Music Meme: The Most-Played Song in Your Music Player
At this point my love of country, and especially pop-country is inescapable. Eight of the top ten most-played songs in my player are by Carrie Underwood. Although that has a lot to do with my iTunes being reset shortly after college, which wiped all the statistics from before that and my discovery of Carrie Underwood around the same time. I basically had her first three albums on repeat for a month.
So the most-played song in my music library (with a whopping 36 plays) is We're Young and Beautiful. It's a fun song that reminds me of summer and young love and just being happy.
The other two artists that managed to break my top ten are The Dixie Chicks, with Long Time Gone
I use the service last.fm to keep track of my music listening. It tabulates everything I listen to on Winamp and iTunes and keeps track of it. It was a great service when I lived in a place where my awesome speakers were hooked up to my large music collection directly. However, now if I want to listen to the music I have on my computer through my speakers it is a somewhat complicated process. This means a lot more of plugging in my phone to those speakers and playing pandora or songs on my phone (not tabulated). However, I think that the statistics are rather stirring. Since Feb. 2011 I have listened to Monster by Kanye West 33 times on my computer. Plus probably that many times again on my phone/in the car. However, I wrote a bit about that song, and the album from which it comes on the favorite album post.
I am entering a world of guesswork here, but I think it is fair to say that since Fall 2004 I have listened to the album 2001 by Dr. Dre around once a month. That is 96 plays over 8 years (a conservative estimate). In addition to each of the album plays I will have listened to songs like Still DRE and Next Episode countless more times. They are two of the greatest songs I have ever known. And probably among my most played tracks of all time.
I don't have anything to keep track, plus I've changed computers like 6 times since I started listening to music. I will also take a guess though and say OK Go's Get Over It. Mostly because I used to play that song a bunch to tell people to get over things, and then also because I do listen to OK Go a good bit, and Get Over It is the first track on their first CD so when I scroll down to them it shows up first.
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ReplyDeleteI use the service last.fm to keep track of my music listening. It tabulates everything I listen to on Winamp and iTunes and keeps track of it. It was a great service when I lived in a place where my awesome speakers were hooked up to my large music collection directly. However, now if I want to listen to the music I have on my computer through my speakers it is a somewhat complicated process. This means a lot more of plugging in my phone to those speakers and playing pandora or songs on my phone (not tabulated). However, I think that the statistics are rather stirring. Since Feb. 2011 I have listened to Monster by Kanye West 33 times on my computer. Plus probably that many times again on my phone/in the car. However, I wrote a bit about that song, and the album from which it comes on the favorite album post.
ReplyDeleteI am entering a world of guesswork here, but I think it is fair to say that since Fall 2004 I have listened to the album 2001 by Dr. Dre around once a month. That is 96 plays over 8 years (a conservative estimate). In addition to each of the album plays I will have listened to songs like Still DRE and Next Episode countless more times. They are two of the greatest songs I have ever known. And probably among my most played tracks of all time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CL6n0FJZpk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crdp30kRG3U
I don't have anything to keep track, plus I've changed computers like 6 times since I started listening to music. I will also take a guess though and say OK Go's Get Over It. Mostly because I used to play that song a bunch to tell people to get over things, and then also because I do listen to OK Go a good bit, and Get Over It is the first track on their first CD so when I scroll down to them it shows up first.
ReplyDeleteGet!Get!Get!Get!Get over it!