My 2010 Music Charts
Well, 2010 is in the can. I made a lot of posts about music, but what did I actually listen to over the year? This is my first full year of using Last.fm to track my listening, so I can answer that question. The statistics aren't comprehensive as they don't include my Walkman (mostly loaded with goth & post-punk, mashups, nerdcore and metal), songs within podcasts, or some online listening (youtube and certain streaming audio). The latter two wouldn't be a major influence anyway.
My top ten artists for this year are as follows with play count this year in regular brackets and overall playcount ranking (extracted from my laptop in use since 2005) in square brackets:
My top album chart is filled with artists of which I don't have many albums, or who haven't released many albums:
Most of these albums are on this list because I played an album a lot at one time either on its own as an album, or as part of an entire catalogue playlist. Notably, this does not apply to the Rammstein album. I didn't really go on a Rammstein kick at any point last year, although I did finally buy Völkerball in 2010.
In the light of those numbers, it's no surprise that The Nova Echo's eponymous album dominates my list of most played tracks. In fact, the first fifteen of the chart comprises all the songs from that album plus two Allison Weiss tracks, 'Fingers Crossed' (2nd with 43 plays) and 'Try to Understand' (5th with 37) and Frightened Rabbit - 'Head Rolls Off' (13th with 26 plays). Scanning further down this chart shows me that there are a lot of songs that I discovered on thesixtyone.com; including, The Nova Echo and Allison Weiss, so to say that that site had a big influence on what I listened to in 2010 would be an understatement.
The statistics don't lie in that The Nova Echo were the band that blew me away in 2010. However, they do somewhat obscure the influence that mashups have continued to have on my listening habits since 2009. If Last.fm had a tag or genre chart, I suspect they would rank highly. I look forward to finding out what my big musical discovery of 2011 will be.
Writing this post has reminded me of a couple of contenders to be my first musical purchase of 2011: Amanda Palmer's album of Radiohead Covers and Schaffer the Darklord's Manslaughterer.
Recursivity abounds! This sort of post is exactly why I signed up for Last.fm (I love statistics!) but, credit where it's due, the proximal impetus was Mash's post on the same subject. Now he's gone into more detail: Follow-up Muzak.
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My top ten artists for this year are as follows with play count this year in regular brackets and overall playcount ranking (extracted from my laptop in use since 2005) in square brackets:
- The Nova Echo (447 plays) [11]
- Joy Division (305) [7]
- Shihad (243) [2]
- The Sisters of Mercy (219) [1]
- The Killers (170) [3]
- Alison Weiss (168) [49]
- Kabuto the Python (165) [22]
- Rammstein (152) [5]
- Richard Cheese (127) [=27]
- Stabbing Westward [=27]; MC Frontalot [13] (both 115)
My top album chart is filled with artists of which I don't have many albums, or who haven't released many albums:
- The Nova Echo - The Nova Echo (424)
- Allison Weiss - ...Was Right All Along (90)
- Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures (81)
- Joy Division - Substance (70)
- Kabuto the Python - Noncents Vol. 5 (69)
- Joy Division - Still (64)
- The Killers - Sawdust (59)
- K.Flay - MASHed Potatoes (57)
- Rammstein - Völkerball Disc 2 (50)
- MGMT - Oracular Spectacular (49)
Most of these albums are on this list because I played an album a lot at one time either on its own as an album, or as part of an entire catalogue playlist. Notably, this does not apply to the Rammstein album. I didn't really go on a Rammstein kick at any point last year, although I did finally buy Völkerball in 2010.
In the light of those numbers, it's no surprise that The Nova Echo's eponymous album dominates my list of most played tracks. In fact, the first fifteen of the chart comprises all the songs from that album plus two Allison Weiss tracks, 'Fingers Crossed' (2nd with 43 plays) and 'Try to Understand' (5th with 37) and Frightened Rabbit - 'Head Rolls Off' (13th with 26 plays). Scanning further down this chart shows me that there are a lot of songs that I discovered on thesixtyone.com; including, The Nova Echo and Allison Weiss, so to say that that site had a big influence on what I listened to in 2010 would be an understatement.
The statistics don't lie in that The Nova Echo were the band that blew me away in 2010. However, they do somewhat obscure the influence that mashups have continued to have on my listening habits since 2009. If Last.fm had a tag or genre chart, I suspect they would rank highly. I look forward to finding out what my big musical discovery of 2011 will be.
Writing this post has reminded me of a couple of contenders to be my first musical purchase of 2011: Amanda Palmer's album of Radiohead Covers and Schaffer the Darklord's Manslaughterer.
Recursivity abounds! This sort of post is exactly why I signed up for Last.fm (I love statistics!) but, credit where it's due, the proximal impetus was Mash's post on the same subject. Now he's gone into more detail: Follow-up Muzak.
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