Spotify - anyone heard of it?

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.

1. Kevin Morby
2. J Dilla
3. Van Morrison
4. Faces
5. Lucinda Williams

Oh! Is it kind of like Shambhala? That's an interesting article - love all the granular descriptor stuff.

idgi is it just “music that people who like charli xcx and fka twigs also tend to like” or what

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

It's a good tag imo and the enigma is part of the appeal.

Sucks that the recap is only available for phones this year. Whose dumb idea was this?

my top artists were the Orb, Fleetwood Mac, Underworld, Jefferson Airplane, Steely Dan ... but my top genre was microhouse?

1. Underworld (ilm poll)
2. Janet Jackson (ilm poll)
3. The 1975
4. Charli XCX
5. 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

Sucks that the recap is only available for phones this year. Whose dumb idea was this?

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?

(^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..."

Artists
1. The Rolling Stones
2. Autechre
3. András Schiff
4. John Maus
5. 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.

1. Neil Young
2. Taylor Swift
3. Phoebe Bridgers
4. Jimi Hendrix
5. Blake Mills

these were all ilm threads

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.

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.

It says I listened to 464 genres, I would like a list plz.

1. Sam Prekop
2. Taylor Swift
3. Jeff Parker
4. Jessie Ware
5. 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).

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.