Idolator Charts The Artists Of Today That You’ll Be Sick Of Hearing About By Tomorrow
(Ed. note: Once again, we present “Indecent Exposure,” a ranking of the artists who are receiving the most dangerously high levels of popular-culture exposure. It’s an anecdotal chart that takes into account such factors as media appearances, blog hype, playing-in-the-background bar music, and overheard subway conversations, and it is 100 percent statistically sound.)
| INDECENT EXPOSURE CHART: 4/30/07 | |||
| ARTIST | WEEKS ON CHART | LAST WEEK | DAYS UNTIL BACKLASH |
| 1. THE WHITE STRIPES | RE-ENTRY | N/A | N/A |
| 2. PATRICK WOLF 1 | 2 | 428 | 16 |
| 3. HAVE U SEEN THAT CAT!!? SHE LOOKS LIKE SHE PLAY’S PIANO!! | 1 | 234 | — |
| 4. ARCTIC MONKEYS | 113 | 8 | 5 |
| 5. FEIST | 73 | 1 | 0 |
| 6. BJORK | 72,387 | 19 | 1998 |
| 7. RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE 2 | — | N/A | BRO! |
| 8. AVRIL LAVIGNE | 20 | 5 | -1 |
| 9. THE STILL-GRUMPY GHOST OF KURT VONNEGUT 2 | N/A | N/A | SOON, IF HE DOESN’T KNOCK OFF THAT RACKET |
| 10. FRANZ FERDINAND 3 | RE-ENTRY | 1,256 | 2 |
KEY 1 = Are you shitting us? 2 = Still unstuck. 3 = Second album actually better than you remember.
This was a big week for re-entries: THE WHITE STRIPES’ “Icky Thump” sent Jack and Meg all the way to the top, making it the duo’s best week since last September; meanwhile, RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE benefited from Coachella exposure, not to mention Nancy Pelosi blasting “Take The Power Back” during last week’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner. AVRIL and ARCTIC MONKEYS ride their new-release buzz some more, but the real surprise here is the zipping ascent of PATRICK WOLF, who in the past two weeks garnered attention for his crazed live shows and online rants, despite no more than two people even knowing who he is.
