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Music Pies

Can you think of a more useless page? It may not be important to anyone to see just how much larger one record label is over another, but, hey, I have this nifty graphing package with nifty pie graphs, so what the heck.
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Here is a pie showing the top ten record labels

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This pie displays the popularity of the various album types, as reported by Amazon.

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[__] Click to collapse Resize Pop Top 10 Years
For some reason, it might have been neat to see how popular each year was, but it wasn't

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[__] Click to collapse Resize Pop Format distribution
This pie displays the popularity of the various formats. Is MP3 the most popular? A personal version of this pie is available on your homepage (if you're registered)

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This pie displays the popularity of top ten genres. "Rock" annoyingly and predictably grabs the top spot.

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[__] Click to collapse Resize Pop Tag Distribution
While font-size and tag-clouds are clever ways to show which tags are most popular, this gives the empiricle weight.

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mainstreetmark
Rating: 9.05197Rating: 9.05197Rating: 9.05197Rating: 9.05197Rating: 9.05197
North America

  Artists: 3,020
  Albums: 4,245
  Tracks: 12,573

1990 was a big year?
posted: Jan 03, 2008
Fiveos22
Rating: 7.26525Rating: 7.26525Rating: 7.26525Rating: 7.26525Rating: 7.26525
North America

  Artists: 3,011
  Albums: 4,220
  Tracks: 12,234

statistical outlier?
posted: Jan 03, 2008
mainstreetmark
Rating: 9.05197Rating: 9.05197Rating: 9.05197Rating: 9.05197Rating: 9.05197
North America

  Artists: 3,020
  Albums: 4,245
  Tracks: 12,573

It is unusual. I suspect one of the users just happens to have a ton of 1990 songs, and there's still few enough songs that it's statistically significant. Someday, these posts may not make any sense.


posted: Jan 04, 2008
etchie
Rating: 8.16607Rating: 8.16607Rating: 8.16607Rating: 8.16607Rating: 8.16607
North America

  Artists: 752
  Albums: 1,072
  Tracks: 6,251

I do like that the 1990 kind of broke the boring trend of the slight decrease every time without ever having a job in year. I can't think of anything all that significant in 1990 otherwise. Maybe if it was a few years into the '90's, like halfway. You know, when grunge and alternative exploded and all that. I was a big Nirvana fan in middle school. Still am, just don't listen to them nearly as often.
posted: Jan 23, 2008
Fiveos22
Rating: 7.26525Rating: 7.26525Rating: 7.26525Rating: 7.26525Rating: 7.26525
North America

  Artists: 3,011
  Albums: 4,220
  Tracks: 12,234

Countdown until 2008 shows up on the pie?
posted: Jan 27, 2008
mainstreetmark
Rating: 9.05197Rating: 9.05197Rating: 9.05197Rating: 9.05197Rating: 9.05197
North America

  Artists: 3,020
  Albums: 4,245
  Tracks: 12,573

I'm surprised by the Album types... "Import" is the leader, and everything else is like 'remastered'. Doesn't anyone just release normal stuff? "Original Recording"?
posted: Jan 28, 2008
etchie
Rating: 8.16607Rating: 8.16607Rating: 8.16607Rating: 8.16607Rating: 8.16607
North America

  Artists: 752
  Albums: 1,072
  Tracks: 6,251

Yeah, I'm finding the results extremely strange. The first thing I thought to question was definitely that only 8.88% had explicit lyrics. That should probably be the largest piece of the pie. Does that only come up when you buy an album in the iTunes Music store and "Explicit" shows up in all caps in red and in a read box? That would make the most sense. I don't think albums otherwise are coded to say whether or not they contain explicit lyrics.
posted: Feb 04, 2008
rockmyplimsoul
Rating: 4.89626Rating: 4.89626Rating: 4.89626Rating: 4.89626Rating: 4.89626
North America

  Artists: 806
  Albums: 1,488
  Tracks: 12,777

mmm, pie ...
posted: Feb 08, 2008
mainstreetmark
Rating: 9.05197Rating: 9.05197Rating: 9.05197Rating: 9.05197Rating: 9.05197
North America

  Artists: 3,020
  Albums: 4,245
  Tracks: 12,573

1990 fell off the top ten. It's now precisely in descending order. No sign of '08 yet.
posted: Feb 11, 2008
Fiveos22
Rating: 7.26525Rating: 7.26525Rating: 7.26525Rating: 7.26525Rating: 7.26525
North America

  Artists: 3,011
  Albums: 4,220
  Tracks: 12,234

Ha, the 8th most popular tag (distribution-wise) is "Fiveos22 Collection"! Oops.
posted: Feb 17, 2008
etchie
Rating: 8.16607Rating: 8.16607Rating: 8.16607Rating: 8.16607Rating: 8.16607
North America

  Artists: 752
  Albums: 1,072
  Tracks: 6,251

Spreading the love a bit there, buddy?
posted: Feb 18, 2008
Fiveos22
Rating: 7.26525Rating: 7.26525Rating: 7.26525Rating: 7.26525Rating: 7.26525
North America

  Artists: 3,011
  Albums: 4,220
  Tracks: 12,234

I've been working hard on the tags...perhaps I'll take another hour or two this weekend to keep going. But before I got to being a lvl 3 user, I couldn't do much but "misspelled" or "Fiveos22 Collection".
posted: Feb 19, 2008
mainstreetmark
Rating: 9.05197Rating: 9.05197Rating: 9.05197Rating: 9.05197Rating: 9.05197
North America

  Artists: 3,020
  Albums: 4,245
  Tracks: 12,573

Now that you're level 4, you can create/edit articles. You might be able to contribute to the Tagging Philosophies article.
posted: Feb 20, 2008
Fiveos22
Rating: 7.26525Rating: 7.26525Rating: 7.26525Rating: 7.26525Rating: 7.26525
North America

  Artists: 3,011
  Albums: 4,220
  Tracks: 12,234

I've got a monster of an exam in less than 48 hours, but after that I will see what I can do.
posted: Feb 20, 2008
Fiveos22
Rating: 7.26525Rating: 7.26525Rating: 7.26525Rating: 7.26525Rating: 7.26525
North America

  Artists: 3,011
  Albums: 4,220
  Tracks: 12,234

1990 is back on the charts!
posted: Jul 29, 2008