Last.fm Explorer

A note to say that a successor to Historical Charts is available at twothreefall.co.uk/lastfmexplorer. Redesign and restructure aside, new features alongside the charts that went before include:

  • Interactive charts and plots of weekly playcounts
  • Charts for only new artists
  • Information about extreme weeks

For an example see what it does with my data.

I’m pleased with how it’s turned out.

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Comments (7)

  1. Frederick wrote::

    Here’s a fan of your websites hoping the album/track charts will also be available soon again … The new thing is great, but adding those again would make it epic =D

    Sunday, February 20, 2011 at 2:00 am #
  2. m2wester wrote::

    Hiho! really like this, unfortunately, the program missed a couple of weeks while importing… noticed that because the nov29-dec05 week of 2010 is missing, which is the one where I’ve listened to the most tracks, but that one isn’t the only one (lastfm username m2wester )

    Thursday, March 17, 2011 at 4:34 pm #
  3. mitya wrote::

    great feature – are you still going to add the feature to look at tracks and not just artists?

    Tuesday, April 12, 2011 at 5:13 pm #
  4. Greedo wrote::

    Hey Sam,

    Avid user of Last.fm and your scrobbler utilities here. I think they’re cracking and love the new features.

    I have a slight question about the data being gathered. Charts produced by your new scrobbler, for me, don’t seem to be matching up with those on Last.fm. For example, if I want to display my most played artists overall, your scrobbler often shows considerably lower playcounts and even out of order rankings when compared to the same chart on Last.fm. I don’t think it’s because the data only gets released by Last.fm on Sundays that’s causing the discrepancy as the playcounts aren’t just a few behind but hundreds. I’ve also noticed that it does the same with your account when I try it with that.

    Am I doing something wrong?

    Wednesday, August 17, 2011 at 1:05 am #
  5. sam wrote::

    I put the large discrepancies down to the charts only starting from February 13th 2005 – that’s potentially a lot of data missing for anybody who joined before. For a while Last.fm would give the data out and set the date it was scrobbled to February 13th but it silently changed to exclude it again at some point about a year ago. I haven’t had much luck with getting information on this stuff from the forums so haven’t really chased it up.

    Pulling data in is a lot more robust than it was a while ago but there’s still occasional weirdness. I’ll keep an eye on your data as I develop.

    Thanks for the feedback :-)

    Wednesday, August 17, 2011 at 10:36 am #
  6. Jurgen wrote::

    hi, what about album charts?

    Tuesday, December 6, 2011 at 1:12 pm #
  7. Mário Marinato wrote::

    Hi, buddy, great site!

    Just a quick note to warn you that the second link on the post is broken. It misses an ‘e’.

    Great 2012!

    Sunday, January 1, 2012 at 2:28 pm #