Boards of Canada Last.fm IDM Charts

[o00o]

funny to see:

 

Aphex Twin

 

23,203,994 plays (704,357 listeners)

 

AFX

 

2,504,144 plays (146,583 listeners)

 

The Tuss

 

382,071 plays (37,091 listeners)

 

Autechre

 

6,838,187 plays (282,039 listeners)

 

Gescom

 

354,946 plays (52,227 listeners)

 

Boards of Canada

 

30,695,597 plays (652,777 listeners)

 

Venetian Snares

 

6,101,517 plays (197,295 listeners)

 

Squarepusher

 

6,728,687 plays (353,040 listeners)

 

Plaid

 

3,550,584 plays (214,771 listeners)

 

The Flashbulb

 

4,244,917 plays (99,491 listeners)

 

µ-Ziq

 

1,659,821 plays (120,478 listeners)

 

Clark

 

1,655,937 plays (93,924 listeners)

 

Chris Clark

 

1,109,737 plays (95,912 listeners)

 

Apparat

 

4,271,233 plays (173,543 listeners)

 

Wisp

 

711,758 plays (47,244 listeners)

 

Bola

 

906,621 plays (94,358 listeners)

 

Ochre

 

674,309 plays (53,041 listeners)

 

 

much more here: http://www.last.fm/music/+tag/idm

 

it gives a good overview of how much success everyone has even so its just last.fm

[o00o]

boc always has the most plays because of the very short interludes

[Guest Iain C]

What on earth is funny about that?

 

Do we have a last.fm thread? I finally signed up for it last month, under duress.

[Guest mrcopyandpaste]

o00o, ive said it before and i'll say it again, your avatar is the best thing ive ever seen.

 

i dont really see the point in last.fm...im on it but its not really helping in anyway. would someone mind explaining what exactly youre meant to do with it?

[Guest Iain C]

From what I understand, it's an MMORPG where players earn experience points for adding ironic tags to popular artists.

[Guest Iain C]

I don't know, but some of my personal favourites are "better than radiohead" and "people who are freakier and folkier than devendra fucking banhart".

[o00o]

What on earth is funny about that?Do we have a last.fm thread? I finally signed up for it last month, under duress.

 

its funny to see some kind of chart that shows the popularity of the forum artists in numbers finally

 

you can see how much aphex is more successful than venetian snares which was obvious but at the same time snares kind of catches up to squarepusher and that boc seems to be the 2. idm player right behind aphex twin - a thing that i wasn't aware of

 

also wisp is currently ranked 1. page which really shows how much is success has grown now

 

o00o, ive said it before and i'll say it again, your avatar is the best thing ive ever seen.

thanks again :)

 

still nothing has happened to the movie behind it but I am currently setting things up to do something with it

 

i dont really see the point in last.fm...im on it but its not really helping in anyway. would someone mind explaining what exactly youre meant to do with it?

 

when you use as a plug-in in your mp3 player you can listen to the stuff you played randomly where ever you are (good for example to use it at work where you don't have access to your mp3s) its also great to find new music by listening to similar artist radio

 

or you can find events in your area that fit to your tracks or by adding friends that listen to the same stuff you can list where they are going to

[Guest Iain C]

Yeah, the radio was the big draw for me. It really is pretty brilliant. Also it's sort of nice to see a quantified list of what I've been listening to in any given week, sometimes it's surprising.

[Guest theSun]

woot wisp kickin ass

[Guest ms-dos]

The Flashbulb number is astonishing. Millions of more plays than Clark? Mu-ziq?

 

I've only heard a few tracks of his that didn't sound derivative, cheap or gimmicky. Really, I think he's pretty average as far as net musicians go.

[Guest ms-dos]

Flahbulb works really hard at "the hustle" because he knows he has to (music is fair to midland at best). Examples of this hustle are the hyperbolic word storms about his music that, while appear to be written by others, suspiciously seems to come from the man himself. He diversifies into other areas like advertising and keeps a pretty accessible status, which makes his fans go apeshit. Plus, he's physically attractive and anyone would be a fool if they tried to deny that that wasn't a factor. In terms of "IDM" artists, he's actually a little long in the tooth now as he's put shit out since 1999. Lastly, he adds completely banal and typical musical/instrumental elements that anchors people into it so they can go to their guitar friends and say "you think ______ is badass, listen to this!"

 

I agree with all of this. I just didn't think that it could amount to millions of plays among Last.fm listeners alone. Dude must be running the plugin on a ton of old PCs and playing his own tunes all day.

[Guest Adjective]

way to go Ochre

[triachus]

Examples of this hustle are the hyperbolic word storms about his music that, while appear to be written by others, suspiciously seems to come from the man himself.

 

now we've figured out who harky really is

[awepittance]

The Flashbulb number is astonishing. Millions of more plays than Clark? Mu-ziq?

 

I've only heard a few tracks of his that didn't sound derivative, cheap or gimmicky. Really, I think he's pretty average as far as net musicians go.

 

he's juking the stats

 

Flahbulb works really hard at "the hustle" because he knows he has to (music is fair to midland at best). Examples of this hustle are the hyperbolic word storms about his music that, while appear to be written by others, suspiciously seems to come from the man himself. He diversifies into other areas like advertising and keeps a pretty accessible status, which makes his fans go apeshit. Plus, he's physically attractive and anyone would be a fool if they tried to deny that that wasn't a factor. In terms of "IDM" artists, he's actually a little long in the tooth now as he's put shit out since 1999. Lastly, he adds completely banal and typical musical/instrumental elements that anchors people into it so they can go to their guitar friends and say "you think ______ is badass, listen to this!"

 

I agree with all of this. I just didn't think that it could amount to millions of plays among Last.fm listeners alone. Dude must be running the plugin on a ton of old PCs and playing his own tunes all day.

 

lol you beat me to this, i was just typing out this same theory here. i dont think any of what XXX said really correlates with how he seems to have so many listeners on last.fm (twice as much as wisp? suspicious as hell)

[Guest iamabe]

11,000,000 Amon Tobin WOO

 

7,700 Two Fingers................

[chenGOD]

 

 

boc seems to be the 2. idm player right behind aphex twin - a thing that i wasn't aware of

 

 

BOC having that many listeners has nothing to do with people who enjoy electronic music. It's all those fucking hippies with computers.

 

 

I'm actually genuinely curious how many "IDM" fanz have last.fm accounts..aren't y'all too cool for that? I know I am.

[Guest ezkerraldean]

i've never been on last.fm, is it just for hipster fags? i dun geddit.

[Guest Dirty Protest]

I dont even know what lastfm does. Is there any reason why i should?

[Guest Iain C]

It notes what you're listening to and how often, compares it to other users, and recommends music it thinks you'd like. Works very well. There's a community/social networking aspect to it too.

 

It also has streaming radio stations of material it recommends for you, or that is similar to any specified artist/genre.

[Fred McGriff]

which was already stated in the thread at least twice

[playbynumbers]

interesting

[Guest Iain C]

which was already stated in the thread at least twice

 

Yeah but who can be fucked to read threads?

[Guest Dirty Protest]

What he said.