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Danish Artists Ranked by Number of Listeners

369.000 --- 01. Mew
316.000 --- 02. Aqua
263.000 --- 03. The Raveonettes
234.000 --- 04. Alphabeat
228.000 --- 05. Junior Senior
199.000 --- 06. Ida Corr
186.000 --- 07. Blue Foundation
183.000 --- 08. Trentemøller ^4
161.000 --- 09. Infernal v1
156.000 --- 10. Bliss v1
155.000 --- 11. Safri Duo v1
150.000 --- 12. Efterklang v1
113.000 --- 13. Volbeat ^1
110.000 --- 14. Kashmir v1
108.000 --- 15. King Diamond
102.000 --- 16. Saybia
090.000 --- 17. Camille Jones
099.000 --- 18. Tina Dickow
087.000 --- 19. Whigfield ^1
087.000 --- 20. Mercyful Fate v1
083.000 --- 21. Outlandish
079.000 --- 22. Mnemic
076.000 --- 23. HorrorPops ^1
075.000 --- 24. Under Byen v1
074.000 --- 25. Nekromantix
064.000 --- 26. Figurines
063.000 --- 27. Laid Back
058.000 --- 28. WhoMadeWho ^12
055.000 --- 29. DJ Encore
055.000 --- 30. Michael Learns to Rock ^1
054.000 --- 31. Leæther Strip v1
054.000 --- 32. The Asteroids Galaxy Tour ^6
054.000 --- 33. Carpark North v5
052.000 --- 34. Barcode Brothers v2
050.000 --- 35. Hatesphere v2
050.000 --- 36. D-A-D ^1
049.000 --- 37. DJ Aligator Project v2
048.000 --- 38. Mercenary v4
047.000 --- 39. Manual v3
039.000 --- 40. Mikkel Metal v1
038.000 --- 41. Raunchy
038.000 --- 42. VETO ^3
038.000 --- 43. Natasha Thomas v1
037.000 --- 44. Royal Hunt v1
036.000 --- 45. Me & My up ^5
035.000 --- 46. Bob Marley & Funkstar DeLuxe v2
035.000 --- 47. Dúné
035.000 --- 48. The Fashion
034.000 --- 49. Natasja v3
034.000 --- 50. Pretty Maids v1

last update 31.10.09

Take your top 25 artists, and find out how many listeners they have.

1. Lemongrass - 81,388
2. ATB - 302,054
3. Mint Royale - 67,003
4. DJ Sammy - 170,394
5. 4 Strings - 125,976
6. Vanessa Carlton - 271,508
7. Paul van Dyk - 253,828
8. Above & Beyond - 106,691
9. Sara Bareilles - 148,016
10. Atlantic Ocean - 12,555
11. The Hush Sound - 108,721
12. John Mayer - 535,625
13. OceanLab - 48,811
14. DJ Encore - 28,636
15. Fragma - 124,965
16. iiO - 124,149
17. Charlotte Martin - 44,728
18. Jenn Cuneta - 2,682
19. Dido - 623,836
20. Deep Dish - 202,946
21. Paris Hilton - 141,243
22. Delta Goodrem - 110,469
23. Groove Armada - 468,743
24. Milk Inc. - 99,978
25. DJ Shog - 66,687

Total Listeners: 4,271,632
Divide by 25: 170,865.28
Divide by the number of Radiohead listeners: 0.113679569
Multiply by 100: 11.3679569% mainstream

Here is my top Trance music list (classic/progressive/vocal/dream Trance, Goa,...).

Ok, i miss some tracks, but I'll add them if/when I remember.

Ok2, hu ? is there any wrong titles here ? Oh, maybe ! (correct me)

Ok3, ah..... ok, i put some sounds like dance groups here...yeah but with a more trance remix it would be excellent !


(*) The first track s a sound from a trance mix. I don't remember the title nor the artist, please, if you know this music (min 39 to 43), send me a message !!! It's an amazing track !


1. http://webfractales.free.fr/vrac/music/dewplayer.swf?mp3=aMix_special_Trance_de_Max.mp3&autoplay=1&autoreplay=1&volume=70 (*)
2. William Orbit - Barber's Adagio for Strings
3. Energy 52 - Cafe del Mar
4. Moby - Go !
5. Astral Projection - Mahadeva
6. Legend B - Lost in Love
7. Gouryella - Walhalla
8. Perpetuous Dreamer - The Sound of Goodbye
9. Delirium - Silence
10. Perpetuous Dreamer - Future Funland
11. BBE - Seven day & one week
12. Robert Miles - Children
13. Yves Deruyter - The Rebel
14. Antiloop - In My Mind
15. System F - Out of the Blue
16. Airwave - I Want To Believe
17. The Assistant - Methylcyclohexave
18. DJ Tiësto - In My Memory
19. Astral Projection - axis
20. Gouryella - Gouryella
21 Milk Inc. - Oceans
22. The Age of Love - The Age Of Love
23. Astral Projection - Another World
24. Sash! - Stay
25. Milk Inc.- Sleepwalker
26. Robert Miles - Fable
27. The Pump Panel - Ego Acid
28. Astral Projection - Aurora Borealis
29. Ratty - Sunrise
30. Antiloop - Nowhere to Hide
31. Kamaya Painters - Cryptomnesia
32. Eve - Riser
33. Paul van Dyk - Another Way
34. Darude - Feel the Beat
35. Svenson & Johan Gielen - Beauty Of Silence
36. Darude - Sandstorm
37. Binary Finary - 1999
38. Rank 1 - Awakening
39. Armin van Buuren - Communication
40. Atlantis - Fiji
41. Milk Inc. - Walk on Water
42. Chicane - Autumn Tractics
43. Moogwai - Voila (Armin remix)
44. Jim Clarke - Paraguay
45. Oudja - Opium 2001
46. Yves Deruyter - Feel Free
47. Vimana - We Came
48. Push - Universal Nation
49. DJ Mystic - Tears In Heaven
50. Euphoria - The Final
51. Push - Strange World
52. Saltwater - The Legacy (Alphazone mix)
53. Storm - Storm
54. Quench - Dreams
55. Paul van Dyk - For An Angel
56. San - I Know
57. Fargo - Come On
58. Freebase - Touch Me, Feel Me
59. Sylver - Turn the Tide
60. Alibi - Eternity
61. Jam & Spoon - Stella 99
62. DJ Phillip - Jess
63. Fire & Ice - lost emotion
64. Virus - Moon
65. System F - Soul on Soul
66. Tillmann Uhrmacher - On the Run
67. Union Jack - Cactus
68. Vimana - Dreamtime
69. Wavescope - The Spirit
70. Driftwood - Freeloader
71. Webster Hall - Journey Into Trance
72. Zhi Vago - Celebrate The Love
73. Gouryella - Ligaya
74. Trance Allstars - The first record
75. Fire & Ice - Neverending
76. Yahel - Open Your Mind (Magika Remake)
77. Yahel & Eyal Barkan - Voyage
78. Gouryella - Tenshi
79. dumonde vs lange - Memory
80. DJ Tiësto - Sparkless
81. Astral Projection - Liquid Sun
82. Astral Projection - Anything Is Possible
83. Niels Van Gogh - Pulverturm
84. Salt Tank - Eugina
85. BT - Dreaming
86. Pervading Call - No Time To Rest
87. Spacebuggy - Spacebuggy
88. Union Jack - Yeti
89. Dreamwaver - Zombies
90. Limited Growth - No Fate
91. Philippe Van Mullen - The Secret Folder
92. Plastic Boy - Twixt
93. Ian Van Dahl - Castles In The Sky
94. Mythos'n DJ Cosmo - The Heart Of The Ocean
95. Pervading Call - On My Mind
96. PPK - ResuRection
97. Astral Projection - No One Ever Dreams
98. Final Fantasy - Set me free (oakenfold remix)
99. Fire & Ice - Heart and Mind
100. Paragliders - Change Me
101. Aphex Twin & Robert Miles - Rare Duet
102. BBE - Flash
103. Freebase - Broken
104. Astral Projection - Utopia
105. Art of Trance - Masagascar
106. DJ Astrid - Twinkle
107. DJ Natron & Reverb - Ahmea
108. Paul Oakenfold - This Is Trance
109. Paul van Dyk - Time of our lifes
110. Trance - Terminator 2
111. Aphex Twin - Polynomial-C
112. Mox Epoque - Be Sure !
113. Blue Alphabet - No Comment
114. Body-Shock - Sleepless
115. CJ Stone - Into the Sea
116. DJ Encore - I See Right Through to You
117. Silicon Sound - Pure Reality
118. Space Frog - Lost in Space 98
119. Technotronic - Get Up The 1999 Sequel
120. Capetown - Skydriver
121. Man With No Name - Point a Picture
122. Prana - Primal Orbit
123. BT - Mercury & Solace
124. Kamaya Painters - Far From Over
125. Technique - Sun Is Shining
126. The Morrighan - Remember
127. DJ Hooligan - Hear You Now
128. Paul Oakenfold - Southern Sun
129. Way Out West - Mindcircus
130. Jericho - Personal Reflexion
131. Qattara - The Truth
132. Alex Whitcombe & Big C - Ice Rain
133. The Sneaker - Scatterbomb
134. Loop Control - Esceptionally Beautiful
135. Allure - No More Tears
136. Jan Johnston - Flesh (Tiësto remix)

I recently started a new blog on dance-music. Here you will find writings on everything from eurodance, house, trance, electro, bubblegum etc.

Find the blog here:
Base Unlimited

Weekly updates, so keep coming back!

So far I've written about acts like:

2 Unlimited
Ace of Base
Haddaway
2 Brothers on the 4th Floor
Yves Larock
Bob Sinclar
DJ Encore
The Attic
Culture Beat
Basic Element
Cascada
Whigfield
David Guetta
Lucky Twice
Akcent
Infernal
Corona
Snap!
Dr. Alban
Fedde le Grand
Eric Prydz
Armand van Helden
Fashion Victims
Da Buzz
Cappella
Morandi
O-Zone
Activ
Pharao
E-Type
Scooter
Gina G
Dee Dee
Ian Van Dahl
Catch
Kate Ryan
Double N
BWO
Maria Rubia
Fragma
Páll Óskar
Copenhagen Bass

Sourcing my library...

(I’m only scratching the surface really, since I have between 6k-7k songs on my iPod and 35k on a separate hard drive that I don’t even want to look at...)

But anyway, sourcing my library… I have several tags that are nation-specific. I didn’t tag stuff US, UK, or any other (primarily) English-speaking country (yet), but here are my favorite acts/albums by country:

ibiza – My ibiza tag is pretty voluminous, so I won’t go there. I did go to ibiza a few years back, and as seen on my dashboard, I love the chillout, cafe del mar-type music.

As far as world music goes, my favorite artist is Israel Kamakawiwo'ole. He passed the year I moved to Hawaii, and his life still is much celebrated over there.

I seem to listen to a lot of DJ-type music from germany:

house DJ – Timo Maas (I even gave him a tag: maas)
trance DJ – Paul van Dyk (tag: pvd)
Honorable mention, spanish guitar - Ottmar Liebert

and germany is also the birthplace of one of my favorite classical composers - Johann Sebastian Bach.

spain – Living in spain got me way into the DJ culture and this is why some people I meet, that go to my Myspace page, or here, say I listen to weird music – It’s not weird, it’s eclectic! Or so my eclecto-meter says...

trance, dance, house, chillout DJ – DJ Sammy
latin pop, electronica, new wave – Mecano

Also, those Gregorian chant-ers, The Benedictine Monks of Santo Domingo De Silos are from spain.

netherlands - Another laid-back country where a lot of different types of music originate (but mostly trance, in my library)

trance DJ - DJ Tiësto (tag: tiësto)
trance DJ - Armin van Buuren (tag: avb).

france – Many different artists, my favorite would have to be:

alternative, trip-hop, pop-sters: Autour de Lucie.

italy –

trance DJ – Mauro Picotto

latin pop Artist – Nek

classical Composer – Antonio Vivaldi.

belgium –

“bubblegum” trance DJ – Ian Van Dahl

trip-hop–sters – Hooverphonic.

mexico –

rock en español – Maná

rap-pers – Molotov.

colombia – No Question, favorite Colombiana - Shakira.

sweden –

The “Swedish house Mafia” – Axwell, including Sebastian Ingrosso and Eric Prydz.

alternative rock-ers – The Cardigans

Honorable mention – 70s disco group ABBA.

norway –

alternative trip-hop – Flunk

dnb, chillout, etc – Röyksopp.

iceland –

alternative, rock, etc – Björk, (and Sugarcubes)

alternative ambient - Sigur Rós.

austria –

lounge DJ’s - Kruder & Dorfmeister (tag: knd)

classical Composer - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

greece – new age–er – Vangelis.

denmark – bubblegum trance DJ – DJ Encore (feat. Engelina).

china – Seen on many a soundtrack, classical bassist Yo-Yo Ma (yes, he's a Chinese-American born in Paris).

finland – trance DJ – Darude.

switzerland – ambient, chillout act – Rue du Soleil.

brazil – Somehow related bossa nova artists Bebel Gilberto and Astrud Gilberto (Bebel is the daughter of, and Astrud was a wife of João Gilberto), however, Astrud is not Bebel’s mom… I think. Anyway, both are often remixed by Washington D.C. lounge DJ’s Thievery Corporation.

south africa – rock-er Dave Matthews.

japan –

house DJ – Satoshi Tomiie

Honorable Mention: alternative rock-ers – Shonen Knife.

india – ambient, chillout, lounge sitar player – Anoushka Shankar (daughter of Ravi Shankar).

turkey – chillout, trip-hop group – Wax Poetic (led by Turkish-born Ilhan Ersahin; Norah Jones was once a member).

lebanon – soundtrack artist – Gabriel Yared (born in Beirut).

cuba – Famous salsa singer – Celia Cruz.

hungary –

ambient downtempo – Gelka

classical Composer – Franz Liszt

Honorable Mention: world/folk Artist – Andrea Gerak (see her on last.fm, and my Friends List!).

portugal – house, trance DJ – Rui Da Silva.

poland –

chillout, folk - Kayah & Bregović

classical Composer - Henryk Górecki.

russia – classical Composer - Sergei Rachmaninoff.

indonesia – alternative pop – Anggun.

philippines – freestyle – Jocelyn Enriquez.

israel – trance DJ – Chakra.

palestine – house DJ – Sultan.

czech Republic – classical Composer - Antonín Dvořák.

croatia – ambient, chillout - Ludvig & Stelar.

benin – world jazz singer - Angélique Kidjo.

mali/guinea – world pop singer - Mory Kanté.

luxembourg – alternative rock – Placebo.

romania – lounge, trip-hop – Damien.

algeria – world chillout – Enrico Macias.

iran – world chillout – Sina Vodjani.

yemen – dnb chillout - Shri.

ecuador – folk song - La Vasija De Barro.

korea – folk Song – Arirang.

taiwan – folk Song – Diu Diu Deng.