If you’re anything like me, you are a tiny bit obsessive compulsive when it comes to charts and numbers (and iTunes organization, album art work, et al). If you’re anything like me, you will agree with me when I say that cutting-edge innovations like FixTunes (they created a discount code for any readers that would like to purchase FixTunes. It’ll give you $5 off the purchase price. Discount code: D3968) and Last.fm are utterly indispensable and essential.
I look at my Last.fm stats often and connect every music outlet I use to my account. I starting using the account in December of 2008, despite opening it in October of 2007. Since December, I’ve made to make every listen count, whether it be on my iPod, iPhone, at home, or in the car. As you might have already guessed, almost every moment in my life is attached to some sort of group of songs. I want document each week’s listening achievements. Take this journey with me.
I do some of my heaviest music listening while I sleep (which is why since December 2008, I already have nearly sixty thousand plays clocked in). I have bouts of insomnia, but a well-crafted playlist can put me right to sleep.
So that’s just a little background information of my listening habits, but even still, some of the play counts that last.fm spits out are ridiculous — I’m not exactly sure if they’re all that accurate. It is also worth to note that I don’t give myself many bands to listen to in any given week. I like to consume myself in entire discographies when I listen to a band.
Despite having Veckatimest in its full glory at my disposal, I spent most of last week listening to three of my favorite bands: Radiohead (661 plays), Arcade Fire (614 plays), and Spoon (533 plays), according to last.fm. I do remember spending a few days going through Funeral and Neon Bible — a weekly ritual I have kept up for a couple of years now — but last.fm insists I went through the albums 20 times each. Though I wouldn’t be all that surprised if I actually did.
Radiohead, Adele, and Amy Winehouse are constantly added to the sleeping playlists I mentioned earlier. I’ve found that these three artists, as well as Coldplay, are just as riveting while you sleep. Intense daily listening of the Arctic Monkeys, Belle & Sebastian, Bloc Party produce surprisingly high week-end numbers that surface from time to time.
On the Song-specific side of the chart, my Top 20 most played songs hold no suprises — they are all Arcade Fire and Radiohead tracks, save for one. The song I played most this week was the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ “Dull Life.”
I have always credited “Dull Life” as my favorite song from It’s Blitz, reminding me most of Fever To Tell-era YYYs. I hate using “-era” in this sense, but I can see why Wikipedia uses it. “Dull Life” screams fist-pumping, table-banging excitement and energy. It’s a great booster, something I come crawling back to throughout the long work week.
What were your most listened to artists and songs of the week? Leave a comment with your Last.fm account so we can all be friends! Make sure to join the Pretty Much Amazing last.fm group!
Tags: Arcade Fire, Most Listened To, Radiohead, Spoon, Yeah Yeah Yeahs
http://www.last.fm/user/scnadams
Top 20 artists of the last seven days include:
Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton, The Dears, Metric, Death From Above 1979, Justice, Los Campesinos!, Little Scout, Mother Mother, I Heart Hiroshima, Do Make Say Think, Broken Social Scene, Tokyo Police Club, Arcade Fire, Apostle Of Hustle, Stars, The Shins, Reverie Sound Revue, MSTRKRFT, Crystal Castles and Silversun Pickups.
I need to listen to EH&TSS’ Knives Don’t Have Your Back on repeat each night just to fall asleep. Other than that, they’ve pretty much become my weekly listening requirements.
DAMN man. You must LITERALLY be listening to music every minute of the week. I didn’t know there were that many minutes per week…
We do have last.fm high compatibility though! w00t!
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and omg…i listen to regina spektor far far too much!!
I know exactly what you mean…I love listening to music when i sleep, but an eternal fear of getting strangled by my headphones whilst zzzzzzz has held me back so far…i reckon i need one of those speaker pillow things…
I do love last.fm though…combine it with hypem and its just incredible for finding new music…it does disturb me though that my top listened artist is still jk rowling, (after an unfortunate bout of harry potter audio booking)!
http://www.last.fm/user/redheadsrock17
Last.fm rocks! Great post Luis [:
Top artists,Last 7 Days:
1. Talib Kweli
2. Tegan & Sara
3. M83
4. Dave Matthews
5. Eminem =/
HOLLA: http://www.last.fm/user/Musicaaa
Wow. I didn’t know listening to that much music was possible. Our music computability is super though! Huzzah! Radiohead, Arcade Fire, and Spoon are pretty much the three bands I list as my favorites. Weeeeeeeeeeeird.
http://last.fm/user/gcguster99t
4 years ago I used to leave my last.fm running all night playing my favourite soul and funk to see if I could find neighbours who liked similar soul and funk and find great tracks… it didn’t really work.
Recently I’ve been playing music at work (a backpackers) which can get my favourite tracks ridiculous amounts of plays. So a lot of Q-tip, Matt & Kim, Spoon.
http://www.last.fm/user/boozm
I ride the train every morning to go to university and ive found there is something about Bloc Party and trains that go well together. Sometimes i think im in movie…
I’ve also been giving Manners and Grand lots of plays so Passion Pit and Matt & Kim are top of my charts atm.
http://www.last.fm/user/zebrapoo
I used to have tons of playlists then they mysteriously got deleted one day so I never put them back. That was a couple of years ago. The one I listen to the most is called “Current Obsessions.”
http://last.fm/user/shesgotcheek
i LOVE last.fm
i never knew you could link up your iPod to last.fm?
http://www.last.fm/user/Slapbang
I make playlists for everything. Dozens for sleeping, more for the car, for the kitchen, and for the seasons.
Alex Lloyd, M83, Jump Little Children, Morcheeba, Sia, VAST and Empire of the Sun are a few of my favourites for nighttime playlists.
My most played artists this week include Super Viral Brothers, Troy This, Dub Pistols and Frankmusik.
http://www.last.fm/user/silence-killer