oh yea about the plays, just to let you know that if you listen to 1/2 of the song, or at least 30 sec, it will count it as a play. so is that why the plays are messed up for you?
what is strange now is the fact that i have been playing all day to day, and have yet to see a play update. yea i will admit that there are some bugs, but being that i have seen what it was around a year and a half ago, it is a ton better then what it was. i will give zune that
also be carfull, sometimes the program thinks your song can be somthing other then what it really is. (like you said) you can right click on a album and click on "find album info" then see if you can not find the album there. (i am just throwing ideas out, not sure if they will work or not)
i think when they upload your information (songs), if there is a new artist (even if it is known or even fake) it will search the other data base for any others, and if ther is no one with it then it marks you as the top listener. It does the same for Valve (orange box soundtrack) for me. But this is just what i think if you want to know for sure just ask one of the zune staff (there zune cards are here somewhere; try the fourms)
... so how can I be a top listener for an artist not in the Zune database who doesn't even go by her real name when releasing albums nowadays?
Thank you softwares!