{"id":29,"date":"2007-06-07T09:22:32","date_gmt":"2007-06-07T14:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/2007\/how-mainstream-is-your-music-taste-and-which-reviewer-should-you-believe\/"},"modified":"2009-01-13T00:24:43","modified_gmt":"2009-01-13T05:24:43","slug":"how-mainstream-is-your-music-taste-and-which-reviewer-should-you-believe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/2007\/how-mainstream-is-your-music-taste-and-which-reviewer-should-you-believe\/","title":{"rendered":"How mainstream is your music taste, and which reviewer should you believe?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s something interesting: the Last.fm mainstream-o-meter<\/a>. Apparently my music tastes are 41.48% mainstream<\/a>, at least within the Last.fm community. The biggest boost to my mainstreamness is Radiohead, which is listened to by an astounding 103.56% of Last.fm users.<\/p>\n

Last.fm no doubt attracts a skewed population, but I do have to say I’m surprised that it continues to differ from radio playlists and CD sales. Radiohead is a perfect example – from my sampling of commercial radio over the past few years I would say they are almost completely absent. Yet a large number of people listen to Radiohead on their PCs.<\/p>\n

Next up is a page that tells you which movie reviewer has tastes that best match yours<\/a>. I’m sure we’ve all read reviews online or in the local paper and wondered if the reviewer saw the same movie. With sites like Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic, you’re n longer limited to the opinions of a few writers. The average scores on those sites are interesting, but still don’t always match my tastes or your tastes. This will give you some names to look out for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s something interesting: the Last.fm mainstream-o-meter. Apparently my music tastes are 41.48% mainstream, at least within the Last.fm community. The biggest boost to my mainstreamness is Radiohead, which is listened to by an astounding 103.56% of Last.fm users. Last.fm no doubt attracts a skewed population, but I do have to say I’m surprised that it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[759,93,584,305,94,95,83],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-blog","tag-lastfm","tag-movies","tag-music","tag-recommendation","tag-trust","tag-web20"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":477,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions\/477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}