music, in review
Okay, so–I’ve been a Google Play Music user for the past 7 years or so, which has meant that unlike most people, I’ve not had a Spotify Wrapped. I’ve tried to use Last.fm reliably over the years, but it just takes one «I reset my phone and forgot to scrobble» to leave my trends messed up for most of the year.
But someone put together a script that builds a list based on your play music activity! This is really neat! That only goes back so far, and the 2020 numbers are just fucked (technical term) between the GPM shutdown and the pandemic. However, I’ve got a working ListenBrainz setup (and mostly local playback) going so I should be able to get good numbers for next year. I might switch to Majola instead, since it looks pretty cool and I’m into the self-hosting thing, but finding some easy ways to make a python server accessible for as little cost as possible is… not trivial. Sigh.
Anyway, onto the most played artists of (the first half) of 2020, followed by all the way back to 2017! Judge away, friends. Judge away.
Artists, 2020
- VÉRITÉ
- The Mountain Goats
- Fall Out Boy
- Halsey
- Hayley Williams
- Vérité
- Orla Gartland
- City Girl
- Florence + The Machine
- Clairo
- Chelsea Cutler
- Taylor Swift
- Beach Bunny
- Bastille
- Damien Rice
- Camila Cabello
- Purity Ring
- Black Dresses
- Homestuck
- Hozier
- Steven Universe
- Makoto Tomozawa
- Lianne La Havas
- AFI
- Julia Nunes
- Blaqk Audio
- The Protomen
- Moon Hooch
- Justice
- Tove Lo
- Jeff Ball
- Alkaline Trio
- Masayoshi Soken
- Cigarettes After Sex
- Laura Marling
- Cray
- dodie
- Coheed and Cambria
- La Roux
- Janelle Monáe
- Bishop Briggs
- Sleeping With Sirens
- HAIM
- Kim Petras
- Julia Michaels
- Voxtrot
- Caitlin Rose
- Descendants of Erdrick
- The Break And Repair Method
- Ludo
Songs, 2020
And for top songs in 2020…
- VÉRITÉ - think of me
- Orla Gartland - New Friends
- Orla Gartland - Heavy
- Orla Gartland - Did It to Myself
- Orla Gartland - Oh GOD
- VÉRITÉ - amnesia
- VÉRITÉ - youth
- Orla Gartland - Figure It Out
- The Mountain Goats - Exegetic Chains
- The Mountain Goats - The Wooded Hills Along the Black Sea
- The Mountain Goats - For the Snakes
- The Mountain Goats - Last Gasp at Calama
- The Mountain Goats - Until Olympius Returns
- The Mountain Goats - Aulon Raid
- VÉRITÉ - faded
- VÉRITÉ - good for it
- Hayley Williams - Leave It Alone
- VÉRITÉ - Need Nothing
- The Mountain Goats - Going to Lebanon 2
- The Mountain Goats - January 31, 438
- Fall Out Boy - My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark (Light Em Up)
- VÉRITÉ - medicine
- VÉRITÉ - body in my bed
- VÉRITÉ - ocean
- VÉRITÉ - new skin
- Halsey - Finally // beautiful stranger
- The Mountain Goats - Their Gods Do Not Have Surgeons
- The Mountain Goats - Hopeful Assassins of Zeno
- Fall Out Boy - Uma Thurman
- Fall Out Boy - Immortals
- Fall Out Boy - Young Volcanoes
- Fall Out Boy - Alone Together
- Vérité - Colors
- Hayley Williams - Simmer
- Fall Out Boy - Irresistible
- Fall Out Boy - Centuries
- Fall Out Boy - Champion
- Fall Out Boy - The Phoenix
- Camila Cabello - Shameless
- VÉRITÉ - gone
- VÉRITÉ - Phase Me Out
- VÉRITÉ - Somebody Else
- Hayley Williams - Cinnamon
- Vérité - Strange Enough
- Fall Out Boy - Bob Dylan
- Fall Out Boy - The Last Of The Real Ones
- Vérité - Weekend
- Vérité - Rearrange
- VÉRITÉ - Nothing
- Vérité - Echo
Artists, 2019
Artists for 2019!
- Homestuck
- Hozier
- Jeff Ball
- City Girl
- VÉRITÉ
- Florence + The Machine
- Snail’s House
- Panic! At The Disco
- Bastille
- Yasunori Nishiki
- Clairo
- Daniel Olsén
- jneen-collective
- Nobuo Uematsu
- Camila Cabello
- Julia Michaels
- Lindsey Stirling
- The Mountain Goats
- Cray
- CHVRCHES
- Voxtrot
- The Dandy Warhols
- La Roux
- Yoko Shimomura
- Halsey
- Silversun Pickups
- dodie
- pronoun
- Moon Hooch
- Freya Ridings
- People You Meet Outside of Bars
- Estelle
- Frank Turner
- Julia Nunes
- Ingrid Michaelson
- Bishop Briggs
- Taylor Swift
- SwuM
- Caitlin Rose
- The Format
- Avril Lavigne
- Sara Bareilles
- Tove Lo
- Sophie Madeleine
- Hayley Kiyoko
- Norah Jones
- My Chemical Romance
- Amanda Palmer & The Grand Theft Orchestra
- Kim Petras
- 植松伸夫
Songs, 2019
And songs!
- Hozier - Almost (Sweet Music)
- Hozier - Sunlight
- Hozier - Nina Cried Power (feat. Mavis Staples)
- Hozier - Wasteland, Baby!
- Hozier - No Plan
- Hozier - Be
- Hozier - Talk
- Hozier - To Noise Making (Sing)
- Hozier - Nobody
- Hozier - Movement
- Hozier - Would That I
- Hozier - Dinner & Diatribes
- Hozier - Shrike
- Hozier - As It Was
- VÉRITÉ - think of me
- VÉRITÉ - amnesia
- Ingrid Michaelson - Jealous
- VÉRITÉ - new skin
- dodie - Monster
- Bastille - Doom Days
- VÉRITÉ - ocean
- VÉRITÉ - youth
- VÉRITÉ - faded
- Maren Morris - The Bones (with Hozier)
- VÉRITÉ - good for it
- Cray - seasons change and so do i
- Camila Cabello - Shameless
- VÉRITÉ - gone
- Cray - watch what i do
- Clairo - Bags
- SwuM - The Dream (Original Mix)
- Camila Cabello - Liar
- Panic! At The Disco - Hurricane
- Julia Michaels - Into You
- SwuM - Chinatown (Original Mix)
- Cray - raining pouring
- The Dandy Warhols - Be Alright
- Lindsey Stirling - The Upside (feat. Elle King)
- Panic! At The Disco - The Ballad of Mona Lisa
- SwuM - Stay. (Original Mix)
- Homestuck - ASSAULT
- Homestuck - Another Jungle
- Homestuck - Anbroids V2.0
- Panic! At The Disco - Nearly Witches (Ever Since We Met…)
- Tove Lo - Sweettalk my Heart
- Cray - can live without you
- Cray - idontwannatalkaboutlove
- Homestuck - Skaianet
- Homestuck - Whistling Jackhammer
- City Girl - Motionless (feat. Tiffi)
Artists, 2018
- Florence + The Machine
- 植松伸夫
- Hozier
- CHVRCHES
- The Mountain Goats
- HAL Laboratory, Inc.
- Yoko Shimomura
- 下村陽子
- Julia Nunes
- Kailee Morgue
- Nobuo Uematsu
- Blake Robinson Synthetic Orchestra
- Mikel & GameChops
- Lorde
- Janelle Monáe
- Hitoshi Sakimoto, Shota Nakama
- Sammie Zonana
- St. Vincent
- Bishop Briggs
- Seafret
- Clark Powell
- Lisa Hannigan
- The Versions
- people you meet outside of bars
- Matt and Kim
- They Might Be Giants
- ARCHIS
- Kirby’s Dream Band
- Tove Lo
- walkingnorth
- Voxtrot
- Halsey
- Darren Korb
- Homestuck
- The Regrettes
- Marika Suzuki
- La Roux
- Laura Welsh
- The Break And Repair Method
- The Postal Service
- Julia Harriman
- Purity Ring
- Shogo Sakai
- ConcernedApe
- Of Monsters And Men
- Jeff Goldblum & The Mildred Snitzer Orchestra
- BANKS
- Wet
- Zella Day
- Homecomings
Songs, 2018
Something something, same song and dance?
- Florence + The Machine - Sky Full Of Song
- Florence + The Machine - Hunger
- Florence + The Machine - Big God
- Florence + The Machine - June
- Florence + The Machine - South London Forever
- Florence + The Machine - Grace
- Hozier - NFWMB
- Florence + The Machine - No Choir
- Florence + The Machine - 100 Years
- Florence + The Machine - Patricia
- Hozier - Nina Cried Power (feat. Mavis Staples)
- Florence + The Machine - The End Of Love
- Hozier - Moment’s Silence (Common Tongue)
- Hozier - Shrike
- The Mountain Goats - Hospital Reaction Shot
- The Mountain Goats - Song for Ted Sallis
- The Mountain Goats - Rain in Soho
- The Mountain Goats - Tucson Fog
- Kailee Morgue - Do You Feel This Way (feat. Whethan)
- The Mountain Goats - We Do It Different on the West Coast
- Kailee Morgue - F**k U
- The Mountain Goats - Almost Every Door
- HAL Laboratory, Inc. - Butter Brimful Building/Butter Building
- Julia Harriman - First Burn
- HAL Laboratory, Inc. - At The Floating Paradise/Cloudy Park ~ Ripple Field
- HAL Laboratory, Inc. - Gourmet! Carnival/Gourmet Race
- HAL Laboratory, Inc. - Fresh Green Café Terrace/Green Greens
- Kailee Morgue - Siren
- Kailee Morgue - Medusa (Acoustic)
- Kailee Morgue - Unfortunate Soul (Acoustic)
- Kailee Morgue - Ghost Of Mine (Acoustic)
- Kailee Morgue - Discovery (Acoustic)
- HAL Laboratory, Inc. - Eating a Meal and Having a Dream/Milky Way Wishes: Staff Roll
- HAL Laboratory, Inc. - Sixty-four/vs. Zero Two
- HAL Laboratory, Inc. - The King and The Witch’s Rendezvous/Kirby Extra Game Series Medley
- HAL Laboratory, Inc. - The Honey is Sweet, and The Flower Blooms Pitifully/Mysterious Trap ~ Queen Sectonia vs. Hypernova
- HAL Laboratory, Inc. - Sunset Tower/Sky Tower
- HAL Laboratory, Inc. - Peaceful Oasis/Air Ride: Sky Sands
- HAL Laboratory, Inc. - Teatime Under Sunshine Filtering Through The Leaves/Forest/Nature Area
- Florence + The Machine - Shake It Out
- CHVRCHES - Deliverance
- CHVRCHES - Heaven/Hell
- HAL Laboratory, Inc. - Café De Planet/Robobot Armor Theme ~ The Nobel Haltmann Song
- Seafret - Can’t Look Away
- Seafret - Monsters
- Florence + The Machine - Only If For A Night
- The Mountain Goats - Andrew Eldritch Is Moving Back to Leeds
- CHVRCHES - Get Out
- CHVRCHES - Graffiti
- Seafret - Heartless
Artists, 2017
I’m pretty sure this is also incomplete thanks to a data cutoff, but it doesn’t look WRONG, so here it is.
- Florence + The Machine
- Darren Korb
- Tiger Army
- HAL Laboratory, Inc.
- Tegan And Sara
- 下村陽子
- soundTeMP
- Voxtrot
- Metric
- A Fine Frenzy
- They Might Be Giants
- Julia Nunes
- Hozier
- Kazumi Totaka
- Mark Mancina
- Damien Rice
- ConcernedApe
- Chip Tanaka
- Auli’i Cravalho
- The Mountain Goats
- Gaijin Games
- Tegan and Sara
- Lin-Manuel Miranda
- BANKS
- Olivia Foa’i
- Anamanaguchi
- Gorillaz
- Birdy
- Phil Collins
- Survival Guide
- Esmé Patterson
- Adele
- SoundTemp
- Bronze Radio Return
- Nas, Dave East, Lin-Manuel Miranda & Aloe Blacc
- Highasakite
- Tove Lo
- Dwayne Johnson
- Opetaia Foa’i
- Christopher Jackson
- Vai Mahina
- Matchbox Twenty
- walkingnorth
- Naoshi Mizuta
- Gungor
- Lianne La Havas
- The Doubleclicks
- Sister Sparrow & The Dirty Birds
- K’naan, Snow Tha Product, Riz MC, Residente
- Jordan Fisher
Songs, 2017
Again, probably incomplete but it doesn’t look wrong based on what I remember.
- 下村陽子 - 晦の夜の夢 - Somnus -
- Florence + The Machine - Stand By Me
- Tiger Army - Hotprowl
- Tiger Army - Prelude: Signal Return
- 下村陽子 - 月華の円舞曲 - Valse di Fantastica -
- 下村陽子 - 遠ざかる日々のこと - Sorrow Without Solace -
- HAL Laboratory, Inc. - Fresh Green Café Terrace/Green Greens
- Tiger Army - Where The Moss Slowly Grows
- Tiger Army - Spring Forward
- Tiger Army - Hechizo De Amor
- Tiger Army - As The Cold Rain Falls
- Tiger Army - Pain
- Tiger Army - Luna Tone
- Tiger Army - Ghosts Of Memory
- Tiger Army - Forever Fades Away
- Tiger Army - Afterworld
- Florence + The Machine - I Will Be
- 下村陽子 - 漆黒の黙示録 - APOCALYPSIS NOCTIS -
- HAL Laboratory, Inc. - Gourmet! Carnival/Gourmet Race
- HAL Laboratory, Inc. - Butter Brimful Building/Butter Building
- HAL Laboratory, Inc. - Café De Planet/Robobot Armor Theme ~ The Nobel Haltmann Song
- Florence + The Machine - Too Much Is Never Enough
- 下村陽子 - 裁きと啓示 - OMNIS LACRIMA -
- 下村陽子 - ピアノのための幻想的夜曲 - NOCTIS -
- 下村陽子 - 綺羅星円舞曲 - Starlit Waltz -
- 下村陽子 - 闇に染む饗宴 - Veiled in Black -
- 下村陽子 - 月夜に謳う君 - LUNA -
- 下村陽子 - 曉の幻影 - Stand Your Ground -
- HAL Laboratory, Inc. - Eating a Meal and Having a Dream/Milky Way Wishes: Staff Roll
- HAL Laboratory, Inc. - Sixty-four/vs. Zero Two
- HAL Laboratory, Inc. - The King and The Witch’s Rendezvous/Kirby Extra Game Series Medley
- HAL Laboratory, Inc. - The Honey is Sweet, and The Flower Blooms Pitifully/Mysterious Trap ~ Queen Sectonia vs. Hypernova
- HAL Laboratory, Inc. - Sunset Tower/Sky Tower
- HAL Laboratory, Inc. - Peaceful Oasis/Air Ride: Sky Sands
- HAL Laboratory, Inc. - Teatime Under Sunshine Filtering Through The Leaves/Forest/Nature Area
- HAL Laboratory, Inc. - At The Floating Paradise/Cloudy Park ~ Ripple Field
- Gorillaz - Let Me Out (feat. Mavis Staples & Pusha T)
- Birdy - White Winter Hymnal
- Julia Nunes - Odd
- Julia Nunes - To The Damsels: Run
- Julia Nunes - Nothing’s That Great
- Esmé Patterson - No River
- Adele - Best For Last
- Florence + The Machine - Never Let Me Go
- Florence + The Machine - What The Water Gave Me
- Florence + The Machine - Shake It Out
- Florence + The Machine - Only If For A Night
- Florence + The Machine - Queen Of Peace
- Tegan And Sara - Someday
- soundTeMP - Welcome, My Lord