{"id":12,"date":"2006-06-13T13:36:01","date_gmt":"2006-06-13T17:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kenotic.net\/wordpress\/?p=12"},"modified":"2006-06-13T13:36:01","modified_gmt":"2006-06-13T17:36:01","slug":"lastfm-mainstream-percentage-monitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenotic.net\/wordpress\/2006\/06\/13\/lastfm-mainstream-percentage-monitor\/","title":{"rendered":"Last.fm &#8211; Mainstream Percentage Monitor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, apparently you can &#8220;measure&#8221; how &#8220;mainstream&#8221; your music preferences are (relative to the <a title=\"Last.fm\" href=\"http:\/\/www.last.fm\/\">Last.fm<\/a> community, of course) by following this simple formula:<\/p>\n<p>Add up the total number of last.fm listeners of your top 10 artists, then divide by 10. Divide that number by 248,919 (the average of the top 10 on last.fm) to get your mainstream percentage.<\/p>\n<p>So, without further ado, here are <a title=\"my Last.fm page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.last.fm\/user\/jarsonic\/\">my results<\/a>:<\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<blockquote><p><small>01. <a title=\"The Normals\" href=\"http:\/\/www.last.fm\/music\/The+Normals\">The Normals <\/a>= 552<br \/>\n02. <a title=\"Sufjan Stevens\" href=\"http:\/\/www.last.fm\/music\/Sufjan+Stevens\">Sufjan Stevens<\/a> = 111,594<br \/>\n03. <a title=\"Hammock\" href=\"http:\/\/www.last.fm\/music\/Hammock\">Hammock<\/a> = 1,208<br \/>\n04. <a title=\"Linford Detweiler\" href=\"http:\/\/www.last.fm\/music\/Linford+Detweiler\">Linford Detweiler<\/a> = 82<br \/>\n05. <a title=\"Shane Barnard\" href=\"http:\/\/www.last.fm\/music\/Shane+Barnard\">Shane Barnard<\/a> = 493<br \/>\n06. <a title=\"Derek Webb\" href=\"http:\/\/www.last.fm\/music\/Derek+Webb\">Derek Webb<\/a> = 979<br \/>\n07. <a title=\"Switchfoot\" href=\"http:\/\/www.last.fm\/music\/Switchfoot\">Switchfoot<\/a> = 49,390<br \/>\n08. <a title=\"Nickel Creek\" href=\"http:\/\/www.last.fm\/music\/Nickel+Creek\">Nickel Creek<\/a> = 12,958<br \/>\n09. <a title=\"Jars of Clay\" href=\"http:\/\/www.last.fm\/music\/Jars+of+Clay\">Jars of Clay<\/a> = 11,699<br \/>\n10. <a title=\"Sean Watkins\" href=\"http:\/\/www.last.fm\/music\/Sean+Watkins\">Sean Watkins<\/a> = 460<\/small><\/p>\n<p><small><strong> Total = 189,415<br \/>\nVerdict = 7.6% mainstream<\/strong><\/small><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>Not too mainstream at all, eh?  Of course, I should probably install that Last.fm iPod plugin so that my &#8220;most listened to&#8221; artist list will be more accurate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, apparently you can &#8220;measure&#8221; how &#8220;mainstream&#8221; your music preferences are (relative to the Last.fm community, of course) by following this simple formula: Add up the total number of last.fm listeners of your top 10 artists, then divide by 10. Divide that number by 248,919 (the average of the top 10 on last.fm) to get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"h5ap_radio_sources":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenotic.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenotic.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenotic.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenotic.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenotic.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kenotic.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenotic.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenotic.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenotic.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}