Thanks for the reference. I did once check into the "top players" of particular groups and they seem to be playing those tracks an infeasible number of times. As you say, there's definitely an element of gaming the system going on. Relatedly, I wonder if we'll get a story of "so and so" sacked/disciplined for playing unsuitable music during working hours with their scrobbler record being used as evidence.
out of curiosity, what order of magnitude is "an unfeasible number of times" in this case? 10^4+? or somewhere around 10^3? i have a few tracks in my iTunes on campus that have been played a LOT more than is average for that sort of thing - either because I played them on repeat, or in a loop, or something similar. [Soundtracks ripped as single mp3 files are particularly prone to this.... especially if you leave them running overnight by accident.] --e