2011.11.17 Thursday - KROX Analysis

I was able to get up and going a tad earlier this morning, which led me to getting on the road maybe 10-15 minutes earlier... and the traffic was significantly lighter. What gives.

So after work, since there was no kickball game I decided I wanted to get a little carried away with some statistics. My sample source: the past 7 days of 101x playlist history, courtesy of their website. There are chunks of time where it lists a show happening, like The Next Big Thing, or No Control; unfortunately it doesn't list any songs from those.

From November 10th through November 16th:

# of songs played: 1693

Average # of songs played per day: 241.86

# of unique artists: 154

# of unique songs: 383

Top 10 Artists Played:

#1 - The Black Keys - 68 plays

#1 - Foster The People - 68 plays

#3 - Foo Fighters - 66 plays

#4 - Red Hot Chili Peppers - 62 plays

#5 - Bush - 59 plays

#6 - Muse - 54 plays

#7 - Coldplay - 47 plays

#7 - Nirvana - 47 plays

#9 - Young The Giant - 41 plays

#10 - Weezer - 40 plays

Honorable Mention

Smashing Pumpkins - 38 plays

Cake - 37 plays

Stone Temple Pilots - 34 plays

Top 10 Songs Played:

#1 - The Sound Of Winter by Bush - 50 plays

#2 - Lonely Boy by The Black Keys - 47 plays

#3 - Helena Beat by Foster The People - 46 plays

#4 - Paradise by Coldplay - 30 plays

#4 - Dark Horses by Switchfoot - 30 plays

#6 - Whirring by The Joy Formidable - 29 plays

#6 - Cough Syrup by Young The Giant - 29 plays

#8 - Walk by Foo Fighters - 28 plays

#9 - The Cave by Mumford & Sons- 27 plays

#10 - Sail by Awolnation - 25 plays

Honorable Mention:

Young Blood by The Naked & Famous - 24 plays

Pumped Up Kicks by Foster The People - 22 plays

So what does that tell us? 101x doesn't know how to spell Phoenix, and the tagging problems that have plagued MP3s since their inception are very much applicable to radio stations. Now I'm just speculating, but it looks like they have "tiers" of songs, as shown by the ordered list. What's your take?

**I'll need to find a different host for the song list. Google wants to scale down my 300KB 665x6343 image. What gives Google?**