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STEP ONE: List your top 20 artists and find the number of listeners for each of them.

1. Nirvana - 3,228,828
2. Marilyn Manson - 1,696,822
3. The Smashing Pumpkins - 2,158,466
4. Kasabian - 1,836,148
5. Stereophonics - 1085 (wtf lastfm?!)
5. Rammstein - 1,370,399
7. 36 Crazyfists - 345,972
8. Feeder- 626,195
9. Bloc Party - 2,041,629
10. Slipknot - 1,800,846
11. Spineshank - 335,364
12. Arctic Monkeys - 2,290,794
12. The Fall of Troy - 315,630
14. Muse - 3,039,987
14. Rage Against the Machine - 2,225,815
16. Coldplay - 3,994,217
17. CKY - 403,313
18. Hard-Fi - 704,539
19. Franz Ferdinand - 2,513,537
20. Editors - 1,337,314

STEP TWO: Calculate the total listeners of these artist.

TOTAL: 32,266,900

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

AVERAGE: 1,613,345

STEP FOUR: Divide this figure by the total number of Radiohead listeners.

Radiohead: 3,672,516
MAINSTREAM: 0.43930237472076367

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

MAINSTREAM PERCENTAGE: 43.93%