Spotify - anyone heard of it?

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.

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.

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.

top track, that is. tho it could be a tap track too.

57k minutes, 700 genres. Apparently I'm in the top .1% of listeners to Janet Jackson so I have that going for me.

5375 artists, including 2175 new ones

Top artists:
1. Kabza de Small
2. DJ Maphorisa (my last.fm disagrees)
3. Wizkid
4. Fireboy DML
5. Tiwa Savage

876 genres, including 317 new ones (if you say so...)

Top genres:
1. Nigerian Pop
2. South African Pop
3. Pop
4. Amapiano (more SA Pop!)
5. Dancehall

1. Art Pop
2. Funk
3. Rock
4. Fourth World
5. Pop

Weird that I have zero songs from my Year End #3 Artist in my Year End Playlist.

For my old heads pic.twitter.com/fvJ64LMTBJ

— Iola Ella (@IolaElla) December 3, 2020

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.

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 >:[

update: won't play any tracks on the album other than 2 or 3.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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!

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

Jfc

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”

Or maybe it would be “we can augment existing cd sales with a growing digital-based revenue source” ugh