More fun statistics about last.fm tags
Steve asked me how many words are in a typical Last.fm artist tag.
So lets answer that question. Of the 100,000 or so unique tags, about
33% of them are single word tags (like 'rock', 'emo' and 'metal'), 36%
are two word tags (like 'heavy metal', 'punk rock' and 'seen live'), 16%
are three word tags ('brutal death metal'), 6% are 4 word tags ('asian
drum and bass'), 3% are 5 word tags ('sounds awesome in my car'). The
longest tag is 49 words long. It is:
i am a child in a field and i grow things in my dreams to wake and water them to go to sleep and raise them from the earth into existence from an idea to physical existence what power what madness a gentle madness an eleven year olds madnessThe longest tag that has been applied multiple times is:
songs that i sing along to but i always forget the words so i say duh duh while trying to sound like i do know the words and no one is falling for it but they keep quiet because they are embarassed for me
Some long tags that seem to be about music :
bands or people from india or who sound like they might be from india or who sound like they might be from around india or who sound like they might enjoy bands or people who sound like they are from around indiaA number of the longer tags seem to be the result of someone being confused about how to enter separate tags. For example, this single tag was probably meant to be 20 individual tags:
rock - metal - industrial - electronic - punk - emo - ebm - alternative - punk - dark electro - japanese - metalcore - female fronted metal - techno - psytrance - love metal - new wave - synth pop - indie
Some long single word tags:
63 Eksprimentell-teknisk-avantgarde-saer-dop-steikbra-metal-musikk 55 SkankledoodleskattysuperSKAalifragilisticexpialidocious 55 No-break-twitch-screaming-grindcore-ninja-commando-team 47 indiepostteletronicrockistsbaroquechamberaltpop 47 hatebreedlookalikessoundsalikeswannabesgoodshit 46 rrrrrrrruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuggggghhhhhhhhhhh 43 up-down-up-down-left-right-A-B-select-start 40 put-your-brain-in-a-blender-and-drink-it 40 baseballbatmusicforcoolindiekidswithbats 39 fffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff 38 where-do-thoughts-like-those-come-from 37 good-old-animation-guitar-syntheziser 36 gothic-techno-industrial-dance-disco 36 MAurrrrriiiiittttttiiiiiuuuuuussssss 36 21AAD6B6-A1E6-4e07-B2E9-9F512F446E4B 35 onemightbecomebarrenlisteningtothis 35 not-to-be-confused-with-THE-Citadel 35 Supercallifragilisticexpialidocious 35 Lie-on-the-floor-and-smoke-to-music 35 BatmanUcanBeMySupermanSaveMeHereIam 34 Progressive-Industrial-Atmospheric 34 Industrial-Electroica-Jungle-DeathOnce again, many of these seem to be the results of the confused tagger not understanding how to apply multiple tags at once.
317 Unique tags that start with "I ..." such as:
11 I would like to own or listen to more music by these bands and artists 11 I got a patch 11 I dig it 11 I dig 10 I must try 10 I can be cool sometimes 10 I LOVE THIS MUSIC 10 I Have Seen Them 9 I think its a doom metal band 9 I like this stuff 9 I cant account for these 9 I am so sad 8 I love this bands 8 I love them all 8 I like this music 8 I like this 8 I like these guys a lotMy favorite is: I was never a Swedish teenager with swedish teen angst so now I will attempt at having it. Speaking of 'favorite', Last.fm taggers have hundreds of ways of tagging their favorite artists. Among them are:
FavoriteArtists favoritebands FAVORTIEEESSS Favoritmusik Favoritizims favoritttes favoiteness faveartists favorites1 favorieten faveorites Favourites Favoritter favroites favoutite favourits favourite favour-01 favorites favoriten favoritas faveorite favaurite fav0urit3 Favouites Favoritos Favoriter favorito favoriet favoirte favbands Favoritt Favorits Favorite favorit Favoris FavBand favour favori favor8 favies favela Favvis Favess FavArt favvy favou favos Favvo Favor Faves favs favo fava Fave favTags can be crazy - there are just so many different reasons why people tag, there's tons of noise, there are tag abusers - but because there are so many tags, they can also be extremely useful. Next up, we'll try to sift through the tags and categorize them into big buckets like genre, mood, opinion and so on.