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Milestones
1st track: (22 Feb 2011)
井上ジョー - CLOSER
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/252/52587055.png1000th track: (10 May 2011)
Enrique Iglesias - I Like It
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/252/66722578.png2000th track: (25 May 2011)
D'espairsRay - quarter void
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/252/62661859.png3000th track: (09 Jun 2011)
Alice Nine - RAINBOWS
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/252/70768212.png4000th track: (23 Jun 2011)
kanon×kanon - カレンデュラ レクイエム
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/252/53524447.png5000th track: (02 Jul 2011)
『JOJO』。 - Culture
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/252/10490681.jpg6000th track: (16 Jul 2011)
Gwen Stefani - Harajuku Girls
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/252/5410789.jpg7000th track: (25 Jul 2011)
비 - Only You
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/252/33312965.png8000th track: (01 Aug 2011)
PUFFY - 愛のしるし
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/252/58460957.png9000th track: (08 Aug 2011)
梶裕貴 - 完全無欠超絶技巧庭師
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1 Έλενα Παπαρίζου 8,888
2 Prāta Vētra 3,102
3 Antique1,126
4 Σάκης Ρουβάς 1,033
5 Руслана734
6 Astro'n'out 603
7 Ευρυδίκη599
8 Kylie Minogue 366
9 Άννα Βίσση 358
10 Алёна Винницкая 307
11 Intars Busulis 271
12 Aisha250
13 ВИА Гра 248
14 Agnes218
15 Dons 217
16 Linda Leen 179
17 Tamta168
18 Lena167
19 The Cranberries 166
20 Вера Брежнева 157

Collections

Anastacia
Not That Kind
Freak of Nature
Anastacia
Pieces of a Dream
Heavy Rotation
It's a Man's World
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Ashlee Simpson
Autobiography
I Am Me
Bittersweet World
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Avril Lavigne
Let Go
My World
Under My Skin
The Best Damn Thing
Essential Mixes
Goodbye Lullaby
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First, make a list of your top-20 artists overall. Then, for each of these artists, add the 8 most similar artists to your list. Delete any duplicates, count up the number of entries on your list and this will give you some idea of how eclectic your listening habits are. A score of 9 represents an extremely unvaried musical taste while a 160 represents an extremely varied one.

1. David Bisbal

David Bustamante
Chenoa
Luis Fonsi
David Civera
David Demaria
Chayanne
Andy & Lucas
Cristian Castro

Score = 8

2. Céline Dion

Lara Fabian
Cher
Shania Twain
Whitney Houston
Mariah Carey
Tina Arena
Faith Hill
Delta Goodrem

Score = 8

3. Within Temptation

Epica
Nightwish
Delain
Xandria
After Forever
Leaves' Eyes
Lacuna Coil
Sirenia

Score = 8

4. Laura Pausini

Anna Tatangelo
Tiziano Ferro
Eros Ramazzotti
Giorgia
Paola & Chiara
Dolcenera
Irene Grandi

Score = 7

5. Mylène Farmer

Robert
Zazie
Alizée
Najoua Belyzel
…

1 Prāta Vētra
2 Руслана
3 Έλενα Παπαρίζου
4 Алёна Винницкая
5 Antique
6 Άννα Βίσση
7 Ladybird
8 Ευρυδίκη
9 ВИА Гра
10 Олександр Пономарьов

Now answer the questions according to the numbers:

What was the first song you ever heard by 6?
Το παρελθόν μου

What is your favorite album by 2?
Wild dances and Мить Весни

What is your favorite lyric that 5 has sung?
Η ζωή είναι τώρα

How many times have you seen 4 live?
None

What is your favorite song by 7?
Back In Your Arms

What is a good memory you have involving 10?
I was waiting for his free performance for 1 hour and when I have came to home I read that it was postponed to 23:00 :D

Is there a song by 3 that makes you sad?
Είσαι η φονή

What is your favorite lyric that 2 has sung?
Луна

What is your favorite song by 9?
Не оставляй меня, любимый!

How did you get in to 3?
I heard a cover of MNO and I fell in love with this song

What was the first song you heard by 1?
…

Following up on the earlier journal, Getting Artist Images to Look Their Best, here is a short guide to explain how images (be they square, tall, or wide) that you upload to artist galleries are cropped for eventual use in the library.

I'll use these images (taken from Simone Kopmajer's gallery) as a visual guide to show how your original artist pics will end up looking as library images. It works on the idea that cropping images square or tall - if your original shots allow this - really is the safer option, as they minimize further cropping when your images are processed. Shown below are three sample images, in square, tall, and wide formats, and beside them the actual 126s images used for the library. The translucent red masking shows where image content will be lost (or hidden from view, rather), and the window is what you'll end up with in the library:

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Latvia
Prāta Vētra
Ladybird
Dj Ella
Aisha
Marie N
Intars Busulis
Yana Kay un Intars Rešetins
Linda Leen
Fomins & Kleins
Z-Scars
Gustavo
Dzelzs Vilks
Otra Puse
Dons
Brainstorm
F.l.y.

Ukraine
Руслана
Алёна Винницкая
Олександр Пономарьов
Lama
Друга Ріка
Nu Virgos
ВИА Гра
Вера Брежнева
Dazzle Dreams
Океан Ельзи
Svetlana Loboda
Анна Седокова
Ольга Романовская

Greece
Έλενα Παπαρίζου
Antique
Άννα Βίσση
Καλομοίρα
Σάκης Ρουβάς
Stavento
Ευρυδίκη
Tamta

Russia
Би-2
Гришковец и Бигуди
Мумий Тролль

last.fm would like us to use the original native script for all Greek artists (see this thread), but the streams of most Greek artists are currently tied to the artist and track titles that are written in Greeklish. However, we can vote for the correct artist and track titles, which will cause the incorrect variations to redirect to the correct pages... and the streams will follow. To help make these corrections possible we need many people to vote for the correct titles, which is why there is a new group devoted to this: The Auto-Correct Correction Brigade.

To learn more about the correct titles of Greek artists and tracks (i.e. no Greeklish or other encodings other than the native script, get your capitalisation and stresses correct) see the let's get our greek tags right group.

Here's the list of Greek artist name corrections in alphabetical order (by artist surname) that currently do not have redirects in place and so require user voting (you can automatically vote for all…