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Most Viewed March 2010

Higher Plain Music — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 17:26:43 +0000

It’s been a while since we’ve had such a huge runaway winner on our most viewed list, but March 2010 saw Brendan Perry overdrive as his tour kicked off and his new songs were revealed! Not only that, but March saw Higher Plain Music far surpass its previous most busy month ever (last month actually) by a whopping 600 views! I’d like to send a massive thanks to every reader and I hope you continue to stay with me. So without further ado, the top 10 artists and top 5 games of March…

01) Brendan Perry (2 months)

02) Lisa Gerrard (^)

03) Naoyuki Hiroko (Halo Legends Crew) (v)

04) Hideki Sakamoto (NE)

05) Garry Shyman (NE)

06) Jesper Kyd (-)

07) Ayumi Hamasaki (RE)

08) Hiroki Kikuta (RE)

09) Jeff Kinney (NE)

10) Normand Corbeil (NE)

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Games

01) RTL Winter Sports 2010 (ps3) (2 months)

02) Heavy Rain (PS3)

03) Battle Tanks (ps3)

04) Musaic Box (PC)

05) .detuned (PS3)

Tagged: Ayumi Hamasaki, Brendan Perry, garry schymann, Hideki Sakamoto, Hiroki Kikuta, Jeff Kinney, Jesper Kyd, Lisa Gerrard, Naoyuki Hiroko, Normand Corbeil

Most Viewed For 2009

Higher Plain Music — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 17:36:04 +0000

Well the year is out and so we leave 2009 with our top 10 most viewed artists and here they are:

01) Lisa Gerrard: With more posts getting more than 150+ views than any other artist, Lisa Gerrard topped our most viewed list and she looks to stay high in 2010. Her Balibo soundtrack was amazing, and we’re still waiting for her 2009 album “The Black Opal” to arrive to review. Well done Lisa

02) Vienna Teng: Vienna went under the radar for me and is a surprise second. Her fourth album Inland Territory is absolutely stunning and we got our hands on her live DVD from a while back and loved that too. Hears hoping to more in 2010!

03) Brendan Perry: The anticipation for Ark continues and Brendan continues to clock up hits while we wait. Ark looks like hitting early 2010 and rest assured, HPM will be buying it on release day!

04) OverClocked ReMix: Well the biggest game music remixing project chalked up several releases but it was the FF4 project that really exploded over here grabbing the most viewed interview in 2009 with the project managers. 2010 will no doubt see tons of remixes for all and I’ll drink to that *glug*.

05) Akira Yamaoka: Well HPM did a lot of reviewing of Silent Hill soundtracks in 09 and that’s because the reviews always seem popular. Now Akira has left Konami (although Shattered Memories is still composed by him) it remains to be seen when we’ll hear of him next. Not too soon we hope!

06) Imogen Heap: Imogen actually had the most viewed post of 2009 with over 700 views of bizarrely the tracklisting for Ellipse. Sadly not as many read the review so that’s why Immi is down in 7th. 2010 looks like a year of touring so expect Heap to appear in the live vault!

07) Utada: This Is the One was one of pop’s best albums and was the third most read music review of 2009 and top of the non-game music reviews. Utada’s groove is definately on and maybe we’ll hear some more Japanese work in 2010.

08) Tori Amos: Tori strangely didn’t feature highly on the most viewed threads lists but constantly propped up just outside the top 10 and so ended up 8th overall. Abnormally Attracted to Sin and Midwinter Graces were fantastic albums that deserve much love and so 2010 should see Tori enjoy a break for a few months!

09) Hiroki Kikuta: The most read review of 2009 belongs to Hiroki and the Secret of Mana + Review that clocked over 500 hits. Hiroki was kind enough to send over one of his more obscure soundtracks which will be reviewed in 2010. Thank you Kikuta-san!

10) Christopher Tin: Sneaking in by just 2 views over Sarah Slean, Christopher Tin’s Calling All Dawns is simply devine and snatched the final spot on our top 10. Chris is a genuinely nice guy and deserves all the credit the albums recieved.

Top 5 Game Reviews

01) Battle Tanks (PS3)

02) Trash Panic (PS3)

03) Numblast (PS3)

04) Shatter (PS3)

05) Magic Ball (PS3)

Tagged: Akira Yamaoka, Brendan Perry, Christopher Tin, Hiroki Kikuta, Imogen Heap, Lisa Gerrard, OverClocked ReMix, Tori Amos, Utada, Vienna Teng

Most Viewed – November 2009

Higher Plain Music — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 23:54:25 +0000

Well November was a bit of a wash out for new posts due to my house move, but that didn’t stop November being the fifth busiest month of all time for hits! It was primarily down to one lady, Lisa Gerrard, who’s new album more than tripled the hits of the second placed artist. We’ll be reviewing all three new releases of Lisa’s this month.

01) Lisa Gerrard (2 months)

02) Tori Amos (^)

03) Brendan Perry (^)

04) Christopher Tin (v)

05) Hiroki Kikuta (^)

06) Imogen Heap (v)

07) Akira Yamaoka (RE)

08) Sarah Slean (RE)

09) Anonymous 4 (v)

10) Utada (RE)

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Games

01) .detuned (PS3)

02) Battle Tanks (PS3)

03) Numblast (PS3)

04) Shatter (PS3)

05) GripShaft (PS3)

Tagged: Akira Yamaoka, Anonymous 4, Brendan Perry, Christopher Tin, Hiroki Kikuta, Imogen Heap, Lisa Gerrard, Sarah Slean, Tori Amos, Utada

Most Viewed – October 2009

Higher Plain Music — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:57:04 +0000

October saw HPM have three distinct leaders in the race for top spot and despite only being a listen-to-the-samples post, Lisa Gerrard topped the bill for October while we all wait in anticipation for “The Black Opal”. Christoper Tin and Winifred Phillips followed closely behind with their interviews and reviews while Anonymous 4 was quickly catching all three at the end of the month. The top 10 are listed below:

01) Lisa Gerrard (^)

02) Christopher Tin (v)

03) Winifred Phillips (RE)

04) Anonymous 4 (NE)

05) Brendan Perry (-)

06) Imogen Heap (v)

07) Tori Amos (RE)

08) Hiroki Kikuta (v)

09) OverClocked Remix (v)

10) Yasunori Mitsuda (RE)

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Game Reviews

01) Battle Tanks (PS3)

02) Shatter (PS3)

03) .detuned (PS3)

04) Trash Panic (PS3)

05) Numblast (PS3)

Tagged: Anonymous 4, Brendan Perry, Christopher Tin, Hiroki Kikuta, Imogen Heap, Lisa Gerrard, OverClocked ReMix, winifred phillips, Yasunori Mitsuda

Most Viewed – September 2009

Higher Plain Music — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:51:17 +0000

Well due to my holiday and getting back into the routine, September was a very quiet month for HPM in general but towards the end we had a massive influx of visitors for one man – Christopher Tin! He grabs this months most viewed award with the review of his debut album and his interview afterwards. Lisa Gerrard also popped up the order with audio samples from forthcoming album Black Opal. Here’s the top 10 artists:

01) Christopher Tin (NE)

02) Lisa Gerrard (^)

03) Imogen Heap (v)

04) Lisa Germano (^)

05) Brendan Perry (v)

06) Hikoki Kikuta (^)

07) Module (v)

08) OverClocked ReMix (v)

09) Utada (v)

10) Vienna Teng (RE)

In the gaming front, Battl Tanks was the top read review this month and actually the second highest hit post this month too! We will be going really into game reviews from all old consoles from October and they will feature more prominantly, as the site will now be taking a much more active approach due to a change in circumstances of myself!

01) Battle Tanks (NE)

02) Shatter (v)

03) Numblast (v)

Tagged: Brendan Perry, Christopher Tin, Hiroki Kikuta, Imogen Heap, Lisa Germano, Lisa Gerrard, module, OverClocked ReMix, Utada, Vienna Teng

Most Viewed: August 2009

Higher Plain Music — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 02:43:50 +0000

And so to August 2009 where we had a four way fight for the top this month, won by Imogen Heap whereby more people actually viewed the tracklisting after the whole album was posted as a streaming audio on the website and people didn’t actually listen to the album itself! However, HPM has not reviewed Ellipse (although I personally love it already) because I’ve ordered the two disc edition and want to hold on until it comes through.

Behind it was all go for OverClocked Remix, Module and Brendan Perry.

01) Imogen Heap (^)

02) OverClocked ReMix (v)

03) Module (NE)

04) Brendan Perry (v)

05) Utada (v)

06) Kento Watanabe (NE)

07) Akira Yamaoka (^)

08) Hiroki Kikuta (v)

09) Vienna Teng (v)

10) Baiyon (NE)

Top 3 Games

01) Shatter

02) Numblast

03) Magic Ball

Tagged: Akira Yamaoka, Baiyon, Brendan Perry, Hiroki Kikuta, Imogen Heap, module, OverClocked ReMix, Utada, Vienna Teng

Most Viewed – July 2009

Higher Plain Music — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 10:11:29 +0000

Well was there really any doubt? OverClocked Remix absolutely smashed the charts with almost more views on OCR posts than the rest of the site put together! Only Imogen Heap’s track listing for her latest album Ellipse was able to pull in big numbers too. Interesting we had almost exactly the same number of visitors as June (14 difference) and it was our third most viewed month of the sites history. We did break one new record, our first day with more than 200 hits! August should be a great month too. Let’s enjoy the summer!

01) OverClocked Remix (RE)

02) Imogen Heap (v)

03) Brendan Perry (^)

04) Utada (^)

05) Vienna Teng (v)

06) Hiroki Kikuta (RE)

07) Akira Yamaoka (v)

08) Natalie Imbruglia (NE)

09) Patrick Wolf (v)

10) Dead Can Dance (v)

Top 3 Games Reviews

01) Numblast

02) Trash Panic

03) Magic Ball

Tagged: Akira Yamaoka, Brendan Perry, Dead Can Dance, Hiroki Kikuta, Imogen Heap, Natalie Imbruglia, OverClocked ReMix, Patrick Wolf, Utada, Vienna Teng

Most Viewed – May 2009

Higher Plain Music — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:48:50 +0000

For the first time in HPM’s history there hasn’t been a clear-cut winner with two artists almost drawing for first place on the most viewed list. Tori Amos however nudged it just from Utada to take top honours for the first time. It was our third most busiest month with visitors yet it was our equal second quietest in posts. This will change in June with an action packed month ahead! Here’s the top 10:

01) Tori Amos (^) 1 Month

02) Utada (v)

03) Sarah Slean (^)

04) Vienna Teng (v)

05) Reiko Nomura (NE)

06) Akira Yamaoka (^)

07) Brendan Perry (v)

08) Seiji Honda (NE)

09) Hiroki Kikuta (^)

10) OCRemix (v)

Tagged: Akira Yamaoka, Brendan Perry, Hiroki Kikuta, OCRemix, Reiko Nomura, Sarah Slean, Seiji Honda, Tori Amos, Utada, Vienna Teng

Most Viewed – April 2009

Higher Plain Music — Mon, 04 May 2009 16:29:51 +0000

Slightly delayed it may be, but here are the top ten artists that have been viewed for April 2009 which saw a bit of a change at the top with Utada taking top step from Tori Amos, Vienna Teng & Sarah Slean! Congrats to everyone on the list and here’s to another great month which will be full of new content (and a bit more prolific than last month!). However, it was our second busiest month of the sites history despite it being one of the quietest in terms of new content. May will be a busy one!
01) Utada (RE)

02) Tori Amos (^)

03) Vienna Teng (^)

04) Sarah Slean (v)

05) Brendan Perry (v)

06) Dead Can Dance (NE)

07) OverClocked Remix (v)

08) PJ Harvey (RE)

09) Akira Yamaoka (v)

10) Hiroki Kikuta (RE)

Tagged: Akira Yamaoka, Brendan Perry, Dead Can Dance, Hiroki Kikuta, OverClocked ReMix, PJ Harvey, Sarah Slean, Tori Amos, Utada, Vienna Teng

Most Viewed March 2009

Higher Plain Music — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 09:03:35 +0000

Well March was a big month! HPM hit a new high for hits and we should pass the 20,000 mark at some point in April – not too shabby for a site that’s dedicated to music that’s half about alternative, largely unknown artists, and half about video game music. This month was all about two artists who went blow to blow all the way until the final days however OverClocked Remix became the most viewed artist of the month and should become the most viewed artist of our site completely if things continue! The release of Summoning of Spirits and the interview with the project managers combined beat of the review of Utada’s anticipated second English album. Tori Amos’ latest album announcement slipped her into third while Vienna Teng slides down to fourth. Here’s the complete top 10:

01) OverClocked Remix (NE)

02) Utada (NE)

03) Tori Amos (^)

04) Vienna Teng (v)

05) Akira Yamaoka (v)

06) PJ Harvey & John Parish (NE)

07) Sarah Slean (<>)

08) Brendan Perry (v)

09) Hiroki Kikuta (v)

10) Yasunori Mitsuda (RE)

Tagged: Akira Yamaoka, Brendan Perry, Hiroki Kikuta, john parish, OverClocked ReMix, PJ Harvey, Sarah Slean, Tori Amos, Utada, Vienna Teng, Yasunori Mitsuda