RE: (TV) TV's Global Fanbase / Minutiae: Stats skewed Minutiae

["Casey, Leo J" <CaseyL@VOLPE.DOT.GOV>]

My understanding of the Global Fanbase site statistics
was that they only included people who "register(ed)" at 
the Global Fanbase website, and that it is not a 
guesstimate of the actual number of fans of a particular band.  

Also, there might not be that high a correlation between 
actual number of fans for two bands , and the number of 
registered fans for same two bands on the 
site.  

E.g., both Television and U-2 have between 1-100 'registered' 
fans in U.S. , but the number of total (includes 
unregistered) fans of each is obviously not in a 1-to-1 
proportion.

Leo. 
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark G. Ryan 
Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 2:48 PM
To: tv@obbard.com
Subject: Re: (TV) TV's Global Fanbase


"nick powell" <nick_bug@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry try the main webpage
> 
> www.globaldust.com
> 
> and look for Television
> 

Before anyone gets too depressed about Television having
only 5 fans in this database, consider the number of fans
listed for a few other bands from the same era:

	Pretenders	0
	Talking Heads	2
	Roxy Music	2
	Iggy Pop	3 (in the UK and Venezula!)

(All the above numbers have now been incremented by 1.
Most of the bands I looked for weren't even listed, but
surprisingly I found the Meat Puppets and Joy Division.)

Obviously this database is heavily biased toward current 
music.  Just for grins I looked up:

	Roy Orbison	2 	(0 in USA)
	Buddy Holly	2
	Chuck Berry 	1	(in Spain!)

No, Television fans need not feel depressed, or else
everyone should feel depressed about the disposable 
nature of pop music.

Mark
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