{"id":11665,"date":"2017-01-30T08:56:28","date_gmt":"2017-01-30T14:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=11665"},"modified":"2017-01-01T19:39:30","modified_gmt":"2017-01-02T01:39:30","slug":"itunes-top-200-artists-167-179","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/itunes-top-200-artists-167-179\/","title":{"rendered":"iTunes Top 200 Artists: #167-179"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>3 years ago, we first counted down the then Top 100 artists in my iTunes library.\u00a0 Since that time, I\u2019ve successfully managed to migrate my music collection to a new PC with the stats intact.\u00a0 So, I figured it was time to take another look, expanding out the field to the top 200 artists, based on number of plays from late 2007 through January 1, 2017.<\/p>\n

After a brief hiatus, we\u00a0pick up\u00a0this week with the final 2 bands\/performers tied for 179th place and the first 8 tied for 167th, including a few radio personalities.<\/p>\n

#167:\u00a0Fall Out Boy
\niTunes stats: 27\u00a0plays
\nPrevious ranking: N\/A<\/p>\n

1 song from Fall Out Boy, used as the intro music for the White Sox in 2015, drives their inclusion on this list.<\/p>\n

#167: Gnarls Barkley
\niTunes stats:\u00a027\u00a0plays
\nPrevious ranking: N\/A<\/p>\n

The collaboration between CeeLo Green and DJ Danger Mouse has 2 songs to make up their total.<\/p>\n

#167:\u00a0Live
\niTunes stats:\u00a027\u00a0plays
\nPrevious ranking: N\/A<\/p>\n

The Pennsylvania band used a pretty even split amongst 3 different tunes to mark their spot on the chart.<\/p>\n

#167:\u00a0Mott The Hoople
\niTunes stats: 27\u00a0plays
\nPrevious ranking: N\/A<\/p>\n

One track, featured on the Juno<\/em> soundtrack and written by David Bowie, makes up the total for English rock band.<\/p>\n

#167: Naughty By Nature
\niTunes stats: 27\u00a0plays
\nPrevious ranking: N\/A<\/p>\n

2 mega-hits from the hip hop trio make up their total.<\/p>\n

#167: Nerf Herder
\niTunes stats:\u00a027\u00a0plays
\nPrevious ranking: N\/A<\/p>\n

The band, who got their name from a Princess Leia quote in Star Wars<\/em>, contributed the theme song to Buffy The Vampire Slayer<\/em>.<\/p>\n

#167:\u00a0OutKast
\niTunes stats:\u00a027\u00a0plays
\nPrevious ranking: N\/A<\/p>\n

The hip hop duo from Atlanta make the chart due to contributions from 2 different tracks.<\/p>\n

#167:\u00a0Piranha Man
\niTunes stats:\u00a027\u00a0plays
\nPrevious ranking: N\/A<\/p>\n

A CD of poorly performed karaoke by a contributor to the old Jonathon Brandmeier show on The Loop and WCKG comprises this total.<\/p>\n

#179:\u00a0Digital Underground
\niTunes stats:\u00a026\u00a0plays
\nPrevious ranking: N\/A<\/p>\n

The Humpty Dance is enough to get the alternative hip hop group from Oakland on to the chart.<\/p>\n

#179:\u00a0Howard Stern
\niTunes stats:\u00a026\u00a0plays
\nPrevious ranking: N\/A<\/p>\n

2 audio clips from the Private Parts<\/em> soundtrack put the legendary shock jock on the list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

3 years ago, we first counted down the then Top 100 artists in my iTunes library.\u00a0 Since that time, I\u2019ve successfully managed to migrate my music collection to a new PC with the stats intact.\u00a0 So, I figured it was time to take another look, expanding out the field to the top 200 artists, based […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[106,971,3568,723,1003,7134,433,849,328,7136,5194,1122,406,1153,1160,173,7135,5257,671,2331,2685,49],"class_list":["post-11665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-buffy","tag-cee-lo-green","tag-david-bowie","tag-digital-underground","tag-dj-danger-mouse","tag-fall-out-boy","tag-gnarls-barkley","tag-howard-stern","tag-itunes","tag-jonathon-brandmeier","tag-juno","tag-live","tag-mott-the-hoople","tag-naughty-by-nature","tag-nerf-herder","tag-outkast","tag-piranha-man","tag-private-parts","tag-star-wars","tag-the-loop","tag-wckg","tag-white-sox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11665"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11735,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11665\/revisions\/11735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}