There were a few years in a row that I put together a fancy little graphic to showcase my top ten most played artists for the year. Some ended up in my normal year-in-review posts and one got its own post with some other stats tacked on. It really wasn’t that fancy and it always took far longer to put together than it should have for as simple as it was, because I am not a graphic designer (graphic artist?) by any stretch. I can use Photoshop. I am by no means good at it.
Anyroad.
I ended up not posting any cumulative stats for 2019 because I didn’t have the mental capacity to make my fancy graphic and for some demented reason I didn’t see the point of a post if I didn’t have the dumb graphic to go with it.
And it’s bothered me for an entire year now.
Because I only worry about important shit over here, okay?
This is my brain and welcome to it.
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In 2020 I listened to a grand total of …
… 29,886 plays of
… 2,244 tracks from
… 395 albums by
… 136 artists.
You know. Give or take. Last.fm isn’t always entirely accurate. And there are times when it doesn’t even run when it’s supposed to. It also doesn’t track what I listen to on CD in the car or on ye olde iPod elsewhere in the house, so there’s a long list of songs that aren’t counted. Though we all know it would just boost the numbers of the artists that are already on the list because I don’t listen to anything else anyway.
Looking over this year’s roundup of music really reflects just how bad my anxiety has been simply based on just how repetitive everything is. (No-no—more than usual.) I fixate in a bad way on a good day, but when the anxiety is bad, a playlist barely ends before I hit play again for hours on end. It was a bad year for anxiety.
In equally as shocking news…water is wet.
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The first song of the year played was … Run To by Emerson Hart
The last song of the year played was … Razzmatazz by I DONT KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME
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Top 10 Most Played Artists…
1.) The Killers … 4,380 plays
2.) Fall Out Boy … 3,682 plays
3.) The Young Veins … 2,864 plays
4.) Panic! at the Disco … 1,705 plays
5.) O.A.R. … 1,502 plays
6.) Tonic … 1,405 plays
7.) Splender … 1,367 plays
8.) I DONT KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME … 1,338 plays
9.) Brandon Flowers … 1,188 plays
10.) Nine Days … 1,119 plays
Honorable mention: Matt Nathanson, Parachute, The Monkees, Toad The Wet Sprocket, Billy Joel, Sara Bareilles, Gavin DeGraw, Stage, 2AM Club, Emerson Hart, Elton John, Graham Colton, Darren Criss, Ingram Hill, Evan & Jaron, Sister Hazel, Better Than Ezra, The Police, Ryan Star, Semisonic
Not really any surprises in this list. Though there are some I would have predicted higher numbers for, but those might have been from plays that weren’t tracked.
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Top 10 Most Played Albums…
1.) Take a Vacation! – The Young Veins … 2,864 plays
2.) RAZZMATAZZ – I DONT KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME … 827 plays
3.) New Constellation – Toad The Wet Sprocket … 819 plays
4.) Halfway Down The Sky – Splender … 676 plays
5.) Pretty. Odd. – Panic! at the Disco … 656 plays
6.) Infinity On High – Fall Out Boy … 654 plays
7.) Folie à Deux – Fall Out Boy … 643 plays
8.) American Beauty / American Psycho – Fall Out Boy … 632 plays
9.) From Under the Cork Tree – Fall Out Boy … 607 plays
10.) Save Rock and Roll – Fall Out Boy … 606 plays
Honorable mention: even more from Fall Out Boy, I DONT KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME, and Splender, plus Brandon Flowers, The Killers, Tonic, Matt Nathanson, Nine Days, Parachute, Stage, O.A.R.
Clearly my habit of listening to all of Fall Out Boy‘s albums in one playlist impacted the top ten in a big way. I did consider just lumping all of the FoB albums into one slot and picking up the next in line. Maybe if it happens again. It’ll probably happen again.
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Top 10 Most Played Songs…
1.) Take a Vacation! (the album) – The Young Veins … 179 plays
(the entire album was played in full 179 times, thus the top 16 tracks were just from this album)
2.) All These Things That I’ve Done – The Killers … 149 plays
3.) Runaways – The Killers … 146 plays
4.) Caution – The Killers … 144 plays
5.) Somebody Told Me – The Killers … 143 plays
6.) Just Another Girl – The Killers … 142 plays
7.) Shot at the Night – The Killers … 142 plays
8.) Mr. Brightside – The Killers … 141 plays
9.) The World We Live In – The Killers … 138 plays
10.) Human – The Killers … 133 plays
Honorable mention: even more from The Killers, Tonic, Brandon Flowers, Splender, Fall Out Boy, Elton John, Stage, I DONT KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME, Toad The Wet Sprocket, Panic! at the Disco, The Monkees
I had to go as deep as the top 150 songs to get a little variety in the honorable metions because, as previously stated, clearly I have a problem with fixating.
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I don’t have a fancy graphic to showcase my annual stats. But I do have a picture of a fox nesting in my headphones. Because Ryan is kind of an asshole.
You heard me.
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