Okay, i ever wanted to start a competition just to have done this. I think this is the right time.
At Last.FM you can submit information about music you listen to and listen to music that might fit to your taste. I already have over 91,000 scrobbles at Last.FM. To participate in the competion you just have to
Guess the date I will reach 100,000 scrobbles at Last.FM.
There are several ways of guessing the date:
- Comment this post.
- Use the contact form.
- Send me a mention via Twitter (no need to follow). Use #100kscrobbles as tag, so it’s easier for me to filter it.
- Send me a message via Last.FM, Sellaband, Xing or wherever you can find and contact me.
The prizes will be:
- Place 1:
A shirt from Intimidate. A copy of the Limited Edition version of Electric Eel Shock‘s album Sugoi Indeed. 12 month subscription for Last.FM. - Place 2:
A shirt from Intimidate. A copy of the Limited Edition version of Electric Eel Shock‘s album Sugoi Indeed. 6 month subscription for Last.FM. - Place 3:
A shirt from Intimidate. A copy of the Limited Edition version of Electric Eel Shock‘s album Sugoi Indeed. 3 month subscription for Last.FM. - Places 4 to 10:
A copy of the Limited Edition version of Electric Eel Shock‘s album Sugoi Indeed. The album was funded by fans via Sellaband.
Some rules:
- You can guess as many dates as you want, but only your last submission counts.
- If nobody hits the correct date, the nearest date will win.
- Early Bird. If there are too many people guessing the correct/nearest date, the ones with the earliest submission win.
For shipping the CD’s and shirts I will need your address. For the Last.Fm subscription you need a Last.FM account. I won’t store your data or share it with anybody else.
. Großer Nachteil von Prezi: Es werden lediglich Vektoren im SWF-Format unterstützt. Neben 
#100kScrobbles: Congratulations to all winners
Reaching 100,000 scrobbles at Last.FM was a great, but very short moment. It last for about 3 minutes until the counter increased again. Nevertheless I’ve reached it at the 23th of August 2010. To find out more about the competition go to the original post.
Congratulations to all participants
Because there where only 8 participants all of them are winners and will receive a one of the prices. After some complex calculations I determined the following order of winners:
I will contact all winners within the next one or two weeks to tell them what they’ve win and how to obtain their price.
At the time of writing the article for the competition I had about 91,000 scrobbles. This was at May 13th. So I needed about 102 days for listening to about 9000 songs, means about 89 songs a day. Personally I expected reaching 100k scrobbles by the end of July or first week of August. 89 songs a day is not really much. To make the number a little bit more precise we have to subtract weekend days, because I’m typically only listening to Last.FM on working days, when I’m at work. 102 days are about 14 weeks, so we could subtract 28 days, what means there are 74 days left for listening to music, what’s a new ratio of about 121 songs a day. I think this is a more realistic value. Maybe there is a tool out there, which can calculate the average ignoring all days no song was scrobbled.
Taking the average Last.FM calculates for me (56 songs a day) I would have needed about 160 days for reaching the goal. This would have been the 20th of October, means Thomas was quite near (10/24/2010). I think he used exactly this calculation as my Last.FM calculated ratio could have been at 54/55 songs a day back in May. The reason for this is, that my first year on Last.FM, I never used it.
Maybe the next competition could be reaching 150k scrobbles. But for this I’ve to think about some more complex rules.
By the way: Does anybody know the artist with the most played songs (most listeners) ever?
My personal top three are:
Maybe we should try to guess when the first artist will reach 500 million plays and who this artist will be?