How 'mainstream' are you?
 

It's pretty lame and generalised, but kinda interesting. Put your Last.FM username in and fire away.

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I'm 37.19% mainstream.

last time i did this i was 2.6%... will be higher now though, my boyfriend keeps listening to Between the Buried and Me!

Where do I put my username?????

I was like 40 %, but i dont think its a bad thing, i like alota the music.

When I get a link then I can find out. I should imagine that I am mainstream, but according to whose rules? To the average Joe on the street I am most certainly not mainstream.

to quote the dave: Where do I put my username?????

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Crap, sorry I forgot to post a link... I'll edit

7.53% mainstream. I though I would have been more. Chuffed!

19.53% for me, due to Bright Eyes, Nick Drake, Of Montreal, Pavement and Neutral Milk Hotel, but I wouldn't really consider those mainstream, maybe Bright Eyes, but that would be it.

13.51 % mainstream

I was 5% last time I took this, and Elliott Smith wasn't my number 1 artist at that time.

highest is The Blood Brothers at 3 w/ 14.12%, lowest is Hats Off, Gentlemen at 11 w/ 0.00%

well, for some reason it says "???" for Song of Zarathustra's percent and 0 for listeners. i don't know what that's about.

By lastfm standards, which means Radiohead is the most mainstream band ever. So keep that in mind.

This thing tells me that I'm 18.98% 'mainstream'. I was actually expecting something far higher than that.

they're so obscure they dont add anything to the mainstream percentage. good band though :D

This test suxs for me, because the RHCP are like 105% mainstream now. So i get walloped

6.23% my highest being the Beatles my lowest being Owen.

Is this affiliated by last FM though? And who says what percentage is correct? There is no fúcking formula. If anyone has a couple of beatles tracks in their liste , then we fail? My music tastes are one of the most eclectic on here, BUT many members listen to a lot more obscure stuff than me, albeit within a specified genre.

Mainstream? I still think I am mainstream.

Last.fm has linked it fairly frequent, it's accurate. They judge it by your top 15 artists, how much their listened to on lastfm and then they calculate it. It's not really a mainstream-o-meter, more a comparison to last.fm as a wholes taste. For instance if you listened to metal, very mainstream metal like Iron Maiden and Metallica you'd be placed a good deal lower than an alternative fan who listened to Radiohead and Muse. Fans of Britney Spears and such would be very not-mainstream according to this.

I know the formula, BUT WHO DECIDES WHAT IS MAINSTREAM? that is my question. Crowquill-you for example listen to a lot of artists I don't know and are knowledgeable about them. Yet my tastes are hugely varied to yours and by that equation, my tastes are just as less mainstream as yours!. I just detest the fact that there is an all deciding monitor of music tastes.

As I said, the mainstreamness of something is decided by how much it is listened to on last.fm. For instance, Radiohead is the most popular band on last.fm therefore in the last.fm world they're the most mainstream.

OK im still less than 10%-i pwn lol.

I don't think these things are supposed to be taken entirely seriously, though.

I know, you are still my fave new poster!

Is that because I'm the only new poster on right now? :p:

It's cuz you're her grandad!
http://www.last.fm/music/+charts/artist/
Top LastFM artists the past week. Weird.

Her? I'm male FFS.

I meant your granddaughter.

3.64 % mainstream wow i'm cool........

It's all very well taking into account my top 15 artists but it doesn't take into account the other 485 more obscure ones I have below it.

Exactly. Having the Porcupine Tree, Beatles, RHCP, Radiohead and David Bowie in my top 15 basically destroys any chance of being non-mainstream. Looking at my top 50 bands isn't enough to represent my music taste, let alone my top 15.

One of my less mainstream bands I like is Miners of Moria with 4 listeners.

22.49%, highest was Daft Punk (52.86%), lowest was Drop the Lime (0.77%).

Last week alone I was 6.98% mainstream, highest was Air (59.55%), lowest was Bangers & Cash (0.05%).

Musicbanter as a group is: 53.21%

Damn we're a bunch of hip cats. Highest is Radiohead, lowest is Dinosaur Jr.

The thing is, the site composed mainly of people more into music than your average Joe, so mainstream is very different.

26.56% mainstream

Top being the Arcade Fire @ 57.99%
Lowest being Ashes of Soma @ .12%

12.22% for top 15 artists.

True. In the real world I'm surrounded by people who listen to music that makes it into the charts and little else. These people tend not to use the site. On last.fm bands that have little or no success in the UK are high in the user charts and so all of the fashionable self-proclaimed indie kids get sad because they're not as special as they once thought.

I think it's interesting seeing how much people care about being 'mainstream' and how much of a blow to their egos it is if they are. You like your music, if it's 'mainstream' according to Last.FM who gives a crap? It's just interesting to see how many people listen to your music too.

Indeed. And it's interesting to work out which of your friends would want to use the site based on the type of music that the majority of its users listen to. :p:

According to LastFM I'm more mainstream than a bunch of my friends.