Facebook perspective on MMJ popularity **UPDATED

[Fully]

I hope I  made it clear that washing Ben was not something I long to do for ANY reason other than he is an oily mess. Gilmore on the other hand.... 

[Tracy 2112]

I can't wait to hand out this award

[Fully]

I had to wait until I got home from work to see it - damn filter protecting the children's eyes.  I find it very interesting the turn this topic has taken.

[mbuha]

This list sums up so much of how I feel about society.

And Band of Horses has been in some commercials, a lot of people know 'Funeral'... that's why it has more likes on facebook.

[e_wind]

How does Band of Horses have more likes than Wilco and MMJ? Mumford and Sons continue to be overrated.

Thank you! I really don't get the obsession with Mumford and Sons. Whenever I hear them I'm just like...meh

A girl at my work said she can't understand my musical tastes at all when I told her my obsession of MMJ and PJ. Her favorite band: Mumford and Sons

[robb]

My current lady friend's favorite band is Mumford & Sons, so I made her a two disc Jacket mix about two weeks ago. The other day she texted me and said "I didn't just admit this, but I think I like these guys more than Mumford"

My work here is done.

[The Bama Bear]

"Likes" on Facebook-

5 month updated #

Wax Fang- 563 / 1,803
Heartless Bastards- 9,934 / 26,970
Plaxico Burress- 25,735 / 26,111
Alabama Shakes- 48,386 / 124,416
Built to Spill- 105,772 / 110,935
Neko Case- 132,679 / 145,193
My Morning Jacket- 297,932 / 323,692
Flaming Lips- 383,860 / 417,752
Jenna Jameson- 412,203 / 476,492
Wilco- 487,272 / 513,737
Band of Horses- 846,403 / 909,307
Planking- 854,253 / 1,063,174
Arcade Fire- 1,401,381 / 1,508,725
The Black Keys- 1,940,483 / 2,425,244
God- 2,074,300 / 3,172,313
Mumford and Sons- 2,693,585 / 3,116,018
Pearl Jam- 5,458,320 / 5,938,006
Ice cream- 7,837,567 / 11,200,372
The Rolling Stones- 9,584,786 / 10,920,223
Rafael Nadal- 10,200,852 / No longer on FB
Kings Of Leon- 10,539,699 / 10,886,638
Nickelback- 13,211,579 / 14,379,197
Adele- 24,899,850 / 33,837,078
Barack Obama- 25,917,507 / 28,215,006
Lil Wayne- 36,591,348 / 40,326,085
Justin Bieber- 42,022,582 / 46,426,850
Lady Gaga- 49,811,987 / 53,235,275

Updated 5 month later #'s above in bold

Man, I do like ice cream...

[lpkell2145]

"Likes" on Facebook-

Wax Fang- 563
Heartless Bastards- 9,934
Plaxico Burress- 25,735
Alabama Shakes- 48,386
Built to Spill- 105,772
Neko Case- 132,679
My Morning Jacket- 297,932
Flaming Lips- 383,860
Jenna Jameson- 412,203
Wilco- 487,272
Band of Horses- 846,403
Planking- 854,253
Arcade Fire- 1,401,381
The Black Keys- 1,940,483
God- 2,074,300
Mumford and Sons- 2,693,585
Pearl Jam- 5,458,320
Ice cream- 7,837,567
The Rolling Stones- 9,584,786
Rafael Nadal- 10,200,852
Kings Of Leon- 10,539,699
Nickelback- 13,211,579
Adele- 24,899,850
Barack Obama- 25,917,507
Lil Wayne- 36,591,348
Justin Bieber- 42,022,582
Lady Gaga- 49,811,987

I'm gonna hate for a minute:

I just read through this list again and Nickelback having over 13 million likes is insane to me. What the? That band is gawd awful.

Grant it I haven't had much exposure to their music (only because I change the channel or radio station ASAP when their music or videos are being played). But I recognize that cat's voice and their music well enough to know that I need to stay far away from that garbage.

...more likes than ice cream, that's just ridiculous.

[LeanneP]

As a Canadian, I'd just like to take another oppourtunity to apologise: "I'm sorry. We didn't mean to give you Nickleback. It was an accident."

[Fully]

It's about time somebody apologized for that.

[johnnYYac]

As a Canadian, I'd just like to take another oppourtunity to apologise: "I'm sorry. We didn't mean to give you Nickleback. It was an accident."

Its okay, you also gave us Neil and Rush, so I forgive you, Canada.

[jadavis7]

"Likes" on Facebook-

Wax Fang- 563
Heartless Bastards- 9,934
Plaxico Burress- 25,735
Alabama Shakes- 48,386
Built to Spill- 105,772
Neko Case- 132,679
My Morning Jacket- 297,932
Flaming Lips- 383,860
Jenna Jameson- 412,203
Wilco- 487,272
Band of Horses- 846,403
Planking- 854,253
Arcade Fire- 1,401,381
The Black Keys- 1,940,483
God- 2,074,300
Mumford and Sons- 2,693,585
Pearl Jam- 5,458,320
Ice cream- 7,837,567
The Rolling Stones- 9,584,786
Rafael Nadal- 10,200,852
Kings Of Leon- 10,539,699
Nickelback- 13,211,579
Adele- 24,899,850
Barack Obama- 25,917,507
Lil Wayne- 36,591,348
Justin Bieber- 42,022,582
Lady Gaga- 49,811,987

I'm gonna hate for a minute:

I just read through this list again and Nickelback having over 13 million likes is insane to me. What the? That band is gawd awful.

Grant it I haven't had much exposure to their music (only because I change the channel or radio station ASAP when their music or videos are being played). But I recognize that cat's voice and their music well enough to know that I need to stay far away from that garbage.

...more likes than ice cream, that's just ridiculous.

Jesus, more people like Jenna Jameson than the Flaming Lips. MMJ and Neko Case together don't add up to Jenna's likes.

Le sigh. Stupid humanity.

Also, what is it with Mumford & Sons? Their weird pseudo-religious folk nonsense--I just don't get it, but all my female friends (and the mopey dude friends) love 'em.

[exist10z]

The only ones with a near appropriate level of appreciation are Arcade Fire, Black Keys, Pearl Jam, Ice Cream, The Rolling Stones, and Obama (and maybe Nadal, but I don't know anything about tennis).  Everything else is either under or over appreciated, some things absurdly so, in relation to their relative value.

Obviously people have different tastes, preferences, but some of this is just absurd.  Absurd, but not surprising.  I find that the less you expect of people, the less you are disappointed.

I would be particularly galled by Mumford and Sons (given their pedestrian talent and clearly formulaic corporate sound), but when Nickelback has 5x their numbers and Bieber has 20x, it almost makes M&S's popularity justifiable.

Oh the humanity...

[bartel]

KOL have all those likes makes me sick. especially KOL in 2012.

[lpkell2145]

As a Canadian, I'd just like to take another oppourtunity to apologise: "I'm sorry. We didn't mean to give you Nickleback. It was an accident."

Oooh that's right, they are Canadian. I'm so sorry Leanne P.

[Tracy 2112]

upda-upda-update

"Likes" on Facebook

April 2012/8 month update


Wax Fang- 563 /1,915
Heartless Bastards- 9,934 /29,814
Plaxico Burress- 25,735 /26,543
Alabama Shakes- 48,386 /151,228
Built to Spill- 105,772 /113,037
Neko Case- 132,679 /146,614
My Morning Jacket- 297,932 /333,137
Flaming Lips- 383,860 /425,843
Jenna Jameson- 412,203 /511,292
Wilco- 487,272 /522,263
Band of Horses- 846,403 /943,603
Planking- 854,253 /1,118,831
Arcade Fire- 1,401,381 /1,541,394
The Black Keys- 1,940,483 /2,591,352
God- 2,074,300 /3,516,975
Mumford and Sons- 2,693,585 /3,437,987
Pearl Jam- 5,458,320 /6,187,375
Ice cream- 7,837,567 /12,322,640
The Rolling Stones- 9,584,786 /11,383,809
Kings Of Leon- 10,539,699 /11,001,315
Nickelback- 13,211,579 /14,907,702
Adele- 24,899,850 /36,863,383
Barack Obama- 25,917,507 /34,026,109
Lil Wayne- 36,591,348 /41,420,563
Justin Bieber- 42,022,582 /48,720,966
Lady Gaga- 49,811,987 /54,104,089

Justin Bieber is 146x more popular than MMJ 

[Crispy]

Looks like God has moved ahead of Mumford and Sons, so they've got to be sad about that.

[e_wind]

I'm surprised that 5million people recently decided to like Ice Cream

[Crispy]

I'm surprised that 5million people recently decided to like Ice Cream

OH! You can like ice cream on Facebook?

This is the over 40 thread now, right?

[exist10z]

Looks like God has moved ahead of Mumford and Sons, so they've got to be sad about that.

Funny thing, I actually have a lot more respect/'like' conceptually for Mumford and Sons than for god, and I didn't think I could like anything less than Mumford and Sons.