Entertainment For Lively Minds
Let's Get Statistical
Posted by Andrew Bradley on 3 September 2009 - 3:46pm.
Google Insights is a fun way to find out what's going on in the music business.
Here is a graph showing the three synthpop divas - La Roux, Florence & The Machine, Little Boots in terms of searches on Google over the last year:
Interesting, because it shows interest peaking and dropping off, except for Little Boots who seems to sustain a low level of interest.
Tracking the growth in interest yields interesting results...
This data appears to show that Little Boots will sustain a career whereas the other two attract and repel people at high volume.
Does anyone have any other good graphs from Google Insights?
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The Beatles
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The Queen of Pop
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U2 & Coldplay
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Shouldn´t that big blue thing on the left
have happened when they released that Batman song Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me in 95?
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statistics are fun
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does this settle the argument?
Proof if proof were needed
I predict ...
... A Word feature in an upcoming issue