Last.fm update
From: Dec 18 to Dec 25
Unique Artists: 470
Total Tracks: 892
Total Plays: 913
Top Artists
1. Bob Dylan; Björk; Belle & Sebastian - 11 plays
4. Bad Religion - 10 plays
5. The Olivia Tremor Control - 9 plays
6. Sufjan Stevens; Death Cab for Cutie - 8 plays
8. Self; Solex; The Divine Comedy - 7 plays
11. Primal Scream; PJ Harvey; Elliott Smith; The Zombies; The Magnetic Fields; Radiohead; Ryan Adams; The Decemberists - 6 plays
Top Tracks (all had 2 plays)
Architecture in Helsinki Imaginary Ordinary
Love and Rockets - Youth
Jurassic 5 - In the Flesh
The Jesus and Mary Chain - In a Hole
The Decemberists - The Bagman's Gambit
The Roots - Quills
Clem Snide - Made for TV Movie
Sleater-Kinney - Things You Say
The Olivia Tremor Control - Jumping Fences
Beck - Ramshackle
Dangerdoom - Sofa King
A Minor Forest - Speed for Gavin
Guided by Voices - Choking Tara
Free French, The - Holiday At Home
Sharks Keep Moving - open bay
Elbow - Red
Pavement - Grounded
Liz Phair - Perfect World
Sufjan Stevens - O Come, O Come Emmanual
Broadcast - The Little Bell
Grandaddy - Taster
Notes
This was my first true test of iTunes (with its new Smart Shuffle feature) and last.fm (now that I have a working plugin). Almost all of the 913 songs were played while I was sleeping or while I was in the living room working/watching TV rather than by my control. I wanted to get a true sample of random iTunes, so I tried to influence the playlist as little as possible.
It seems the Smart Shuffle is doing really well with songs as only those 21 songs played more than once. And, of 470 artists played, only four came up 10 times or more. I'm not completely sure that's a good job by the SS, but since it has no Artists choice (only Songs, Albums or Groupings, of which I chose the first) and I have probably more songs by Dylan, B&S and Bad Religion than any other artist (other than maybe a few of the others who showed up on the Top Artists list), I guess that's a pretty shuffled Top 10.