Gallifrey Base Random MP3 picks top 50 - March to November 2011

Ooh, first post in ages - bit cobwebby in here...

Anyhoo, I've been whiling away some free time by - shock, horror - putting together a list.

At the excellent Gallifrey Base we have for a while had a thread where people post a random selection of 10 songs from their mp3 player of choice, as is common in many places. Sometime in March 2011, someone had the bright idea of picking their favourite song(s) from the previous poster's list, before then posting their own.

What I've been doing is collecting those picks and keeping a record of picks per artist. Where more than one person has picked from any particular list, I've allowed all those picks, except where they are duplicated - i.e. a song can be picked from one list once and once only (though it can certainly be picked again if it later comes up on another list.) Similarly, though admittedly a little more abitrarily, I'm only allowing an artist to be picked once per list, so if poster A includes 8 Radical Cleric tracks in their list, and the next poster is also a Radical Cleric fan, I'll only count one pick for Radical Cleric off that list.Where duets or collaborations are picked, I've used common sense (?!?) in determining whether to credit each artist separately(Serge Gainsbourg and Brigitte Bardot) or as a pair (Hall and Oates, Oakey and Moroder.)

Anyway, as of November 2011, over 930 artists have been represented. The top 50 (and ties) stood like this:

1	David Bowie	69
2	Beatles	51
3	Queen	46
4	Iron Maiden	39
5	Duran Duran	32
6	Clash	28
	Metallica	28
8	Depeche Mode	26
	Pulp	26
10	Madness	22
	Ultravox	22
12	Levellers	20
13	Bee Gees	18
	Scissor Sisters	18
15	Jam	17
	Pink Floyd	17
17	ELO	16
	Manic Street Preachers	16
19	Marillion	15
	New Order	15
	Pogues	15
	White Stripes	15
23	Blondie	14
	Helloween	14
	Stranglers	14
	Toyah	14
27	Blur	13
	Tears for Fears	13
29	Chumbawamba	12
30	AC/DC	11
	Adam & The Ants	11
	Johnny Cash	11
	Muse	11
	Slayer	11
	Slipknot	11
36	Cure	10
	Foo Fighters	10
	Gary Numan	10
	Kate Bush	10
	OMD	10
	Police	10
	Specials	10
	Who	10
44	ABC	9
	Bjork	9
	Buggles	9
	Dubstar	9
	Franz Ferdinand	9
	Heaven 17	9
	Ian Dury	9
	INXS	9
	Kirsty MacColl	9
	Korn	9
	Led Zeppelin	9
	Smiths	9
	Soft Cell	9
	Spandau Ballet	9
	Sparks	9
	Thin Lizzy	9
	Visage	9
	Yazoo	9

 I'll try to post updates after every couple of months' worth of posts, until I get up to date, at which point if I still have the will to live, I'll update it a little more frequently. Next post will see how things have developed by Christmas 2011...