Segunda-feira 5 Mar 2007, 23h:13

Well, I guess mark the start of my next quarter-century (as I turned 25 today) with the start of a new journal. And what better way to start a new journal than with the oft-copied "mainstream rating"?

My top 20 artists and their number of listeners:

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -> 2,272,775
Ludwig van Beethoven -> 1,944,388
John Williams -> 2,577,468
新居昭乃 -> 235,268
林原めぐみ -> 324,795
奥井雅美 -> 147,440
Frank Sinatra -> 3,227,114
Franz Joseph Haydn -> 111,401
川井憲次 -> 394,043
鷺巣詩郎 -> 494,621
Sergei Rachmaninoff -> 295,554
Сергей Васильевич Рахманинов -> 1,524
服部隆之 -> 11,850
Richard Wagner -> 251,947
機動戦艦ナデシコ -> 482
Howard Shore -> 2,588,166
樹海 -> 14,374
Takada Band -> 2,000
坂本真綾 -> 874,637
菅野よう子 -> 3,302,556

Find the average, & divide by total number of plays for the most popular artist (i.e. Radiohead):
953620/30814794 = 0.03094

So my mainstream rating is 3.1%. To be honest, I'm surprised it's so high.

Of course, the results are a bit skewed since many of the artists I listen to have more overall global listens under different names…heck, #11 & #12 are both the same person, and I'm sure the Japanese artists have more listens under their Romaji names. Not to mention, #16 isn't a proper artist… chalk that up to bad entries in musicbrainz.

Eh, that's all for now.