After The Fire Spotify Chart (for statistics nerds)

Position	Title	Album	Label	12/09/2016
1	Der Kommissar	DK	CBS	1,003,100
2	1980-F	DK	CBS	91,113
3	One Rule For You	DK	CBS	22,792
4	Laser Love	DK	CBS	9,769
5	1984-F	AT2F	AA	8,849
6	Who's Gonna Love You?	DK	CBS	8,121
7	Joy	DK	CBS	7,247
8	Rich Boys	DK	CBS	6,486
9	Starflight	DK	CBS	6,391
10	Dancng in the Shadows	DK	CBS	4,890
11	Love will always make you cry	DK	CBS	4,627
12	Frozen Rivers	DK	CBS	4,578
13	Billy, Billy	DK	CBS	4,454
14	Sailing Ship	DK	CBS	3,411
15	Bright Lights	BBC	AA	2,218
16	Life in the City	BBC	AA	2,102
17	Dance of the Marionette	SoC	AA	1,896
18	Suspended Animation	BBC	AA	1,544
19	Cariba	AT2F	AA	1,470
20	A Little Sun, A Little Rain	BBC	AA	1,375
21	Back to the Light	SoC	AA	1,344
22	Now that I've Found	SoC	AA	1,308
23	Time to Think	BBC	AA	1,229
24	Step by Step	AT2F	AA	1,170
25	Signs of Change	SoC	AA	1,169
26	Like the Power of a Jet	BBC	AA	1,103
27	Pilgrim	SoC	AA	1,060
	ATF post 2005
28	Der Kommissar (re-recorded & remastered)	Single	AA/Cleo	362,551
29	Der Kommissar	OR	RMX	14,400
30	Sometimes	OR	RMX	2,781
31	1980-F	GB+	AA	1,942
32	One Rule For You	OR	RMX	1,710
33	Dungeon Ghyl	OR	RMX	1,497
34	High Fashion	OR	RMX	1,471
35	Laser Love	OR	RMX	1,212
36	Dancing in the Shadows	OR	RMX	1,129
37	You	OR	RMX	1,039

Label Key: CBS = CBS / Epic / Sony : AA = Angel Air Records : Cleo = Cleopatra : RMX = Roughmix

Over the weekend (10th Sept 2016) Der Kommissar went past 1 million plays - so a statistic like that gets me going! Certainly the songs that were singles do well, but there are notable absences that were popular live.

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Driving in My Car...

Info-graphic from research carried out by the Tesco Insurance Comparison website, click image to zoom in...

Tesco Compare users respond: UK’s most popular Driving Music

February 5th, 2013

What do Brits listen to most while driving? The results of a recent competition held by Tesco Compare showed that, from postcode to postcode, Queen are the champions – and by some distance, too.

In September 2012, the comparison website launched a competition that questioned motorists on their choice of in-car music. 30,000 responded to the question, "What is your favourite song to drive to?" The results are published today in the infographic Queen of the Road. Over 75% of the country’s postal districts returned a decisive Mercury as Motor Monarch vote, almost exactly 50% more than Adele, their nearest competitor. Queen’s Greatest Hits, originally released in 1981, was recently confirmed by the Official Chart Company as the UK’s biggest selling album, with sales approaching 6 million.

The London-based rockers did not top the charts in every district, however, and the pockets of resistance make for interesting analysis in themselves. The survey showed that Adele keeps the motorists on track in Bromley, Truro, Wigan, Crewe and Southall, while she shares equal stereo time with other artists in Ilford (with ABBA and Michael Jackson), Worcester (Coldplay and Take That) and Sunderland (George Michael).

Perhaps the most unusual findings showed a small outcrop of passionate Louis Armstrong supporters at the wheel in Slough, and a loose but significant scattering of Killers and Gerry Rafferty fans populating the roads around Llandrindod Wells.  
The Drivers’ UK Top 10 came in as follows:

1.        Queen
2.        Adele
3.        Madness
4.        Coldplay
5.        ABBA
6.        Take That
7.        The Beatles
8.        Meat Loaf
9.        Bon Jovi
10.      Rihanna

Individual songs that scored very highly included Don’t Stop Me Now and Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen, Someone Like You by Adele and Driving in My Car by Madness.

“Despite the abundance of modern pop music, it turns out that Queen retain the audio affections of the UK’s road users,” said Gemma Whitton, spokesperson for Tesco Compare. “Personally, I find listening to music while driving is quite therapeutic and helps me concentrate on my journey. I remember that when I bought my first car, the most important feature was the stereo. These days, I have a playlist of Driving Music on my iPod." 

So we prefer the anthemic stuff then? Happy to reveal my in transit listening habits are a tad different ;-)

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What's making y'all tick...

Still can't help it... must be the music biz heritage!

Top viewed BanksyBoy Briefings February 2010:

1 Why modern worship songs are crap - my most read post ever!
2 Let me through I'm an Anglican... not!
3 The Digital Economy Bill - Oxymoronic
=3 Take me Higher - A Lent thought with the short film 'Sign Language'
5 All the Small Things really matter - Choirs and stuff
=5 From Candleford (to Lark Rise) with Love
7 Christendom or Christianity and the controversial T-Shirt
8 Pete Rollins on Insurrecionist Theology
9 A welcome return for the Prog Rock definition post!
10 Seth Godin seems to get it right every time - here he completely nails it!

All Time top views (since Dec 2009)

1 <> Why modern worship songs are crap - my most read post ever! New at No 1!
2 >1 Ashamed Anglican? Bravo Father Tim and shame on you Archdeacon of York - should have stood by your man
3 <> Let me through I'm an Anglican... not!
4 >2 One of After The Fire's youngest fans comes up with a brilliant CD design
5 >4 Angels from the realms of... er, Norway! Breathtaking and truly wonderful music
6 >3 Great tidings of joy in the Brit film Nativity!
7 >6 Brilliant article in blokes mag Esquire by Greenbelt Festival speaker Shane Claiborne
8 >7 Whilst we allow poverty through inequality we are culpable for disasters like Haiti - Thank God for cancellation of Haiti's debt since
9 >5 After The Fire becomes International Rescue as ATF ring tone finds mobile in snow drift
10 <> Mumford & Sons, music to mend and inspire!

Top referring blogs February 2010 - A new No 1 up from 10 last month

1 <10 evangelistchanging.blogspot.com (Joe Haward)
2 >1 theartistandthetartist.blogspot.com (James & Maggie)
3 <8 cyber-coenobites.blogspot.com (Archdruid Eileen)
4 <> theconnexion.net (Richard Hall)
5 >2 elizaphanian.blogspot.com (Revd Sam)
6 >3 diggingalot.org (Graham Peacock)
7 <> churchmousepublishing.blogspot.com
8 >4 philipstreehouse.blogspot.com (Phil Ritchie)
9 <> bishopalan.blogspot.com (Bishop Alan Wilson)
10 >9 ocicbwneighbourhood.blogspot.com (Madpriest)

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Voting by your views...

I know some Bloggers despise stats but as a relative newbie I couldn't resist!

Top viewed BanksyBoy Briefings January 2010:

1 Great tidings of joy in the Brit film Nativity!
2 After The Fire becomes International Rescue as ATF ring tone finds mobile in snow drift
3Whilst we allow poverty through inequality we are culpable for disasters like Haiti
4 Angels from the realms of... er, Norway! Breathtaking and truly wonderful music
5 Art and Christianity - made in the image of God - Antony Gormley's love for his art
6 Mumford & Sons, music to mend and inspire!
7 Art and Christianity - using Biblical texts to be subversive in poetry
8 Art and Christianity - can music really be sacred? Yours truly reckons this is
9 One of After The Fire's youngest fans comes up with a brilliant CD design
10 This is how the world will end... The Elms video shows Haiti poverty pre-earthquake

All Time top views (since Dec 2009)

1 Ashamed Anglican? Bravo Father Tim and shame on you Archdeacon of York - should have stood by your man
2 One of After The Fire's youngest fans comes up with a brilliant CD design
3 Great tidings of joy in the Brit film Nativity!
4 Angels from the realms of... er, Norway! Breathtaking and truly wonderful music
5 After The Fire becomes International Rescue as ATF ring tone finds mobile in snow drift
6 Brilliant article in blokes mag Esquire by Greenbelt Festival speaker Shane Claiborne
7 Whilst we allow poverty through inequality we are culpable for disasters like Haiti
8 Made in the image of God - Antony Gormley's love for his art
9 Paloma Faith sings 'Do you want the truth or something beautiful?' Bit like the Christmas story
10 Jackson Browne's moving song which should be a regular Christmas anthem

Top referring blogs January 2010

1 theartistandthetartist.blogspot.com (James & Maggie)
2 elizaphanian.blogspot.com (Revd Sam)
3 diggingalot.org (Graham Peacock)
4 philipstreehouse.blogspot.com (Phil Ritchie)
5 joninbetween.blogspot.com (Jonathan Evens)
6 jonnybaker.blogs.com (Jonny Baker)
7 cartoonchurch.com (Dave Walker)
8 cyber-coenobites.blogspot.com (Archdruid Eileen)
9 ocicbwneighbourhood.blogspot.com (Madpriest)
10 evangelistchanging.blogspot.com (Joe Haward)

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Social media working to raise funds...

Image of iPhone courtesy mashable.com who report how the Red Cross have now received over $1,000,000 from this text campaign to raise funds for urgently needed support in earthquake torn Haiti. In the UK a number of websites now offer direct links to the charities offering a means of making a credit card donation online.

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Social media working...

Came across this in my research for a course I'm creating on another blog.

Scary?!

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