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NEW YORK VS. THE WORLD

MONTH-BY-MONTH LISTENING TRENDS FOR NEW YORK IN 2009*
OCT 08 NOV 08 DEC 08 JAN 09 FEB 09 MAR 09 APR 09 MAY 09 JUN 09 JUL 09 AUG 09 SEP 09 OCT 09 NOV 09

American band Animal Collective get love at home and

abroad. Currently based in NYC, they have a constant, After appearances on and the Late Show with
mighty presence in the city’s music scene all year long. David Letterman to promote their release
Tagged “experimental” by fans on Last.fm, they’re the only OCT ‘08 FEB - MAR ‘09 NOV ‘09
Decemberists continue to rear their heads in the NY scene.
band of this appellation to make the Top 40 this year.
Yeah Yeah Yeah’s It’s Blitz! gets leaked on OCT ‘08 MAR ‘09 MAY ‘09 NOV ‘09

release date gets pushed forward to the Grizzly bear first make a blip in March Massachusetts- based Passion Pit lit a fire
when Veckatimest (like the Yeah Yeah in the New York club scene late last year. By
the top 10 for the year. Yeahs album of the year) is leaked online. the time Manners comes out in May, they
Britney Spears’ album Circus, (released New Yorkers take to the sounds
in December), gets early promotion is officially released and they stay on the Reeling’ starts getting mainstream play.
from the single ‘Womanizer’. Selling NYC radar for the rest of the year, winning out of London this year to figure
over 505,000 units in its first week, them #21 on the Last.fm Top 40 chart. prominently in the New York scene –
New Yorkers have a quick listen but their after their debut album release.
M. WARD REGINA SPEKTOR
interest peters out by the new year while THE DECEMBERISTS

the album continues to make waves in

THE DECEMBERISTS
LADY GAGA BRAND NEW
BAT FOR LASHES KAREN O AND THE KIDS
the rest of the world. THE DECEMBERISTS

GRIZZLY BEAR
METRIC LADY GAGA

NEW YORK
GRIZZLY BEAR
YEAH YEAH YEAHS
YEAH YEAH YEAHS
ANIMAL COLLECTIVE
LADY GAGA
ANDREW BIRD ANIMAL COLLECTIVE
LADY GAGA

PHOENIX PHOENIX
T.I.
GRIZZLY BEAR
LITTLE JOY
KANYE WEST PASSION PIT
BRITNEY SPEARS ANIMAL COLLECTIVE PASSION PIT
PASSION PIT JAY-Z
DIRTY PROJECTORS

LADY GAGA DIRTY PROJECTORS

T.I.
PHOENIX DISCOVERY
Q TIP LILY ALLEN ST. VINCENT
MOS DEF WILCO THE XX
ROBIN THICKE
GANG GANG DANCE
JOHN LEGEND
BIG BANG
THE KILLERS
LOS CAMPESINOS! THE LONELY ISLAND CAMERA OBSCURA THE DEAD WEATHER YACHT GIRLS
DIDO THE ALL AMERICAN REJECTS GUNS N’ ROSES BAT FOR LASHES
BRAND NEW
PLACEBO
A DAY TO REMEMBER KELLY CLARKSON REGINA SPEKTOR
TAYLOR SWIFT
THE LONELY ISLAND
THE LONELY ISLAND
U2 ANIMAL COLLECTIVE ALL TIME LOW

PARAMORE
T.I. LA ROUX
THE KILLERS RÖYKSOPP THE KILLERS
ANIMAL COLLECTIVE
YEAH YEAH YEAHS LA ROUX

BRITNEY SPEARS LILY ALLEN LADY GAGA LADY GAGA

BRITNEY SPEARS
ARCTIC MONKEYS
LADY GAGA
GREEN DAY
MUSE
NICKELBACK

KANYE WEST

PHOENIX

THE WORLD THE PRODIGY DEPECHE MODE

EMINEM GRIZZLY BEAR

ENTER SHIKARI
GREEN DAY

PHOENIX
THE XX
KINGS OF CONVENIENCE
JAY-Z
PEARL JAM

OCT ‘08 SEP ‘09 NOV ‘09

As promotion starts for the second Twighlight

OCT ‘08 MAY ‘09 JUL ‘09
Phoenix, one of the few European bands
New Yorkers take notice of hometown electro-pop diva to get seriously noticed in the US, double
Lady GaGa before she rocks the rest of the world. A veteran their scrobbles globally with the release of
performer, Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta had been Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix in May, and
gigging in the Lower East Side long before Akon noticed then continue to get love from New Yorkers
her (while she was working as a songwriter at Interscope) and abroad with the re-release of single
and convinced the chairman to sign her to a joint deal with ‘1901’ in the late summer.
Interscope and Akon’s Kon Live distribution label.
NOV ‘09
film (New Moon, released in November in
OCT ‘08 SEP ‘09 NOV ‘09
the US), Paramore’s worldwide popularity
continues to surge, and their scrobbles jump
Despite a global surge from 631K to 2.5M to 1.4M at the beginning of September, triple
tracks scrobbled in September with their what they were at the end of August.
release New Yorkers aren’t
that fussed by British band Muse.

OCT 08 NOV 08 DEC 08 JAN 09 FEB 09 MAR 09 APR 09 MAY 09 JUN 09 JUL 09 AUG 09 SEP 09 OCT 09 NOV 09

* Derived from the Top 1000 artists of the year. Artists eligible for inclusion must DEVELOPERS & DESIGNERS: download a data dump of the top 1000 artists of
have released a full-length album of new material between Oct ’08 – Nov ’09. York (in color) and the world (in grey). 2009 to make your own data visualizations: www.last.fm/bestof/2009/about