The Guardian newspaper recently published a list of ’1000 songs everyone must hear’. Imagine my delight when I discovered that they’d also published the raw data as part of their new Data Store service. Naturally my first thought was some kind of Last.FM mashup.
I thought it would be great if you could match up the list with your Last.FM listening history to find out exactly how many of the songs in the list you had and had not listened to. Unfortunately I couldn’t quite get the API to bend that way. Maybe I’ll find a way eventually.
So I settled for just pulling in listener stats for each song (so that you can sort and see what is the most listened to song etc.). And as an extra touch, hooking up to LyricWiki to get the song lyrics, which for the most part, are available.
One thing to keep in mind is that Last.FM users only cover a particular demographic (mostly young, tech-savvy people), so don’t be offended if the results are skewed in that direction!
Let me know what you think, and leave any suggestions and feedback on the UserVoice page.
Thanks to PHP Last.FM API and the LyricWiki API.