Last.fm mashup maps every artist ever
This beautiful cloud represents the entirety of music. Every single artist tracked by Last.fm is marked as a point on the map, and ‘similar’ artists are connected by a grey line. The size of each point reflects the popularity of the artist, and different colours represent different genres.
It’s the creation of Budapest University PhD candidate Nepusz Tamas, who hammered Last.FM’s servers for over a week with a request every five seconds. Unfortunately, the only way to interact with the map is to pinpoint your favourite bands, and you can’t zoom in, but it’s still a beautiful representation of the world’s listening habits.
Reconstructing the structure of the world-wide music scene with Last.fm (via Listening Post)
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Now we also have a zoomable version… check out http://livelabs.com/seadragon-ajax/gallery/, it’s the fifth among the demo images in the bottom.
That’s awesome, Tamás. Thanks for letting us know. I don’t suppose you have an embeddable version, do you?
Pretty and quite interesting – but also slightly confusing…
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