Top 20 "Most Played" Artists

I quite like her, at times she makes me think of a female Nick Drake.

According to LastFm this is currently what I jam in my top twenty.

1 The Beatles 232
2 Ramones 130
3 Jethro Tull 116
4 Blue Öyster Cult 95
5 Corrosion Of Conformity 92
6 Thin Lizzy 88
6 Jim Henson 88
8 Scorpions 76
9 Yngwie Malmsteen 73
10 Bee Gees 69
10 Bob Marley & The Wailers 69
12 David Bowie 68
12 Van Morrison 68
14 Aerosmith 67
15 Kutless 63
16 Fastway 62
17 Eric Clapton 60
17 Amy Grant 60
19 Elf 58
20 Albert King 57
20 Rory Gallagher 57
20 Jeremy Camp 57

What's up?

The last 30 days.

1. Purson
2. Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats
3. Rush
4. The Beatles
5. Steely Dan
6. Atomic Rooster
7. Riverside
8. Buffalo Springfield
9. Pink Floyd
10. Steven Wilson

Last 6 months for me:

1. Townes Van Zandt - 445
2. Marillion - 317
3. Fates Warning - 270
4. Corelia - 224
5. Holy Grail - 210
6. Kate Bush - 208
7. Protest the Hero - 198
8. maudlin of the Well - 188
9. Peter Gabriel - 155
10. King Crimson - 150
11. Between the Buried and Me - 148
12. Enforcer - 110
13. Judas Priest - 106
14. King's X - 99
15. Plini - 92

Last 6 months:

1. Jimi Hendrix
2. Purson
3. Riverside
4. Black Sabbath
5. Opeth
6. Porcupine Tree
7. Steven Wilson
8. Laura Marling
9. Jethro Tull
10. Deep Purple
11. Yes
12. Rush
13. Orange Goblin
14. King Crimson
15. Pink Floyd

September:

1. The Hidden Hand
2. Animals As Leaders
3. Candlemass
4. Black Sabbath
5. Kiss
6. Russian Circles
7. Relient K
8. Living Sacrifice
9. Deliverance
10. Nirvana

Last month for me:

1. Townes Van Zandt
2. Protest the Hero
3. Fates Warning
4. maudlin of the Well
5. Titan Force
6. King Crimson
7. Sieges Even
8. Yes
9. All About Eve
10. Queensryche

I was keeping track of my top played artists on LastFM but the damn scrobbler quit working when I updated my virus protection, it considers it a threat or something like that. Kinda sucks.

Last 6 months:


1.Townes Van Zandt-218

2.Black Sabbath-207

3. Animals As Leaders-206

4. Rush-198

5. The Hidden Hand-174

6. Pink Floyd-146

7. Living Sacrifice-115

8. Megadeth-111

9. John Lee Hooker-110

10. Mestís-104

11. Elvis Presley-97

12. Thin Lizzy -94

13. Howlin' Wolf-90

14. Queensryche-88

15. Iron Maiden-86

Last 6 Months for me:

1. Townes Van Zandt - 568
2. Protest the Hero - 402
3. Fates Warning - 336
4. maudlin of the Well - 183
5. Peter Gabriel - 157
6. King Crimson - 122
7. Marillion - 118
8. Laura Marling - 108
9. Corelia - 91
10. Sieges Even - 90
11. The Safety Fire - 85
12. Kate Bush - 83
13. Queensrÿche - 82
14. Yes - 81
15. Steely Dan - 73

Last 6 Months:

1. Purson
2. Opeth
3. Black Sabbath
4. Haken
5. Porcupine Tree
6. Laura Marling
7. Riverside
8. Yes
9. Deep Purple
10. Jethro Tull
11. Rush
12. Camel
13. Steven Wilson
14. King Crimson
15. Nektar

I just noticed there's a chart for top albums too; here's my top 20 overall. Not surprising, really, but interesting enough for me to share.

1. Townes Van Zandt - Our Mother the Mountain
2. maudlin of the Well - Leaving Your Body Map
3. Townes Van Zandt - The Late Great Townes Van Zandt
4. Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
5. Queensryche - Rage for Order
6. Corelia - Nostalgia EP
7. maudlin of the Well - Bath
8. Peter Gabriel - So
9. Marillion - Brave
10. Townes Van Zandt - Townes Van Zandt
11. Fates Warning - Still Life
12. Marillion - Afraid of Sunlight
13. Fates Warning - Perfect Symmetry
14. Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Thrill
15. Opeth - Heritage
16. Savatage - Hall of the Mountain King
17. Protest the Hero - Fortress
18. Steely Dan - The Royal Scam
19. Townes Van Zandt - Rear View Mirror
20. Fates Warning - Inside Out

Very nice, Met.

Here's my top 20 most played albums of the past 12 months.

1. Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused To Sing (and other stories)
2. Purson - The Circle and the Blue Door
3. Riverside - Shrine of New Generation Slaves
4. Porcupine Tree - Octane Twisted
5. Opeth - Heritage
6. Laura Marling - Once I Was An Eagle
7. Riverside - Rapid Eye Movement
8. Haken - The Mountain
9. Black Sabbath - 13
10. Steven Wilson - Get All You Deserve (Live in Mexico City)
11. Camel - The Snow Goose
12. Jimi Hendrix - People, Hell & Angels
13. Steely Dan - Citizen Steely Dan (box set)
14. Jimi Hendrix - First Rays Of The New Rising Sun
15. Riverside - Anno Domini High Definition
16. Witchcraft - Legend
17. Rush - Clockwork Angels
18. Deep Purple - Now What?!
19. Anathema - Weather Systems
20. Yes - Fly From Here

I hate how last.fm doesn't show certain albums played. I know why they don't some of the time but it still pisses me off.

November:

1. Budgie
2. Devo
3. Jimi Hendrix
4. Thin Lizzy
5. Wings
6. Living Sacrifice
7. Black Sabbath
8. Uncle Acid And The Deadbeats
9. King Crimson
10. Alice Cooper

1. Protest the Hero
2. Kayo Dot
3. The Safety Fire
4. Talking Heads
5. Fates Warning
6. Lorde
7. Peter Gabriel
8. Plini
9. Haken
10. Converge
11. maudlin of the Well
12. The Fucking Champs
13. Bruce Dickinson
14. The Pax Cecilia
15. King Crimson

Here's my top 20 most played artists from the last 12 months:

1. Jimi Hendrix
2. Riverside
3. Steven Wilson
4. Purson
5. Opeth
6. Jethro Tull
7. Rush
8. Yes
9. Porcupine Tree
10. Camel
11. Black Sabbath
12. Deep Purple
13. Steely Dan
14. Haken
15. King Crimson
16. Laura Marling
17. Pink Floyd
18. Gentle Giant
19. Orange Goblin
20. Witchcraft

Ooh let's see what 12 months for me is:

1. Townes Van Zandt
2. Protest the Hero
3. Fates Warning
4. Marillion
5. King Crimson
6. maudlin of the Well
7. Kate Bush
8. Between the Buried and Me
9. Peter Gabriel
10. Corelia
11. Kayo Dot
12. Holy Grail
13. Rush
14. Steely Dan
15. Plini

I'd say that's a pretty diverse representation of my tastes. I thought I was stagnating musically recently, but I think I've found a nice groove, actually.

The main reason Hendrix has remained at the #1 spot for the past couple years is they keep reissuing cool stuff. In 2012 it was the Winterland box set and in 2013 it was People, Hell & Angels. Invariably when a new Hendrix reissue is released it sparks a desire to listen to more of his catalog so I'll binge listen to Hendrix for a bit.

The Purson album was the big surprise for me this year, I just kept wanting to hear it over and over.

1. Gentle Giant
2. Egg
3. Gilbert And Sullivan
4. Ween
5. Caravan
6. Hatfield And The North
7. Jethro Tull
8. Soft Machine
9. King Crimson
10. Art Blakey

Been awhile since I've done this.

Most listened to in the past 6 months courtesy of last.fm.

1. Rush
2. Thin Lizzy
3. Purson
4. King Crimson
5. Opeth
6. Camel
7. Riverside
8. Jethro Tull
9. Steven Wilson
10. Black Sabbath
11. Iron Maiden
12. Electric Light Orchestra
13. Porcupine Tree
14. Haken
15. Yes

Oh, my stats haven't been checked in a while. Let's see what I've been up to.

Past three months:

1. CHVRCHES (don't let the kvlt spelling fool ya, it's synth-pop, haha)
2. Peter Gabriel
3. Laura Marling
4. Fates Warning
5. The Head and the Heart
6. Townes Van Zandt
7. Andrew Jackson Jihad
8. Bon Iver
9. TesseracT
10. Childish Gambino
11. Nick Drake
12. Ellie Goulding
13. Marillion
14. Protest the Hero
15. Colin Stetson
16. Kayo Dot
17. maudlin of the Well
18. Rush
19. Bruce Dickinson
20. Plini

Such a weird looking cross-section of genres. I'm gravitating away from metal, but it's not in any specific direction at this point.

My phone only gives a top 5:

5. Rush
4. Dark Angel
3. Holy Soldier
2. Sodom
1. Iced Earth (recently went through his discog)

This excludes Spotify, of course, which has consisted of Animals as Leaders, KXM, Anathema, Opeth, and Jethro Tull.

LastFM will track Spotify plays, you just have to enable it.