1.24.2011

Hot 100

I think I've mentioned before that one thing I'm fascinated by is statistics.  All kinds of statistics.  And rankings.  I love all that kind of shit.  There's a website that combines my love of statistical lists and music and I obsess over it.  The site is last.fm.  It tracks your music listening.  You can download a widget from the site and it will log everything you play via iTunes (or your preferred music player) and it will also extract what you listened to on your iPod to keep a running total of what you're playing, how often you're playing it and all that nonsense.  I just did a quick capture of my 100 most played artists according to the website with the number of plays for each artist.  I've logged 170,938 plays since June 10, 2007.  It's a weird list to look at sometimes.  And remember, I just finished up a challenge to myself where I wanted to make sure everything in my iTunes library was registering at least 2 plays, so artists with bigger catalogs tend to rank higher than those with fewer releases.  I guess that makes my list slightly skewed, but who cares.  That challenge is over and all my play counts in iTunes were reset when I moved the library off my desktop and onto an external drive.

And you don't have to say it because I know it.  I listen to a lot of cheese.  I like cheese.  So there.


1
Play
2,095
2
Play
1,782
3
Play
1,652
4
Play
1,421
5
Play
1,399
6
Play
1,182
7
Play
1,118
8
Play
1,038
9
Play
912
10
Play
910
11
Play
869
12
Play
855
13
Play
854
14
Play
846
15
Play
824
15
Play
824
17
Play
758
18
Play
757
19
Play
755
20
Play
752
21
Play
747
22
Play
736
23
Play
730
24
Play
729
25
Play
719
26
Play
713
27
Play
700
28
Play
692
29
Play
690
30
Play
681
31
Play
650
32
Play
636
33
Play
610
34
Play
607
35
Play
606
36
Play
602
36
Play
602
38
Play
585
38
Play
585
40
Play
573
41
Play
562
42
Play
557
42
Play
557
44
Play
556
45
Play
552
46
Play
541
47
Play
538
47
Play
538
49
Play
534
50
Play
528
51
Play
520
52
Play
512
53
Play
507
54
Play
502
55
Play
493
56
Play
465
56
Play
465
58
Play
454
59
Play
453
60
Play
450
61
Play
449
62
Play
448
63
Play
436
64
Play
434
65
Play
433
65
Play
433
67
Play
427
68
Play
425
69
Play
423
70
Play
418
71
Play
415
72
Play
410
73
Play
409
74
Play
401
74
Play
401
74
Play
401
77
Play
399
78
Play
398
79
Play
397
80
Play
393
81
Play
392
82
Play
387
82
Play
387
84
Play
386
85
Play
384
86
Play
380
87
Play
378
87
Play
378
89
Play
377
90
Play
376
91
Play
375
92
Play
373
92
Play
373
94
Play
372
95
Play
369
96
Play
364
97
Play
361
98
Play
355
99
Play
351
100

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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I say life is much better with a bit of cheese thrown in.