en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/ Thu, 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 Thu, 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 60 http://www.audioscrobbler.net/data/webservices http://www.last.fm/user/OnlyJedi/journal The Last.fm journal for OnlyJedi. Last.fm journals are a place to talk about all things music. http://www.last.fm/user/OnlyJedi/journal/2007/05/22/23wcx_recommended_artist_cloud Tue, 22 May 2007 21:52:01 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/OnlyJedi/journal/2007/05/22/23wcx_recommended_artist_cloud Take the 50 top artists in your musical profile, and create a cloud of the similar artists that are not in your top 50. The result is a collection of highly recommended artists for your personal profile. You can generate your own cloud (in BBCode) at http://anthony.liekens.net/pub/scripts/last.fm/recommend.php

My recommendations are

Andrew Lloyd Webber Antonín Dvořák Apocalyptica Camille Saint-Saëns Claude Debussy Clint Mansell Danny Elfman Dmitri Shostakovich Edvard Grieg Ennio Morricone Erik Satie Felix Mendelssohn Franz Liszt Frédéric Chopin Georg Friedrich Händel George Gershwin Georges Bizet Gioacchino Rossini Giuseppe Verdi Gustav Holst Gustav Mahler Hans Zimmer Harry Gregson-Williams Hector Berlioz Henry Mancini Igor Stravinsky James Horner Jean Sibelius Johann Sebastian Bach Johann Strauss II Johannes Brahms Klaus Badelt London Symphony Orchestra Luigi Boccherini Maurice Ravel Michael Nyman Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky Philip Glass Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Ralph Vaughan Williams Robert Schumann Samuel Barber Sergei Prokofiev Sir Edward Elgar Thomas Newman Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni Yann Tiersen Yo-Yo Ma 久石譲 植松伸夫

Considering my that my top 50 has more Japanese artists than classical composers, I'm surprised that the cloud is heavily weighted toward composers. Perhaps this is because Mozart and Beethoven dominate my listening so much, or maybe there just aren't any J-Pop artists left to recommend.

Ah well, time to start ripping my Verdi, Dvořák and Bach CDs so I can get them in my Top 50. And also to pick up some Tchaikovsky CDs, since he is woefully under-represented in my collection.]]> http://www.last.fm/user/OnlyJedi/journal/2007/03/06/23w51_first_entry Tue, 6 Mar 2007 04:13:18 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/OnlyJedi/journal/2007/03/06/23w51_first_entry Well, I guess mark the start of my next quarter-century (as I turned 25 today) with the start of a new journal. And what better way to start a new journal than with the oft-copied "mainstream rating"?

My top 20 artists and their number of listeners:

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -> 2,272,775
Ludwig van Beethoven -> 1,944,388
John Williams -> 2,577,468
新居昭乃 -> 235,268
林原めぐみ -> 324,795
奥井雅美 -> 147,440
Frank Sinatra -> 3,227,114
Franz Joseph Haydn -> 111,401
川井憲次 -> 394,043
鷺巣詩郎 -> 494,621
Sergei Rachmaninoff -> 295,554
Сергей Васильевич Рахманинов -> 1,524
服部隆之 -> 11,850
Richard Wagner -> 251,947
機動戦艦ナデシコ -> 482
Howard Shore -> 2,588,166
樹海 -> 14,374
Takada Band -> 2,000
坂本真綾 -> 874,637
菅野よう子 -> 3,302,556

Find the average, & divide by total number of plays for the most popular artist (i.e. Radiohead):
953620/30814794 = 0.03094

So my mainstream rating is 3.1%. To be honest, I'm surprised it's so high.

Of course, the results are a bit skewed since many of the artists I listen to have more overall global listens under different names...heck, #11 & #12 are both the same person, and I'm sure the Japanese artists have more listens under their Romaji names. Not to mention, #16 isn't a proper artist... chalk that up to bad entries in musicbrainz.

Eh, that's all for now.]]>