I thought I would share some of my Spotify listening habits. Apparently I listened to Spotify for more than 12 days last year, I wish I knew how much time I listened to vinyl, CDs, MP3s, radio and other on line sources too. I discovered 577 new artists, wow! My most listened to song was David Bowie’s version of “Wild Is The Wind” and unsurprisingly Bowie was my most listened to artist once again (996 minutes, nearly 6% of my total Spotify listening time) I was also in the top 0.5% of Bowie listeners. The other artists in my top 5 were Biffy Clyro, the Streets, Ella Fitzgerald and Woke Up Dead. I listened to 1,286 artists. My top decade was the 1970s, again no surprise there. Top genres were Rock, Soul and Dance Rock. Rather fascinatingly my music is more obscure than 80% of UK users, what on earth does that mean? I also found a few rather amusing, to me anyway, graphs and charts to accompany this post!
Since starting on this post I have also discovered a few sites on which you can regularly update your Spotify statistics split between artists and tracks and then last 4 weeks/ current, Last six months and all time within that. My favourites among these sites so far are Favourite Music Guru, Obscurify Music and Stats For Spotify. Have you used any of these or can you recommend others?
In case you’re interested in my warped eclectic taste these are my top artists on Spotify (Current, Medium Term and all time) The top songs follow those lists. Incidentally the Kunts and Jarvis Cocker feaure strongly on the tracks lists simply because I did my bit to get them to be the Christmas number one in the UK these last two years!
Top Artists — Short Term (4 weeks)
- The Beatles
- Yusuf / Cat Stevens
- Eagles
- London Symphony Orchestra
- Evie Sands
- Rumer
- Jackson Browne
- David Bowie
- Bobbie Gentry
- Harry Styles
Top Artists — Medium Term (6 months)
- David Bowie
- Biffy Clyro
- Gregory Porter
- The Avalanches
- John Lennon
- Eminem
- Stevie Wonder
- Stephen EvEns
- Ella Fitzgerald
- The Beatles
Top Artists — Long Term (years)
- David Bowie
- Bob Marley & The Wailers
- Biffy Clyro
- Frank Turner
- Bruce Springsteen
- Four Tops
- Eminem
- Johnny Nash
- Elton John
- The Streets
Top Tracks — Short Term (4 weeks)
- Boris Johnson is a Fucking Cunt – Single Edit — The Kunts
- Billy the Kid, Ballet Suite: I. The Open Prairie — Aaron Copland, London Symphony Orchestra
- True Faith ’94 — New Order
- Jamaica Say You Will — Jackson Browne
- Everybody Used to Love You — Silverjet
- Raison D’Être — Stolen Dead Music
- Wear A Mask — Sing Sing Rabbit
- Three Points on a Compass — Martin Rossiter
- Drag Me to the Light — Miles and the Chain Gang
- Alfred – Intro — Eminem
Top Tracks — Medium Term (6 months)
- Boris Johnson is a Fucking Cunt – Single Edit — The Kunts
- Taking It Slow — Heartsink
- Concorde — Gregory Porter
- Freakin’ At the Freaker’s Ball — Dr. Hook
- Pepper — Butthole Surfers
- Career Criminal — Stephen EvEns
- Close — The Islas
- Belladonna — Spunsugar
- Make Us Eat — The Shining Tongues
- Smiling — Alanis Morissette
Top Tracks — Long Term (years)
- Boris Johnson is a Fucking Cunt – Single Edit — The Kunts
- Running the World — Jarvis Cocker
- Star Treatment — Arctic Monkeys
- (red, white, and blue) Cheerfulness — Perry Farrell
- Balance, Not Symmetry — Biffy Clyro
- Future Legend – 2016 Remaster — David Bowie
- Deep Sea Dreaming — Ocean Flaws
- Loser of the Year — Woke Up Dead
- Three Points on a Compass — Martin Rossiter
- Wild Is the Wind – 2016 Remaster — David Bowie
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