by cowboy71 » Thu Jan 05, 2017 5:29 pm
This last lot of 10 bands has seen far fewer 'smaller' (in terms of last.fm listeners) bands compared to for the 2016 cruise.
By number of last.fm listeners, in announcements 41-50 for 2016 we had:
2016
one 'large' band (Eluveitie with 340,000 listeners)
three with 20k-50k listeners (Raven, Susperia, and Skalmold)
six with under 3,000 listeners: Twilight Force (3,000), Painful (100), Abinchova (3,000), Koyi K Utho (3,000), Dia De Los Muertos (2,000), Distillator (600)
Compared to 2017
2017 (if Edenbridge is band 50)
Four large-ish bands with around 100,000 listeners or more - Edenbridge, Nightmare, Mors Principium Est, Axxis
Three with 35k-100K - Cattle Decapitation (80,000), Trollfest (55,000), Trauma (35,000)
Two with 15-20K - Avatarium (16,000), Misery Loves Co (15,000)
And only one with under 3,000 - Ghost Ship Octavius (2,000)
Now in the FINAL 10 for 2016 we had:
3 around 100k or more - Arkona, Diamond Head, Novembers Doom
3 with around 50k - Incantation, Fallujah, Ghoul
4 with under 10k - Nervosa, Starkill, No Raza, Dead Cross
Upcoming Gigs:
Wolves-In-The-Throne-Room-/-Halestorm-/-70K
2020 Wishlist
Almanac-/-Ancient-Bards-/-Atlas-Pain-/-Avantasia-/-Battlelore-/-Beast-In-Black-/-Believer-/-Bloodbound-/-Brothers-of-Metal-/-Civil-War-/-Circus-Maximus-/-Claymorean-/-Dark-Moor-/-Dark-Sarah-/-Demons-&-Wizards-/-Diabulus-In-Musica-/-Edguy-/-Elvenking-/-Ex-Libris-/-Exit-Eden-/-Frozen-Crown-/-Galderia-/-Heavatar-/-In-This-Moment-/-Jaldaboath-/-Kaledon-/-Kalidia-/-Living-Sacrifice-/-Magnum-/-Metalite-/-Neopera-/-Orden-Ogan-/-Pathfinder-/-Poisonblack-/-Powerwolf-/-The-Privateer-/-Pythia-/-Ravenia-/-Revamp-/-Running-Wild-/-Serenity-/-Sleeping-Romance-/-Sojourner-/-Tarot-/-Ten-/-Thaurorod-/-The-Dark-Element-/-The-Skull-/-Tourniquet-/-Trick-or-Treat-/-Trillium-/-Unisonic-/-Valhalore-/-Within-Temptation