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Worldwide music charts

Here's a new approach to statistics;

Gracenote, the company that most people know for taking over the services of CDDB, providing tracklistings for universally all software CD players, receive huge amounts of data from all over the world every minute. Not only in the form of fresh tracklists - they also log every time someone retrieve an already existing tracklist.

Based on this statistic data, they have now launched the Gracenote Music Maps. In here, they provide top 10 lists for all countries in the world, showing what artists and albums are most often wanted for tracklist retrievals. Doing a few random tests, it seems to be universally agreed, that this here British outfit, The Beatles, are worth a listen.

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