Last.fm Listening Trends 2014 Q3
EricMesa
- 4 minutes read - 743 wordsThis quarter was a mix of new music, continuing to listen to my music in alphabetical order (by artist), and whatever I happened to listen to on my phone. And that resulted in a little something like this (a lot more ties than usual): 1. The Beatles (243 listens) - For the first time in a long time the Fab Four are back on top. I continue to love their later stuff although their older stuff is played out having spent my childhood listening to oldies.
2. Five Iron Frenzy (116 listens) - I still love the new album. I can listen to it over and over.
3. Alan Menken (104 listens) - Blame Scarlett and her love of Disney Music.
4. Mandy Moore (89 listens) - Blame Scarlett and her love of Tangled
5.The Beach Boys (67 listens) - I think this is one listen to every Beach Boys song I own
6. Anberlin (44 listens) - Trying to get ready to see them at the Vans Warped Tour
7. dj BC (39 listens) - If you thought a Beatles and Jay-Z mashup was good, you need to hear these Beatles and Beastie Boys mashups.
8. Kristen Bell; Idina Menzel (38 listens) - Blame Scarlett and her love of Frozen
9. Donna Murphy (37 listens) - Blame Scarlett and her love of Tangled
10. I Fight Dragons (35 listens) - Another artist I am brushing up on for the Vans Warped Tour
10. Fitz & The Tantrums (35 listens) - Got the new album for Danielle. It’s pretty good although I really have a soft spot for the first album. I need to give this album another listen.
10. Beebs and Her Money Makers (35 listens) - Yes, I am going to see her for the second time at Warped Tour ( first time was the Five Iron Frenzy concert last fall), but this was also about listening to her new album, which I Indiegogo’d. It has a great cover of TLC’s Waterfalls, but my favorite song on the album is Miss Captain Kangaroo.
Yeah, it’s not ska, but I REALLY like the song. It has a real classic rock feel to it. I LOVED it at last fall’s concert. It was the one that I said was a highlight that I thought was a cover. But from my research, I couldn’t find it anywhere else.
13. MC Frontalot (32 listens) - I just really wanted to listen to this one day, so I waited until i was taking care of Scarlett and Danielle had buggered off to some errands out of the house. Then I nerdcored my brains out.
14. Audioslave (26 listens) - Listened to this as I went through the alphabet. Still some good songs, but mostly it’s wearing off its welcome.
14. Relient K (26 listens) - Listening to the new album, still don’t like it as much as the previous ones.
Stats
Total Songs (in my collection): 15042 (up from 14472) - an increase of 570 - or half as many as last quarter. I think this has, at least partially, to do with the fact that RollingStone.com stopped giving away a track a day.
Total Artists: 4421 (up from 4309) - 112 - again, about half as many as last quarter.
Total Albums: 3454 (up from 3333) - Again, it tracks well with the total artist increase as I didn’t very many albums for artists I already previous had.
Average Songs Per Album: 4.35 (a slight increase from last quarter)
Average Songs Per Artist: 3.4 (increased a bit from last time - again, less singles from RollingStone and more samplers from NoiseTrade)
Total Scrobbles at End of Quarter: 78080 - Got close to reaching the next 5k milestone, but then went on a business trip and I didn’t spend much time listening to music. Listened to a song or two on the drive in/out of work, but that’s it.
Total Scrobbles for this Quarter: 3228 - close, but not quite as much as last quarter. Even listening to as many as last quarter wouldn’t have made it to 80k listens, but would have been a lot closer. The Top 15 most listened to songs this quarter accounted for 966 scrobbles or 30% of the listens - even less than last quarter. Makes sense since I listened to a lot of random music on my phone and artists with only a couple songs while going alphabetically.