omg bad

11?
what the fuck

half of these aren't too bad, also I like adele so...

I expected more

most plays doesnt equal best

fucking hell The Naked & Famous

I've only heard of 12 of the top 20. Am I doing it right?

god fucking damnit

glad that i'm at least tasteful and awesome.

Bon Iver, Radiohead and James Blake all in the top 20. Glad to see the mainstream has been listening to (some) good music this year.

proud to say i've never willingly sought out and listened to an adele song after hearing that garbage on the radio

Wait, is it by listeners or listens? It looks like listeners...

last fm is the mainstream?

Well indie-minded listeners only make up a fraction of the community. I'm not saying lastfm is billboard top 200 but i think it's representative of what people around the world are listening to.

It totally is based on number of users that listened to them. That's so not representative of "most-listened to artists."

yeah, like a bunch of people have 1 christina perry song, but like that doesn't make her that popular

Oh wait, maybe it is. Bottom line: I liked it more when it was based on play count.

Woo, Adele.

What a shitty list. Some of the artists deserved to be on the list like Beyonce, The Foo Fighters and The Strokes but the rest of the list is like WTF

Ok, so going by plays determines if the artist is the best? Yeah, because that makes sense.

Ok, so going by plays determines if the artist is the best? Yeah, because that makes sense [2]

The most played bands ever are The Beatles and Radiohead, so yeah it kind of does

Hahaha.

That still doesn't mean they are the best just because they get played the most. Based on that logic, that would mean Lady Gaga is great but we all know she sucks

I'm just saying that a good portion of the most scrobbled list is pretty awesome

Nice to see this list out, for our critique

typical list

i really liked the hit adele song so i listened to her other songs and no they weren't very good. also yea, most of this list kinda sucks =/

Anyone who thinks Lady GaGa sucks is too ignorant to give her music a chance

nah

That's apretty justifiable blanket statement, you must admit

Anyone who gave Lady Gaga a chance knows how ignorant her music is..

Anyone who gave music a change is Lady Gaga

Anyone who change a gaga is gave lady.

I'm always curious to see who the top listens were. I love looking up stats on last.fm, so much fun.

They added a cool thing where on an artists page to the left it shows you your top 3 friend listeners for said artist

the link is broken it goes to last years

this years list was:

1 Thrice
2 Rush
3 Bomb The Music Industry!
4 The Dear Hunter
5 Laura Stevenson and The Cans
6 Protest the Hero
7 Anamanaguchi
8 The Sounds
9 AFI
10 In Flames

Adele will probably never release a consistently amazing album but I think that we can rely on her to churn out excellent singles over the next decade.

shes fat and she's racist and her music sucs

proud to say i've never willingly sought out and listened to an adele song after hearing that garbage on the radio [tew]

Anyone who thinks Lady GaGa sucks is too ignorant to give her music a chance

It's dance pop; there's not much depth going on there. Her music is decent but it's not that great. She gets attention for dressing and having music videos reminiscent of Marilyn Manson and being very vocal about her pro-LQBT stance.

Incubus rules so

Oh no. I expected this. Most played =/= The Best

Look at New Discoveries, No. 2. Youth Lagoon deserves to be No. 1 there.

bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad

I listen to practically none of these as expected

adele 1 of course, lady gaga that album fucking sucked, there are other cool things on the list but they're way too high up, bullshit. all these list are bullshit

Bleurgh, never thought i'd see something that's worse than Rolling Stone magazine's list this year.

Then again, it is based on most listens, so i couldn't care less.

@theacademy: link to Adele being racist? this is new to me.

Also, not surprised at the list. Rolling In The Deep was on every goddamn station. I heard everywhere. Starbucks, B&N, etc

Not surprised with Gaga, though. Born This Way was so mediocre. Chan summed up my thought on the album perfectly in his review.

Check out the "New Discoveries" list on last.fm. Youth Lagoon is number 1, followed by... REBECCA BLACK???!!!

nope

Lol. 11.

Also, apparently The Weeknd is dubstep now? Hmm.

Limp Bizkit made the list. I am pleased.

Top =/= Popular

u =/= not an idiot

9 Teen 90 Nine

"proud to say i've never willingly sought out and listened to an adele song after hearing that garbage on the radio"

u r dumb

Also pretty dope list. I don't see why people would get riled up over it. The fact that J. Cole is the top hip-hop of the year realy made me cringe but besides that the top-listened is generally a'ight.

Also, apparently The Weeknd is dubstep now? Hmm.

bottom 50 is pretty solid

people think anything with bass is dubstep these days.

^this

Surprised you haven't heard of The Naked And The Famous, they're a kiwi group that have been blowing up lately

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Olr5Bk7jm3I&feature=relmfu

Ring any bells?

Weird. When a kiwi band does well in America it's normally by way of England

I'm surprised to actually see some good artists on that list tbh

edit: yea well only 2 metal bands on the list and one of them sucks ass...

what does it mean mommy

this really isnt that bad.

i'm surprised some of the stuff towards the bottom made this at all. there's some actually good stuff mixed in with the shit, which is nice to see i guess.

Though it's not the worst list, it certainly has a lot of mainstream. Not saying that all mainstream is bad, it's just that in my opinion there is an excruciating amount of talent out there that isn't mainstream. I'm not going to descriminate against some of the artists that were in the list. I just think that this list wasn't even close to all the good music in 2011.

Surprised the Strokes were higher than Foo Fighters and Radiohead.

Lol. Agreed Dev. Most music sites have poor genre tagging systems for artists though.

incubus at #14 nice

Only like 4 good ones. This list is awful

Some good stuff on here. And by some I mean about five percent of the list.

just...

The website has all these resources in music tracking, and this is the best shit they can come up with at the moment?

Oh my god people keep whining about how terrible this is but nothing on here is really that bad.

"BUT THERE'S MAINSTREAM POP BULLSHIT POP BULLSHIT AND WHY DON'T THEY HAVE MY FAVORITE BANDS ON THEIR THAT ISN'T MAINSTREAM BULLSHIT POP WHY CAN'T THEY HAVE MORE POST-HARDCORE?"

that naked and famous song sounds just like passion pit

happy to see youth lagoon at the top in the new discoveries

James Blake is a surprise, I didn't think he was very well-known.

Oh my god people keep whining about how terrible this is but nothing on here is really that bad.

"BUT THERE'S MAINSTREAM POP BULLSHIT POP BULLSHIT AND WHY DON'T THEY HAVE MY FAVORITE BANDS ON THEIR THAT ISN'T MAINSTREAM BULLSHIT POP WHY CAN'T THEY HAVE MORE POST-HARDCORE?"

only aoty list that's empirically compiled

still whine about it

someguest, you realize they didn't "come up with" anything, this is literally what people listened to in 2011.

they track a shitload of musical statistics

this list just shows laziness on their part

So much hipster rage in here.

james blake in top 20 :D

and btw fuck adele.