[Mike Brown]

In article ,
"Tony Done" wrote:

I wouldn't have guessed that either. I'm also surprised at the uniformity
and flatness of the proportion, in spite of changing genres and industry
marketing techniques. Like Les, I would like to see some kind of frequency
statistics, though I wouldn't have said power law. More likely something
like Poisson, though my stats theory isn't good enough for the fine print of
that.

Tony D

Of course they are talking about the "Top 100". Many of them may have
crept in at position 99 or 100 with a once in a lifetime stroke of luck
rather than a heap of talent. We are talking about popularity not
quality.

MJRB