Audioscrobbler is dead. Long live Last.fm

(photo by aboutmattlaw)

Less than a week after I did my Audioscrobbler chart recap, Audioscrobbler.com decided to shut down and come back 3 days later as Last.fm, presumably to emphasize its radio player feature.

It's a much cleaner design and they seemed to have added more features and customizable views, but navigation remains a little clunky.

Anyhoo, here are the Top 10 artists I listened to the week ending Aug 14 (by iTunes plays per artist):

1	The Roots	7
2	The Arcade Fire	5
-	De La Soul	5
4	Feist	4
-	Ibrahim Ferrer	4
-	The Shins	4
7	Architecture in Helsinki	3
-	Sufjan Stevens	3
-	Dangerdoom	3
-	Common	3

The Arcade Fire is the only holdover from 2 weeks ago, mostly because I have so many AF tracks on my computer. Ibrahim Ferrer makes the list posthumously. I listened to Feist 4 times?

And the Top 10 artists played by NYC members (by number of different group members who listened to each artist):

1	The Beatles	28
2	Radiohead	26
3	Belle and Sebastian	24
4	Coldplay	21
5	Elliott Smith	20
-	The Arcade Fire	20
-	Beck	20
8	The Shins	19
-	Death Cab for Cutie	19
10	Green Day	18
-	Nirvana	18
-	Gorillaz	18
-	Bright Eyes	18

Belle & Sebastian is the surprise here. Is there a bootleg mp3 out there that I should know about? What I think is remarkable though, is that the group has 181 members and the most popular band only has 28 listeners.