Last.fm 2016 Listening Trends

By EricMesa

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For now, my music listening continues to be in decline relative to earlier in my life. Because the babies are often napping, I don’t have music playing throughout the day. And if I’m playing video games I’m usually not listening to music so I can stream. That said, when I do listen to Spotify at work, it usually Scrobbles and that has increased the number a bit higher than it would have otherwise been.

Artists

1. Weezer (185 listens) - After hearing the writer on Song Exploder I started listening to some of the older albums. I’d only ever heard the singles, so it was interesting to hear the albums. 2. 4minute (149 listens) - KPop day at work plus a bug on Spotify and last.fm on Android that makes a song keep getting counted over and over. 3. American Pinup (102 listens) - it’s on my phone, so their songs come up a LOT when I’m driving 4. Chance the Rapper (102 listens) - Chance finally released his third album. I liked some songs, but I didn’t like it nearly as much as Acid Rap. 5. Barenaked Ladies (87 listens) - just jumped back in to a band I was into in High School 6. The Beatles (84 listens) - as usual, they’re always here because I have SO many Beatles songs. 7. Rihanna (82 listens) - Nerdwriter’s look at Work had me listening to some more Rihanna on Spotify. 8. Five Iron Frenzy (75 listens) - I wanted to listen again because it’s been a while. 9. Drake (71 listens) - From listening to Rihanna, I ended up listening to Drake a little at work 10. Ramin Djawadi (66 listens) - After I got into Westworld and its great piano covers of songs, I went to listen to the soundtrack (and eventually bought it) and discovered he was also the composer for the Game of Thrones soundtrack. Spent a while listening to great songs. 11. Paul and Storm (64 listens) - Continued to listen to the closest thing we have to Tom Lehrer nowadays. 12. Thousand Foot Krutch (63 listens) - I went back to see if I still liked it. I don’t like the group as much as I did before, but there are still some fun songs. 13. Relient K (58 listens) - Again revisiting an old favorite band. 14. Billie Holiday (55 listens) - She is awesome. No reason not to listen to her. 15. G.NA (55 listens) - More K-POP!

Songs

1. 4minute — Cut it Out (92 listens) - this is the song that ended up being Scrobbled so much because of the bug on Android 2. Weezer — I Swear It’s True - Pre-Production Recording (46 listens) - it’s funny, I hadn’t realized this was a Weezer song until I went through their albums this year. 3. Drake — With You (33 listens) 4. SG Lewis — Yours (24 listens) 5. Prince — Stare (22 listens) 6. Chance the Rapper — All We Got (feat. Kanye West & Chicago Children’s Choir) (16 listens) - Of all the songs in Chance’s third album, this is the one I like the most 7. American Pinup — The Upper Hand (14 listens) 8. Beautiful Bodies — Invincible (13 listens) 9. American Pinup — Joy Ride (13 listens) - My favorite song from this album, it really has a great feel and I love playing it while I drive around. 10. [unknown] — Star Wars (13 listens) 11. Freezepop — Starlight (13 listens) 12. American Pinup — Storm Chaser (13 listens) 13. Chance the Rapper — Summer Friends (feat. Jeremih & Francis & The Lights) (12 listens) 14. American Pinup — Shelter (11 listens) 15. Rihanna — Work (11 listens)

Albums

1. American Pinup — Change Machine (100 listens) 2. Swedish Chamber Orchestra and Thomas Dausgaard — Schumann - Rise of the Masters: 100 Supreme Classical Masterpieces (99 listens) 3. Chance the Rapper — Coloring Book (94 listens) 4. 4minute — Crazy (93 listens) 5. Billie Holiday — The Complete Billie Holiday (52 listens) 6. Drake — Views (51 listens) 7. Weezer — Weezer (Deluxe Edition) (51 listens) 8. The Beatles — The Beatles (50 listens) 9. Lana Del Rey — Honeymoon (49 listens) 10. Acerina Y Su Danzonera — Danzones de Siempre (42 listens) 11. Thelonious Monk — Plays Duke Ellington (42 listens) 12. Ramin Djawadi — Westworld: Season 1 (40 listens) 13. Paul and Storm — Ball Pit (38 listens) 14. Beautiful Bodies — Battles (38 listens) 15. Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment — Surf (35 listens)

Top All-Time Artists

They all remained in the same rank as last year.

1. Fantastic Plastic Machine Fantastic Plastic Machine (3,595 listens) 2. Anberlin Anberlin (2,768 listens) 3. Five Iron Frenzy Five Iron Frenzy (2,701 listens) 4. The Beatles The Beatles (2,425 listens) 5. Relient K Relient K (1,905 listens) 6. “Weird Al” Yankovic “Weird Al” Yankovic (1,693 listens) 7. Fall Out Boy Fall Out Boy (1,300 listens) 8. Gnarls Barkley Gnarls Barkley (1,121 listens) 9. I Fight Dragons I Fight Dragons (1,011 listens) 10. Gwen Stefani Gwen Stefani (904 listens) 11. Andrea Echeverri Andrea Echeverri (894 listens) 12. DC Talk DC Talk (891 listens) 13. Tom Lehrer Tom Lehrer (875 listens) 14. Lostprophets Lostprophets (827 listens) 15. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (805 listens)

Top All-Time Songs

1. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah — Over and Over Again (Lost and Found) (116 listens) 2. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah — Upon This Tidal Wave of Young Blood (116 listens) 3. Jonathan Coulton — The Princess Who Saved Herself (109 listens) 4. Fantastic Plastic Machine — Take Me To The Disco [Malibu Mix] (104 listens) 5. Fantastic Plastic Machine — Steppin’ Out (102 listens) 6. Gnarls Barkley — Who Cares (99 listens) 7. Gnarls Barkley — Just a Thought (93 listens) 8. 4minute — Cut it Out (92 listens)

All of these got dropped a rank by 4Minute JUMPING up the charts thanks to the Spotify/last.fm bug. 9. Gnarls Barkley — The Last Time (87 listens) 10. Anberlin — Audrey, Start The Revolution! (85 listens) 11. Andrea Echeverri — Quédate (85 listens) 12. Gnarls Barkley — St. Elsewhere (85 listens) 13. Gnarls Barkley — Crazy (82 listens) 14. Fantastic Plastic Machine — Love Is Psychedelic (82 listens) 15. Gnarls Barkley — Smiley Faces (82 listens)

Scrobbles at end of 2016: 99,546

Scrobbles in 2016: 6,243 - about 3000 less than last year. Scrobbled music has been on a steady decline for me. Because last year had also fallen by 3000.

Various stats from Last.fm’s year in music page:

  • Avg Scrobbles/Day: 17
  • Total Listening Time: 14 Days 11 hours
  • I mostly listen from 6 AM to 6 PM
  • I listen most on Wednesdays
  • 39% This year was listening to new artists
  • 53% New Albums
  • 48% new songs
  • I beat Dan in scrobbles this year - he doesn’t show up in my Top 5
  • But Dan beat me in artist discovery - 55% vs 39%
  • Longest streak was 39 days from 23 Oct to 30 Nov
  • 13 April I listened to the most music - 394 songs
  • 15 June listened to Weezer 63 times; 13 April listened to 44 tracks from Schumann.