etc., recall the word
resoldered here
in a pane of sand.
— R. Kenney

Ascent Stage
a life-in-progress

 

Most played music of 2007

  last year
1Biosphere1
2Fatboy Slim--
3Aphex Twin17
4Office--
5Sufjan Stevens2
6Tycho--
7Justice --
8Mike Relm11
9Ulrich Schnauss15
10Apparat--
11Amon Tobin--
12Der Dritte Raum6
13Ladytron12
14Air--
15Matthew Dear--
16LFO--
17The Black Dog--
18Shpongle --
19MSTRKRFT--
20Jóhann Jóhannsson--

Interesting how few artists made it on the list from last year. Sorta proud of that. Biosphere of course is unassailable, as ol' Geir accompanies most night's trips to sleep. The list is Most Played, you see, not Most Actually Heard.

As I compile these stats year after year it is becoming clear the bias built in. For one, iTunes/Last.fm doesn't do a great job of logging very long tracks -- such as unbroken DJ/live sets -- which this year accounted for much of my listening. Not sure a track is logged unless its end is reached, so though I could listen to an hour of a set if I don't hit the end it is statistically invisible. Also, since I don't automatically synch music to my iPhone or iPod iTunes never knows about play counts that happens outside of itself. This also skews things mightily since so much of what I listen to is not in front of my computer.

More stats here.

Posted on December 29, 2007 to the category called Music .

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