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Topic: Prog artists likes on FB
Posted: January 12 2016 at 20:33

I was on FB and somehow started checking the amount of likes some bands had to see their popularity. These are the amount for the biggest prog bands (maybe I forgot some)

-Camel (94.000) (but not an "official" page)

-King Crimson (362.000) (idem)

-Porcupine Tree (555.000) (idem)

-ELP (666.000)

-Zappa (690.000)

-Yes (756.000)

-Supertramp (760.000)

-Jethro Tull (1.200.000)

-Kansas (1.400.000)

-Opeth (1.400.000)

-Tool (1.400.000)

-Genesis (1.900.000)

-Rush (2.900.000)

-Dream Theater (3.600.000)

-Pink Floyd (29.500.000)

And some "prog related", etc.

-Moody Blues 1.000.000

-ELO 1.500.000

-Radiohead 11.000.000

-The Doors 16.900.000

-Muse 17.300.000

-Queen 29.000.000

And in individual pages

Peter Gabriel 1.500.000

Roger Waters 1.700.000

David Gilmour 2.130.000
Phil Collins 5.900.000 Stern Smile

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Posted: January 12 2016 at 20:36

Checking some jazz Weather Report has 240.000, Jaco Pastorius 360.000, Herbie Hancock 850.000, Miles Davis 2.000.000. Far more than I expected in these cases.

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Posted: January 12 2016 at 22:06

And Pink Floyd remains the Monster of prog. I wonder how they are doing compared with the pop icons of this times.

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Posted: January 13 2016 at 15:31

Dellinger wrote:

And Pink Floyd remains the Monster of prog. I wonder how they are doing compared with the pop icons of this times.

Where do you see all the likes? Might be a dumb question but I went to Taylor Swift's page and I didn't see how many 'likes' she had but there was a picture that said: "100+"

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Posted: January 13 2016 at 15:55

^ 74.000.000

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Posted: January 13 2016 at 21:38

So it seems not even Pink Floyd can compete with today's pop artists... yet I would like to see how popular she will be in 20 or 30 years...

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Posted: January 15 2016 at 05:00

I actually removed Genesis from my 'likes' on Facebook because it pretty much turned into a page about Phil Collins. I constantly see 'Anniversary of We Can't Dance!!' or "In October 1991, Genesis grooved up the charts, hitting No.7 on both sides of the Atlantic with ‘I Can’t Dance!", lyrics to 'Jesus Knows Me'... Ehh..

I think a vast majority of Progarchives members tend to stay away from Facebook. 48 people 'like' 'Quella Vecchia Locanda', so I know Facebook is bias

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Posted: January 15 2016 at 06:54

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Posted: January 15 2016 at 07:09

I'am always checking this kind of thing also...

Pink Floyd has the same amount of likes of contemporary pop artists, its impressive...

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Posted: January 15 2016 at 08:59

Never been on Facebook. Intresting stats though. Pink Floyd's popularity is obvious.

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Posted: January 15 2016 at 22:26

Raccoon wrote:

I actually removed Genesis from my 'likes' on Facebook because it pretty much turned into a page about Phil Collins. I constantly see 'Anniversary of We Can't Dance!!' or "In October 1991, Genesis grooved up the charts, hitting No.7 on both sides of the Atlantic with ‘I Can’t Dance!", lyrics to 'Jesus Knows Me'... Ehh..

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Perhaps you did not "like" the right Genesis FB page. There must be some about the Gabriel era specifically, so you might want to look for such one.

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