And so another year has come and gone.
Which means another year of fixating on my obsessive music listening habits.
In general, the players don’t surprised me. I kind of thought some of the numbers would have ended up higher than they did. But there was also a lot of music played in the kitchen on the iPod and in the car on CD that doesn’t get tracked by Last.fm.
Top 10 Most Played Artists of 2018…
Matt Nathanson put out a new album and it shows. He has now over taken the number three slot in my most-played artists of all time behind O.A.R. and Andy Grammer, knocking Ingram Hill and Train down to four and five.
Splender, however, put out their last album in 2002, yet their numbers seem to suggest otherwise. They’ve just taken over the Anxiety Playlist. Which is to say, the music I listen to on constant repeat when the anxiety is at its most consuming.
In 2018 I listened to a grand total of…
… 122 different artists
… 311 different albums
… 1,373 different tracks
And racked up a hefty 15,169 total plays.
Give or take. The program doesn’t always record things properly. But it’s a good ballpark figure.
The very first song played for the year was Semisonic’s This Will Be My Year.
The final song of the year was Matt Nathanson’s Farewell December.
Honorable mention outside the Top 10…Sister Hazel, Train, Billy Joel, Darren Criss, and Parachute.
A lot of those plays can be attributed to ye olde Ben & Marina playlist.
Top 10 most played albums:
1.) Matt Nathanson – Sings His Sad Heart
2.) Splender – Halfway Down the Sky
3.) Splender – To Whom it May Concern
4.) Tonic – Sugar
5.) Tonic – Lemon Parade
6.) Nine Days – The Madding Crowd
7.) Nine Days – Snapshots
8.) O.A.R. – XX
9.) Splender – Yeah Whatever [acoustic] *
10.) O.A.R. – King
*(This is just a single song I dug up on YouTube, but whatever…heh…)
Honorable mention…more Matt Nathanson, more O.A.R., Stephen Kellogg, and Gavin DeGraw.
Top 10 most played songs:
1.) Sugar – Tonic … 316 plays
2.) Yeah Whatever [acoustic] – Splender … 308 plays
3.) If You Could Only See – Tonic … 261 plays
4.) Open Up Your Eyes – Tonic … 261 plays
5.) You Wanted More – Tonic … 260 plays
6.) Mean to Me – Tonic … 259 plays
7.) Way Way Back – Matt Nathanson … 202 plays
8.) Used to Be – Matt Nathanson … 154 plays
9.) Long Distance Runner – Matt Nathanson … 152 plays
10.) Mine – Matt Nathanson … 152 plays
Really the entirety of MN’s Sings His Sad Heart is at the same 150-some count.
Honorable mention…songs by O.A.R., Splender, Gavin DeGraw, and Toad the Wet Sprocket.
Sure it all means exactly nothing. But I still have way more fun than I probably should digging through it all.
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