Most listened to music of the year

[RPS]

According to Last.fm... doesn't have to just be 2009. Can be music released in any year... just listened to in this year.

Top Albums

1. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest

2. Hercules & Love Affair - S/T

3. Antony & The Johnsons - The Crying Light

4. Kid Cudi - Man On The Moon

5. Lady Gaga - The Fame

Top Songs

1. Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks

2. Kid Cudi - Day & Nite (Crookers remix)

3. Grizzly Bear - Ready, Able

4. Lady Gaga - Just Dance

5. Lady Gaga - LoveGame

Top Artists

1. Antony & The Johnsons (2053)

2. Grizzly Bear (1785)

3. Hercules & Love Affair (1381)

4. Michael Jackson (1257)

5. Kanye West (1134)

6. M.I.A (1029)

7. Lady Gaga (931)

8. Kid Cudi (893)

9. Hot Chip (680)

10. Daft Punk (670)

Honorable mentions: La Roux, Basement Jaxx, David Guetta.

Definitely was a Grizzly Bear year for me. If there was another month in the year, they definitely would have had been my top artist for the year. Michael Jackson got a healthy amount of spins before he died, as well as obviously after he died and recently as well. Really enjoyed a lot of more pop acts - Lady Gaga, Kid Cudi, MJ, Hot CHip, as well as liked some more eccentric stuff from Grizzly Bear, A&J, M.I.A.. Good year of music listening.

[Mr Evil Guy]

Top albums

1. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix - 427

2. Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs - 406

3. Wolf Parade - Apologies To The Queen Mary - 374

4. The Wave Pictures - Instant Coffee Baby - 322

5. Los Campesinos! - Hold On Now, Youngster - 294

6. Black Kids - Wizard of Ahhs - 250

then architecture in helsinkis in case we die, dr dogs fate, cure's greatest hits and pains of being pure at heart.

Top Songs

1. Phoenix - 1901

2. Wolf Parade - Fancy Claps

3. Black Kids - I'm Not Gonna Teach Yr Boyfriend How To Dance Witchu

4. Wave Pictures - I Love You Like A Madman

5. Phoenix - Lasso

Top Artists

Magnetic Fields - 880

Phoenix 595

Architecture in Helsinki - 488

The Cure - 423

Smiths - 419

Wolf Parade - 404

matt & kim - 401

wave pictures

animal collective

los campesinos!

[New Damage]

I remember the last song that I heard in 2008 and the first I heard in 2009 was "Handbag & the Gladrags" by Stereophonics as it was the last song on the album and was halfway through at midnight.

The last song I heard in 2009 was I think "Billie Jean" by Michael Jackson. In the club I was in, they stopped the music, did a countdown, then put "Killing in the Name" on for the first song of 2010.

According to Last.FM too (data from http://troublewithdreams.com/scrobbler/):

Total tracks for 2009: 25996

ARTISTS - 50% of 2009 total

1. Metallica 2346

2. Soundgarden 1873

3. Pearl Jam 1789

4. Faith No More 1369

5. Shinedown 1062

6. Limp Bizkit 1050

7. The Exies 931

8. Blind Melon 914

9. Nickelback 841

10. Alice in Chains 837

To be honest, I barely listened to Blind Melon after March, I just listened to them A LOT between January and February.

ALBUMS - 19% of 2009 total

1. Soundgarden - Superunknown 708

2. Faith No More - Angel Dust 531

3. Blind Melon - Blind Melon 514

4. Pearl Jam - Ten 464

5. Bush - Sixteen Stone 427

6. Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger 403

7. Metallica - Metallica 396

8. Faith No More - The Real Thing 378

9. Pearl Jam - Vs. 375

10. Shinedown - The Sound of Madness 366

Again, a lot of Blind Melon at the start of the year, then not much after.

TRACKS - 2% of 2009 total

1. Alice in Chains - Check My Brain 70

2. Pearl Jam - The Fixer 63

3. Metallica - Master of Puppets 56

4. Pearl Jam - Better Man 55

5. Metallica - Sad but True 54

6. Faith No More - Easy 53

7. Metallica - Fade to Black 52

8. Soundgarden - Superunknown 50

=8. Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun 50

10. Soundgarden - 4th of July 48

[GoGo Yubari]

Top Artists:

1. the pillows (612 plays)

2. The Beatles (378)

3. Yoko Kanno/the Cowboy Bebop soundtrack (226)

4. Ben Folds Five (219)

5. The Cardigans (218)

6. Miles Davis (217)

7. Art Brut (215)

8. Pizzicato Five (207)

9. Lupe Fiasco (183)

10. Weezer (182)

Honorable Mentions: Blur, The Velvet Underground, The White Stripes, Mirah

Top Songs:

1. "Selfless, Cold and Composed" by Ben Folds Five (39)

2. "Lions and Tigers" by Asobi Seksu (38)

3. "Gone Sugaring" by Mirah and "Don't Change Your Plans" by Ben Folds Five (37)

5. "Something Like a Romance" by the pillows (35)

6. "De-Luxe" by Lush (34)

7. "Question" by Rhett Miller (32)

8. "Super Mario Bros. 2 Gypsy Jazz OC Remix" by Adrian Holovaty and "Transblucency" by Duke Ellington (31)

10. "Porcelain" by Moby, "She is Staggering" by Polaris, "Golden Slumbers" by The Beatles, "RAIN BRAIN" by the pillows, and "Oh Me Oh My (Dreams In My Arms)" by Al Green

Honorable Mention: "Molly's Lips" by Nirvana

Albums:

1. The Cool by Lupe Fiasco (126)

2. First Band on the Moon by The Cardigans (123)

3. Fool on the Planet by the pillows (113)

4. Retreat From the Sun by that dog. (103)

5. Abbey Road by The Beatles (101)

6. You Think It's Like This But Really It's Like This by Mirah (98)

7. Friendly Fire by Sean Lennon (87)

8. Axis: Bold As Love by the Jimi Hendrix Experience (82)

9. No Disc from Cowboy Bebop, composed by Yoko Kanno (80)

10. thank you, my twilight by the pillows (75)

Honorable Mentions: Nonsuch by XTC, Art Brut vs. Satan by Art Brut (which I really thought would crack the top ten)

Some surprising inclusions both in songs and albums. Artists, though, is pretty much dead on for what I was into last year.

[METALMAN]

Top Artists

1. The Beatles (772) - you can blame the remasters for that I expect.

2. Bob Dylan (378)

3. Belle & Sebastian (254)

4. Ryan Adams (242)

5. Neil Young (231)

6. James Taylor (213)

7. Death Cab For Cutie (175)

8. The Saw Doctors (164)

9. David Bowie (139)

10. Idlewild (131)

so all people I have lots and lots of albums of. No surprises there.

Top Albums

1. The Beatles - Abbey Road (76)

2. The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds (69)

3. Ryan Adams - Gold (65)

3. Bob Dylan - Blonde On Blonde (65)

5. The Clash - London Calling (60)

6. Idlewild - Post Electric Blues (59)

7. The Beatles - Please Please Me (56)

7. Neil Young - After the Gold Rush (56)

7. She & Him - Volume One (56)

10. Wire - Pink Flag (55)

Top Tracks

1. The Faces - Cindy Incidentally (18)

2. Marina and the Diamonds - Seventeen (17)

3. The View - One Off Pretender (12)

4. The Beatles - Get Back (10)

4. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Woodstock (10)

6. Frank Turner - I Knew Prufrock Before He Got Famous (10)

6. The Beatles - Ticket To Ride (10)

6. Neil Young - Tell Me Why (10)

6. The Beatles - Help! (10)

6. The Beatles - A Day In The Life (10)

6. Bob Dylan - Tangled Up In Blue (10)

[Skummy]

I'm not sure how accurate my last.fm is, it seems to have gone a bit mad since I started scrobbling from my iPod, and that's pretty much the only thing I've listened to music on since June of last year, except maybe listening to a CD at work every now and then. But according to Last.fm, anyway, this is what I listened to the most of in 2009;

Artists

1. Tom Waits

2. Scott Walker

3. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

4. The Lucksmiths

5. The Housemartins

6. Sparks

7. Jake Thackray

8. Television Personalities

9. Jonathan Richman

10. Bruce Springsteen

The Fall, Julian Cope, Half Man Half Biscuit, Bob Dylan and David Bowie all just miss out. Though I know I listened to more David Bowie than last.fm thinks I did.

Songs:

1. The Guild League - Good Times

2. McLusky - Forget About Him, I'm Mint

3. Beasts Of Bourbon - Psycho

4. The Blue Rondos - Little Baby

5. Television - Venus

6. The Housemartins - Flag Day

7. Television Personalities - All My Dreams Are Dead

8. The Fall - A Day In The Life

9. Bohren & Der Club Of Gore - Darkstalker

10. The Gossip - Careless Whisper

An odd little list, that. The Guild League one is surprising, though I did listen to it an awful lot around the time I first started buying Guild League stuff. A lot of this seems to be artists I only have, or only really listen to, one or two tracks by, whereas my "Top Artists" were more bands who I'd sit and listen through an album. The Blue Rondos are a bit of an oddity up there, but I'll put that down to the fact that I listened to a few Joe Meek compilation albums over the course of the year, and that track is obviously one that just made it up there slightly above the rest. The Gossip's another curious one, no idea how that managed it.

How on earth do you go about finding out what albums you've listened to the most?

[METALMAN]

you can do it from iPod?

most of my listening is actually done on my iPod.

[Liam]

Flight of the Conchords

Stone Temple Pilots

Tenacious D

Friendly Fires

Ladyhawke

Pearl Jam

Goldie Lookin' Chain

The Gaslight Anthem

Alice in Chains

Orange Goblin

That list shows exactly how often I listen to music on my laptop....not very often.

[lari]

Off the top of my head.

Bands:

Impellitteri

Rage

Axxis

Really just got more into Rage and Impellitteri last year. I bought eight Rage CDs in 2009 alone, favourites are probably Perfect Man, Trapped!, XIII and Soundchaser. Impellitteri has been a constant favourite for a bit longer, but the new one really kept my attention.

Albums:

Impellitteri - Wicked Maiden (2009)

Blaze Bayley - The Man Who Would Not Die (2008)

Chris Caffery - House of Insanity (2009)

Blaze's latest really kept me busy especially in the early parts of the year. The best album of 2008, in my opinion. I already preordered the new one, Promise and Terror, from his website.

[Damian WayLNKe]

Top Artists

1 The Dismemberment Plan (291)

2 Eminem (262)

3 Green Day (250)

4 Hot Hot Heat (228)

5 Louis XIV (205)

6 Ben Folds (197)

7 The White Stripes (193)

8 Ben Folds Five (152)

9 Marilyn Manson (132)

10 The Von Bondies (127)

Top Albums

1 Eminem - Relapse (154)

2 Jukebox the Ghost - Let Live and Let Ghosts (106)

3 Louis XIV - Sick Dogs and Ponies (100)

4 The Network - Money Money 2020 (98)

5 Louis XIV - The Best Little Secrets are Kept (88)

6 Foxboro Hot Tubs - Stop Drop and Roll (87)

7 Taking Back Sunday - Tell All Your Friends (86)

8 The Dismemberment Plan - Live at the Black Cat (85)

9 Sum 41 - All Killer No Filler (84)

9 Hot Hot Heat - Makeup the Breakdown (76)

Top Songs

1 Eminem - 3 A.M. (20)

2 Eminem - We Made You (19)

3 Louis XIV - God Killed the Queen (18)

4 Louis XIV - Paper Doll (17)

5 Louis XIV - Air Traffic Control (16)

6 Louis XIV - Guilt by Association (15)

7 The Haunted - Walls of Jericho (14)

7 Taking Back Sunday - Bike Scene (14)

7 The Dismemberment Plan - Gyroscope (14)

7 Joe Jackson - Summer in the City (14)

Not much surprising here too me. Interesting to note how the top artists contain bands that I have multiple albums from and then top albums contains a lot of bands that I only have one album from.

Edited January 8, 2010 by LNK

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

As I forgot my last fm password years ago and isten to most music on the move then I'll have to guess.

However I'm pretty certain it would go something like:

Elastica

Sleeper

Blur

Pulp

Kinickie

Sigur Ros

Mew

Amiina

Jonquil

The Kinks

The Clash

Somethin' like that.

[Clawson]

Top Artists

1. Oasis (1108)

2. The Gaslight Anthem (890)

3. The Beatles (593)

4. Editors (387)

5. blink-182 (374)

6. Muse (235)

7. The Stone Roses (193)

8. Sugarplum Fairy (190)

9. Arctic Monkeys (175)

9. The Smiths (175)

Top Albums

1. The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound (395)

2. The Gaslight Anthem - Sink or Swim (367)

3. blink-182 - Enema of the State (256)

4. Oasis - Definitely Maybe (242)

5. Editors - In This Light And On This Evening (212)

6. Oasis - Dig Out Your Soul (180)

7. The Beatles - Revolver (136)

8. Oasis - (What's The Story) Morning Glory (130)

9. The Gaslight Anthem - Senor And The Queen (128)

10. Twisted Wheel - Twisted Wheel (113)

Top Tracks

1. The Gaslight Anthem - Film Noir (77)

2. The Gaslight Anthem - Drive (56)

3. The Gaslight Anthem - Senor And The Queen (52)

4. Oasis - Supersonic (47)

5. The Gaslight Anthem - 1930 (45)

6. Editors - Eat Raw Meat = Blood Drool (42)

7. The Gaslight Anthem - Great Expectations (41)

7. The Gaslight Anthem - Old White Lincoln (41)

9. The Gaslight Anthem - Miles Davis & The Cool (39)

10. Oasis - Talk Tonight (37)

Some interesting things that I've noticed is that every single one of Sugarplum's Fairy plays came in December as that is when I discovered them. Could have easily been top 3 if I was listening to them for the whole year. Senor And The Queen being 9th on my album chart is stunning when you consider that it's a 4 song EP.

[Jayzon]

You're not going to recognize some of these, as there's Finnish stuff in there that nobody outside Finland has heard of - and some which very few even in Finland has heard of.

Artists:

01. Johnny Cash (407 plays)

02. Metallica (286)

03. Anthrax (255)

04. Slayer (246)

05. Marilyn Manson (226)

06. Green Day (225)

07. DevilDriver (198)

08. Megadeth (198)

09. Richard Cheese (189)

10. KoЯn (187)

Albums:

01. Tarharyhmä - Oppivuodet (113)

02. Slayer - World Painted Blood (84)

03. Johnny Cash - The Essential Johnny Cash Disc 1 (72)

04. Martti Servo ja Napander - Hittirähinä 1 (67)

05. Metallica - Death Magnetic (66)

06. DevilDriver - Pray For Villains (64)

07. Lamb of God - Wrath (62)

08. Puola - Invisible Sightseeing (61)

09. Johnny Cash - The Essential Johnny Cash Disc 2 (60)

10. Jalankulkuämpäri - Koska olen hyvä rouva (58)

Tracks:

01. Slayer - Psychopathy Red (15)

02. Puola - Liikennevalot (14)

03. Avenged Sevenfold - Critical Acclaim (12)

04. Metallica - My Apocalypse (11)

05. Slayer - Hate Worldwide (11)

06. Faith No More - We Care a Lot (11)

07. Raili's People - Saatanien Kansa (11)

08. Eminem - Insane (10)

09. Kreator - Hordes of Chaos (A Necrologue for the Elite) (10)

10. Metallica - Cyanide (10)

Edited January 8, 2010 by Jayzon