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Bands we out-rank on Alexa
This site has been live for around 6 months. I wanted to give our users an idea of how far we’ve come since that beautiful day in June when out popped 7lb, 5oz thatwasthenmusic.com. To do this, I’ll use Alexa, the Internet’s popularity ranking system.
I’ve started to compile a running list of bands we’ve successfully dominated with our Spartan-like online army of fans. As of 12/14/09, our Alexa rank is 167,806 (it’s at the bottom of the page). To put this into perspective, Google is 1, Facebook – 2, Yahoo – 3… you get the picture.
Dominated:
Hootie and the Blowfish – 1,494,389
Sublime – 950,120*
Jeff Buckley – 824,499
Blue Oyster Cult – 877,418
Cheap Trick – 406,251
The Sex Pistols – 390,945 (beware, annoying video auto-plays)
Queens of the Stone Age – 320,125
Recently spanked:
Frank Zappa – 301,472
Alice Cooper – 263,008
Soundgarden – 235,138*
David Bowie – 231,589
Eric Clapton – 226,581
Currently pwning:
Aerosmith – 184,470
REM – 183,543
Guns N’ Roses – 169,236
I will try and update this every few months. If you spot any other good ones post them below!
Oh, and one more thing. (I won’t disgrace this page with a link to it)
RIAA – http://www.riaa.com/ – 142,463 You’re next, cockroaches.
* Indicates Unofficial or Fan created page. If no official page was found, the highest ranking fan site wins.
Jeff Buckley Tribute
I am posting tonight to honor a musician who has inspired me a great deal over the last couple of years. Ever since music became a serious part of my life, I have had a thirst for new stuff to listen too. I am always looking for new music to take inspiration from. Since embarking on this constant search for new music, I find that there are some albums and artists that I don’t rush out and buy. For what ever reason, some get put into an “I’m interested, but I’ll come across to buying you later” pile.
Jeff Buckley’s Grace was one of those albums for me. I had heard of him and read things saying what an amazing voice he had, how captivating of a performer he was and how Grace was one of the best albums of the 90′s. For some reason, I was like “eh, that’s cool, I’ll get around to getting it sometime.” I finally said to myself, ”his name and this album keeps popping, just buy it already, you will like it, stop being lazy!” So, I bought it and was blown away. I hadn’t heard anything like it, I hadn’t heard anyone sing with such passion and with such emotion. It was so awe inspiringly beautiful and it quickly became my favorite album thus far.
Unfortunately, Grace was the only album he ever released as he died in tragically in 1997 and was added to a growing list of artists that the world had lost far too soon. On what would have been his 43rd birthday I am posting two videos of my two favorite songs off of Grace. The first is the opening track entitled “Mojo Pin” and the second, his most well known, is a cover of Leonard Cohen’s song “Hallelujah.” Enjoy
