Nothing But The Stats

Posted by jamess, September 20, 2006 at 7:09 pm, in YMusicBlog General.

Good autumn afternoon, purveyors of polyphonic poop, James the Yahoo Butler here.

This week’s New Releases reminded me of the Grand National this past April at Aintree in Liverpool.

Numbersixvalverde, jockied by the peerless Niall Madden, trained by the redoubtable Martin Brassil, paid the Butler a fine 11 to 1. Not bad for a bracing afternoon’s work.

A real horse race it was and a real horse race we have here with iTunes and Rhapsody.

Of 38 Yahoo! priority new releases, we weigh in with 35, for 92%. Apple, trails over the line with 31, 82%. We offer 429 tracks, 96%, while Apple holds steady with 405, 91%.

Ditto for downloadable albums, 35 and 92%, Rhapsody, 32 and 84%.

And now, because you’re so nice, I wager you’d like a peek at a link to the 091906 New Releases.

 

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  1. I can’t overstate how much I have been anticipating the DJ Shadow and Ben Kweller albums — not fair to those guys the hype in built up in my own heart. I don’t think they lived up to that… I’m just not sure how much they missed by.

    The Lupe Fiasco is a reallllly nice surprise though. It’s the album of the week.

    Comment by emayoh — September 21, 2006 #

  2. I haven’t checked out the Kweller or Shadow records yet. Zoe played the Kweller single on her latest show and I thought it sounded pretty good. But then I wasn’t expecting much. I always expect Zoe to love a Ben Kweller record and me to like it.

    I agree on the Lupe record. I like it way more than I was expecting to.

    Hi from the hospital,
    ian

    Comment by iancr — September 21, 2006 #

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