What is Last.fm and why should you care?Please take 1 minute (seriously, there isn't much here) to read what last.fm is:
http://www.last.fm/aboutVanessa Carlton's Last.fm page: http://www.last.fm/music/Vanessa+Carlton----
Last.fm has become so huge recently, especially within the last year or 2.
It is integrated with a lot of websites already and more including Xbox 360 video game consoles.
Quite honestly, it's a huge database website perfect for promoting bands and musicians worldwide.
AND IT'S 100% FREE!!!!!!!!!!!To help us Nessaholics promote Vanessa even more, I highly suggest that if we don't already have a way to
scrobble our Vanessa Carlton plays, that we get in gear and do so now!
Today, as of May 2nd, 2011
Vanessa Carlton has 7,327,804 unique scrobbles (song plays) and 577,127 unique listeners scrobbling Vanessa Carlton.
I want these numbers to raise greatly. Especially the number of listeners.Today (May 2nd, 2011) the statistics for the week of April 24th through April 30th (Last week) of Vanessa's Top 15 scrobbled songs are as followed:
1 A Thousand Miles (3,514 listeners)
2 White Houses (1,123 listeners)
3 Ordinary Day (967 listeners)
4 Nolita Fairytale (424 listeners)
5 Hands On Me (419 listeners)
6 Pretty Baby (416 listeners)
7 Who's To Say (363 listeners)
8 Paint It Black (322 listeners)
9 Twilight (307 listeners)
10 San Francisco (278 listeners)
11 Rinse (260 listeners)
12 Wanted (227 listeners)
13 Sway (216 listeners)
14 Private Radio (212 listeners)
15 Paradise (211 listeners)
and if you wish, you can see the complete list updated weekly here: http://www.last.fm/music/Vanessa+Carlton/+chartsHonestly, I think these numbers are slightly embarrassingly low
I want all of our Vanessa Carlton plays to count! Please, help Vanessa out and download the last.fm scrobbler!
It's extremely easy and gets seriously addicting once you do it for a while (especially to compare with all of the other music you listen to)
Simply, the more listeners Vanessa gets on last.fm, the more people who use last.fm will have her music suggested to them, the more people will see of Vanessa on last.fm, and the more people will realize she actually exists and has a new album.
I want for Carousel to be as popular as ...say Ordinary Day... or...maybe even White Houses...
I don't expect it to beat out A Thousand Miles, OBVIOUSLY, but hell, it would be nice, wouldn't it??
We can all do our part.
Carousel releases on May 3rd, 2011 (tomorrow!) If we all scrobble our listens with last.fm, Carousel will gain more popularity and attention. This is what we all want.
You can check the status of Carousel here: http://www.last.fm/music/Vanessa+Carlton/_/CarouselAs of today (May 2nd, 2011 -- the week of April 24th through April 30th (Last week)
Carousel only has 1,127 Scrobbles (plays) and a low, low number of only 32 listeners.
These statistics will get updated next week, which will be after Carousel has been out for a few days.
I implore you all to
PLEASE HELP! we just need your scrobbles. downloading the last.fm scrobbler is easy and it works silently and automatically while you listen to music, the only information it collects from you is who you listen to, how many times, and when.
You will need to register for an account (which is completely free and easy).
a few of us here already use last.fm and scrobble Vanessa's songs regularly. I want us all to!
Also as a side note, every artist, album, and song has its own page on last.fm automatically. it's kind of like a wiki site.
I've been on this website for several years now (since 2006 apparently) and I've been very active making sure the Vanessa Carlton page is accurate and whatnot..
but anyway..
every artist page has a system where you can upload images for the artist (you'll see, it's very self explanatory)
that works on a voting system.
the point of the voting system is to move an image up or down through the pages, the main goal being to have the picture you want (or what the general public wants) to be the default image (what gets displayed every time someone listens to a song by that artist on the website) -- this image gets displayed to a lot of places that take information from last.fm (and a lot of websites now do)
Vanessa's images page is here:
http://www.last.fm/music/Vanessa+Carlton/+imagesMy goal is to have the newer promotional pictures for Carousel or Rabbits on the Run be the default (main) image to represent Vanessa Carlton.
...for a while we had it as this one:
http://www.last.fm/music/Vanessa+Carlton/+images/51615331 (the heart image from late 2010)
but somehow that pesky Harmonium era image from the Best Of album cover snuck its way to the top... but we can change that with some voting up/down.
The new Rabbits on the Run images are already uploaded, you should be able to find them easily so you can vote for them.
I think it's important to have the new RotR images be the default images because if people see new images, they will know that Vanessa is up to something new, be curious about it, and discover Rabbits on the Run!
Last.fm truly is a very important medium for music promotion.
With a little effort from all of us (we just need numbers! people!) We can seriously help out Vanessa in regards to promoting this new album, which I honestly think is just so very important.
If you decide to help out, let us know!
Here's my last.fm profile page:
http://www.last.fm/user/kulpdogg feel free to add me as a friend also, please join the Vanessa Carlton group:
http://www.last.fm/group/Vanessa+CarltonI want to see these numbers jump up!!! Especially Carousel!!!!
