Spotify - anyone heard of it?

(Tom Ewing's Twitter world cups will also have been a big factor in this, both directly and indirectly as I undertake a long term project of my best ofs for every year since 1950)

The podcast part did not at all line up with podcasts I actually listened to, very odd.

my top artist was Dee Dee Bridgewater, who i have never listened to. i asked my wife (who has her own account) if she’d played it on my computer or something and she has no memory of that. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

if I listen to something a bunch in December will it impact the 2020 chart

Dee Dee Bridgewater's first lp was reissued by Mr BOngo 2 or 3 months ago. Wouldn't have anything to do with taht would it?
Also i think BGO put out a 2cd of about 4 of her later lps a little earlier

It's mystifying. She's huge in France, and my wife's French, so I feel like it's got to be her fault somehow. Dunno!

Stolen Spotify logins get shared/sold on the black market so it's possible someone else is using your account, Tracer.

https://support.spotify.com/us/article/someone-has-gained-access-to-my-account/
https://www.techradar.com/news/thousands-of-spotify-accounts-hacked-heres-what-you-need-to-know

If you want to be sure, you have to use the 'sign out everywhere' option as I think already-logged-in devices don't get kicked off just by you changing the password.

whoa

Dee Dee Bridgewater bots are ruining my life

Another year, another random artist I fall asleep to ends up on my Spotify Unwrapped :P In 2020 the honor goes to the Sandpipers (Guantanamera is a very nice album to fall asleep to, highly recommend).

ha

As is usually the case, all my top tracks and artists are stuff my wife or kids listen to. I'm a top 1% listener of a band I don't particularly care for.

my #1 was something I listened to on repeat for one day last February that I like well enough but is not particularly representative.

My top tracks are... yes, the tracks I listened to a lot. That was very exciting to see, thank you.

my top track that I actually listen to (Andy Stott - Dismantle) is one that is an auto-play track after almost everything I listen to, which accounts for its placing way more than the amount of times I actually decided to listen to it.

shockingly, I spent most of 2020 listening to clipping.

who could have seen that coming besides anyone within earshot of me during 2020

This is the first full year I've had Spotify, so I took a look at the wrapped thing even though the idea of Spotify packaging up all this data on me and presenting it to me creeps me out. It was kind of an interesting index to the pandemic, actually. No big surprises in the favorite artists category, but some songs showed up that made me go, "whaaa?" and then I realized this was something I'd listened to a lot in the very beginning of lockdown.

You discovered 2972 new artists this year

Did I now

Lol

nods to Azana, Hayley Williams, Alambaster DePlume, Jessie Ware, HAIM and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Inxhtu7L3qc

the little jokes they included in the recap made me think that i fucking hate everybody who works for spotify except glenn

“you sure did listen to a lot of <SAD SONGS> this year, <DROOPYFACE>! why not check out our Daily Uplift playlist? it’s made just for you with our own robot hands! we care about <YOU>!!!!!!”

Every time I open this thread I'm glad I stayed with Apple Music tbh.

Spotify moved into the office space above my old job and I spent a lot of time thinking strongly about jumping ship to them

i am not getting the recap as of yet, looking forward to being furiously angry at it

just hit the search tab on the still somehow confoundingly terrible app, it should be among the categories there

my top artists:

1 grateful dead
2 bob Dylan (listened obsessively to slow train)
3 keith jarrett
4 jan garbarek
5 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

My most listened to song this year contained these lyrics:

Life is a rope, death is a myth
Love is a fraud, it's misunderstood
Work is a sentence, family's a drag
This house is a trap

Who needs an unconscious?

My summer long Bob Pollard listening project really dominated my Spotify (I listened to a lot of the albums I didn't have ripped to my iPhone yet through there).

my top artists:

1. Guided by Voices
2. Robert Pollard
3. Circus Devils
4. Grateful Dead
5. Boston Spaceships

I'm in the top 0.05% of GbV listeners for the year, apparently.

1. Donna Summer
2. Al Green
3. The Sandpipers
4. Hank Williams
5. Giorgio Moroder

My top song for 2020 is Music Trance by Ben E King...I truly believe I am the only person in the world that statement applies to. It's not terribly evident by my artists list but my discover weekly playlists really broadened my listening horizons - in the past I have gone months without listening to something new, but I have found such random gems in my DW playlists that I never miss a week.

My Top Artists:

1. Cut Copy (I guess I did play their new album on repeat for a few weeks)
2. Johnny Nash
3. Suzanne Kraft (I play the Nash/Kraft album for bedtime / reading)
4. Durutti Column (I expected this would have been number 1, but who knows)
5. Sault

i got the top songs in the home screen but not the more granular stats which, frankly, i'm more interested in.

Spotify Wrapped is great! Idc, the algorithm makes me feel seen and I am comfortable with that.

1. CRJ (top 0.5%, woo)
2. Charli XCX
3. Orchestral Manoeuvres in Dark
4. Wire
5. Kesha

1. Dylan
2. Gillian Welch
3. Hiroshi Yoshimura
4. Sault
5. Al Green

I can see my top songs but not my top artists/genres. I've tried mobile app, desktop app, web app, nada.

same, I think it's a higher tier bonus?

nm - had to update the app on my phone!

Have you tried replayify.com? Lots of Spotify Developer tools provide functionality/listening data that the Spotify app doesn't.

Top artists

1. SAULT
2. Cavern of Anti-Matter
3. Men I Trust
4. CFCF
5. Ralph Towner

1. Underworld (ilx poll listening)
2, Loscil
3. Stars of the Lid (both bedtime listening)
4. Jessie Ware
5. Dua Lipa

Pretty sure #6 would be Sault based on my Top Songs playlist

my top artists:

1 grateful dead
2 bob Dylan (listened obsessively to slow train)
3 keith jarrett
4 jan garbarek
5 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)

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

1. The Rolling Stones
2. The Replacements
3. Jimi Hendrix
4. Bob Dylan
5. 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

1. Pixies
2. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
3. Dexy's Midnight Runners
4. Pearl Jam
5. Kate Bush.

Which I guess shows I'm getting old, and didn't listen to much this year...

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

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.

From 2016:

https://festivalpeak.com/what-is-escape-room-and-why-is-it-one-of-my-top-genres-on-spotify-a886372f003f

My top artist was Janet Jackson due to the ILM poll.

I read the escape room thing a while back and I still don’t get it

I've thought about renaming it "intersectional pop", but the "escape room" name is kind of a thing now in itself.