Comments on: The Passion Index

By: screambloodygore

screambloodygore — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 20:51:55 +0000

上海アリス幻樂団 is Team Shangai Alice, the one-man company who produces the cult video game series, Touhou. Since so few people have heard of Touhou it’s normal that you haven’t heard it; but since the game is really addicting and great, and the small fanbase is really devoted, and the soundtrack for Touhou is awesome; it didn’t surprise me to see it as the artist with the most fanatics.

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By: zazi

zazi — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:05:19 +0000

Yeah, I also agree that the time is the important thing of passion. So it will be interesting how long (in minutes or hours) a user listens to music of a specific artist or even a specific track. In a paper of the ISMIR 2004 (?) the mentioned such behavior as thickness index or something like that.
On the other side one can calculate a non-passion index, which consist of the artists/tracks a user spend less time in listening to. Besides the play count a skip count will be interesting. I don’t actually know, wether Last.FM retrieve the skip count or not.

Cheers zazi

By: Lane Phillips

Lane Phillips — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:59:30 +0000

A lot of the artists on the popular-but-not-passionate list have songs that I think of as “impulse buy” songs on iTunes. They have that big hit that everybody enjoys but probably thinks of as more a novelty song rather than something to listen to every day. I’m thinking of songs like “Walk Like An Egyptian”, the Shaft theme, “Eye of the Tiger”, and “Tainted Love”.

By: plamere

plamere — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:11:23 +0000

‘[unknown]‘ is a standard artist name used to indicate where an artist name is lacking or not provided. So it is indeed many artists.

By: MattmanBegins

MattmanBegins — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 05:12:23 +0000

That is pretty darn interesting, particularly the first list of “most passionate” attractors, all of whom I, too, have never heard. If music is supposed to be a universal language, it’s clear to this thought-he-had-eclectic-tastes American that there are some popular dialects I’ve never heard spoken.

The question is, are the listeners of these musicians MORE impressive because they apparently listen to nothing but these artists (on Last.fm, anyway), or LESS impressive because…oh, I dunno, Last.fm is the only place they can listen to them (I grant you this is clearly not the case for Super Junior)?

The “least passionate” list strikes a note of truth, too; anyone who thinks of themselves as having a representative playlist of the history of rock and roll has to have “Born To Be Wild” in there somewhere, but how often do they really want to listen to it?

Big question, though (and the true outlier in all this data): who is “[unknown]” in the last chart? Is that one artist or many? Is it what comes up for Prince’s unpronounceable symbol-thingie? It’s driving me nuts. And I wonder if it’s somehow skewing that list.

By: Orlando Gómez

Orlando Gómez — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:35:43 +0000

It’s curious to see Opeth so high in the list you provided. Their songs average 10 minutes or more…

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By: sarah

sarah — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:23:09 +0000

very interesting to see this quantified!

By: Garg

Garg — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:12:52 +0000

That would be really interesting. Especially since it seems metal bands would be recommended all the time :D