The winner is…. BowieNet!
In the annual readers poll of German music magazine Musikexpress (Marchissue) readers voted www.davidbowie.com as the #1 website of the past year!
A landslide victory for our little wonderwolrd of a site: it got 8,6 % ofall the votes, almost twice as much as the runners up rollingstones.com andbeastieboys.com.
But that’s not all. German music freaks obviously love our DB nor justinteractively but also very actively: They consider him #2 solo artist ofthe year! Beaten to the top only by Beck (at least that’s good company) with10% of all the votes David again got almost twice as many as “#3 soloartistof the year”, Tom Waits, who got 5,4 %. David also charted in the”personality of the year” category at #9 amongst politicians, authors andsportsmen and a few musicians like Paul McCartney and Bono. (Sadly themisogynist attitudes David mentioned in his diaries recently are alsoreflected here: only one woman, tennis ace Steffi Graf, made it to the TopTen of that category.)
Also a great performance for “hours…“: #3 album of the year! And the clipfor “Thursday’s Child” was voted 6th best video of the year.
And even more chart sucess for DB in that issue of Musikexpress: In themonthly album charts voted for by readers “hours..” jumped up 3 places, nowranking at #5. And guest critic Robert Smith puts “Ziggy Stardust and theSpiders from Mars” at #5 in the list of his ten favourite albums of alltime.
Here are the full rankings of the relevant categories of the readers poll:
WEBSITE OF THE YEAR:
www.davidbowie.com 8,6%
www.rollingstones.com 4,7%
www.beastieboys.com 4,3%
www.mp3.com 3,9%
www.cdnow.com 3,4 %
SOLO ARTIST OF THE YEAR:
1. Beck 17,9%
2. David Bowie 10.0%
3. Tom Waits 5,4%
4. Robbie Williams 5,2%
5. Moby 3,8%
ALBUM OF THE YEAR:
1. Blur “13” 6,6%
2. Red Hot Chili Peppers “Californication” 4,8%
3. David Bowie “hours..” 4,4%
4. Travis “The Man Who” 4,2%
5. Beck “Midnight Vultures” 4,1 %
VIDEO OF THE YEAR:
1. “Coffee & TV” (Blur) 7,6%
2. “Turn the Page” (Metallica) 5,8%
3. “Beautiful Stranger” (Madonna) 5,6%
4. “Freak on a Leash” (Korn) 5,1%
5. “Why does my Heart feel so bad” (Moby) 3,9%
6. “Thursday’s Child” (David Bowie) 3,1%
Way to go!!!