I’m number 374! (In Connecticut, that is.)
I managed to convince one or two people to download Hope’s Treat, the experimental EP I wrote about yesterday.
The workings of Bandcamp’s most-popular ratings are unknown to me. A quick Google search suggests others don’t know exactly how they work either, except that they seem to be based on sales, not plays.
Still, I thought my brief burst of success might translate into an appearance on one of the most-popular pages.
And sure enough, Hope’s Treat currently ranks as the 374th-most-popular Bandcamp recording with the tag “Connecticut.”
(It’s tagged Connecticut because that’s where my grandpa made the 1940s-vintage piano recordings that I molested for the purposes of my experimental EP.)
How did I calculate the number? Did I rely on one of the fancy tube-glowin’ “computers” Casey Kasem’s team used to use to calculate 1970s American Top 40 countdowns?
Naw, it was simple. Each page displays 40 individual recordings (be they full-length albums, EPs, or whatever.)
Hope’s Treat, as of this moment, is on page 10 … so there are 360 recordings ahead of it. And it’s the 14th recording displayed on page 10. Hence, No. 374.
Sadly, I am a few places behind Walnut Shitstorm’s A 3D Map of Poland. I know now what it was like to be John Fogerty and have “Green River” stuck behind “In The Year 2525” for all those weeks.
Art is cruel.
Edit: But wait, it gets better! Hope’s Treat is currently the 13th-most-popular Bandcamp title with the tag “Allentown.” It’s on Page One of the listings and everything.
Dude! I’ve got a record in the Top 20.
Where’s the champagne?
Neck Pickup 
Walnut Shitstorm is either the greatest band name ever, or the worst.
I think I’m going to have to go check them out. There is at least a slim possibility that they are geniuses.