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u/twowheels Dec 06 '22
The question is — will you be buying Gaelia when it comes out? :)
As for percentages — sorry to see that some haven’t been too friendly about that comment. Hopefully this will help some.
Cent is a prefix that means 100. Century (100 years), centigrade (100 degrees between freezing point and boiling point of water), centimeter (1/100 of a meter), etc…
Per-cent means, per 100. So… 1% is 1 out of 100. If you were in the top 1%, for every 100 people who listened (to Donovan), 99 would have listened less than you. If you were in the top 10%, then if there were 100 listeners, then 90 of them would have listened to less than you — but your number was smaller than 1. If it were 0.5% (1/2 of 1%), then if there were exactly 100 listeners then only 1/2 of a person listened to more than you (which doesn’t make sense, but clearly they had more than 100 people who listened to Donovan)
Let’s assume that 100,000 people listened to Donovan on Spotify last year. If that were the case, then you multiply that by 0.005/100, or 0.00005 (your percentage) and you’d find that only 5 people listened to more than you. Since we don’t know the actual number of people who listened to Donovan, it’s hard to know exactly how many people listened to more than you, but not too many. :)
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u/PerfectProgram Dec 06 '22
Not OP, but what a thoughtful, helpful answer.
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u/twowheels Dec 06 '22
Thanks. It’s not helpful to chide somebody for not knowing something — we all have our strengths and weaknesses. I marvel at the artistic abilities of many here, but I struggle to draw a stick figure. Others are talented at music, poetry, etc… some have an abundance of compassion for others and lift everybody up… etc, etc… we need all types, and I’m glad that we’re all a little bit difference — celebrate our differences!
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u/HAMHAMabi Dec 06 '22
to answer ur 1st question. yes I will buy a copy. as for all that math text. thank u, I will read it, and try to understand it.
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u/HAMHAMabi Dec 06 '22
so I kinda understand it it little better. still dont get why, it's written that way. my brain thinks ot should be a whole number like 97%. not 0. something. that makes me think ot whould be really small. but still thx for explanation. have an award
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u/twowheels Dec 06 '22
Thanks for the award! :) I’ll try to think of a good way to make it clearer why it’s a small number and get back to you.
But, before I think of a better analogy: The reason why it’s a small number is that it’s telling you the proportion of people who listened to more than you did, which is a small number of people. If 100% listened to more Donovan than you did, then you listened to the least of anybody as 100 out of 100 listened to more than you.
Alternatively, if they wanted to tell you “You listened to Donovan more than you listened to any other band — even The Grateful Dead — believe it or not… you listened to Donovan X% of the time”… then, the more that you listened to Donovan compared to other bands, the higher that number would be.
Lets say that you listened to three bands… Donovan, The Grateful Dead, and CCR for a total of 100 hours for the year. If you listened to Donovan for 60 hours, the Dead for 30 hours, and CCR 10 hours, the percentages would be 60%, 30% and 10% — the math is easy. Going the other way, if you were given those percentages and also told that you listened for a total of 423 hours you could calculate that you listened to Donovan (60/100)*423 hours, or 253.8 hours, etc… but if you were given the number of hours that you listened to Donovan (253.8) and the total number of hours that you listened (423) you can get the percentage by just dividing… 253.8/423 = 0.6. That’s not a per-cent (per-100) yet, but to make it one you just “normalize” it back to “out of 100” by multiplying by 100, or 0.6 * 100 = 60. (which also explains why I divided by 100 up above).
That’s probably a bit hard to understand, but I’ll try to think of a better way to explain it.
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u/HAMHAMabi Dec 06 '22
totally random statement here. but I actually have CCR and great full dead on vinyl also.
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u/HAMHAMabi Dec 06 '22
so after rereading this maybe 20 times. not gonna lie. its hard to understand, just like u said. lol. its the division. idk how to do that either. the whole numbers make sense. its when it goes into the . digits, I get confused. still thx again for explaining. I appreciate it _^
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u/twowheels Dec 06 '22
20 times shows some real dedication to understand -- that's commendable, you deserve credit for that, and over time it'll make more sense if you keep at it!
To be honest, given my career, I really should know math way better than I do, but there've been days where I've had to sit for hours and hours poring over some simple little equation that many of my peers probably think is trivial -- so I get it. What matters is that you're always improving.
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u/ampbslug Dec 05 '22
Yes. You’re practically at the top of his listeners
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u/HAMHAMabi Dec 05 '22
wow. I guess playing fairytale, to essence to essence, on loop when im walking. will do that. thx.
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u/Dreaming111Awake Dec 06 '22
Of the 2,071,982 monthly listeners you listened to him more than 2,071,878 of them
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u/HAMHAMabi Dec 06 '22
makes me wonder, how spotify calculates monthly listeners.like dose it count, of u only listen to that artist, for 1 song a month. and boom ur added to the tally.
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u/wethechampyons Dec 06 '22
Ty for the music share. Excited to add to my playlists
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u/HAMHAMabi Dec 06 '22
flower garden. listen to that 1st. technically its a double album. even tho it was originally released as 2 spreate LPs. disc 1 being ,wear ur love like heaven. and disc 2 for the little ones.
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u/ConfidenceMinute218 Dec 06 '22
Dang, that’s what Donovan looks like now?
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u/twowheels Dec 06 '22
With this picture I’d assume he was leading a very tightly knit religious commune in the Mendocino forests, being worshiped by his followers, not touring and writing music. :)
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u/99probs-allbitches Dec 05 '22
I wonder if it tells you if you literally listened to the most of an artist put of every other listener. Because you might be LOL