Content-Free Friday Presents Another Edition of Top Ten

[featherynscale]

In 1998, some clever people got together and decided it would be really cool if there was a way for the music player on your computer to just pop out onto the Internets and get information about the album it was playing, so that you didn't have to type in the titles and artists on everything every time. So they put together a database, and lo, it was indeed really cool. And then, somebody over there thought, wouldn't it be cool if we tracked what album information was being called most, so we could put out a list of most popular music ever? That brings us to today's Top Ten.

This list is the Top Ten Albums Played By Internet-Enabled Music Players, in the history of ever. The count only includes full albums being played from CD, so if you downloaded an mp3 of Stairway To Heaven and played it 50 quadrillion times (you know who you are), it doesn't count. Please answer with title and artist, just in case ("that one by Blur" gets you nothing).

1. American Idiot - Green Day (2004, Alternative & Punk) - chronarchy, 1 point
2. Stadium Arcadium - Red Hot Chili Peppers (2006, Alternative & Punk) - leiandra, 1 point
3. Come Away With Me - Norah Jones (2002, Pop) - kenllama, 2 points
4. 1 - The Beatles (2000, Pop) - celtic_elk, 3 points
5. (2006, Folk)
6. Meteora - Linkin Park (2003, Alternative & Punk) - matchgirl42, 3 points
7. Hybrid Theory - Linkin Park (2000, Alternative & Punk) - matchgirl42, 3 points
8. X & Y - Coldplay (2005, Alternative & Punk) - leiandra, 2 points
9. The Wall - Pink Floyd (1979, Rock) - duriyah, 1 point
10. The Eminem Show - Eminem (2002, Hip-Hop & Rap) - rfunk, 2 points

Surprisingly, none of the albums that I personally play most often are on the list, though I do own three of the ten, and I recognized nine of the ten. (That makes it a better list than the last one, IMHO.)

EDIT: I've added the release years and approximate genres (as reported by the compilers), maybe that will help? The one marked "Folk" is, as one might guess, not really folk. FURTHER EDIT: #5 is really, really, really not folk. Amazingly not folk. Profoundly not folk. I had to look it up and play it, because I had not heard of it. I'd go probably "pop".

Comments

[rfunk.livejournal.com]

Hmm, would this be from CDDB or FreeDB? CDDB started this thing, then lots of people switched from there to FreeDB sometime in the 2000s when CDDB tried to claim ownership of the data. This list is probably from CDDB though. :-)

And because of the way CDDB works, it's unlikely to reflect any one person playing the same thing a lot, but rather lots of different people playing it.

It would have to be stuff popular to be played on CD in the last decade, but probably weighted more toward the earlier part of that time since CDs are less popular now, plus (or especially) classics from earlier that everybody continued listening to into the turn of the century. Also probably weighted toward people in college in 1998-2003.

The Doors - Best of the Doors
Nirvana - Nevermind
Moby - Play
Green Day - Dookie
Radiohead - Kid A

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

None of those are on the list, but your process is excellent.

[rfunk.livejournal.com]

REM - eponymous
The Who - Tommy

I'm sure there's a greatest-hits album on here....

Like celtic_elk, it's becoming a point of pride.... :-)

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Neither of those makes the cut. You are correct about the other thing, though. There are two 'greatest hits' type albums on this list.