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

[celtic-elk.livejournal.com]

Really? Damn. It's going to be a point of pride for me to get at least one item on this list. =) How about:

U2: *The Joshua Tree* or *Achtung Baby*
John Coltrane: *My Favorite Things* or *A Love Supreme*
Jethro Tull: *Thick As a Brick*, *Aqualung*, or *Songs From the Wood*
Eric Clapton: *Unplugged* (if only because everyone in the *world* seems to have this album)
Led Zeppelin: *I*, *II*, or *III*
Meatloaf: *Bat Out of Hell*
Dire Straits: *Brothers In Arms*

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Alas, no. I have faith in you, though!

[celtic-elk.livejournal.com]

And you said this would be easier than the last CFF. =) How about Audioslave's self-titled debut album? And a *folk* record from 2006 is on the list? WTOF?

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Well, I thought it was. Last list was full of words I'd never heard before, so this one seemed easier.

Audioslave, while a fine album, doesn't make it. And the "folk" record is not really folk.

[celtic-elk.livejournal.com]

Also Tool's *10,000 Days*.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Nope, alas.

[celtic-elk.livejournal.com]

I am clearly deeply handicapped by the fact that most of the albums on the list were released after 2000, and I feel that most of the big-selling music since then has really sucked.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

You're getting old, my friend. That's one of the signs. :)

(Actually, nothing on this list would make my list of ten best/most important/most influential albums ever. Two of them are greatest-hits type albums. As I mention, I own three of them: one is The Wall, and the other two are... not that great, and I own them because somebody gave them to me.)

[celtic-elk.livejournal.com]

Greatest hits, huh?

The Beatles: *One*

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Indeed. Well done.