Понедельник 15 Мар 2010, 17:57

STEP ONE: List your top twenty most scrobbled artists and the total number of listeners for each.

1 Black Sabbath (1,152,260 listeners)
2 Judas Priest (636,420 listeners)
3 Van Halen (830,559 listeners)
4 Slayer (665,920 listeners)
5 Metallica (1,584,479 listeners)
6 Hawkwind (130,657 listeners)
7 Megadeth (705,497 listeners)
8 KISS (766,589 listeners)
9 Iron Maiden (1,086,137 listeners)
10 Thin Lizzy (454,005 listeners)
11 Danzig (280,650 listeners)
12 Man Is the Bastard (12,943 listeners)
13 Kreator (242,098 listeners)
14 Carcass (167,530 listeners)
15 Queensrÿche (247,416 listeners)
16 Rainbow (406,458 listeners)
17 The Clash (1,233,305 listeners)
18 Dethklok (112,556 listeners)
19 Deep Purple (1,094,910 listeners)
20 The Doors (1,599,983 listeners)

STEP TWO: Calculate the total listeners of these artists.

TOTAL: 13,410,372

STEP THREE: Find the average of this total by dividing by 20.

AVERAGE: 670518.6

STEP FOUR: Divide this figure by the total number of listeners for the top scrobbled artist on Last.fm.

Top artist: Coldplay (2,819,217 listeners)

MAINSTREAM: 0.2378385913535566790353491767395

STEP FIVE: Finally, multiply this by 100 and round off to get your mainstream percentage.

MAINSTREAM PERCENTAGE: 23.78385913535566790353491767395

My listening habits are 23.78% mainstream

Whew, that's a relief. I was afraid it would be much higher, LOL!