Almost At 10,000 Plays
On April 2, 2007, I joined Last.Fm, as means to get an idea to my listening habits when I run iTunes in the background as I surf the net (most of the time, but not all the time, since I also watch TV for the most part of the night). Anyway, I just looked at my stats, and I am SEVEN away from 10,000 plays. My Last.FM Profile
Unfortunately, I haven’t been running, what I use now, Songbird, given my iTunes library is on another machine and I can’t find a easy way to add what I have on my laptop without creating a mass amount of duplicates (since I have at least 2,000 songs on this machine, and am ripping songs as I buy new CDs, and/or buying my tracks and TV shows and stuff only with this machine). I hardly ever listen from a CD nowadays, but I like having the physical CD, especially if I had an unexpected computer failure before getting a chance to back up any new purchases (though I try to back up after every time I purchase from iTunes). BTW, I’m not too far from having 300 CDs. There are several artists, including Tantric, that are gonna have new releases this year, so I’ll be over 300 total before this year is up. Yay!
Now why I like this service (I don’t care for the networking stuff):
The last few tracks I listened to:
- Eric Clapton – Cocaine — 5/18/09 2:16am
- Eagles – Hotel California — 5/18/09 2:09am
- Queen – I Want It All — 5/18/09 2:05am
Most listened to artists in the last week:
- 1 – Lacuna Coil –> 14
- 2 – Tantric –> 8
- 3 – Within Temptation –> 6
- 4 – Breaking Benjamin –> 5
- 4 – Shinedown –> 5
Most Played in Last 6 Months:
- 1 – Tantric –> 153
- 2 – Breaking Benjamin –> 133
- 3 – Lacuna Coil –> 118
- 4 – Queen –> 89
- 5 – Within Temptation –> 82
Most Played in Last Year (top 3):
- 1 – Tantric –> 369
- 2 – Breaking Benjamin –> 303
- 3 – Lacuna Coil –> 226
AND the OVERALL TOP ARTISTS I’ve Listened to (since Apr 2, 2007 on iTunes, Amarok, or Songbird):
- 1 – Breaking Benjamin –> 1,019
- 2 – Collective Soul –> 930
- 3 – Tantric –> 901
Why not mention top tracks in last 6 months:
- 1 – Apocalyptica – I Don’t Care –> 25
- 2 – Tantric – Down and Out –> 24
- 3 – Tantric – Fall Down (Bonus Track) –> 23
- 3 – Queen – Another One Bites the Dust –> 23
- 5 – The Drama Club – Brand New Day (feat. Ben Burnley) –> 21
Last 12 Months:
- 1 – Tantric – The One –> 45
- 2 – Apocalyptica – I Don’t Care –> 38
- 3 – Tantric – Down and Out –> 36
- 4 – Tantric – Love Song –> 35
- 5 – Kansas – Carry on Wayward Son –> 33
And, Overall:
- 1 – Collective Soul – Heavy –> 90
- 2 – Breaking Benjamin – Until The End –> 86
- 2 – Collective Soul – December –> 86
- 4 – Tantric – Down and Out –> 71
- 5 – Collective Soul – Counting the Days –> 70
What do I get from this? It’s just really interesting. I can see overall what bands I take a liking to listening to often, but also, in terms of the last six-twelve months, I really enjoyed Tantric’s ‘The End Begins,’ A LOT! Looking at the last year, there were three Tantric songs in the top five, and about 6 months ago, was the time frame for which I finally got a Queen CD (Greatest Hits, and a few months later, I got Classic Queen, highly recommended).
And, I see the increase of Lacuna Coil as well, which surged with the arrival of their new CD, ‘Shallow Life,’ just last month (awesome, BTW). I hope Breaking Benjamin releases something soon, I need some new tunes, and it shows. (Same goes for Collective Soul).

