I love the long tail as much as anyone.
Heck, I’m part of the long tail. Or, more accurately, part of a long tail.
But could there possibly be 3 million bands on MySpace? I mean, there’s a hundred million people supposedly on MySpace, which really means something like 10-20 million users.
15-30% of them are “bands?” It’s a little hard to swallow.
Which doesn’t mean that some startling musical wunderkind won’t emerge from the MySpace hive.
But it does mean that these numbers – as all other things MySpace – need to be taken with a largish grain of salt. Just because you have a million monkeys typing on a million typewriters doesn’t mean you’re going to get Shakespeare.
Even monkeys don’t have tails that long.
[tags] myspace, bands, music, long tail, john koetsier [/tags]
A “largish grain of salt”?
Take it with a grain of salt, the salt shaker, plus the whole bloody mine it came from!