Are your last.fm charts exponential or logarithmic?

[zeus]

Are your listening habits exponential or logarithmic?

• Exponential (few artists way ahead)
• Logarithmic (everyone is roughly equal)
• Linear (somewhere in the middle)

This one’s pretty simple. Here’s a visualization:

This would be an example of an exponential listening habit, courtesy of @wing.

Something linear courtesy of @Missa

And my charts, which are logarithmic and quite unusual

We limited it to the last year.

What’s yours?

[etrange]

It just looks good…

[seelentau]

like this, for the last 365 days:

[JohnN]

It seems for me it’s dependent on the volume of material for some bands

[Rena]

I think that’s exponential

[zeus]

I charted mine out in Excel:

[blacktooth]

You tempt me greatly.

[zeus]

I’m waiting to find someone whose charts are as densely packed as mine.

What’s also pretty cool is that I calculated the trend line. So x is the rank the artist comes in for the year, and the answer y is an approximation of how many plays I should have racked up for them.

I took 30 as a good starting point.

-95.84ln(30)+394.17 is roughly 68.

Not a bad estimation! And the trend line is indeed just barely above the dot on my graph so it lines up.

[badymaru]

Wish there was an easy way to clean up my last.fm metadata without paying for pro, some of my scrobbles are a mess I think this would be considered Linear?

[Yukina]

I never thought about it lol

[blacktooth]

If not for my top two artists the logarithmic trend would be a really good fit.

Okay it’s not that different.

[foccius]

I think I like Buck-Tick

[ExistentialDread]

I guess it’s linear