1. Iron Maiden 1
2. Sonata Arctica 3
3. Slayer 4
4. Stratovarius 10
5. Rhapsody (of fire) 14
6. Lacuna Coil 8
7. Jeremy Soule 2
8. Queen 15
9. Korpiklaani 13
10. Nightwish 11
11. The 69 Eyes 5
12. Golden Earring 16
13. Freedom Call 25
14. Altaria 23
15. Charon 43
16 Manowar 37
17. Judas Priest 9
18. The Police 12
19. Flogging Molly 48
20. Bruce Dickinson 46
21. Billy Joel 45
22. Guus Meeuwis 6
23. Elvis Presley 64
24. Tiamat 7
25. Creedence Clearwater Revival 19
26. Metallica 28
27. AC/DC 78
28. Bruce Springsteen 34
29. DragonForce 71
30. Soilwork 35
31. Lordi 75
32. The Rolling Stones 39
33. Simon & Garfunkel 51
34 Vangelis 41
35. Stef Bos 116
36. Sting 18
37. HammerFall 59
38. The Offspring 77
39. Blutengel 22
40. Ferry Corsten 66
41. Testament 109
42. Elvenking 125
43. Sam Cooke 83
44 Neil Young 139
45. Nirvana 69
46. Helloween 16
47. Dark Tranquillity 74
48. Dream Evil 30
49. Alphaville 86
50. Pet Shop Boys 151
Conclusion.
As I see it now. Nr 1-20 is mostly stable, none of the bands have been kicked out of the top 50, though a few bands are almost kicked out (Flogging Molly and Bruce Dickinson).
As for the nr 21 to 50 we can see that only 7 bands have won some places on the list. But most of the bands have lost or are losing the race against newly founded bands. Some bands are slowly dropping, like the rolling stones and others like Stef Bos have even lost sight of the top 50 (now standing 116).
So it is my conclusion that there is movement on the list but that it is a slow time consuming event. The fact that I never listen for hours to one band, make it for bands even harder to get in the list
Useless facts and more:
Highest newest band since the 2007 list is Faun with place 20.
Incoming bands with the potential to hit the top 50
55. Herman van Veen (got loads of new songs, thnx Timo_JZ)
63. Duran Duran
79. Apokalyptischen Reiter (got loads of new songs, thnx again Timo_JZ)
82. Sublime (got loads of new songs)
Fast rising bands on the top 500 list:
252 Ron Wasserman (go x-men!!)
287 Symphorce
318 Tony Britten
344 The Automatic
353 Shinedown
356 Marc Anthony
401 Shania Twain
423 Timbaland
433 Alestorm
Tracks with much potential:
1. Timbaland – Morning After Dark (Featuring Nelly Furtado & SoShy)
2 Shinedown – Second Chance
3. Timbaland – The Way I Are
4. Marc Anthony – You Sang to Me
5. Duran Duran – Wild Boys (140 in all time list, none of the other songs are on the top 500 most listened track list)