Since the unexpected & unconventional release of Radiohead’s In Rainbows, (which is, in my not-so-humble opinion, their best album to date) the blogosphere buzz on music industry news, rumors, and reviews has grown exponentially. The most recent hype you’ll undoubtedly encounter while cruising through music & tech blogs alike, is the alleged inaccuracy of the data used by comScore to support a claim: the “name your price” guerrilla marketing technique used by Radiohead for the October 10th release of In Rainbows, was unsuccessful. Apparently all that Radiohead achieved was some serious, industry-wide panic.
Read Radiohead’s argument: comScore’s data is inherently accurate.

Ho hum. I am so sick of hearing about Radiohead. Well, at least I was—until today. While conducting top secret Orphan research on Last.fm, I came across the music networking site’s overall (we’re talking SITE-WIDE) charts section—I was completely bowled over by the data it displayed.
...but all hats off to Radiohead.(read more)