Saturday from Noon til 2pm SLT I’ll be spinning music for the grand opening of LaDonna Upshaw’s grand re-opening of her newer, bigger store on South Sea Isle. LaDonna makes high quality furniture with many poses, colors and forms. I’ll be playing quality rock and pop from the 60s,70s and 80s for your listening / dancing pleasure. See the SLURL below for a landing point.
http://slurl.com/secondlife/South%20Sea%20Isle/195/182/27

Music stats for October 2009
October showed a lot of gains for KONA Radio in listenership levels. After a deep drop in August we’ve rebounded from 11,000 to over 15,000 Total Listener Hours. Those late summer doldrums are far behind us now and it looks like the numbers will keep up for the foreseeable future. Below are the latest stats from the Shoutcast.com stats page. I’ve included other SL stations for comparison. Not all are represented here as they choose not to be listed, use Icecast, or otherwise I’ve never heard about.
SHOUTCAST TTSL REPORT
Report Date: Sun Nov 1 04:00:01 2009
30 day rolling total, taken from 30 days of data
POS TTSL TUNE-INS 5-MIN-TUNE-INS STATION
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#2514 15,466 30,848 6,798 KONA Radio – Qlty Music 60s 70s & 80s
#3895 8,014.75 24,251 6,469 IndieSpectrum Radio, Indie originals with artists from Second Life
#5007 5,315.25 12,477 4,086 KTOX – Second LIfe
#8901 1,870.5 5,627 2,010 K-TOX Toxian City Radio Second Life – Industrial and More!
#5520 4,505.25 13,736 3,128 WALICED YOUR RADIO IN SECONDLIFE
#9074 1,800 13,165 3,336 SL Live Radio – Live Music Second Life Previews
#10807 1,285.75 18,270 1,145 DBC Radio TV Join us inside Second Life
#12122 1,036.75 8,171 1,425 PUB Radio – your FIRST Choice in SECOND LIFE music
TOTAL 39294.25
HOURS
I would imagine the stations I could not find would easily total another 10-15,000 hours a month.
Now contrast this to the EVE-ONLINE community which has an active community of 300,000 accounts and a typical concurrency of 40,000 players. EVE-ONLINE is the premiere radio station for the community boasting over 2 dozen DJs and a primary music stream.
EVE-ONLINE community station
#1148 45,763 44,176 14,829 EVE-Radio.com: EVE Radio Jukebox
#3643 8,945.5 12,402 5,946 EVE-Radio.com: Wiggles on EvE-Radio
#5368 4,722.75 7,222 2,586 EVE-Radio.com: Helix
#5381 4,708.5 15,979 5,317 EVE-Radio.com: Miss Emopants
#5597 4,400.75 8,742 2,859 EVE-Radio.com: DJ Anarkros
#6467 3,455.75 4,425 1,847 EVE-Radio.com: Whitey Towers
#6777 3,167.75 6,856 2,382 EVE-Radio.com: EVE-Radio: DJ Moz
#6884 3,059.25 5,782 2,121 EVE-Radio.com: GRN – Eve-Radio LIVE 2
#6928 3,031 8,713 3,062 EVE-Radio.com: WorldEater
#7398 2,681.25 11,237 3,595 EVE-Radio.com: DJ Sam
#7782 2,431.75 6,937 2,342 EVE-Radio.com: DJ LMP zwntana! (live 1)
#8793 1,914.75 4,010 1,433 EVE-Radio.com: eve-radio | Live 2
#8817 1,906.5 3,697 1,318 EVE-Radio.com: DJ WarMaster
#9005 1,823.25 3,538 1,200 EVE-Radio.com: EVE Radio
#9122 1,784.5 9,208 3,055 EVE-Radio.com: DJ Erkenfresh Live on EVE Radio
#9141 1,776.5 3,419 1,216 EVE-Radio.com: DJ Dunewolf
#9184 1,762 3,191 1,114 EVE-Radio.com: EvE Radio LIVE 1:
#9234 1,745.25 3,844 1,184 EVE-Radio.com: The Adragon Technochrist Show
#9599 1,615.25 6,550 1,985 EVE-Radio.com: EVE-Radio.com
#10136 1,453.25 3,372 1,118 EVE-Radio.com: DJ Kraven’s Uplink
#10324 1,395.75 3,757 1,716 EVE-Radio.com: Minerdave-a-saur on Eve-Radio
#10383 1,382 2,626 1,025 EVE-Radio.com: EVE-Radio Live 1: DJ Spuffy
#10426 1,374 3,042 1,014 EVE-Radio.com: Forty-Two
#10863 1,274 0 0 EVE-Radio.com: DJ MrNix
#10947 1,249.25 0 0 EVE-Radio.com: Eve Radio 2 – DJ Hemlock
#11399 1,155 7,804 2,662 EVE-Radio.com: LamsterBunny
#11763 1,092.5 0 0 EVE-Radio.com: JusJ4ck
TOTAL HOURS = 111,071
Perhaps it’s the fact the Eve community is closer knit and pursuing the same goals and interest that allows this one station to do so well in a smaller population than SL? Similar attempts at a Grid wide music service has failed (Phreak, Cyrscomm) as they simply failed to gain traction and could not support themselves. My station gets the majority of it’s listeners from iTunes. While SL’s population is very diverse you’d think the stations here would do much better. I think it’s a matter of exposure or a lack there of. Getting the word out about your station isn’t easy as the media in SL doesn’t reach masses, only select portions of the population. I can’t really complain much as my station does support itself but I’ll take listeners where I can get them 🙂
