MySpace album exclusives are kind of a big deal (in some circles) but do most people care? The majority of people who have gone to Guns N' Roses' MySpace page for the exclusive streaming preview of Chinese Democracy aren't sticking around long. The number of streams falls as you get deeper into the album -- and it's a sharper drop than I would have guessed a big preview would get. Fatigued from those six-minute epics? One or two tracks enough to satisfy curiosity? Could be plenty of reasons. One is the first track on an artist's MySpace page tends to play as soon as the player is loaded.

Paul McCartney's latest project, The Firemen, has an exclusive album stream at its MySpace page. Not too many listens, and fewer people are sticking around to hear the end of the album.

Here are the two albums side by side. The Firemen streams have been normalized so each track's stream can be compared as if both lead-off tracks have an equal number of streams. The Guns N' Roses album has one more track than the Firemen album.