It’s that time of year where we get to find out what the most listened to song of the year is (BTW – It’s Gabriella Cilmi and “Sweet About Me”) and who has the best selling song and album of the year. Last.fm on the other hand have produced a chart which involves “Scrobbled” tracks. For those who don’t know about scrobbling, it’s last.fm way of telling the music industry how many times a song has been played.
Their Top 40 is as follows:
01 – Lady Gaga
02 – The Killers
03 – Lily Allen
04 – The Prodigy
05 – Franz Ferdinand
06 – Beyonce
07 – Animal Collective
08 – Green Day
09 – The Yeah Yeah Yeah’s
10 – Kanye West
11 – Britney Spears
12 – Fall Out Boy
13 – Taylor Swift
14 – Muse
15 – Black Eyed Peas
16 – Phoenix
17 – Paramore
18 – Kelly Clarkson
19 – Placebo
20 – La Roux
21 – Grizzly Bear
22 – Arctic Monkeys
23 – A Day To Remember
24 – Royksopp
25 – Passion Pitt
26 – Bat For Lashes
27 – The All-American Rejects
28 – Nickelback
29 – Guns ‘n’ Roses
30 – U2
31 – Depeche Mode
32 – Fever Ray
33 – Eminem
34 – The XX
35 – Metric
36 – The Fray
37 – Regina Spektor
38 – Kasabian
39 – Florence & The Machine
40 – Little Boots
The information can be found on the last.fm website. If you want to join you can register for free, download the scrobbling program and start adding to the 2010 list. And if you want to add me as a friend there, then look for my username Misterbump1975.
