Fuddland
For no real reason, I’ve decided to reveal some statistics about the music I listen to.
A few years ago I started using my PC as my all-in-one entertainment centre — stereo, radio, DVD player — and the whole reason I signed-up to Audioscrobbler last year was in order to get a genuine, unobscured insight into my musical tastes, and not try and make out that I only ever listen to obscure acapella trance-dub from Norway. If my most listened-to song turned out to be You Can Count On Me [The Theme from Hawaii Five-O] by Sammy Davis Jr., there’d be no point in denying it any longer. [Thankfully this turned out to not be the case. It only comes in at number 14. Ha!]
Heavy listening
If I tried to listen to every piece of music in my collection right through in one go, it’d take me 14 days, 13 hours, 53 minutes and 5 seconds [approximately]; I’d tell you what this amounts to in gigabytes if that wasn’t an entirely pointless statistic, given the variety in bit-rates at which each file is encoded. But if I told you it totals 34.31GB, I’m sure you could work it out from there.
CD purchasing habits
Resoundly refuting the arguments of the RIAA, the availability of freely-downloadable music has not diminished the frequency of my CD purchasing — it’s the having not much ready cash that’s doing that. Still, the last CD I bought was Eric Clapton’s Me and Mr. Johnson, after a tip-off from mrtn. It’s not a bad disc either, but I do prefer the less-polished original versions.
Perennials
This is what I really wanted to know: after a year of having my [at home] listening habits tracked, which songs have come out as the top five?
- The Killers — All These Things That I’ve Done [25 listens]
- R.E.M. — Leaving New York [24]
- Aqualung — Easier To Lie [23]
- Radiohead — True Love Waits [21]
- Snow Patrol — Run [21]
So it’s not just five R.E.M. songs: yah, boo and sucks to you for thinking it would be. I can see immediately where my head’s been for most of the year — exactly where I’d have guessed — and that’s about all the public analysing we’ll do for now. Thanks for listening.
Comments
Dina | 2005 / 05 / 20 – 17:52
Similar bands to what top the listening charts in my mp3 player. Actually they’re all on it…
Recent chart-toppers for me also include Martha Wainwright, Interpol, Gorillaz and Olive.
Free music online also has not stymied my CD buying — in fact I tend to buy more CDs now than ever before, even though I can ill-afford so to do. I preview by listening to mp3’s from mp3search.ru and then buy the CDs. Bit backwards of me, I know.
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