Charts

Last.fm's musical aggregating is shown and displayed in charts. This visual device is perhaps the most integral part of Last.fm, and takes the mess of a music player playlist and turns it into an organized design charting musical preferences and tastes by artist, song, and number of plays. By clicking the charts tab located on the side of the profile page, the user can interact with a variety of charts, and in essense, explore their musical preferences in these organized charts. They can manipulate the timeline of the aggreation, and decide if they are to be organized by artist, song, or albums.



The charts can be embedded into other sites via code. The designs for the chart vary, and can be chosen by the user. The charts are a live feed that automatically updates itself. Last.fm uses these immediate charts to represent itself on other sites. By showing charts that are fully live, this represents a website that is fully live as well. They are always current, and there is no lag on their feeds. These charts can be displayed anywhere, and can pique the curiousity of non-Last.fm users. The chart displays Last.fm's site themes in a short clickable blurb of information. It's a simple chart, without much detail, and leaves the viewer wondering how this website can know what their users are listening to at that exact moment.