Most Famous Musicians: Avril #6, Gaga #8, Madonna #16
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Pantheon, a new project from the Macro Connections group in Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab, is giving that a stab. It has collected and analyzed data on cultural production from 4,000 B.C. to 2010. With a few clicks on its website, which just went live, you can swing through time and geography, making plain the output of, say, Brazil (largely soccer players) or Belarus (politicians). It also ranks professions from chemists to jurists to **** stars (No. 1 is Jenna Jameson; No. 2 is the Czech Republic’s Silvia Saint).
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Most Famous Musicians
1. Bob Marley
2. Jimi Hendrix
3. Bob Dylan
4. Michael Jackson
5. John Lennon 6. Avril Lavigne
7. Louis Armstrong 8. Lady Gaga
9. Eric Clapton
10. Paul McCartney
11. Niccolò Paganini
12. Franz Liszt
13. Freddy Mercury
14. SID VICIOUS
15. Marilyn Manson 16. Madonna
17. Ray Charles
18. George Harrison
19. Sting
20. Ringo Starr
21. Miles Davis
22. Jimmy Page
23. Bjork
24. Frank Zappa
25. James Hetfield
Pantheon, a new project from the Macro Connections group in Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab, is giving that a stab. It has collected and analyzed data on cultural production from 4,000 B.C. to 2010. With a few clicks on its website, which just went live, you can swing through time and geography, making plain the output of, say, Brazil (largely soccer players) or Belarus (politicians). It also ranks professions from chemists to jurists to **** stars (No. 1 is Jenna Jameson; No. 2 is the Czech Republic’s Silvia Saint).
If the list is as irrelevant as people are saying, it is still quite impressive that Gaga is second only to MJ in global Wikipedia views (out of the Top 16).
There are a lot of superstars missing.
Very impressive.