Nothing But The Stats

Good day, Euphonious Ether-nauts. James the Yahoo Butler here again, to dish up another smorgasbord of stats and lists, scoops du jour which you can audibly sample.

Today you may notice that today’s servings are a sconce en retard.

Yes, it’s still a competitive playing field, and, he reports with glee, AOL, Microsoft, and MySpace will soon join in the fray (There’s nothing the Butler likes more than to roll up his sleeves and display his pugilistic prowess).

It’s just that sometimes the confluence of numbers and Butler don’t always coincide in those too-few precious moments when the he can steal away to his writing desk beneath the main staircase and dash off his entry.

After all, never would he want to delay one nanosecond longer the data and playlists we do have. Rest assured that once he, with the memory of a pink elephant, procures this absentee datum, he’ll pass them along to you.

New Releases (As of August 29, 2006)
Of the 37 albums available at this writing, we offer 33 for download/purchase. 89%. iTunes offers 34 That’s 92%.
Yahoo offers 409 tracks (92%), iTunes whams us (Ever the gentleman, the Butler says, let’s give credit where credit is due) with 440 (99%).
At this writing, in terms of tracks available for streaming and subscription download, we offer 31 full albums (84%), with 398 available tracks (90%). Rhapsody offers 26 (70%) and 375 (84%), respectively.
Here’s a link to the playlist of the NR0829.

Billboard 200 (As of September 2, 2006)
Of the 200 albums available at this writing, we offer 171 for download/purchase. A respectable 86%. iTunes offers 176. That’s 88% a statistically insignificant margin of 2% (You do remember what a standard deviation is, don’t you?)
Yahoo offers 2612 tracks (87%), Apple’s got 2709 (91%).
At this writing, in terms of tracks available for streaming and subscription download, we offer 133 full albums (67%), with 2309 available tracks (77%). Rhapsody offers 132 (66%) and 2374 (79%), respectively.
Here’s a link to the playlist of the BB200.

College Music Journal 200 (As of September 4, 2006)
Of the 200 albums, we offer at this writing 152 albums for download/purchase. That’s 76%. At this moment, we don’t have anything comparable from Apple. Sorry, folks,
Here’s a link to the playlist of the CMJ200.

New Releases (As of September 5, 2006)
Of the 35 albums available at this writing, we offer 15 for download/purchase (43%). iTunes offers 27. That’s 77%. Yahoo offers 2612 tracks (87%), Apple’s got 2709 (91%).
At this writing, in terms of tracks available for streaming and subscription download, we offer 14 full albums (40%). Rhapsody offers 17 (49%).
Here’s a link to the playlist of the NR0905.

Finally, stat-less but no less stately, here’s a link to the playlist of the NR0912.

James Scarborough
Yahoo! Music Butler