Sonntag, 31. Aug 2008, 13:28

Love that song (History Repeats, what else?)

Right, I copied this off some other journal entry, it's like a manual version of the Mainstream-o-meter thing.

Find the amount of listeners for each of your top 25 artists:

We Are Scientists - 433,728
Tokyo Police Club - 160,328
You Say Party! We Say Die! –64,939
Blood Red Shoes – 67,416
Patrick Wolf -226,158
Johnny Foreigner-11,685
DARTZ! -19,119
The Blood Arm -30,890
Franz Ferdinand -1,053,947
Help She Can't Swim -23,717
The Long Blondes -139,483
¡Forward, Russia!-47,409 (probably a lot higher but people can’t spell/do upside down exclamation marks)
Foals 137,517 (really, that’s it?)
The Arcade Fire 725,795
Natalie Portman's Shaved Head -5,710
Art Brut -257,506
The Dykeenies 24,388
Pretty Girls Make Graves 139,331
Kubichek! -25,473
The Sunshine Underground 82,364
Maxïmo Park- 283,489 (again, people can’t be bothered to find the right symbol)
Cut Copy 203,767
The Cribs 189,220
Robots In Disguise 89,039
Metronomy 25,873
…………………………………………..

Total Listeners: 4,468,291
Average (divide 25): 178731.64

Divide by the number of Radiohead listeners (1,529,244 ):
0.11687…

Multiply by 100: 11.687 (and tis a percentage)

so 11.687%, 11.69%, 11.7%, 12%, step by step rounding to show how "mainstream" i are.