Fun stats

[darryl]

Anybody here like stats?  Ultimately it'd be better if I could figure out what tracks were "new", but that's beyond my feeble programming skills.

For instance, for April, here were the top 10 spins (first # = number of times played during the month):

81 U2      ORIGINAL OF THE SPECIES How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb
75 Death Cab for Cutie     CROOKED TEETH   Plans
73 Jack Johnson    UPSIDE DOWN     Curious George Soundtrack
73 SANTANA I DON%27T WANT TO LOSE YOU
71 Hard-Fi CASH MACHINE    Cash Machine EP
57 Ben Harper      BETTER WAY      Both Sides of the Gun
55 Susan Tedeschi  LOVING YOU IS SWEETER TH        Hope and Desire
51 INXS    AFTERGLOW       Switch
49 MARK KNOPFLER AND EMMYLO        THIS IS US
47 Jackie Greene   I%27M SO GONE   American Myth

Anybody interested in previous months?

[Alicat]

Always interested. How do you capture the data?

[mshray]

I knew U2 would be #1 & figured Death Cab was up there.  And the Jack Johnson.  Every time my 6-yr-old hears that tune he tells me (in his best Daddy-I'm-pretty-smart-am-I-not? voice), "Ummm Daddy?  I know what this song is."  And he is pretty smart, because we did NOT take him to see the movie.  

And yeah, I'm interested in previous months.

[Alicat]

Darryl:
Did you see the Katrina Report thread on the 10@10 threads page?

[mshray]

Darryl:
Did you see the Katrina Report thread on the 10@10 threads page?

In case that report (or even the question) doesn't make sense, a Katrina is what we call any tune that Dave has overplayed within a given year of 10@10's, so named because back when we were a Yahoo Club several years ago "Walking On Sunshine" by Katrina & The Waves, seemed to show up in 80% of all 1985 sets.  Now it is less common than a couple other tunes from that year & quite a bit less common than other tunes in other years, such as Robbie Nevil's "C'est La Vie".  But once coined the term has stuck.

[ggould]

57 Ben Harper      BETTER WAY      Both Sides of the Gun

One of my favorite songs, but I never hear it anymore.  I must not listen at the right times.

[darryl]

Alicat:  KFOG's "Now Playing" window is actually a Flash-based application that hits a website and gets the relevant info.  It used to use the HTTP POST format, but now uses XML.  At any rate, I hit the same website every 3 minutes, grab the data, and if it's a different song than 3 minutes ago, I record the time and info to a file.

mshray: Katrina Report -- cool.  Yeah, I know what Katrinas are.  :-}
I remember peeking in on your old boards a few years back.

Finally, for ggould:  :-}
Sat Apr 29 14:00:00 2006        Ben Harper      BETTER WAY      
Sat Apr 29 19:33:01 2006        Ben Harper      BETTER WAY      
Sun Apr 30 00:03:01 2006        Ben Harper      BETTER WAY      
Sun Apr 30 12:00:00 2006        Ben Harper      BETTER WAY      
Sun Apr 30 17:36:00 2006        Ben Harper      BETTER WAY      
Mon May  1 04:03:00 2006        Ben Harper      BETTER WAY      
Mon May  1 11:00:00 2006        Ben Harper      BETTER WAY      
Mon May  1 16:21:00 2006        Ben Harper      BETTER WAY      
Mon May  1 21:03:00 2006        Ben Harper      BETTER WAY      
Tue May  2 02:39:00 2006        Ben Harper      BETTER WAY      
Tue May  2 07:48:00 2006        Ben Harper      BETTER WAY

[ggould]

Alicat:  KFOG's "Now Playing" window is actually a Flash-based application that hits a website and gets the relevant info.  It used to use the HTTP POST format, but now uses XML.  At any rate, I hit the same website every 3 minutes, grab the data, and if it's a different song than 3 minutes ago, I record the time and info to a file.

mshray: Katrina Report -- cool.  Yeah, I know what Katrinas are.  :-}
I remember peeking in on your old boards a few years back.

Finally, for ggould:  :-}
Sat Apr 29 14:00:00 2006        Ben Harper      BETTER WAY      
Sat Apr 29 19:33:01 2006        Ben Harper      BETTER WAY      
Sun Apr 30 00:03:01 2006        Ben Harper      BETTER WAY      
Sun Apr 30 12:00:00 2006        Ben Harper      BETTER WAY      
Sun Apr 30 17:36:00 2006        Ben Harper      BETTER WAY      
Mon May  1 04:03:00 2006        Ben Harper      BETTER WAY      
Mon May  1 11:00:00 2006        Ben Harper      BETTER WAY      
Mon May  1 16:21:00 2006        Ben Harper      BETTER WAY      
Mon May  1 21:03:00 2006        Ben Harper      BETTER WAY      
Tue May  2 02:39:00 2006        Ben Harper      BETTER WAY      
Tue May  2 07:48:00 2006        Ben Harper      BETTER WAY

so, I was wondering lately about Althea by Grateful Dead.  Do your logs show this song played outside of 10@10?

[darryl]

Oh, and they just played BETTER WAY at 2:36PM too!

Anyways, some more fun (?) stats...

Top 11 from March 2006:
98 Jack Johnson    UPSIDE DOWN
92 SANTANA I DON'T WANT TO LOSE YOU
88 Beth Orton      CONCEIVED       Comfort of Strangers
83 U2      ORIGINAL OF THE SPECIES How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb
71 DAVID GRAY      HOSPITAL FOOD   Life in Slow Motion
64 David Gilmour   ON AN ISLAND    On an Island
59 Mat Kearney NOTHING LEFT TO LOSE
58 Death Cab for Cutie     CROOKED TEETH   Plans
54 Jackie Greene I'M SO GONE
51 INXS    AFTERGLOW       Switch
51 Coldplay        TALK    X%26Y

Feb 2006:
79 SANTANA I DON'T WANT TO LOSE YOU
71 Train   CAB     For Me It's You
67 ERIC CLAPTON    SO TIRED        Back Home
65 DAVID GRAY      HOSPITAL FOOD   Life in Slow Motion
65 AQUALUNG        LEFT BEHIND     Still Life
62 JACK JOHNSON    UPSIDE DOWN
58 U2      ORIGINAL OF THE SPECIES How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb
58 Mat Kearney NOTHING LEFT TO LOSE
48 THE IKE REILLY ASSASSINA        GOD AND MONEY   Junkie Faithful
44 Beth Orton      CONCEIVED       Comfort of Strangers

[ggould]

Oh, and they just played BETTER WAY at 2:36PM too!

It would be interesting to see if the times of day were random or not.

[darryl]

ggould asked:

so, I was wondering lately about Althea by Grateful Dead. Do your logs show this song played outside of 10@10?

Nope.  My full playlist only goes back to the end of 2004 though.

Here's the top 11 songs by the Dead for the past 3 months:
     19 GRATEFUL DEAD   GOOD LOVIN%27   SHAKEDOWN STREET
     14 GRATEFUL DEAD   TOUCH OF GREY   In The Dark
      3 GRATEFUL DEAD   UNCLE JOHN%27S BAND     Workingman%27s Dead
      3 GRATEFUL DEAD   SHAKEDOWN STREET        SHAKEDOWN STREET
      3 GRATEFUL DEAD   RIPPLE  American Beauty
      2 Grateful Dead   BERTHA  The Grateful Dead %5BRemaster%5D
      1 GRATEFUL DEAD   TRUCKIN%27      American Beauty
      1 GRATEFUL DEAD   SUGAR MAGNOLIA  American Beauty
      1 GRATEFUL DEAD   CASEY JONES     Workingman%27s Dead
      1 GRATEFUL DEAD   BOX OF RAIN     American Beauty
      1 GRATEFUL DEAD   BIRD SONG %28KFOG ARCHIVES%29   KFOG%3A LIVE FROM THE ARCHIVES 10TH ANNIVERSARY CD

[darryl]

And going back to July...

     79 GRATEFUL DEAD   GOOD LOVIN%27   SHAKEDOWN STREET
     53 GRATEFUL DEAD   TOUCH OF GREY   In The Dark
     35 GRATEFUL DEAD   ESTIMATED PROPHET       TERRAPIN STATION
      9 GRATEFUL DEAD   SHAKEDOWN STREET        SHAKEDOWN STREET
      9 GRATEFUL DEAD   RIPPLE  American Beauty
      8 GRATEFUL DEAD   UNCLE JOHN%27S BAND     Workingman%27s Dead
      7 GRATEFUL DEAD   U.S. BLUES      MARS HOTEL
      6 GRATEFUL DEAD   SCARLET BEGONIAS        MARS HOTEL
      5 GRATEFUL DEAD   TRUCKIN%27      American Beauty
      4 GRATEFUL DEAD   THROWING STONES In The Dark
      4 GRATEFUL DEAD   SUGAR MAGNOLIA  American Beauty
      3 GRATEFUL DEAD   HELL IN A BUCKET        In The Dark
      3 GRATEFUL DEAD   FRIEND OF THE DEVIL     American Beauty
      3 GRATEFUL DEAD   BOX OF RAIN     American Beauty
      3 Grateful Dead   BERTHA  The Grateful Dead %5BRemaster%5D
      2 GRATEFUL DEAD   I NEED A MIRACLE        SHAKEDOWN STREET
      1 GRATEFUL DEAD   EYES OF THE WORLD       WAKE OF THE FLOOD
      1 GRATEFUL DEAD   CASEY JONES     Workingman%27s Dead
      1 GRATEFUL DEAD   BIRD SONG %28KFOG ARCHIVES%29   KFOG%3A LIVE FROM THE ARCHIVES 10TH ANNIVERSARY CD

[mshray]

And going back to July...

     79 GRATEFUL DEAD   GOOD LOVIN%27   SHAKEDOWN STREET
     53 GRATEFUL DEAD   TOUCH OF GREY   In The Dark
     35 GRATEFUL DEAD   ESTIMATED PROPHET       TERRAPIN STATION
      9 GRATEFUL DEAD   SHAKEDOWN STREET        SHAKEDOWN STREET
      9 GRATEFUL DEAD   RIPPLE  American Beauty
      8 GRATEFUL DEAD   UNCLE JOHN%27S BAND     Workingman%27s Dead
      7 GRATEFUL DEAD   U.S. BLUES      MARS HOTEL
      6 GRATEFUL DEAD   SCARLET BEGONIAS        MARS HOTEL
      5 GRATEFUL DEAD   TRUCKIN%27      American Beauty
      4 GRATEFUL DEAD   THROWING STONES In The Dark
      4 GRATEFUL DEAD   SUGAR MAGNOLIA  American Beauty
      3 GRATEFUL DEAD   HELL IN A BUCKET        In The Dark
      3 GRATEFUL DEAD   FRIEND OF THE DEVIL     American Beauty
      3 GRATEFUL DEAD   BOX OF RAIN     American Beauty
      3 Grateful Dead   BERTHA  The Grateful Dead %5BRemaster%5D
      2 GRATEFUL DEAD   I NEED A MIRACLE        SHAKEDOWN STREET
      1 GRATEFUL DEAD   EYES OF THE WORLD       WAKE OF THE FLOOD
      1 GRATEFUL DEAD   CASEY JONES     Workingman%27s Dead
      1 GRATEFUL DEAD   BIRD SONG %28KFOG ARCHIVES%29   KFOG%3A LIVE FROM THE ARCHIVES 10TH ANNIVERSARY CD

So, we've heard "Althea" twice since then, once in August & once in Jan, which was a classic.  Interesting to note the drop off in frequency after the top 3.  19 songs total, & the top 3 account for 71% of the total.  This is what I was talking about with regards to the Graceland album a few days ago.

[RGMike]

Welcome Darryl! You rule!

We've recently discussed the frequency of non-current songs on KFOG; certain oldies seem to get played a LOT. Recent examples:

Aerosmith, "Sweet Emotion"
Queen/Bowie, "Under pressure"
Queen, "Killer Queen"
Elton, "Rocket man"

If the Dead's "Good Lovin" was played 19 times in 3 months (or only 6 times a month), the above songs at their overplayed peaks must've been getting 5 times that many plays!

[Alicat]

I have a feeling we're about to jump into statistical nirvana.