How Mainstream is my Music Taste?

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

1. Bomb the Music Industry [58,678 listeners].
2. The Arrogant Sons of Bitches [42,415 listeners].
3. Dance Gavin Dance [97,308 listeners].
4. Ben Folds Five [482,882 listeners].
5. The Fall of Troy [237,565 listeners].
6. Minus the Bear [395,119 listeners].
7. At the Drive-In [426,079 listeners].
8. VCR [10,238 listeners].
9. Henry Rollins [36,616 listeners].
10. We Versus the Shark [11,515 listeners].
11. This Town Needs Guns [41,050 listeners].
12. Pattern is Movement [13,072 listeners].
13. Circa Survive [273,407 listeners].
14. The Beatles [2,024,253 listeners].
15. Colossal [9,658 listeners].
16. Red Hot Chili Peppers [2,338,860 listeners].
17. Paul Baribeau [27,659 listeners].
18. RX Bandits [128,322 listeners].
19. Piebald [96,329 listeners].
20. Andrew Jackson Jihad [34,235 listeners].
(21.) Lautrec [2,022 listeners]
(22.) Fiction Like Non-Fiction [1,962 listeners]


STEP TWO: Calculate the total listeners of these artists.

TOTAL:

With RHCP and Beatles: 6,785,260
With Lautrec and FLNF: 2,426,131

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

AVERAGE:

With RHCP and Beatles: 339,263
With Lautrec and FLNF: 121,307

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

Top artist: Coldplay [2,789,709 listeners].

MAINSTREAM:

With RHCP and Beatles: 0.1216123258734155
With Lautrec and FLNF: 0.0434837468710894


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

MAINSTREAM PERCENTAGE:

With RHCP and Beatles: 12.16%
With Lautrec and FLNF: 4.34%


My listening habits are 12.16% mainstream.



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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

91/100

The 91 related artists for my profile are Algernon Cadwallader, American Eyes, Andrew Jackson Jihad, Anthony Green, As Tall as Lions, Ataxia, Atom and His Package, Audience of One, Avoid One Thing, Bear vs. Shark, Ben Folds, Big D and the Kids Table (3), Bill Hicks, Bomb the Music Industry!, Braid, Captain Chaos, Cats and Cats and Cats, Chotto Ghetto, Cinemechanica (2), Circa Survive, Colour, Dance Gavin Dance (2), David Cross, Defiance, Ohio, Drive Like Jehu, Emarosa, Faraquet, Fear Before the March of Flames, Fear of Pop, Foo Fighters, George Harrison, Ghost Mice (2), Ghost Runner on Third, Glassjaw, Guster, Hey Mercedes, High School Football Heroes, Hot Rod Circuit, Hotel Lights, Howards Alias, Isles & Glaciers, Jello Biafra, John Frusciante, John Frusciante and Josh Klinghoffer, John Lennon, Lewis Black, Look Mexico, Lower Definition, Make Believe, Maps & Atlases, Matty Pop Chart, Maxeen, Medications, Meet Me In St. Louis, Pattern Is Movement, Paul Baribeau, Paul Baribeau And Ginger Alford, Paul McCartney, Paul McCartney & Wings, Pennines, Pierce the Veil, Portugal. The Man, Rage Against the Machine, Ringo Starr, Robot Goes Here, Rollins Band, Saosin, Satori, Sharks Keep Moving, Snowing, So Many Dynamos (2), Sparta, Spoonboy, Street Smart Cyclist, Tera Melos, The Anniversary, The Arrogant Sons of Bitches, The Bens, The Blood Brothers, The Fad (2), The Flaming Tsunamis (2), The Number Twelve Looks Like You, The One Up Downstairs, The Promise Ring, The Return, The Sound of Animals Fighting (2), The Thirty Years War, This Town Needs Guns, Tubelord, We Versus The Shark, Wingnut Dishwashers Union

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Take your top 50 artists. For each of these artists, collect the top 20 similar artists (where the artist itself is the #1 most similar). The resulting number of unique artists is your super-eclectic score. You can compute your own score at http://anthony.liekens.net/pub/scripts/last.fm/supereclectic.php

My super-eclectic score is currently

646/1000


The most similar artists for my profile are Look Mexico (10), Algernon Cadwallader (9), Piglet (9), Maps & Atlases (8), Sharks Keep Moving (8), Cinemechanica (7), Snowing (7), Tera Melos (7), Braid (6), This Town Needs Guns (6)




So this means that at the top I'm more eclectic that I am overall.