Blog → How varied is your music taste?

Compile a list of your top 20 artists overall, then for each of these artists, add the seven most similar artists to your list. Delete any duplicates, then count up the number of unique entries on your list and this will give you some idea of how eclectic your listening habits are. A score of 9 represents an extremely unvaried musical taste, while a score of 160 represents an extremely varied one.

The Birthday Massacre
- I:Scintilla
- Helalyn Flowers
- Ayria
- Mankind Is Obsolete
- Scarling.
- Jakalope
- Jack Off Jill

Nightwish
- Tarja
- Epica
- Within Temptation
- Xandria
- Sirenia
- Sonata Arctica
- Delain

Crystal Castles
- You Love Her Coz She's Dead
- Heartsrevolution
- Kap Bambino
- White Ring
- Health
- Salem
- Bondage Fairies

Avril Lavigne
- The Pretty Reckless
- Pitty
- Demi Lovato
- Paramore
- Hilary Duff
- Lindsay Lohan
- Miley Cyrus

Ludovico Einaudi
- Marco Decimo
- Ludovico Einaudi & Ballaké Sissoko
- Roberto Cacciapaglia
- Fabrizio Paterlini
- Giovanni Allevi
- Whitetree
- Wim Mertens

Capsule
- Meg
- Perfume
- COLTEMONIKHA
- Aira Mitsuki
- 中田ヤスタカ
- Saori@destiny
- きゃりーぱみゅぱみゅ

Radical Face
- Electric President
- Patients
- Rickolus
- Benjamin Francis
- Ben Cooper
- Ben Howard
- Other Lives

久石譲
- 野見祐二
- 寺嶋民哉
- New Japan Philharmonic
- 木村弓
- Cécile Corbel
- 井上あずみ
- 手嶌葵

Moby
- Voodoo Child
- Faithless
- Fatboy Slim
- The Chemical Brothers
- Röyksopp
- Massive Attack
- The Prodigy

Curly Giraffe
- 大橋トリオ
- ハナレグミ
- 羊毛とおはな
- Great 3
- ハンバート ハンバート
- bonobos
- おおはた雄一

M83
- Washed Out
- Active Child
- Neon Indian
- Porcelain Raft
- I Break Horses
- Youth Lagoon
- The Naked and Famous

Sigur Rós
- Jónsi
- Jónsi & Alex
- Sigur Rós & Steindór Andersen
- Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson & Sigur Rós
- amiina
- Ólafur Arnalds
- múm

The xx
- Crystal Castles
- Lykke Li
- Jamie xx
- Bon Iver
- Foals
- The Naked and Famous
- James Blake

Stars
- Amy Millan
- Mmephis
- Metric
- Broken Social Scene
- Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton
- The Most Serene Republic
- Reverie Sound Revue

Enya
- Loreena McKennitt
- Era
- Clannad
- Enigma
- Secret Garden
- Sarah Brightman
- Moya Brennan

Andy Hunter°
- Hyper
- Cirrus
- Elite Force
- ils
- General Midi
- Dylan Rhymes
- Overseer

Rammstein
- Emigrate
- Oomph!
- Eisbrecher
- Death Stars
- Megaherz
- Combichrist
- System of a Down

múm
- amiina
- Kira Kira
- Sigur Rós
- Slowblow
- Efterklang
- Rökkurró
- Worm is Green

Parallels
- Cloetta Paris
- The Outrunners
- Fan Death
- Minitel Rose
- Sally Shapiro
- FM Attack
- The Golden Filter

HEARTSREVOLUTION
- You Love Her Coz She's Dead
- Kap Bambino
- 64revolt
- Crystal Castles
- Bitchee Bitchee Ya Ya Ya
- Sexy Sushi
- Tying Tiffany

Total Score: 151 (a.k.a. SUPER VARIED)

That took a lot longer than I thought it would.