Given metal fans' fierce loyalty to their chosen genre and propensity for making physical purchases, it makes perfect sense that they'd be spending the most time pressing replay on old Iron Maiden songs. As the label personnel interviewed in the Mashable piece noted, metal labels have been selling cassettes and vinyl for years, metal shirts and embroidered logo patches are de rigeur attire, metal festivals regularly draw fans from every corner of the globe, and there's still a multitude of metal print magazines and fanzines circulating in a world that's gone mostly digital. While fans of most other genres are drawn to shiny new artists, metal fandom is generational; new recruits are encouraged to appreciate the bands that came before and build up chronological knowledge while still keeping abreast of current developments. That widened musical net funnels directly into more sales; when someone's buying up the new Mefitic record, they're probably also beefing up their Blasphemy collection or finally grabbing that Hellhammer box set. Metalheads are completists, and metal as a genre is incredibly diverse; there are thousands upon thousands of metal bands out there to whom fans may pledge fealty, and they do so with an (economic) vengeance.
This isn't most played genres. It's most 'loyal' listeners, based on;
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Do fans of some genres return to their favorites more than fans of other genres? And which genres inspire the most loyalty in the listener?
To find out, we first identified the “core” artists that, according to The Echo Nest (a part of Spotify), are most central to each genre, starting with the big ones, on a global level. Then we did the same thing with local genres in various countries around the world. To create a measure of genre loyalty, we divided the number of streams each core artist had by their number of listeners. All of the charts are normalized against the genre with the loyalest fans.
It's just seeing who returned to specific artists pages and listened to them again in comparison.
Regional Mexican music is #1 in most loyal fans in US, and there's obviously no way it's the most popular music.
I created a Rock and Alternative Rock Music Discuss Forum a couple of months back, because ATRL didn't even have that. I know Metal is harder than Rock. I was born in 1974, so much of what was Metal then was "Pop Metal." There are several borderline Metal bands I like today (not referring to the 80s/90s Pop Metal) but I know they are a little short of true Metal. Active Rock is my favorite format, followed by Alternative Rock and Country.
makes me sad.
