August 10th, 2009
Artists that Played Pitchfork Music Festival in 2008 and Lollapalooza in 2009
I always love watching which artists play which festivals each summer. Last summer in Chicago Next Big Sound took a company trip to the Pitchfork Music Festival and saw Animal Collective, Bon Iver and Fleet Foxes along with many others. All of these bands also played at the “other Chicago music festival” this past weekend.
It is interesting looking at their graphs over the past month and seeing them all basically trend together. Not surprisingly, these artists see the majority of their plays from people’s iTunes libraries which we capture via last.fm’s scrobbling technology.
I was curious to see which bands saw a spike in play counts after the big festival. The numbers for the bands over the weekend were fairly level but Animal Collective’s play counts from Sunday to Monday doubled from 40,000 to 80,000. Even though they performed Saturday night it looks like people waited until the start of the work week to start jamming them.
This is awesome! Dan Deacon was my favorite set of Lollapalooza, and I see his numbers jumped a day after his performance.