), then you have an eclectic musical preference. You can compute your own score at http://anthony.liekens.net/pub/scripts/last.fm/eclectic.php

My eclectic score is currently

83/100


The 83 related artists for my profile are Acoustic Alchemy Air Al Green Alicia Keys (2) Björk Bob Dylan Cat Power Coldplay Common Cool D Dagö David Bowie De-Phazz DJ Food DZihan & Kamien (2) Eric Clapton Erykah Badu Franz Ferdinand Gajdamaky Genialistid (2) Goldfrapp hajdamaki Ian Pooley James Brown James Taylor Jay-Z Jazzanova Jill Scott John Mayer Justin Timberlake Jäääär Kaki King Kanye West Kruder & Dorfmeister Kylie Minogue Lauryn Hill Led Zeppelin (2) Madonna Mandri Marvin Gaye Mary J. …

Another year has gone past and many great new albums have been released, many more coming, as always. Thanks to the yearly charts of last.fm, I guess it's a good idea to do a recap of everything. Here are the three categories along with the most successful entries.

TRACKS

1.Dirty Harry 35
2.Song 2 24
2.Stairway to Heaven 24
4.Crazy 23
4.Punk 23
6.Tomorrow Comes Today 22
6.Latin Simone (Que pasa contigo) 22
8.To the End 21
8.El Mañana 21
8.Trimm Trabb 21


Dirty Harry by Gorillaz has really hit high this year, for the first half of the year it really was the best track for me. Ofcourse, it helps having 9 different versions titled the same (25 in total, 16 with different titles, then). Song 2 by Blur is still keeping strong, albeit losing it's lead position in the overalls. I'm actually quite surprised it's the top blur song as I think Blur have a lot of better songs. The rest of top 10 has the legendary Led Zeppelin track, Crazy…