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Wednesday, September 14, 2005


The 40 biggest bands in the world



My obsession/collection with weird charts continues. What do you reckon about this?

1 Coldplay
2 Radiohead
3 Green Day
4 The Beatles
5 Death Cab for Cutie
6 System of a Down
7 Foo Fighters
8 Gorillaz
9 The White Stripes
10 Weezer
11 Red Hot Chili Peppers
12 Nirvana
13 The Killers
14 Metallica
15 Pink Floyd
16 Beck
17 U2
18 Franz Ferdinand
19 Oasis
20 Led Zeppelin
21 Nine Inch Nails
22 The Smashing Pumpkins
23 blink-182
24 The Cure
25 Queen
26 Muse
27 Kanye West
28 The Postal Service
29 Bloc Party
30 Modest Mouse
31 David Bowie
32 Bright Eyes
33 Incubus
34 Pixies
35 R.E.M.
36 Jimmy Eat World
37 Interpol
37 The Offspring
39 Linkin Park
40 The Shins

Taken from Audioscrobbler/last.fm's weekly artist reach - ie this chart is sorted by the most popular played artists over the last 7 days from Audioscrobbler's army of thousands of well-meaning nerds, of which I am one.

The Shins???

Now apparently if it was down to me, the top 40 would apparently look like this:

1 Sultans of Ping F.C.
2 Blur
3 Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine
4 Radiohead
5 A
6 Art Brut
7 Kate Bush
7 Franz Ferdinand
9 frank and walters
10 Data Panik
11 ˇForward, Russia!
12 They Might Be Giants
13 XTC
14 My Life Story
15 Coldplay
15 The Cardigans
15 British Sea Power
15 Bloc Party
19 Republica
19 Salad
21 Pulp
22 Stereolab
22 Manic Street Preachers
22 Echobelly
22 Kenickie
22 The Darling Buds
27 Ben Folds Five
27 The Clash
27 bis
27 Gorillaz
27 The Stone Roses
27 Saint Etienne
27 Marion
27 A House
35 The Divine Comedy
35 Pop Will Eat Itself
35 Super Furry Animals
35 Barenaked Ladies
35 Menswear
35 The Pipettes

Be honest, which one's better?

Link to Audioscrobbler chart
My Audioscrobbler page



posted by Paul at 6:20 PM


17 Comments:

Blogger Paul said...

This post was up for 7 minutes before it got referrer-spammed :-(

Wednesday, September 14, 2005 6:38:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Uhhh, where are the Stones?

Thursday, September 15, 2005 9:30:00 PM  
Blogger Paul said...

Below the Shins, it would seem

Thursday, September 15, 2005 10:44:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Yours is considerably better it has to be said, but Blur ahead of Carter? Tsk tsk...

Saturday, September 17, 2005 12:10:00 AM  
Blogger Paul said...

a mere glitch.

Saturday, September 17, 2005 12:29:00 AM  
Blogger Satisfied '75 said...

interesting. i signed uo for audioscrobbler 3 days ago and am addicted to checking its stats.

Wednesday, September 21, 2005 11:41:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

What, no Luxury of Feeling Fine?

Sunday, September 25, 2005 3:41:00 PM  
Blogger Parklife said...

Well your list looks a lot like my record collection.. :-)

Tuesday, October 11, 2005 10:33:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Uh, New Order/Joy Division? Half of those bands wouldn't even be on that list if it weren't for the longtime band!!!

Wednesday, October 19, 2005 11:11:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

how are Deathcab the fifth biggest band in the world? nobody knows them in Europe! The Beatles should be number 1 WITHOUT a doubt - based on the fact that they're the biggest band ever. Even though theyre not popular now,bands like Metallica or Kiss would still be a lot bigger than Coldplay. It seems to me you just wrote down a list of the trendiest bands in the world...

Saturday, November 05, 2005 1:54:00 PM  
Blogger Paul said...

... I don't think you bothered to read the article fully, my anonymous friend.

Saturday, November 05, 2005 2:26:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Well, Oasis should be right up the top, and green day and blink they should not be in there.

Friday, December 09, 2005 4:17:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Green Day deserves their spot up there, they climbed the charts faster than anyone else in the past years.

Sunday, December 11, 2005 9:40:00 PM  
Blogger oz said...

Franz Fwedinand rocks!!! They should be the best band!!

Thursday, February 09, 2006 6:04:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

??? U2 are the biggest band in the world everyone knows this.., im no music guru but ever i know that ;?

Thursday, May 24, 2007 1:56:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Coldplay are probably bigger than U2 at the moment.

Saturday, June 30, 2007 10:28:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I can't believe that first list. Led Fucking Zeppelin is 15 spaces below Death Cab? What fucking pack of wankers created that list? Coldplay above the Beatles?

And that last comment that Coldplay are bigger than U2? Maybe in your arse they are, but nowhere else, mate.

Friday, March 21, 2008 4:01:00 PM  
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