How mainstream are you?
STEP ONE: List your top twenty most scrobbled artists and the total number of listeners for each.
1 Pere Ubu (117,173 listeners)
2 Can (220,135 listeners)
3 Chrome (40,016 listeners)
4 Fred Frith (34,952 listeners)
5 Snakefinger (15,659 listeners)
6 The Residents (112,115 listeners)
7 Lars Hollmer (3,800 listeners)
8 Faust (98,758 listeners)
9 Magma (56,275 listeners)
10 Nurse With Wound (57,918 listeners)
11 Frank Zappa (485,618 listeners)
12 The Mothers of Invention (8,686 listeners)
13 Brian Eno (592,076 listeners)
14 Primus (410,711 listeners)
15 Amon Düül II (74,678 listeners)
16 Hawkwind (149,843 listeners)
17 Holger Czukay (31,044 listeners)
18 Soft Machine (94,008 listeners)
19 Circle (21,127 listeners)
20 Aphex Twin (875,337 listeners)
STEP TWO: Calculate the total listeners of these artists.
TOTAL: 3,499,929
STEP THREE: Find the average of this total by dividing by 20.
AVERAGE: 174996.45
STEP FOUR: Divide this figure by the total number of listeners for the top scrobbled artist on Last.fm.
Top artist: The Beatles (2,358,404 listeners)
MAINSTREAM: 0.074201218
STEP FIVE: Finally, multiply this by 100 and round off to get your mainstream percentage.
MAINSTREAM PERCENTAGE: 7.420121828
My listening habits are 7.4% mainstream
I should listen to nothing, have a last.fm account and never listen to anything. That would be Über-kvlt.
STEP ONE: List your top twenty most scrobbled artists and the total number of listeners for each.
1 Pere Ubu (117,173 listeners)
2 Can (220,135 listeners)
3 Chrome (40,016 listeners)
4 Fred Frith (34,952 listeners)
5 Snakefinger (15,659 listeners)
6 The Residents (112,115 listeners)
7 Lars Hollmer (3,800 listeners)
8 Faust (98,758 listeners)
9 Magma (56,275 listeners)
10 Nurse With Wound (57,918 listeners)
11 Frank Zappa (485,618 listeners)
12 The Mothers of Invention (8,686 listeners)
13 Brian Eno (592,076 listeners)
14 Primus (410,711 listeners)
15 Amon Düül II (74,678 listeners)
16 Hawkwind (149,843 listeners)
17 Holger Czukay (31,044 listeners)
18 Soft Machine (94,008 listeners)
19 Circle (21,127 listeners)
20 Aphex Twin (875,337 listeners)
STEP TWO: Calculate the total listeners of these artists.
TOTAL: 3,499,929
STEP THREE: Find the average of this total by dividing by 20.
AVERAGE: 174996.45
STEP FOUR: Divide this figure by the total number of listeners for the top scrobbled artist on Last.fm.
Top artist: The Beatles (2,358,404 listeners)
MAINSTREAM: 0.074201218
STEP FIVE: Finally, multiply this by 100 and round off to get your mainstream percentage.
MAINSTREAM PERCENTAGE: 7.420121828
My listening habits are 7.4% mainstream
I should listen to nothing, have a last.fm account and never listen to anything. That would be Über-kvlt.
