MGMT blend a mix of genres into one hybrid genre. Potentially reaching out to a bigger fan base. Though it is also risky incase the fans don't like this hybrid. But none-the-less, MGMT has built up quite a fan following.
Looking at the Official MGMT Myspace page. We can see that the band has 264379 Friends. Keeping in mind this is not 100% of their fans, more likely to only be a small fraction of their actual total fans, but this doesn't change the face that 264379 is a lot of people in itself.
Browsing through various pages of their friend list gives us a quick look of the kind of people who enjoy MGMTs music. The interesting thing about MGMTs fans is that a large percentage of them just look like normal average people, even though the music itself is very strange and abstract. There are little stereotypical fans such as "emo" or "chav"
Looking at Last.FM, Weekend Wars was the 4th most played song this week by MGMT, with a massive 12,300 plays this week alone. They also have 28,716,171 total plays from a combined 930,839 users.
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