• Статистика, часть 7: классика // Stats, part 7: classical music

    Ago 24 2009, 15h13 por -273C

    Дамы и господа, сегодня обсуждается статистика Last.fm по классической музыке.

    Ladies and gentlemen, today our talk would be about music stats on Last.fm

    предыдущие посты / previous entries
    mainstream
    russian rock
    progressive rock
    black metal
    jazz
    pop


    Сначала наше традиционное упорядочение по количеству прослушиваний и слушателей.

    First of all, our traditional arrangement with respect to number of plays and number of listeners.








    Признаться честно, здесь не 100 исполнителей как обычно, а всего 85. Всяких авторов музыки к блокбастерам я безжалостно удалил из статистики. Тем не менее, эти графики демонстрируют нам кое-что, чего не наблюдалось ранее: резкое падение популярности ближе к концу выборки. Такое впечатление, что существует некий стандартный набор классических композиторов, за пределами которого - полная безызвестность.

    To be honest, there are not 100 artists as usual, but only 85, because I deleted all the authors of popular movies' soundtracks without a trace of pity. The graphs exhibit something new to us: a rapid decrease of popularity near the end. It seems like there's a standard set of classical composers, and composers out of that set are rather obscure.


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    А здесь видно, что "музыку заказывают" три самых известных композитора: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven. Отрыв от общей массы довольно большой.

    From that plot we can see, that three most famous composers dominate in classical music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven.





    А это график удельного числа прослушиваний для различных "классиков". Здесь ситуация еще хуже, чем в джазе - среднее значение составляет всего 9.5, максимальное значение этого показателя имеет неведомая широким массам D'Oyly Carte Opera Company - 36 прослушиваний на слушателя.

    Here is specific number of scrobbles for classical composers and performers. The situation here is even worse than with jazz music. The average value is 9.5 and the maximal value belongs to quite unheard-of D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, which has 36 plays per listener.


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    Гистограмма лишь подтверждает то, что классику народ слушает без энтузиазма.

    The histogram just confirms the fact that nowadays people listen to classical music without enthusiasm.


    Pic. 6


    Наибольшее число сообщений в рупоре имеют наиболее популярные композиторы, как и следовало ожидать.

    As one can expect, the most popular composers have the largest number of messages in their shoutboxes.


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    А здесь мы вновь видим эффект "потенциального баръера", заключающийся в том, что лишь исполнители с удельным числом прослушиваний выше среднего могут иметь большое число сообщений в рупоре. Правда, здесь он несколько хуже выражен из-за малости этого среднего значения.

    And here I see the effect of "potential barrier" again: only artists with more-than-average number of plays per listener can have a lot of shouts. But in classical music it is less present than in another genres because of low average specific number of scrobbles.

    P.S. Суммарное число прослушиваний классики на last.fm - 150 миллионов.
    The total playcount of classical music on last.fm is 150 millions.


    P.P.S. Спасибо Hzlqgmnzhh за полезный скрипт.
    Thanks to Hzlqgmnzhh for his script.

    List of considered artists:

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, Philip Glass, Frédéric Chopin, Antonio Vivaldi, Andrea Bocelli, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Ludovico Einaudi, Carl Orff, Claude Debussy, Erik Satie, Johannes Brahms, Franz Schubert, Edvard Grieg, Antonín Dvořák, Yo-Yo Ma, Michael Nyman, Arvo Pärt, Georg Friedrich Händel, Max Richter, Franz Liszt, Gustav Holst, Glenn Gould, Felix Mendelssohn, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Josh Groban, Richard Wagner, Camille Saint-Saëns, Igor Stravinsky, Giuseppe Verdi, Ennio Morricone, Maurice Ravel, Hayley Westenra, Dmitri Shostakovich, Sir Edward Elgar, Johann Pachelbel, Franz Joseph Haydn, Gustav Mahler, Il Divo, Jean Sibelius, Steve Reich, Sergei Prokofiev, Georges Bizet, Gabriel Fauré, Luciano Pavarotti, London Symphony Orchestr, Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky, Hector Berlioz, Richard Strauss, Giacomo Puccini, Gioacchino Rossini, Samuel Barber, Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov, Robert Schumann, George Gershwin, Enrique Granados, Zbigniew Preisner, Kronos Quartet, William S. Gilbert, Luigi Boccherini, Paul Potts, Katherine Jenkins, Leoš Janáček, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Jan Dismas Zelenka, Johann Strauss II, Fernando Sor, D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, Bohuslav Martinů, Itzhak Perlman, Peter Broderick, Bedřich Smetana, Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni, Henry Purcell, Georg Philipp Telemann, Nicolaus Esterhazy Sinfonia, Arthur Rubinstein, Nino Rota
  • Classic Charts / Sales

    Jul 19 2009, 16h09 por classicalnl

    The nice thing of being a member of Itunes is that you suddenly have more music available than in your own music store. Still not everything, I mean, I can't buy music from Pakistan or certain artists since they are only for sale in the US store, but still.
    the other thing I like is that we finally have charts for more genres than in our own music magazines. So I thought it would be nice to see what sells well in the classical genre. From now on I will try to keep an eye on it and in some cases share the music I find.

    Andrea Bocelli is still on almost efery hitlist, if not alone and on number one, then in combination with Sarah Brightman for example.
    In the UK, USA, Germany, Denmark, Ireland, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal and Sweden their Time to say goodbye is number one.
    In Spain he is number one allone with Vivo por ella.
    in Belgium he is number one with Because we believe which he sings with the Dutch singer, Marco Borsato.

    His Con te partiro is number one in Canada. And finally in Australia it's The Prayer.

    So what's left for others then?

    Luciano Pavarotti is number one with Caruso in France.

    Paul Potts is on one in Austria and Luxembourg with Nessun dorma.

    David Garrett is on number one in Switzerland with the theme of Pirates of the Carribean, and Finland is giving honor to it's own composer J. Sibelius, with Finlandia opus 26.

    Seems that many people first and most of all buy music from their own country. Partly because not all music is always available, and most likely their own music is.
    Italy has on number one Giovanni Allevi & Virtuosi Italiani with Come Sei Veramenta.

    Finally Greece and Japan. Greece surprises us with
    Luciano Pavarotti & Frank Sinatra singing My Way.

    Japan's Nobuyuki Tsujii the blind pianist with Chopin's polonaise nr 6, heroique, is on number one, from his album Debut.

    I must say, not much new to discover. What it shows though is that Andrea Bocelli has conquered the hearts of almost anyone in the world who has acces to his music. And that is quite something. King of modern classic, king of vocals?

    No need to come up with a title as they did for Michael Jackson. Just enjoy his music.
  • E Lucevan Le Stelle

    Jun 20 2009, 1h06 por Richardgm

    It has been a while since I wrote a note on a song. But I had to express my love for the track E Lucevan Le Stelle.

    Oddly, I have had this track in my library for over two years without really noticing it. (This is one of the reasons why I don't delete songs I find "ok" on a couple listens... you never know what gem you my find when my 5,500+ mp3s are on shuffle).

    I can't tell the exact time I downloaded my first version of E Lucevan Le Stelle, but I know for a fact it came from a bootleg Era album titled Ocarina Dream Opera.
    I played this version 22 times, up until I realized that most of the songs came from the artist Quinn's album The Solemn Vow.

    Oddly, the track doesn't exist on that album.... I still don't know who is the original artist for the track I currently have, now still titled Quinn - E Lucevan Le Stele (Tosca).

    ----during writing this Journal, something came to me; why not use SHAZAM, the iPhone application that allows you to determine the track and artist of any given song. Guess what? That version of E Lucevan Le Stelle came up UNRECOGNIZED. Anyone willing to take a listen to the version I have, feel free to download here, and if you know who it is (artist, album), please tell me.\

    Anyway, back to my discovery of this track. It is important to note that the version I had for years now ( tagged as ERA then QUINN) contained no lyrics. This is probably the reason for me not taking note of the song.

    Interesting to note that both versions of this song was played 44 times in total.

    Enter Paul Potts' latest album Passione. Guess what? The last track on the album is E Lucevan Le Stelle.

    It was one day a few weeks ago I realized that I knew this song; it did sound familiar. Indeed... this was when I realized I had it for years.

    I really began to grow into the song when I discovered Jonathan Ansell... and he too had a version of the track. Since then (back in May) I favourited both versions.

    It was not until yesterday June 18 that I really begain to love this track. So I decided to download / listen to all versions I could (thanks to the Zune Pass). I am, however, disappointed in the fact that Luciano Pavarotti did not record a studio version of this track. On the other hand, this version of the song is never-the-less great.



    But unfortunately because of my OCDness, I can't download and keep a live-version of a track in my library. The cleanness of studio-tracks is my forte. I may concede, and download the live track after all. We have to wait and see though.


    TocarE Lucevan le Stelle by Mario Lanzo is another version that I really like. Powerful good stuff.

    I then downloaded Russell Watson's version, he does a great job with his interpretation of the classic song. His version is titled differently (according to Zune) it is Tosca, Act III: E Lucevan Le Stelle. I am tempted to rename it for the sake of order; since all the versions I have is simply:

    E Lucevan Le Stelle

    ----

    After doing simple mathematics I realize that I have played the track over 170 times by the above artists. If it was a single artist track it would have been placed at 78 on my overall tracks played since August 2006.
  • Guilty Pleasures from when I was 15

    Ago 6 2008, 17h59 por byeol

    So I wanted to burn my father a CD today -- Paul Potts' One Chance to be frank -- and the only blank disc I find turns out to not be so blank at all.

    In fact, it's one of the very first mixtapes I actually burned (whoa! Still remember cassette tapes?) around seven years ago, and it's filled with quite a few songs I remember having loved at that time. Believe me, I was so excited and proud, then -- it's not even funny .

    I'd like to share the tracklisting with you so you might be able to get a glimpse of how my musical taste has changed over the past few years -- and not only mine, I believe everybody undergoes quite some drastic changes concerning their tastes, be it musical or else, over time.

    I know it's just one snapshot of only one moment in my personal music history time but I hope you still enjoy it nevertheless. I think it is quite entertaining.

    -----

    01. Alphaville - Forever Young
    02. Bryan Adams - TocarSummer Of '69
    03. Coldplay - TocarYellow
    04. Alizée - TocarJ'En Ai Marre
    05. Christina Aguilera - TocarFighter
    06. Britney Spears - TocarMe Against The Music
    07. Sarah Connor - Unbelievable
    08. P!nk - TocarTrouble
    09. No Doubt - TocarIt's My Life
    10. Jeanette Biedermann - Rockin' on Heaven's Floor
    11. No Angels - Feelgood Lies
    12. Within Temptation - Mother Earth
    13. The Rasmus - In the Shadows
    14. ONE-T+COOL-T - The Magic Key
    15. Beyoncé - TocarCrazy in Love
    16. Beyoncé - TocarBaby Boy
    17. Eminem - TocarSing For The Moment
    18. Phil Collins - TocarCan't Stop Loving You
    19. Dido - TocarWhite Flag

    -----

    There you have it. I really was a pop whore as a teen!

    I still understand to a certain degree why some of the songs and artists made it on the compilation (they're just too catchy!), but how I could have been so obsessed with some of them is now beyond me.

    Why did I think they were so great to be part of the few artists to be featured on a mixtape -- a rare and somehow special occasion?
    I really don't know.

    Nevertheless there are not only ridiculous and/or embarassing guilty pleasures featured on the CD.
    There is still the occasional songs I still value highly even now and I'm glad I then already possessed something that today I would acknowledge as good taste in music.

    ... if "good taste" really exists if it comes to music.
    As StridingCloud once said: at the end of the day everything that counts is that it makes you happy and that you enjoy listening to what you're listening to!
  • Song of the Day - 13th May 2008: Nessun Dorma

    Mai 14 2008, 3h34 por capricarius

    Track: TocarNessun Dorma
    Artist: Paul Potts

    This past week, I've been watching so many clips of Britain's Got Talent over on YouTube. This one contestant from last year named Paul Potts just completely blew me away with his audition [link]. I didn't think he'd be any good when he said he was going to sing opera (I kinda made the same face Piers Morgan did at the beginning). When the music started and he started singing, I actually gasped.

    I've never done that before. Sure I've been amazed with an audition, but never have I been so amazed that I would gasp. Needless to say, I watched that shit over and over again! Glad to know he won the first season - very well deserved.
  • found this week... #7

    Mar 13 2008, 20h03 por spiderspit

  • Paul Potts - Sang to a full house

    Mar 10 2008, 14h20 por 1Sock

    Mon 3 Mar – Paul Potts:

    Paul Potts, winner of the 2007 Britain's Got Talent television show, played to a full house at Lisner Auditorium, in Washington DC, on 03-March-2008.

    I first saw Paul Potts in an online video clip of his first audition for the show. I was very moved - as I am sure many other viewers were - by his performance of TocarNessun dorma - here is a link to his version: TocarNessun Dorma. The piece was shortened, of course, as all pieces are for the opening segments of the show, but he had received a standing ovation before he was even through the song.

    His performance at Lisner Auditorium was good and very entertaining. His story - http://www.last.fm/music/Paul+Potts/+wiki - is an intriguing one and definitely inspiring for those who wish to be great. It was terrific to see him live.

    He shared the stage with a three-woman ensemble named The Three Graces - a new group whose name is derived from The Three Graces in Greek and Roman mythology - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charites. While they are not yet available on Last.fm, you can find more about them at http://www.threegracesmusic.com/.
  • Das Supertalent :-)

    Dez 25 2007, 17h28 por Silberelfchen

    Ricardo Marinello stellt sich vor:










    Ein Supertalent der besonderen Sorte! Viel Glück Ricardo! :-D

    Ricardo Marinello
    The Beginning

    Paul Potts







    Mein Lieblingstitel von Dir, Ricardo:
    Come Fly With Me (Vola con me)


    Autogrammadresse:

    Sony BMG (GERMANY) GmbH
    Heiner Peschmann
    Neumarkter Str. 28
    81673 München




  • PAUL POTTS

    Dez 13 2007, 21h54 por Addicted_Emo

    YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY! :D :D :D
    I got a ticket to the Paul Potts show in July in christmas gift >:3
    HURRAY! <33333
  • Paul the Humble and How He Met the King

    Nov 14 2007, 18h37 por leeafromoz

    Paul the Humble and How He Met the King

    Draft for a new Operetta

    Plot: Paul the Humble, a flower grower, travels from town to town to sell his flowers and bulbs. He is accompanied by his wife, Jewels the Faithful.

    Paul is homeless due to a series of unfortunate events. His house burned down when a wandering goat rammed the cooking pot into the straw, which in turn burned his cart. All that is left are his flowers and bulbs. So now, he is a traveling salesperson.


    He sings a little song as he peddles his wares from village to village.

    "Flowers, Flowers, pretty flowers for your love?
    Flowers, Flowers, pretty flowers for your mum?"


    The people start to gather around. What is that lovely sound? Soon more and more people come to the town square. "Simple, the village Joker", "Amanda the Emote", and "Pipers the Persnickety" are especially taken by Paul the Humble.

    They call more people to listen. "Simple, the village Joker" does tricks to get their attention. "Amanda the Emote" weeps; the flowers are so lovely. "Pipers the Persnickety" actually smells the flowers and agrees they are fragrant and beautiful.

    The people listen and love Paul the Humble. They buy his flowers and bulbs and soon the land is adorned with bright flowers everywhere. People who didn't know they liked flowers plant them also. Every garden in the land is now array in colour.

    The King wants to know how that happened and the people tell him about Paul the Humble. He is brought before the King, where Paul thus presents him with the most gorgeously beautiful, original, never before seen, colours of the rainbow, bouquet!

    The King is stunned by the beauty and has Paul declared the King's "Official Flower Grower" and the "Day of Joy" is proclaimed!

    Paul is given a permanent home on the Palace grounds and in the people's hearts.

    THE END
    Leea