My Favourite Band is Far Superior to Your Favourite Band, Perhaps

We all like to think we have better musical taste than our cohorts; it’s an essential element of the human condition. Now, thanks to a new website, you can actually get charts and graphs to justify your position.

Songkick.com is a London-based site dedicated to helping you find a good concert to see in your area. They do so by monitoring Amazon sales, blogosphere activity, and various MySpace statistics (song plays, profile views and number of friends) from the last five weeks and applying an undisclosed algorithm to come up with a proprietary ranking for every band in their database.

The coolest thing about the site is their Battle of the Bands page, which allows you to put in any three bands and compare their stats. So I thought it would be fun to put together a TO-centric battle royale to see who would come out on top.

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