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Last.fm May Want To Recalibrate Their "Popular Tracks" List Next Year [Year-end Analysis]

Last.fm May Want To Recalibrate Their "Popular Tracks" List Next Year [Year-end Analysis] The social-music site Last.fm—which allows users to track the music they listen to on their computers via a process called "scrobbling," and also has full-song streaming capabilities for certain tracks—released its "most listened to" list earlier this week. The artists list was topped by MGMT; the most-listened-to album was Coldplay's Viva La Vida ; and perhaps owing directly to the previous two factors, the "best tracks" list had one surprise on it, and that was the fact that Katy Perry's "I Kissed A Girl" snuck in between repeated spins of "Electric Feel," "Viva La Vida," and other MGMT and [...]
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