my top artists:
1 grateful dead2 bob Dylan (listened obsessively to slow train)3 keith jarrett4 jan garbarek5 the s.o.s. band
I really don't remember listening to the s.os. band that much. I am in the top 1% of Grateful Dead listeners for the year
― Politically homely (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, December 2, 2020 9:21 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
you know what, I definitely did not listen to the s.o.s. band that much this year and this is definitely wrong (the other 4 artists in the top ten absolutely track though)
― Politically homely (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 19:15 (three years ago) link
I wish this app would stop trying to brand me or at least stop shoving what it’s determined to be my personality and lifestyle in my face. can you make this shit optional
― Left, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 19:19 (three years ago) link
1. The Rolling Stones2. The Replacements3. Jimi Hendrix4. Bob Dylan5. Cocteau Twins
a couple of ILM polls came into play, as well as some partner-approved albums and playlists
most of my Spotify use focuses on new-to-me albums, many of which I don't play again, so artists who got any amount of repeated play are overweighted relative to actual listening time
― Brad C., Wednesday, 2 December 2020 19:20 (three years ago) link
1. Pixies2. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds3. Dexy's Midnight Runners4. Pearl Jam5. Kate Bush.
Which I guess shows I'm getting old, and didn't listen to much this year...
― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 19:21 (three years ago) link
i listened to more new and varied stuff this year than probably ever so I’m disappointed my top 5 hasn’t changed at all and makes me look like an aging wire reader: 1. autechre 2. anthony braxton 3. alice coltrane 4. john coltrane 5. sonny rollins
― Left, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 19:33 (three years ago) link
The most confounding thing about my round-up was that ‘escape room’ was my fifth most listened-to genre... Idk what it is but it sounds about right.
― tangenttangent, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 21:33 (three years ago) link
From 2016:
https://festivalpeak.com/what-is-escape-room-and-why-is-it-one-of-my-top-genres-on-spotify-a886372f003f
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 21:36 (three years ago) link
My top artist was Janet Jackson due to the ILM poll.
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 21:46 (three years ago) link
I read the escape room thing a while back and I still don’t get it
― Left, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 21:48 (three years ago) link
I've thought about renaming it "intersectional pop", but the "escape room" name is kind of a thing now in itself.
― glenn mcdonald, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 21:50 (three years ago) link
1. Kevin Morby2. J Dilla3. Van Morrison4. Faces5. Lucinda Williams
― henry s, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 21:53 (three years ago) link
Oh! Is it kind of like Shambhala? That's an interesting article - love all the granular descriptor stuff.
― tangenttangent, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 21:56 (three years ago) link
idgi is it just “music that people who like charli xcx and fka twigs also tend to like” or what
― Left, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 22:05 (three years ago) link
It's a good tag imo and the enigma is part of the appeal.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 22:08 (three years ago) link
Sucks that the recap is only available for phones this year. Whose dumb idea was this?
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 22:42 (three years ago) link
my top artists were the Orb, Fleetwood Mac, Underworld, Jefferson Airplane, Steely Dan ... but my top genre was microhouse?
― lukas, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 23:02 (three years ago) link
1. Underworld (ilm poll)2. Janet Jackson (ilm poll)3. The 19754. Charli XCX5. Dua Lipa
That's a very ilm top 5. I find 3-5 quite surprising, in my mind I listened to their albums a couple of times all the way through and then kind of forgot about them, maybe that's all it takes
Top 2 genres were Art Pop and Float House which I guess I recognise
― or something, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 23:32 (three years ago) link
Part of the sucky ongoing storification of everything.
One minor fraction of a weekly Rogan payout would cover a nice big shiny set of customisable desktop end-of-year infographics for everyone but where's the ROI?
― Clean-up on ILX (onimo), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 23:33 (three years ago) link
(^awesome display name!)
A coworker shared her top genres and wrote "But what is this?" over the graphic for Escape Room (her #2); I thought, "Let me introduce you to a fellow named Glenn..."
― wet tip hen ax (egg drop mix) (morrisp), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 23:37 (three years ago) link
Artists1. The Rolling Stones2. Autechre3. András Schiff4. John Maus5. Wiener Philharmoniker
I decided to listen to more or less the whole Stones studio catalogue this year, instead of waiting for one of the major principals to die (partly inspired by that at-home performance of "You Can't Always Get What You Want"). I also listened to a lot of Bach and Bruckner earlier this year.
The "I'm John Maus. Please listen to my music on Spotify" ad from nine years ago (when I first joined, before I got Premium) seems to have proved very effective over the long term — seems like he's in my top 5 every year.
― eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 23:58 (three years ago) link
1. Neil Young2. Taylor Swift3. Phoebe Bridgers4. Jimi Hendrix5. Blake Mills
these were all ilm threads
― foopin posts and pissin shits (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 3 December 2020 04:02 (three years ago) link
1 Stereolab (several days-long dives throughout the year)2-5 Hendrix, Bowie, Zappa, Neil Young
Top Genre was Soul, because I listened to the playlist for WFMU's Downtown Soulville all summer and followed up with an Atlantic R&B 1947-1974 playlist for another 2-3 weeks.
― Motoroller Scampotron (WmC), Thursday, 3 December 2020 15:11 (three years ago) link
I was in the top .05% for Autechre, probably because I started putting a random ae playlist on shuffle with the speakers off when I leave my desk for an hour at lunch. My #1 song was 'Pat-a-cake' because until recently my account was the default when my wife asks Sonos to play nursery rhymes for the kids.
― ledge, Thursday, 3 December 2020 15:17 (three years ago) link
It says I listened to 464 genres, I would like a list plz.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 3 December 2020 15:28 (three years ago) link
1. Sam Prekop2. Taylor Swift3. Jeff Parker4. Jessie Ware5. SAULT
A little surprised that Prekop ended up on top, but I guess I have listened to his new album a lot as background music.
Every single one of my top 100 songs were songs that ended up on my Best of 2019 playlist, which I spent the first five months of the year compiling and sequencing. My #1 song was "Capacity" by Charly Bliss, which I liked well enough to put on a (200-song) playlist but would not have chosen as one of my absolute favorites. The reason I streamed it 23 times is because I was having trouble figuring out where to slot it in the playlist and kept replaying it to test how it sounded going into one song or other.
I think this was the first year that jazz ended up in my top genres (at #5, after indie rock, electronica, pop, and art pop).
― jaymc, Thursday, 3 December 2020 15:29 (three years ago) link
My top songs are all from the Solaris soundtrack, which is my perennial 'music when I'm trying to nap on a train/plane/sofa' album. Cliff Martinez only #3 on my artists' list though. Rest are New Order, Magnetic Fields, Brian Eno and the Beatles. Eno is the only surprise there. Maybe I was giving his ambient works a go as alternative napping music.
― Alba, Thursday, 3 December 2020 16:05 (three years ago) link
Top vaguely new track is Julia Jacklin's Don't Know How To Keep Loving You, which I listened to three or four times in a row once, despite not having a relationship crisis to pin it on.
― Alba, Thursday, 3 December 2020 16:07 (three years ago) link
My tap track is "Workaround 2" off Beatrice Dillon's album, which as in jaymc's case is playlist-related — I keep a running playlist of songs I like from the current year, and that one went on there early because the album came out in February. So it's mostly been buoyed by me playing that playlist on shuffle repeatedly, plus also I've listened to that album a fair number of times.
I guess a song called "Workaround 2" from an album called Workaround is a fitting 2020 pick.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 3 December 2020 16:18 (three years ago) link
top track, that is. tho it could be a tap track too.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 3 December 2020 16:50 (three years ago) link
57k minutes, 700 genres. Apparently I'm in the top .1% of listeners to Janet Jackson so I have that going for me.
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 3 December 2020 17:53 (three years ago) link
5375 artists, including 2175 new onesTop artists:1. Kabza de Small2. DJ Maphorisa (my last.fm disagrees)3. Wizkid4. Fireboy DML5. Tiwa Savage876 genres, including 317 new ones (if you say so...)Top genres:1. Nigerian Pop2. South African Pop3. Pop4. Amapiano (more SA Pop!)5. Dancehall
― fat ass deep state operative (breastcrawl), Thursday, 3 December 2020 18:30 (three years ago) link
1. Art Pop2. Funk3. Rock4. Fourth World5. Pop
― timber euros (seandalai), Friday, 4 December 2020 00:49 (three years ago) link
Weird that I have zero songs from my Year End #3 Artist in my Year End Playlist.
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 5 December 2020 18:00 (three years ago) link
For my old heads pic.twitter.com/fvJ64LMTBJ— Iola Ella (@IolaElla) December 3, 2020
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 5 December 2020 22:26 (three years ago) link
Just enjoyed 10 minutes of spinning wheel after clicking on an artist, now it won't play the album I was eventually able to get to. Oh wait it will play track 2! I hate to sound like an entitled motherfucker but I do pay money for this product which enables me to listen to almost any damn music on the planet at the click of a button but also fails at basic tasks every single day. And underpays artists. Unless they're right wing podcasters.
― ledge, Thursday, 10 December 2020 15:54 (three years ago) link
Was just reminded that on the mobile app (which I have barely used this year other than to control remotely the app on my Mac) you can see the specific release date of something but not on the desktop app >:[
― nashwan, Thursday, 10 December 2020 15:57 (three years ago) link
update: won't play any tracks on the album other than 2 or 3.
― ledge, Thursday, 10 December 2020 16:07 (three years ago) link
The android app has been performing like shit lately. Constant sound dropouts, having to restart frequently. It forced me to re-download my 6000 offline tracks yesterday for no apparent reason.
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Thursday, 10 December 2020 16:09 (three years ago) link
Was just reminded that on the mobile app (which I have barely used this year other than to control remotely the app on my Mac) you can see the specific release date of something but not on the desktop app >:
And of course neither allow you to show even the year of release in playlist/library view. It's annoying.
― Alba, Thursday, 10 December 2020 16:54 (three years ago) link
i wonder if they can't just program a routine force stop into the app somehow. when you aren't using it. logo is green. grogu is hot. force stops. Disney to acquire spotify.
― we can dance forever at covideotheque (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 10 December 2020 17:06 (three years ago) link
Yeah, lately every time I search a new artist and try to play a track, nothing happens until I force quit and restart. Great tech!
― Joe Biden Shot My Dog - Vols. I-XL (PBKR), Friday, 11 December 2020 16:01 (three years ago) link
same problem but the answer has been to drop that music in a playlist that is set to download to my mac. plays fine after that! obviously not optimal!
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Friday, 11 December 2020 17:13 (three years ago) link
OH MY GOD. The deals between the majors and the streaming services. The thread many of you requested. It gets a bit sticky, tricky and puzzling, but that’s the point.— Tom Gray #BrokenRecord (@MrTomGray) June 14, 2020
― huge rant (sic), Saturday, 19 December 2020 10:30 (three years ago) link
Jfc
― DJI, Saturday, 19 December 2020 16:57 (three years ago) link
The business model is so weird. Imagine being a record executive and being pitched “no one is paying for the CD for the yes album relayer these days, for example, so would you rather make pennies or nothing”
― calstars, Sunday, 20 December 2020 02:54 (three years ago) link
Or maybe it would be “we can augment existing cd sales with a growing digital-based revenue source” ugh
― calstars, Sunday, 20 December 2020 03:07 (three years ago) link
this is a lot better than whatever spotify wrapped was
https://pudding.cool/2020/12/judge-my-spotify/
― Roz, Wednesday, 23 December 2020 04:48 (three years ago) link
I just noticed a couple of days ago that in the Mobile app, Spotify will return search results of songs that contain the searched phrase in its lyrics. Is this relatively new?
― MarkoP, Wednesday, 23 December 2020 04:56 (three years ago) link
this is a lot better than whatever spotify wrapped washttps://pudding.cool/2020/12/judge-my-spotify/― Roz, Wednesday, 23 December 2020 04:48 (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Roz, Wednesday, 23 December 2020 04:48 (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
Things I didn't know I needed till now: a robot that looks at my listening habits and says "what the fuck is wrong with you?"
― Clean-up on ILX (onimo), Wednesday, 23 December 2020 06:20 (three years ago) link
The diagnosis you've really been waiting for rn.
― huge rant (sic), Wednesday, 23 December 2020 06:59 (three years ago) link