Alright. There is this site online known as www.audioscrobbler.com . It is a very interesting site. You get a plugin for the application that you use to listen to music. And then it takes the information and makes stats for it. It compiles your favorite and most listened to songs and then it even gives you recommendations that are derived from people with similar interests as you.
A FIRST group has been started. So once you make an AS account, feel free to join the group. [Oh how I love networking! =D]
If you are at work and like to listen to the radio (like me). Listen to your Last.fm station. It is an almost identical site and it will submit the tracks you listen to.
Since Thursday of last week, 4 more people have listened to them.
It was @ 6 listeners last Thursday.
IRI exposed the band more, and made more people listen… w00t.
I just joined as ejanowak, but I can’t get the FIRST group to work for the life of me, its just not there. I also can’t get iScrobbler to run, if anyone else on a Mac is having this problem or found a way to fix it, please PM me!
Given that every year there are long threads as to what music should be played at regionals, perhaps this could help offer atleast a little insight as to what people are actually listening to. Hopefully when that time comes this season, one of us subscribed to the FIRST audioscrobbler will remember to recommend from the lists what we have already deemed our most popular/favorite music.