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

Re: Yes, these are all albums I've listened to, although I did use Wikipedia to make sure of the nam

[rfunk.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, I had forgotten that some music-tagging programs do CDDB lookups... it started as just CD plays, but expanded later.

But I dunno, I think doing a wikipedia search on every artist could constitute cheating. :-)

Queen's Greatest Hits came out long before 2006. I think Greatest Hits II was in the early 90s.

Re: Yes, these are all albums I've listened to, although I did use Wikipedia to make sure of the nam

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, I had forgotten that some music-tagging programs do CDDB lookups... it started as just CD plays, but expanded later.

I did not know that. How would that work?

Re: Yes, these are all albums I've listened to, although I did use Wikipedia to make sure of the nam

[rfunk.livejournal.com]

I'm not entirely sure, unless it relies on existing tags and extrapolates from there. But it's mentioned in their software development kit PDF. It's not part of the original version 1 interface that I'm familiar with.

Re: Yes, these are all albums I've listened to, although I did use Wikipedia to make sure of the nam

[matchgirl42.livejournal.com]

I didn't do a search on *every* artist - I did it artist by artist, off the ones I've listened to/remembered....

*shrug* It's just an internet game, my friend. I don't care either way, I'm just glad of the exercise for my brain (remembering artist and song names) and the chance to learn more about them while I was looking at the albums, by going to Wikipedia....(i.e. looking at their albums and seeing some I hadn't listened to yet, and going hey!!! I should get my hands/ears on that!!!)

And yeah, Queen's Greatest Hits *was* a long time ago but, IMHO, it *should* be on the top ten list. Le pout.