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

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

The three albums that I own on this list were The Wall and the two Linkin Park albums (which I got from niveus_tigris). I'm not a hater of Linkin Park. I'm just saying that they're not a particularly good, unique, or important band, just solid, middle-of-the-road type stuff. Which is probably why so many people like them. LCD and all that.

Also, the list doesn't have anything to do with downloading. It's possible that a play might be generated if someone downloaded music and then burned it to a cd, but if it's just a file, the player doesn't call the database. It only does that if there's a physical CD with .cda or similar files being played, as I understand it.

The thing I felt was sketchy was the looking up all the albums that might fit the remaining parameters... :-P

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

[matchgirl42.livejournal.com]

Well no, what I meant by downloading is that, IMO, the people that have downloaded songs are the ones more likely to get the info from/for the album off the internets....

And I didn't look up per the parameters, or lists, or anything like that. I looked up the artists/songs that I remembered(and boy howdy was doing it by artist easier), then looked at their albums and went, hey! That *was* done in 2000, 2003, 2006...aha!

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

[matchgirl42.livejournal.com]

Also, *I* am of the opinion that Linkin Park has had a good bit of ground-breaking material. I also realize that my opinion does not necessarily match everyone else's, nor does it invalidate anyone else's opinion (or anyone else's opinion invalidate my own). ;P