One is a critically acclaimed, though public relations challenged (misunderstood?), and innovative hip-hop artist. One straddles the line between huge commercial success and equally charged public hatred for their formula-driven hard rock.
Oddly, as newstats.com attempted to prove, fans of Nickelback and Kanye West aren't all that different. Upon deeper consideration, when artists cast such a wide net in fan penetration, similarities inevitably emerge.
In this chart, presented like a Venn, but without the Venn-like data, they analyze facebook, twitter and Radian6 data to show how mass market culture pervades, even with such stylistically different musicians.
It would be interesting to see how the interests and demographics of two stylistically different artists with a much smaller fanbases overlap (say Explosions In The Sky and Dawes...both of whom I love). Now excuse me while I return to reading Eat Pray Love.