Pazartesi 31 May 2010, 1:37

To do this yourself, use your top 20 artists, and look at the eight highest artists on their similar artists. If any of them repeat, do not count the second entry and every entry after that. If any similar artists are also in your top 20, don not count them either. If any entries are the same artist but with a different name, don't include this similar artist, pick the next one down. For example, in Michael Jackson's similar artists both 'The Jackson 5' and 'The Jacksons' are included, so you would ignore the 'The Jacksons' and pick the artist below them in the similar artist list. It sounds complicated, but it's easy once you get started. Once you have your list, count up every first entry of an artist. Your final socre will be out of 160, so the highest score you can get is 160, which indicates extreme variety. If you want, you can just do it for the top 10, in which case a score of 80 represents extreme variety.

copied from KingBowser13

8/8

2. Aqua Timez
- UVERworld
- KELUN
- GReeeeN
- FLOW
- ORANGE RANGE
- HIGH and MIGHTY COLOR
- BACK-ON
- いきものがかり

7/8

3. YUI
- いきものがかり
- Stereopony
- Younha
- Do As Infinity
- Scandal
- HIGH and MIGHTY COLOR
- 大塚愛
- Rie fu

6/8

4. Flow
- UVERworld
- ORANGE RANGE
- Aqua Timez
- BACK-ON
- HOME MADE 家族
- HIGH and MIGHTY COLOR
- little by little
- SunSet Swish

3/8

5. 6ixth Sense
- Siti Nurhaliza
- AXL's
- Iklim
- Exists
- Search
- Malique
- Hattan
- Flop Poppy

8/8

6. 川井憲次
- 佐橋俊彦
- 中川幸太郎
- 梶浦由記
- Tainaka Sachi
- 岩崎琢
- 大森俊之
- 菅野よう子
- 石川智晶

8/8

7. Akira Senju
- 大島ミチル
- Yasuharu Takanashi
- 岩代太郎
- 佐藤直紀 (Naoki Sato)
- 和田薫
- 松尾早人
- Takayuki Hattori
- 川井憲次

6/8

8. Sato Naoki
- Izawa Asami
- Coolon
- Kozue Takada
- Hiroshi Watanabe a.k.a Quadra
- Bivattchee
- nirgilis
- 佐橋俊彦
- Ike Yoshihiro

8/8

9. Wali
- ST 12
- Kangen Band
- Inteligentny Joint
- Ungu
- Hijau Daun
- Five Minutes
- Kotak
- D'Masiv

8/8

10. Maher Zain
- Sami Yusuf
- Amr Mostafa
- Raihan
- عمر دياب
- Mohamed Nour
- Wagih Aziz
- Talib al-Habib
- Mesut Kurtis

8/8

11. ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION
- ストレイテナー
- Base Ball Bear
- BEAT CRUSADERS
- ELLEGARDEN
- BUMP OF CHICKEN
- 9mm Parabellum Bullet
- フジファブリック
- the pillows

8/8

12. bunkface
- Aizat
- Hujan
- Yuna
- Malique
- OAG
- one buck short
- Laila's Lounge
- Exists

5/8

13. Breaking Benjamin
- Three Days Grace
- Evans Blue
- Skillet
- Sick Puppies
- Crossfade
- Trapt
- Seether
- Chevelle

8/8

14. 澤野弘之
- 林ゆうき
- 和田貴史
- 井筒昭雄
- 河野伸
- 菅野祐悟
- 山下康介
- 佐藤直紀
- 千住明

6/8

15. Aizat
- Faizal Tahir
- bunkface
- Hujan
- Sudirman
- Ukays
- OAG
- Awie
- Ahli Fiqir

5/8

16. Akon
- Flo Rida
- Sean Kingston
- T-Pain
- Taio Cruz
- Kardinal Offishall
- Jay Sean
- Chris Brown
- Usher

8/8

17. Hafiz Hamidun
- Mestica
- InTeam
- Hijjaz
- UNIC
- Far East
- DeHearty
- Nowseeheart
- Aiman

8/8

18. The Rasmus
- Lovex
- Negative
- Sunrise Avenue
- Uniklubi
- Kwan
- Killer
- HIM
- Deep Insight

8/8

19. 嵐
- 二宮和也
- 相葉雅紀
- 大野智
- 櫻井翔
- 松本潤
- 関ジャニ∞
- NEWS
- 矢野健太 starring Satoshi Ohno

8/8

(No. 20 should be Brothers. However, Brothers from the last.fm page is not the artist that I've been listening to. Thus, I took Linkin Park, the next list in my top chart)

21. Linkin Park
- Jay-Z and Linkin Park
- Dead by Sunrise
- Chester Bennington
- Xero
- Papa Roach
- Limp Bizkit
- P.O.D.
- Adema

8/8

TOTAL SCORE = 142/160

Wow~ It is high. Does that mean my music taste varied? I guess so.. =p

Personally, I don't think those 'similar artists' are reliable. For example, I don't see any similarities between 6ixth Sense and Siti Nurhaliza! The first is alternative rock while the latter is a pop ballad! The only similarity maybe they are both Malaysian artist… *lol*

Still, it was fun doing this. But it took a lot of my time!