Google Music Trends Chart Not Very Trendy, Only Slightly Musical
Google Music Trends claims to track the music-listening habits of people using the online mega-company’s Google Talk application, but I’m wondering just how large the pool of people it’s surveying truly is. While the one-two punch of the Plain White T’s “Hey There Delilah” and the seemingly unkillable “What I’ve Done” is pretty par for the course (if depressing from a “please get Linkin Park out of here” standpoint), things on the chart go slightly awry around No. 9, where Three Days Grace–a Canadian band charitably described as “post-grunge”–sits. There’s more oddness in the top 20; “Na Na Hey Hey (Kiss Him Goodbye),” a deep Billy Joel album cut, and Sufjan Stevens’ “Kaskaskia River” are all mushed up with Everlast and, of course, Radiohead. So is the sample size for this realllly small, or am I exposing the long-held secret that most Google Talk users are really ex-drama club nerds who have calcified into angry mid-twentysomethings?
Google Music Trends – USA [Google]
