Naturally, before we begin, I need to issue the usual caveats:įirst, since I’m working with numbers, let it be known that I am not a statistician and I, in fact, have failed math at every educational level possible.
There’s… no hiding it anymore.Īh, but does IMN actually work? Welp, let’s find out. You get to laugh at how defiantly unpopular the Black Market’s monthly selections tend to run. It allows you to test whether an obscure artist has actually broken out.Ĥ. It sets an in-the-moment threshold for what can and cannot be considered underground.ģ. It creates a tier of “gateway” bands, which are entry-level bands that start fans on the path to blissful, life-ruining heavy metal discovery.Ģ. Specifically, IMN estimates the likelihood that an imaginary, average early 20-something, music-curious person (IAE20MCP) has heard an artist or band if they’re already familiar with Iron Maiden.ġ. Without further gum-flapping, let me introduce the Iron Maiden Number (IMN), a stat designed to measure a heavy metal artist or band’s mainstream relevancy. Of course, me being me and this column being this column, I thought, Huh, I wonder if I can make a dumb metric out of that. All of that is probably worth investigating. In the aftermath of Iron Maiden’s viewplosion, plenty of reasons have been offered to explain the massive response: “The Writing On the Wall” is Maiden’s first new music in nearly six years, the longest layoff in the NWOBHM institution’s nearly 40-plus-year career this hyper-online age of instant reactions and other forms of circular viral engagement is uniquely engineered to spin up ludicrous numbers it’s a decent song with a fun video and on and on and on.
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