It's good to be back and Thank you all for all your support as we enter our 10th year. Thanks also to Tez for looking after things over the past few days. She certainly found tagging Listening To This Week a challenge.
Some of you may keep an eye on the Popular Posts section at the Top four Left Hand Side. Regulars probably don't as they see all the regular stuff. It shows what posts have been most read over the previous rolling 30 days. Initially, it contained mainly recent reviews as you might expect. Then as we started playlists, firstly on Mixcloud and then via LTTW, they started to make appearances.
However, we always felt that there was a greater challenge for artists on here. Blogger only has a front page of 7 posts, then people have to click to the previous 7. The monthly details on the right hand side are fine for displaying the current month, but as a new month begins, again you need to click to get on the previous month. We Tag all the artists, but that list has got longer and longer and you really have to know what you are looking for.
We developed Google Analytics four of five years ago which helped, but haven't returned to it for a while. It is a dry boring experience keeping up with it, particularly as the site has taken off since Listening To This Week and the addition of a Spotify version of it. There are lots of new visitors and followers who don't necessarily see our rich past and so I tweaked Google Analytics a few months ago and the results have been great.
There have always been artists who have dominated the 10 entries on Popular Posts for a good while after the review. One was Ward White, another Ex Norwegian, another The Mommyheads. Currently, it is The Supernaturals and Smackbeat. It is also a good barometer of what is going on here and the diversity. I have been delighted at the success of the magnificent Barbara album and the LTTW Playlists make regular appearances.
However recently there have been older reviews making reappearances. The biggest one is the 2019 Review of Liz + the Baguettes (here) and the 2019 review of The Futureheads (here). Powers was an album that never got as much attention as it deserved on its original post.
Many of you know, how much we adore The Mommyheads and it is their 2022 album, Genius Killer, that is getting massive attention again here. I have to admit that that warms my heart as I think it may be their best album ever and the bar is set high. You can read that review here.
Lastly we initially put our playlists on Mixcloud and The Audio Extravaganza was a big success running for over 100 Episodes. Mixcloud changed policies awhile ago allowing 10 shows to be shown, so as it ended, we left the 10 most recent up.
Amazingly Volume 79 has hit the Popular Post list and that is almost six years old and the link wasn't active. People have obviously gone back to the songs individually. So I've updated the link and you can now hear it in all its glory. You can find that post here.
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