STEP ONE: List your top twenty most scrobbled artists and the total number of listeners for each.
1.
AFI [(778,986 listeners].
2.
Bullet For My Valentine [608,188 listeners].
3.
Tommy heavenly6 [41,065 listeners].
4.
Linkin Park [1,699,692 listeners].
5.
The Dreaming [9,630 listeners].
6.
HIM [637,724 listeners].
7.
Evanescence [1,204,231 listeners].
8.
m.o.v.e [6,345 listeners].
9.
Simple Plan [716,663 listeners].
10.
Hawthorne Heights [334,996 listeners].
11.
Silverstein [316,630 listeners].
12.
Three Days Grace [766,326 listeners].
13.
Tommy february6 [41,771 listeners].
14.
the brilliant green [51,590 listeners].
15.
Skillet [218,379 listeners].
16.
Cinema Bizarre [42,894 listeners].
17.
TRUSTcompany [167,968 listeners].
18.
宇多田ヒカル [214,655 listeners].
19.
Breaking Benjamin [774,307 listeners].
20.
FM Static [68,698 listeners].
STEP TWO: Calculate the total listeners of these artists.
TOTAL: 8,700,738.
STEP THREE: Find the average of this total by dividing by 20.
AVERAGE: 435,036.9.
STEP FOUR: Divide this figure by the total number of listeners for the top scrobbled artist on Last.fm.
Top artist:
Linkin Park [1,699,692 listeners].
MAINSTREAM: 0.255950431.
STEP FIVE: Finally, multiply this by 100 and round off to get your mainstream percentage.
MAINSTREAM PERCENTAGE: 25.5950431.
My listening habits are 25.6% mainstream.
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Take your top 20 artists. For each of these artists, collect the top 5 similar artists. The resulting number of unique artists is your eclectic score. If the score is small (extreme = 5) your musical preferences are very limited, and if it is large (larger than 80, extreme = 100), then you have an eclectic musical preference. You can compute your own score at
http://anthony.liekens.net/pub/scripts/last.fm/eclectic.php
My eclectic score is currently
86/100
The 86 related artists for my profile are
A Thorn for Every Heart,
Aiden,
Alesana (2),
Alkaline Trio,
All That Remains,
Amity Lane,
Amy Lee,
Anti-Flag,
Atreyu,
Avenged Sevenfold,
Bad Religion,
Ben Moody,
Boys Like Girls,
Breaking Benjamin,
Chester Bennington,
Crossfade (2),
Cubic U,
Daniel Lioneye,
Dead by Sunrise,
Digital Planet,
Disciple,
Do As Infinity,
Earshot,
Edgewater,
Eleventyseven,
Escape the Fate,
Evans Blue (2),
Every Little Thing,
Everyday Sunday,
Flyleaf,
Fort Minor,
Go 2,
Godhead,
Good Charlotte,
Gravity Kills,
Hawk Nelson,
Hawthorne Heights,
Hinder,
JUDY AND MARY,
Jay-Z and Linkin Park,
Killswitch Engage,
LaFee,
Lacuna Coil,
Leslie Parrish,
Lo-Pro,
LoveHateHero,
Lovex (2),
Mega NRG Man,
Move,
Negative (2),
OLIVIA,
Panik,
Papa Roach,
Pillar,
Red,
Reset,
Senses Fail (2),
Silverstein,
Skillet (2),
Son of Sam,
Stabbing Westward,
Stellar Kart,
Stereopony,
Sum 41,
Systematic,
The 69 Eyes,
Thousand Foot Krutch (2),
Three Days Grace (2),
Tiger Army,
Tokio Hotel,
Tommy february6 (2),
Tommy heavenly6 (2),
Trapt (2),
Trivium,
Utada,
Ville Valo,
Within Temptation,
Xero,
Yellowcard,
hitomi,
the brilliant green (2),
倖田來未,
北出菜奈 (2),
安室奈美恵,
浜崎あゆみ,
鈴木あみ
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Take your top 50 artists. For each of these artists, collect the top 20 similar artists (where the artist itself is the #1 most similar). The resulting number of unique artists is your super-eclectic score. You can compute your own score at
http://anthony.liekens.net/pub/scripts/last.fm/supereclectic.php
My super-eclectic score is currently
586/1000
The following are the artists with the most occurences in your list
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Escape the Fate (8)
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Three Days Grace (8)
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Breaking Benjamin (8)
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Papa Roach (7)
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Boys Like Girls (6)
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Hawthorne Heights (6)
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Thousand Foot Krutch (6)
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12 Stones (6)
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The All-American Rejects (6)
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HIGH and MIGHTY COLOR (5)
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Senses Fail (5)
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Silverstein (5)
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YUI (5)
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Skillet (5)
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Evans Blue (5)
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Hey Monday (5)
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Tommy heavenly6 (5)
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Lostprophets (5)
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Trapt (5)
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Red (5)