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Re:MusicBrainz: an open music encyclopedia by exogen on Sunday June 04, 2017 @08:34PM (#14484530)
I'm assuming it already exists due to the existence of pages like https://musicbrainz.org/tops/mb_top_stuff.html and https://stats.metabrainz.org, I'm just not positive of it. :)

Even if it's not collected though, it's data that they at least already have the ability to collect by simply flipping a switch, as opposed to spinning up a whole new ListenBrainz service and hoping it gains traction.

Re:MusicBrainz: an open music encyclopedia by Freso on Monday June 05, 2017 @06:21AM (#14486480)
Oh, and the mp_top_stuff.html page was created less than a week ago.

You're absolutely right that we could, in theory, have that data, but we do not currently. Not in any usable form (for this purpose) anyway.

Re:MusicBrainz: an open music encyclopedia by Freso on Monday June 05, 2017 @06:19AM (#14486472)
Note that ListenBrainz may be used for getting "popularity" metrics, but that is not its intended goal.