Trendrr Analysis: Does Vampire Weekend Owe Success to Sweaters?
My friend Mark just started this awesome website called Trendrr.com, which allows you to track and graph all sorts of different data, then slice, dice, and compare your findings at will. Want to track record sales of “Consolers of the Lonely” against the frequency of “internet downloading” on Google News? Just punch in the appropriate keywords and start tracking.
Ever since joining the site I’ve spent hours creating, searching, and viewing my own and other people’s graphs. It sure does make for some fascinating findings. Take for example, my recent comparison of sweater sales on eBay vs blog posts about Vampire Weekend:
Not only is eternally preppy overwear on a greater upswing than Vampire Weekend, it seems like VW might even benefit from the increased awareness of knitted pull-overs in the form of more blog posts. Are the two really related? The world may never know, but it sure is fun finding what other keywords might be tangentially linked to the band.
1. WEB SHERIFF | 3:44 pm on March 31st, 2008
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Hi TMA,
On behalf of XL Recordings and Warner Bros Records, many thanks for your (small !!) plug for “Consolers Of The Lonely” … .. thanks also, on behalf of the labels and The Raconteurs, for not posting any pirate links although, if you / your readers would like a good quality, non-pirated, preview clip, a widget of the promo video for “Salute Your Solution” is available for fans and bloggers to embed at http://www.theraconteurs.com/widget.html
Regards,
WEB SHERIFF
2. Hanan | 4:42 pm on March 31st, 2008
that’s hilarious.
I do love sweaters AND VW. they must be related
3. laura | 5:46 pm on March 31st, 2008
Man, Web Sheriff has no sense of CONTEXT.