1. List your top 10 artists and amount of listeners to each.

Overall Top Artists
1 Don Johnson Big Band 5,733
2 Jonny Lang 7,599
3 Bruce Springsteen 101,102
4 Jamie Cullum 43,270
5 Kolmas Nainen 1,832
6 久石譲 11,249
7 Tiktak 7,730
8 The Five Corners Quintet 1,453
9 Viktoria Tolstoy 630
10 Aki Sirkesalo 830




2. Add up the listeners:

181,428.

3. Divide by ten:

18,142.

4. The maximum mainsteamness that a listener on last.fm can get:
Red Hot Chili Peppers 293,005
Radiohead 323,179
The Beatles 307,256
Coldplay 317,048
Muse 191,037
Death Cab for Cutie 214,314
Green Day 277,374
Nirvana 258,083
System of a Down 233,108
Pink Floyd 232,120

= 2646524

All those bands added up and divided by 10 equal: 264,652


5. Take your score and divide by the max:
18,142/264,652 =0,0685 ->

I'm 6,85% mainstream.



* Jul 24 2006 19:22

If I drop out my all time favourite Springsteen (which I have listened since I was about 14), then I would be really out of mainstream music.