6 | December 2009 LAST.FM BEST OF 2009 THE HOTTEST NEW MUSIC, BASED ON YOUR SCROBBLES LEARN MORE ABOUT THESE ARTISTS ON LAST.FM December 2009 | 7 NEW YORK VS.THE WORLD MONTH-BY-MONTH LISTENING TRENDS FOR NEW YORK IN 2009*
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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 Decemberists continue to rear their heads in the NY scene. Tagged “experimental” by fans on Last.fm, they’re the only OCT ‘08 FEB - MAR ‘09 NOV ‘09 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 METRIC LADY GAGA GRIZZLY BEAR GRIZZLY BEAR YEAH YEAH YEAHS ANIMAL COLLECTIVE ANDREW BIRD YEAH YEAH YEAHS ANIMAL COLLECTIVE LADY GAGA NEW YORK LADY GAGA PHOENIX T.I. GRIZZLY BEAR PHOENIX LITTLE JOY KANYE WEST PASSION PIT DIRTY PROJECTORS BRITNEY SPEARS ANIMAL COLLECTIVE PASSION PIT LADY GAGA PASSION PIT JAY-Z T.I. DIRTY PROJECTORS DISCOVERY Q TIP LILY ALLEN PHOENIX ROBIN THICKE THE KILLERS ST. VINCENT WILCO THE XX JOHN LEGEND GANG GANG DANCE BIG BANG LOS CAMPESINOS! THE LONELY ISLAND CAMERA OBSCURA MOS DEF THE DEAD WEATHER YACHT GIRLS DIDO THE ALL AMERICAN REJECTS GUNS N’ ROSES A DAY TO REMEMBER KELLY CLARKSON BAT FOR LASHES REGINA SPEKTOR TAYLOR SWIFT BRAND NEW THE LONELY ISLAND THE LONELY ISLAND ANIMAL COLLECTIVE ALL TIME LOW T.I. U2 PLACEBO LA ROUX THE KILLERS THE KILLERS ANIMAL COLLECTIVE RÖYKSOPP PARAMORE YEAH YEAH YEAHS LA ROUX BRITNEY SPEARS LADY GAGA LILY ALLEN BRITNEY SPEARS LADY GAGA NICKELBACK ARCTIC MONKEYS KANYE WEST LADY GAGA GREEN DAY PHOENIX GREEN DAY THE PRODIGY DEPECHE MODE MUSE EMINEM GRIZZLY BEAR THE WORLD ENTER SHIKARI PHOENIX THE XX KINGS OF CONVENIENCE JAY-Z PEARL JAM
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As promotion starts for the second Twighlight OCT ‘08 MAY ‘09 JUL ‘09 NOV ‘09 film (New Moon, released in November in Phoenix, one of the few European bands OCT ‘08 SEP ‘09 NOV ‘09 the US), Paramore’s worldwide popularity New Yorkers take notice of hometown electro-pop diva to get seriously noticed in the US, double continues to surge, and their scrobbles jump Lady GaGa before she rocks the rest of the world. A veteran their scrobbles globally with the release of Despite a global surge from 631K to 2.5M to 1.4M at the beginning of September, triple performer, Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta had been Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix in May, and tracks scrobbled in September with their what they were at the end of August. gigging in the Lower East Side long before Akon noticed then continue to get love from New Yorkers release New Yorkers aren’t her (while she was working as a songwriter at Interscope) and abroad with the re-release of single that fussed by British band Muse. 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.
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* 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