Scrobbles
For the last five months I've been using Spotify to listen to music that I don't own or am new to. I have also been scrobbling these tracks from Spotify to Last.fm, so I can see which artists I've listened to the most over a period of seven days, three months, six months or a year. Only the music from Spotify is scrobbled - the music I listen to on my iPod is not connected to Last.fm because James and I currently use the same iTunes account. So my Last.fm records don't show how many times I've listened to Dolly Parton's greatest hits, or 'Keep the Car Running' by Arcade Fire, for example.
Bearing this in mind, here are the top artists from the last six months and how many times I've listened to each one on my Last.fm account:
1. Laura Marling - 95
2. Feist - 70
3. The Puppini Sisters - 65
4. Sophie Ellis Bextor - 45
5. Yann Tiersen - 44
6. Josh Turner - 32
7. Celine Dion - 29
8. Karen O and the Kids - 27
9. The Moody Blues - 26
10. Penguin Cafe Orchestra - 25
10. The Peasall Sisters - 25
12. Philip Glass - 24
12. Dierks Bentley - 24
12. Freemasons - 24
15. Dixie Chicks - 23
I rather like this mixture - some US country artists, some UK folk-y stuff, a Canadian diva, a French film composer, and the soundtrack to Where the Wild Things Are. I only have three or four of these artists on my iPod, but I have bought some albums based on what I heard through Spotify.
And now, for comparison, the top-listened tracks on my iPod, which I've had for nearly three years.
Castles in the Air - Don McLean
Gori Gori - Main Hoon Na soundtrack
End of the Line - Travelling Wilburys
Chaiya Chaiya - Dil Se soundtrack
M79 - Vampire Weekend
I Stand Corrected - Vampire Weekend
Walcott - Vampire Weekend
Mansford Roof - Vampire Weekend
The Boy in the Bubble - Paul Simon
Oxford Comma - Vampire Weekend
Graceland - Paul Simon
Romantic Type - The Pigeon Detectives (I really don't know how this song got here.)
Tennessee Homesick Blues - Dolly Parton
Potential New Boyfriend - Dolly Parton
9 to 5 - Dolly Parton
Why'd You Come In Here Looking Like That - Dolly Parton
Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) - Eurythmics
Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under - Shania Twain
No One Needs to Know - Shania Twain
Keep the Car Running - Arcade Fire
Love Today - Mika
Any Man of Mine - Shania Twain
Rebellion (Lies) - Arcade Fire
Linger - The Cranberries
Back in Your Arms Again - Lorrie Morgan
I'm very interested in what other people have as their top-listened tracks. I have found it very enlightening!
I think I'm coming down with a cold today. This is not good - tomorrow is the first day of Freshers' Week* so we will all be assaulted by germs from all over the country and I need a strong immune system. I'm going in search of fruit and vegetables.
*We're not allowed to call it Freshers' Week any more - the students' union decreed that it excluded mature students, post-graduate students, and generally anyone who doesn't identify with the stereotypical eighteen-year old party animal. So now it's called Welcome Week, and we have the Welcome Fair instead of the Freshers' Fair, and instead of the Freshers' Handbook we have.... The Handy Handbook.
Bearing this in mind, here are the top artists from the last six months and how many times I've listened to each one on my Last.fm account:
1. Laura Marling - 95
2. Feist - 70
3. The Puppini Sisters - 65
4. Sophie Ellis Bextor - 45
5. Yann Tiersen - 44
6. Josh Turner - 32
7. Celine Dion - 29
8. Karen O and the Kids - 27
9. The Moody Blues - 26
10. Penguin Cafe Orchestra - 25
10. The Peasall Sisters - 25
12. Philip Glass - 24
12. Dierks Bentley - 24
12. Freemasons - 24
15. Dixie Chicks - 23
I rather like this mixture - some US country artists, some UK folk-y stuff, a Canadian diva, a French film composer, and the soundtrack to Where the Wild Things Are. I only have three or four of these artists on my iPod, but I have bought some albums based on what I heard through Spotify.
And now, for comparison, the top-listened tracks on my iPod, which I've had for nearly three years.
Castles in the Air - Don McLean
Gori Gori - Main Hoon Na soundtrack
End of the Line - Travelling Wilburys
Chaiya Chaiya - Dil Se soundtrack
M79 - Vampire Weekend
I Stand Corrected - Vampire Weekend
Walcott - Vampire Weekend
Mansford Roof - Vampire Weekend
The Boy in the Bubble - Paul Simon
Oxford Comma - Vampire Weekend
Graceland - Paul Simon
Romantic Type - The Pigeon Detectives (I really don't know how this song got here.)
Tennessee Homesick Blues - Dolly Parton
Potential New Boyfriend - Dolly Parton
9 to 5 - Dolly Parton
Why'd You Come In Here Looking Like That - Dolly Parton
Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) - Eurythmics
Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under - Shania Twain
No One Needs to Know - Shania Twain
Keep the Car Running - Arcade Fire
Love Today - Mika
Any Man of Mine - Shania Twain
Rebellion (Lies) - Arcade Fire
Linger - The Cranberries
Back in Your Arms Again - Lorrie Morgan
I'm very interested in what other people have as their top-listened tracks. I have found it very enlightening!
I think I'm coming down with a cold today. This is not good - tomorrow is the first day of Freshers' Week* so we will all be assaulted by germs from all over the country and I need a strong immune system. I'm going in search of fruit and vegetables.
*We're not allowed to call it Freshers' Week any more - the students' union decreed that it excluded mature students, post-graduate students, and generally anyone who doesn't identify with the stereotypical eighteen-year old party animal. So now it's called Welcome Week, and we have the Welcome Fair instead of the Freshers' Fair, and instead of the Freshers' Handbook we have.... The Handy Handbook.