My Music Listening Habits for 2023
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My Music Listening Habits for 2023

It's that time again, when I discuss my music habits for the year, or at least, parts of it that seem interesting, to me. I'll just start off with the 5x5 chart, from my Last.fm scrobbles. I had some Spotify Wrapped stuff too but it doesn't capture everything and was only for like 3 months of listening, so it's kind of worthless. So, a bit of an interesting surprise, Wolf Alice's Blue Weekend was my top album for the year. I guess I was listening to that one a lot more than I really thought I had been. The same…
The Annual Playlist for 2023
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The Annual Playlist for 2023

A few years ago, I was sorting through some older music, and came across old Mix Tapes and CD-Rs.  It's really fun because unlike digital music, these are essentially static playlists.  This is a window into what I was listening to at that time.  And no, you didn't misread that, Mix Tapes.  and they were mostly from the 90s era.  My first car didn't have a CD player, it just had a cassette deck.  Teenage me would regularly visit the local library and check out a variety of CDs, then spend the week picking out my favorite tracks and recording…
My Music Listening Habits for 2022
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My Music Listening Habits for 2022

It's that time again, when I ramble on about what I've been listening to this year.  I don't use Spotify so I don't have a "cool kids" wrap up to share.  Instead you get this!  A blog post!  And some little 5x5 charts made from my Last.fm.  I kind of prefer starting on Artists over Albums, so without further ado, the top 25 for 2022.  Which unsurprisingly, is relatively similar to my previous years. In a surprise to literally no one, including myself, my top 3 are pretty much the same as they have been for a while.  Aurora, CHVRCHES,…
My Music Listening Habits for 2021
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My Music Listening Habits for 2021

It's time again for my new favorite annual tradition here (until it isn't), my music listening habits for the year. Not a lot of new this year, I'll admit that. Though I sometimes wonder if part of that is that some artists and albums get sort of lost int he sauce of over listening to some of my favorite artists. Anyway onto the break down, I'll split up artists and albums even though they kind of parallel each other. Artists The biggest movers this year were Aurora and CHVRCHES in the number two and number one spot. CHVRCHES has a…
My Music Listening Habits for 2020
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My Music Listening Habits for 2020

Yeah, those monthly updates were kind of bleh, so I dumped them. But I still want to do a yearly wrap up. Though overall there isn't a lot that's surprising to me about the yearly stats. The year was dominated by most of the artists I would expect it to be dominated by. Sigrid, Tessa Violet, Aurora, CHVRCHES have 14 of my top 25 albums. This grid doesn't even include a few additional Sigrid "Albums" of live tracks that don't properly show up so they get filtered. Anyway, a bit better breakdown... I am actually surprised that Sigrid still topped…