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olracUK Group: Members Posts: 1683 Joined: June 2003 Posted: April 15 2006, 21:08 It's been mention briefly in other threads, but I couldn't find them with the "search" function, so I thought I'd start a new thread. There is a site last.fm which keeps a record of any music you play through the main media players (winamp, windows media etc). It seems safe enough, but the cool thing is to see how the world listens to Mike's music. The site can give statistic, and here are few as of my posting time: 33,153 individuals have listened to a Mike track. The most popular is Moonlight Shadow, at 7,253 plays. What's interesting is that the next most popular (Shadow on the Wall) is only on 2,863. I can understand MS, it's on many compilations, but where the heck did SotW come from? As a comparison, 112,932 individuals have played a Sigur Ros track, and Hippipola has been played 17,318 times this week. Also surprising is that there are 3 tracks from the Guitars album in the top 20. Well, it's surprising to me 'cos I don't personally rate that album at all. Poor old Nightshade is only on 444 plays (but i think Tati will be adding to that). Anyway, I've had fun using the site, and recommend it to you. -------------- The answer is 42 - but what is the question? Back to top

Tati The Sentinel Group: Members Posts: 3360 Joined: Feb. 2002 Posted: April 15 2006, 21:51 Found this through Jon Collins' blog(Mike's collaborator on the autobio),and I'm having fun with it.Of course,I'll help Nightshade to have better results. Nice to see what's on other people's musicplayer...my page is here - http://www.last.fm/user/tatisentinel/   -------------- "But it's always the outsider, the black sheep, that becomes the blockbuster." - Mike Oldfield, 2014 "I remember feeling that I'd been judged unfairly and that I was going to prove them wrong." - Peter Davison, 2011 Back to top

captainjjb Group: Members Posts: 310 Joined: Feb. 2006 Posted: April 15 2006, 22:25 Yes, last FM is great.  I'm at http://www.last.fm/user/captainjjb/ My recent interest in all things MO will be reflected big time in my charts this week (due later today) I did a post here recently complaining about the lack of MO users, although there are some good journals to read (one about Hergest Ridge for example).  I've got a group for the over 40's at http://www.last.fm/group/Life%2Bbegins%2Bat%2B40 Back to top

Marky Group: Members Posts: 390 Joined: Sep. 2005 Posted: April 16 2006, 04:52 It looks like somebody who is signed up could write a better intro to Mike's music! Back to top

Wayfarer Group: Members Posts: 308 Joined: June 2002 Posted: April 17 2006, 20:18 Ok. I've just signed up too. Looks nice... Wayfarer was already taken, so I'm TheWayfarer. I'm at http://www.last.fm/user/TheWayfarer/ See you there! -- Wayfarer -------------- My homepage - www.thewayfarer.info My search - www.cannotbefound.com My community - www.taurusiv.net My luthier - www.artluthier.com Back to top

Duggeh Group: Members Posts: 125 Joined: Oct. 2004 Posted: April 19 2006, 17:46 /dougmac21 Im ranked amoung the top MO fans which is nice, but i believe that the play counts that Olrac refers to are not actually so. I believe that they represent the number of lastfm users who have played the song, rather than the global play count. -------------- http://www.thismanwillkillyou.com http://www.last.fm/user/Dougmac21 Back to top

olracUK Group: Members Posts: 1683 Joined: June 2003 Posted: April 19 2006, 20:05 Quote (Duggeh @ April 19 2006, 22:46) I believe that they represent the number of lastfm users who have played the song, rather than the global play count. Well, last.fm is not the entire world, but I guess it has enough subscribers to give a reasonably fair representation of the music-playing public. So, how does a relatively new band like sigur ros gain such a huge following and regular plays by a wide audience, when Mike doesn't? I guess we can all agree that Mike is a better composer and musician. So is it image or publicity? Word of mouth? I can't say I've seen much, if any, main stream publicity for sigur, but I have had e-mails and seen many forum posts around the net mentioning them. From a ska based site, to a NASA forum and even here. Mike doesn't get that virus-type action. How can we elevate Mike back to his rightful status? Many "older" artistes have seen thier careers boosted by word of mouth, gone through the treadmill and finally realised commercial success. -------------- The answer is 42 - but what is the question? Back to top

Duggeh Group: Members Posts: 125 Joined: Oct. 2004 Posted: April 19 2006, 20:31 Quote (olracUK @ April 20 2006, 01:05) So, how does a relatively new band like sigur ros gain such a huge following and regular plays by a wide audience, when Mike doesn't? Sigur Ros are more popular amoung the post-rock type loving nerdy and geeky males of a certain age who are the main bulk of the lastfm subscribers, I myself listen to them (primarily on cd or vinyl rather than on the compuer admittedly). Lastfms user demographic ultimately decides what is most popular, and the fact that what people listen to off their computers isnt taken into consideration is also a factor. I like to use the service to have details on my personal listening, I'm honestly not really interested in using it as some sort of tool to garner wider support for MO amoung its userbase. Where am i rambling to with this post? Dont know. -------------- http://www.thismanwillkillyou.com http://www.last.fm/user/Dougmac21 Back to top

captainjjb Group: Members Posts: 310 Joined: Feb. 2006 Posted: April 20 2006, 00:02 I had an Oldfield-only theme day on Easter Sunday and have notched up 181 tracks in one day!  See http://www.last.fm/user/captainjjb Sorry I know this is silly! Back to top

DarkFeline Group: Members Posts: 144 Joined: Oct. 2005 Posted: April 20 2006, 06:30 http://www.last.fm/user/Andylkl/ Here's mine! -------------- Who's your mummy, where she go? Back to top

Navaira Group: Members Posts: 481 Joined: Jan. 2005 Posted: April 23 2006, 04:37 Is everyone's last.fm down? Mine hasn't noticed any of the tracks I played yesterday -------------- http://www.raygrant.com :: My album 'Exorcism' is out on iTunes now Back to top

captainjjb Group: Members Posts: 310 Joined: Feb. 2006 Posted: April 23 2006, 11:53 yes I't been down for a little while this weekend - there's info about it here There was alot of this last year, but they've been alot better recently. Back to top

Moz Group: Musicians Posts: 600 Joined: July 2005 Posted: April 23 2006, 17:13 I'm here: http://www.last.fm/user/bbarden I'm also signed up as an artist: http://www.last.fm/music/Ben+Barden I have 149 listeners so far, which isn't bad really! I see that Wayfarer already found me -------------- Twitter: @benbarden Back to top

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