Comments on: What Can You Learn From Last.FM? (Part I) http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2010/07/what-can-you-learn-from-last-fm-part-i/ Lollards in the high church of low culture Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:12:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Tom http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2010/07/what-can-you-learn-from-last-fm-part-i/#comment-711362 Tom Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:38:56 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=19377#comment-711362 Yeah, this is an issue - LFM has got better about its "featuring" but it still means there's a lot of undercounting going on. Even so the differentials are telling - Lil Wayne has plenty of featurings and still gets a much higher PPL than almost any other rapper aside from Eminem. Yeah, this is an issue – LFM has got better about its “featuring” but it still means there’s a lot of undercounting going on. Even so the differentials are telling – Lil Wayne has plenty of featurings and still gets a much higher PPL than almost any other rapper aside from Eminem.

]]> By: anatol_merklich http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2010/07/what-can-you-learn-from-last-fm-part-i/#comment-711357 anatol_merklich Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:34:41 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=19377#comment-711357 Re dancehall/R&B/hiphop: Does last.fm index artist configurations of type "A featuring B & C" as different from simply "A"?* If so, an artist's tracks could be scattered into many different "artist" bins, which could contribute to a lower PPL -- especially as many popular singles in these genres are of the "featuring" type...? *) May depend on the actual mp3 tagging scheme used at the user's side? Re dancehall/R&B/hiphop: Does last.fm index artist configurations of type “A featuring B & C” as different from simply “A”?* If so, an artist’s tracks could be scattered into many different “artist” bins, which could contribute to a lower PPL — especially as many popular singles in these genres are of the “featuring” type…?

*) May depend on the actual mp3 tagging scheme used at the user’s side?

]]> By: Tom http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2010/07/what-can-you-learn-from-last-fm-part-i/#comment-711353 Tom Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:22:14 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=19377#comment-711353 http://digitalaudioinsider.blogspot.com/2007/08/by-numbers-using-lastfm-statistics-to.html Someone did some similar stuff in 2007 - interesting how much the Beatles' PPL has gone up. http://digitalaudioinsider.blogspot.com/2007/08/by-numbers-using-lastfm-statistics-to.html

Someone did some similar stuff in 2007 – interesting how much the Beatles’ PPL has gone up.

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