I’m not gonna claim that last.fm is the end-all be-all of song playcounts, but it’s one of the biggest sites like it out there, so this is pretty accurate I’d say.

Spot the difference:

What a week. From the moment Radiohead announced their plans for latest release ‘In Rainbows’ we’ve been itching to see how you, the listeners, would respond. We let our friends over at Drowned In Sound in on some early data after just 12 hours. Now that our weekly charts are compiled there’s not much else to say apart from ‘Wowzer’. Below you can see the Last.fm global tracks chart for last week, and below that the official UK downloads chart for the same period. Spot the difference?

Last.fm global tracks chart - Week Ending Oct 14
Last.fm global tracks chart for week ending October 14th


Official UK Downloads chart - Week Starting Oct 15
Official UK downloads chart - Week Starting October 15th

(Via Last.fm – the Blog.)