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]

OK, I just found the actual list. Do you actually expect anyone to get #5? ;-)

I'm happy to note that three of my failed guesses were still in the top 20, along with two others that I didn't bother guessing because they didn't fit the year/genre limits.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

I do not, in fact, expect anybody to get #5. I'm pretty sure the only people on my list who might have even heard of #5 are infintysquared, mortegami, and kittenpants.

[matchgirl42.livejournal.com]

It's not something by Bob Dylan, is it? A wikipedia peek at his discography shows that he did release an album in 2006, called Modern Times. Not that I've listened to it, so if this answer is correct, I'd say it disqualifies and feel free to screen. But Bob Dylan=folk, in my lexicon, so...*shrug*

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Nope. I certainly don't have to look up Bob Dylan to tell what genre it belongs to. :)

*rolls eyes*

[matchgirl42.livejournal.com]

I didn't have to look up Bob Dylan to know that he's folk, but I *did* have to look up to see the albums. Which is why I disqualified the answer myself if it was correct. :-P

Re: *rolls eyes*

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

I think you're misinterpreting. I was not implying that you didn't know who Bob Dylan was. In the post, I say that I had to look up #5 to see what it was, and in the comment I was saying that had #5 been Dylan, I wouldn't have had to look it up.

Re: *rolls eyes*

[matchgirl42.livejournal.com]

Ah! Well, okay then. :)

Huh. Must be a really difficult one. Hrm...Nothing by Fiona Apple, although she would qaulify as folk, I think...hrm...not something by The Indigo girls either, because that's also with Bob Dylan, I think, you wouldn't have to look that one up either....

Hrm. *thinks*