Last.fm stats
I'm at FOWA, London, and have just listened to Matthew Ogle and Anil Bawa Cavia from Last.fm:
- 15 million tracks scrobbled per day
- 175 tracks per second
- >6 billion tracks scrobbled since 2003
- 15 million unique users a month
- 10 million artists
- 70 million tracks
- 700,000 tracks streamable
- 17 million items tagged
- 145,000 "artist wikis"
It was an excellent talk, going into attention data and the attention economy of Last.fm, and the future of Last.fm's web design (more personalisation, ambient findability). Definitely one to listen to again (an mp3 is promised of each of the talks); Lars has already got a mindmap up and there's a fuller account here from Nodalities. In fact, Nodalities is blogging all the talks on the hoof — so go there! Right now, Werner Vogels, CTO Amazon, has started …
