Week 1: Taking Stock

So we look here at our little "league" (of artists and songs that I've voluntarily listened to) to take stock of where everyone stands after 1) A year or so of scrobbling on last.fm, and 2)eight or nine months since I bought my iPod, effectively allowing me to scrobble on the go.
I'm going to try to update this blog once a week or so, count each week as a "game" (so to speak) and adding up all the points. There's no prize, besides bragging rights.
So let's take a look and see where everyone stands. Let's start off with the leader-board:

As we can see, Sublime Frequencies tops out the list, and by a wide margin. This stems from the fact that there are many Sublime Frequencies releases, and I own most of them. Sublime Frequencies are audio-collages, usually, from varied places across the globe, and more often than not, do not contain listings for specific artists. This phenomenon has been exacerbated by the fact that I re-labeled most of the individual artists from those few compilations that had them, because I wanted to know how much Sublime Frequencies I had been listening to. Sublime Frequencies will likely retain the top-spot for the foreseeable future, as their catalog is something I always fall back on, and look to for inspirado.

If we look at the expanded leader board, we can see who the up-and-coming contenders are, as well as some of those more flash-in-the-pan type artists who have been great for some listens, but are likely unable to maintain their relative position, especially in light of the ever increasing points being gathered by our big-hitters, and current-artists (who generally have a leg-up on the competition, as their ouevre is not complete.

This graphic also helps to illustrate just how far some artists need to come in order to have a crack at the infamous "top 8".

Whats left, then, is where some artists will get their comeuppance, namely, the Top Songs list. Some artists who maybe don't have enough clout to put themselves into the top-artists list might still have strength in their individual songs, and this is where they will appear.

As we can see here, Odd Nosdam comes up in first place with "Untitled". This is largely a scrobbling error, as all of the tracks on "No Wig For Ohio" are untitled, and so regardless of which song plays, they all scrobble as the same track. One goal is to try and push Odd Nosdam down the list through repeated listenings to other songs, but to do so would be unnatural, and wouldn't play. Otherwise, we can see that the top-songs list is dominated by a small handful of artists that are also fairly high in the artist-listings. Jefferson Airplane and Silkworm are both artists who have some really killer individual tracks, and this has compensated for the fact that I don't own many of their albums (none, in the case of Silkworm, their standing is dependent upon only a few songs that I just can't help but listen to about as much as you can tell from the list)