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Coldplay Are to Last.fm, as Beatles Were to Billboard

Submitted by Magitam from Google Reader

Dec 08, 2008

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Leading online music app last.fm has released its most popular songs, albums and artists of 2008. The rankings come from last.fm's database, based on number of listeners. The music had to be released in 2008 to qualify for the charts.

The Top 10 tracks is absolutely dominated by Coldplay's Viva la Vida, with 6 songs - including numbers 1 and 2. The title track was number 1, with more than three million listens in about 6 months. Coldplay also feature at 5, 6, 8 and 9. This is reminscent of the dominace of the Billboard singles chart the Beatles enjoyed in April 1964!

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MGMT also had multiple tracks in the top 10 tracks, with entries at numbers 3, 4 and 10. The New York synthpop group also took the number 1 slot in the Top Artists category, but only because Coldplay didn't qualify - it's limited to artists who released their debut album this year. MGMT's album "Oracular Spectacular" gained it over 398,000 Last.fm fans.