Ten Thousand

I joined Last.fm as a new years res­o­lu­tion of sorts. I was inspired by Kottke’s post, and, in gen­eral, my love for stats. So, need­less to say, I’ve been check­ing up on my Last.fm account from time to time. Today, some­thing very excit­ing hap­pened: Between Jan­u­ary 3, 2007 and now (July 16, 2007 at 4:17 pm) I have lis­tened to 10,000 songs.¹ If I con­tinue at this cur­rent rate it will take me almost 6 years to get to 100,000, the next big mile­stone I guess. Any­ways, here’s the stats.

My top 20 artists so far this year are as fol­lows:²
1. The Blow
2. YACHT
3. Mirah
4. Bob Dylan
5. Deer­hoof
6. The Right­eous and Har­mo­nious Fists (rep­re­sent!)
7. Manta
8. Cat Power
9. Adrian Orange
10. Dear Nora

11. The Bad­ger King
12. Wu-Tang Clan
13. Bobby Bird­man
14. Tom Waits
15. Prodigy (of Mobb Deep)
16. Laven­der Dia­mond
17. Dirty Pro­jec­tors
18. High Places
19. CocoRosie
20. Belle and Sebastian

None of these are really sur­pris­ing… If there was a “Top Time Elapsed” I think Pub­lic Radio Inter­na­tional would be higher (cur­rently 29) up in the list because all the pod­casts I lis­ten to are around an hour each.

Some fun graph­i­cal rep­re­sen­ta­tions:
my main­stream per­cent­age
And a weird gooey graph

_{¹This includes my time at work (where I lis­ten the most, 8–5 Monday-Friday since the sum­mer began) and home (Far less than work lately because I’m at home less. Plus lately, with no inter­net con­nec­tion at home, I don’t know how much is being tracked). This does not include my iPod (I know you can track your iPod lis­ten­ing, but I haven’t got­ten around to it yet, plus I haven’t really used my iPod much lately).}

_{²Not includ­ing the cur­rent month.}