It has become a tradition to have these apps, like Spotify, tell you some stats at the end of the year. In my case, I prefer iTunes over Spotify because of the smart playlists, and Apple has started to make this year in review too. This is what I got:
34,000 minutes of listening, 338 artists. Don’t know if that is a lot or too little, but doing the math it’s circa 90 minutes per day, so guess its kind of a lot? Would love to see some general stats to compare.
Most listened artist: Seven Spires. I am not so sure as to how did this happen, as I only found out about this artist last year, because of a concert from Avantasia (2023-05-11). This year’s line up featured Adrienne Cowan, who is the singer of Seven Spires, her main band. That’s why I started listening to them, and probably went over a lot of their songs to get to know them better (as I usually play on random). But it’s strange that its 2024, I thought I listened to them the year prior. Or perhaps Apple hasn’t got their stats right?
Top artsits: Rata Banca, Draconian, Yngwi Malmsteen, Sacred Steel, Blackmore’s Night, MetallicA, Seven Spires, Battlelore, Norther, Diablo Swing Orchesta. A few surprises there because, as I said, I normally play on random, but sometimes I just want to get to know a band better (or a new album) and I focus on that for a while. Also, sometimes I listen to my favorites list, so repeated artist should come up that I ain’t seeing.
Update! As I re-reviewed my “Replay 2024”, top artists changed to:
- Seven Spires
- Metallica
- Mägo de Oz
- The Tiger Lillies
- Sacred Steel
- Therion
- Yngwie Malmsteen
- Motörhead
- Blackmore’s Night
- Alice Cooper
- Megadeth
- Helloween
That’s more like it.
Turns out I’m a “The Tiger Lillies” top 500 listener, so I guess they don’t get that many listeners because those guys are not even on my top artist list. Or is Apple messing up?
Played 5100 songs, (guess that repeated songs don’t count) and the most listened was: Fade to Black (17 times). Runner ups: The Seven Angels (Avantasia), Head Over Heels (Accept), Master of Puppets (MetallicA), La Cantata del Diablo (Mägo de Oz), Mexico (Alestorm), …And Justice for All (MetallicA), Into the Coven (Mercyful Fate).
Unsurprisingly, top genre: Metal, followed by Hard rock, Rock, Death y Black Metal, Arena Rock (which I don’t know what it is).
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