Visualize the Artists you Listen to Most on Last.fm
Normalisr has made several enhancements over the last year-and-a-half, including a new site design, graphical widgets and thumbnail views of artist charts - nice work! If you haven't tried Normalisr before, it's a quick and fun app that ranks the artists you listen to on Last.fm, from the most number of tracks and time per artist, to the least.
For me, I'm not surprised by the artists Normalisr visualized for my profile, but I wouldn't rank those artists in that order. Meaning, I'd rank my favorite artists differently, but that's the beauty of apps like Normalisr, it's dynamic, like our music behavior, so it captures what we are listening to at moments in time, periods which are influenced by both internal and external variables (e.g. sociological, cultural, psychological, etc), reasons why music charts like Billboard are antiquated. Capturing and reflecting these types of influences relative to one's music listening activity has fascinated me for years, as it explores causation, an area that hopefully Band Metrics will eventually tap into.
For me, I'm not surprised by the artists Normalisr visualized for my profile, but I wouldn't rank those artists in that order. Meaning, I'd rank my favorite artists differently, but that's the beauty of apps like Normalisr, it's dynamic, like our music behavior, so it captures what we are listening to at moments in time, periods which are influenced by both internal and external variables (e.g. sociological, cultural, psychological, etc), reasons why music charts like Billboard are antiquated. Capturing and reflecting these types of influences relative to one's music listening activity has fascinated me for years, as it explores causation, an area that hopefully Band Metrics will eventually tap into.
