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http://www.last.fm/music/M%C3%A1rtires+del+Comp%C3%A1s was 2750th artist in my music library. There is only 651 different artists that I have listened 10 times or more.

I have found Radio Rock podcast earlier, but today I noticed that you can listen radio Rock with iTunes. Open iTunes and press "ctrl u" and then paste this address "http://stream.radiorock.fi/listen.pls"; and enjoy.

With win-amp same.. press "ctrl l" (small L) and paste "http://stream.radiorock.fi:80";. This link can also be used with iTunes.

Fri 18 Jul – Pori Jazz

I have to say that Santana was not so great that newspapers wrote. Satakunnan Kansa wrote that he make whole Kirjurinluoto dance...

He didn't take audience like great artist normally do. It tooked 2 hours to play few great songs. Also it was wery booring to listen almoust 15 min only drums after encores first song.

Today it happened. I got 50,000 plays to count for Last.fm. It has tooked quite a while for me to get here. I could say that tis is quite big milestone for me. At the moment when I signed for last.fm (when my friend murkus introduced this) I could have said that my masters thesis would be long gone. But it's not... I still bang my head to wall of a tiny apartment.

It's not nice to hear that prof. is planning another students doctoral promotion and yet he has not time for me. Also that student was at same stage couple of years ago with me. It seems that life is not fair.

but... I have spend good time with music.It has given me vibes and other feelings.

at the moment my top ten looks like
1 Don Johnson Big Band 2,722
2 久石譲 1,412
3 Kolmas Nainen 1,345
4 Bruce Springsteen 1,314
5 Jonny Lang 1,250
6 japanesepod101.com 1,098
7 Lemonator 872
8 Jamie Cullum 837
9 Aki Sirkesalo 815
10 Norah Jones 782

Today I got two new anime soundtracks.Miyazaki Anime The Best[/album]
and Mimi wo Sumaseba saundotorakku. Last one is maybe better known as Whisper of the Heart soundtrack.

The best includes songs from Ghibli's My Neighbor Totoro (となりのトトロ),
Kiki's Delivery Service: Soundtrack,Kurenai no Buta [Porco Rosso: The Crimson Pig], Laputa: The Castle in the Sky, nausicaa of the valley of wind(Kaze no Tani no Nausicaä)

I bought them from amazon and substore musicjapan.jp. Musicjapan offers new cd:s with original japanese covers. They ship them from Osaka. At the moment $ currency is so low that cd:s are quite cheap. Maybe there would be other ways to get original cd:s, but this one is easy and I recommend it. To get cd:s or DVD:s from musicjapan.jp, check link "used and new" and choose musicjapan.

Earlier I have bought ハウルの動く城 as known Howl's moving castle.

There is at least 2 different versions of this album. Published 2002 and 2003. 2003 doesn't have "Toss me away", but has 2 other songs "World is crazy" and "In to the world"-> so it has 12 songs.

Recently I have bought quite many cd:s and more to come. I think that in many cases it's nice to have your own cd than buy from "digital web version". From cd you can make as many different kind of copies you need. I mainly use AAC 128kb/s or mp3 (some of them in VBR). Still I got few oggs, flacs and apes.
Webshops still offer only standard bitrates and some of them have only limited usage in computer or portable devices.

I'm also using public libraries quite often.

CD:
Joe Hisaishi - Hauru no ugoku shiro saundorakku (Howl's moving castle OST) - this one is from Japan.
James Blunt - Back to Bedlam
Viktoria Tolstoy - White Russian
Laura Pausini - Io Canto
Bruce Springsteen - We Shall Overcome (American Land ed.)
Nerdee - Walls around

CD single / EP:


Don Johnson Big Band- Private Intentions
Don Johnson Big Band- Busy Relaxin'
Don Johnson Big Band- Jah Jah Blow Job
Don Johnson Big Band- One MC, One Delay

1. List your top 10 artists and amount of listeners to each.

Overall Top Artists
1 Don Johnson Big Band 5,733
2 Jonny Lang 7,599
3 Bruce Springsteen 101,102
4 Jamie Cullum 43,270
5 Kolmas Nainen 1,832
6 久石譲 11,249
7 Tiktak 7,730
8 The Five Corners Quintet 1,453
9 Viktoria Tolstoy 630
10 Aki Sirkesalo 830




2. Add up the listeners:

181,428.

3. Divide by ten:

18,142.

4. The maximum mainsteamness that a listener on last.fm can get:
Red Hot Chili Peppers 293,005
Radiohead 323,179
The Beatles 307,256
Coldplay 317,048
Muse 191,037
Death Cab for Cutie 214,314
Green Day 277,374
Nirvana 258,083
System of a Down 233,108
Pink Floyd 232,120

= 2646524

All those bands added up and divided by 10 equal: 264,652


5. Take your score and divide by the max:
18,142/264,652 =0,0685 ->

I'm 6,85% mainstream.



* Jul 24 2006 19:22

If I drop out my all time favourite Springsteen (which I have listened since I was about 14), then I would be really out of mainstream music.