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Last.fm announces most scrobbled artists
By CMU Editorial | Published on Thursday 16 December 2010
Last.fm has announced the top ten most played artists by users of the musical listening tracking service. The chart was compiled based on plays logged – or scrobbled – for tracks on albums released between 1 Oct 2009 and 31 Oct 2010, excluding live albums and greatest hits collections.
This year Ke$ha came out top, with just under sixteen million track plays from her debut album ‘Animal’. She takes the top spot from Lady Gaga, who last year managed to rack up eighteen and a half million track plays from her ‘The Fame’ album.
The complete top ten is as follows:
1: Ke$ha (15.9 million plays)
2: Mumford & Sons (11.6 million plays)
3: Arcade Fire (11.1 million plays)
4: Gorillaz (10.5 million plays)
5: Vampire Weekend (10 million plays)
6: Eminem (9.6 million plays)
7: 30 Seconds To Mars (9.5 million plays)
8: Rihanna (8.9 million plays)
9: Katy Perry (8.1 million plays)
10: The National (7.3 million plays)
To see the full top 40 and for some cool stats on each artists (particularly if you’re a last.fm user), go to www.last.fm/bestof/2010