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I took the myspace play count for all the songs on Chinese Democracy as a sample to determine popularity of songs on the album and what people are interested in at the current time.  It's interesting to look at, and will continue to be as we go on throughout the year with video's, more singles, performances, etc.  For example, Better has been slowely picking up on both the myspace play count and on itunes since it became a single.  Once the video for Better hits, I'm sure the popularity for that song will rise even more.  If GN'R plays live on a show or anytime during the next couple months, whichever song they play should start gettting more plays.  Once they start to tour again, i'm sure certain songs will pick up.  Just like the Kid Rock album, I believe this album is only going to pick up momentum as the year goes on. 

Below are the play counts on that given day and percentage of plays for each individual song for the week of Dec10th-17th.  And taken again on Feb 23rd. 

Chinese Democracy
Dec 10th- 2,699,442
Dec 17th- 2,841,209
% of total listens for the week- 26.2% (1)
Feb 23rd- 3,710,893
% of total listens from Dec 17 to Feb 23rd- 23.9% (2)

Shacklers Revenge
Dec 10th- 1,342,048
Dec 17th- 1,396,203
% of listens- 10%
Feb 23rd- 1,777,450
% of listens- 10.5%

Better
Dec 10th- 1,561,011
Dec 17th- 1,700,251
% of listens- 25.8% (2)
Feb 23rd- 2,866,848
% of listens- 32.7% (1)

Street of Dreams
Dec 10th- 853,692
Dec 17th- 867,470
% of listens- 2.5%
Feb 23rd- 954,636
% of listens- 2.4%

If The World
Dec 10th- 694,969
Dec 17th- 705,772
% of listens- 2%
Feb 23rd- 775,126
% of listens- 1.9%

T.W.A.T
Dec 10th- 575,881
Dec 17th- 582,986
% of listens- 1.3%
Feb 23rd- 626,736
% of listens- 1.2%

Catcher In The Rye
Dec 10th- 504,726
Dec 17th- 509,928
% of listens- 1%
Feb 23rd- 538,056
% of listens- .7%

Scraped
Dec 10th- 440,971
Dec 17th- 445,430
% of listens- .8%
Feb 23rd- 467,886
% of listens- .6%

Rhiad
Dec 10th- 399,935
Dec 17th- 403,789
% of listens- .7%
Feb 23rd- 422,693
% of listens- .04%

Sorry
Dec 10th- 713,580
Dec 17th- 755,804
% of listens- 7.8%
Feb 23rd- 1,000,912
% of listens- 6.7%

I.R.S.
Dec 10th- 595,158
Dec 17th- 625,332
% of listens- 5.6%
Feb 23rd- 761,538
% of listens- 3.7%

Madagascar
Dec 10th- 453,520
Dec 17th- 461,272
% of listens- 1.4%
Feb 23rd- 518,947
% of listens- 1.6%

This I Love
Dec 10th- 916,514
Dec 17th- 990,879
% of listens- 13.8% (3)
Feb 23rd- 1,431,095
% of listens- 12.1% (3)

Prostitute
Dec 10th- 408,528
Dec 17th- 413,992
% of listens- 1%
Feb 23rd- 457,104
% of listens- 1.2%

One thing that should be said is that the songs on the front page playlist are CD, Shacklers, Better, I.R.S, This I Love, and Sorry.  The songs not on the front page are likely not to get as many plays because a % of people probably never even go into the Chinese Democracy album playlist. 

I can keep updating this throughout the year, but I will see what kind of a response it gets and see if anybody even cares.   I just thought it would be fun to put the numbers down on paper.   

Yeah, I got some time on my hands!!  I have no job and like numbers.... you need help on your staff Axl? ..(;       

Thanks for the info. I'm a number junkie myself, so this looks cool.  : ok: : ok: : ok:

people love better.

glad to seee riad and scraped are doing great considering that they are not on the front page.

Chinese Democracy gets played a lot because when someone go to GNR MySpace page, it is the first song on list, IMHO.

I think once the Better video is out, it will probaly take the number 1 slot in most played.

How do you listen to the other songs than the six shown?  ???

Choose Chinese Democracy in the playlist.  : ok:

I would agree, but I don't think it plays when you go to their homepage.  You have to hit play I believe?

Not for me, plays automatically.  It's a fairly common, and pretty annoying, feature of most Myspace pages in my opinion. 

A myspace band has the option of having their first song play automatically, or having a random song play automatically, or of having no song play automatically.

In addition, individual myspace users can also adjust their settings either to allow songs to play automatically or not.

Chinese Democracy does play automatically on GNR's page unless you're logged into myspace and have your settings such that it won't.

I'm surprised Madagascar isn't higher. When they first loaded the CD that was the one song I listened to over and over again lol.

This has been updated at the top!

thanx for the info !

You are correct, CD does play when automatically when you arrive on the page so you can't really consider the play count for CD to be accurate.

-= iZzBo =-

interesting thread but the person who did this has way too much time on their hands :hihi: