Wednesday, January 4, 2017

2016 music by numbers

Summary at Last.fm is interesting:


Although the top tags breakdown diagram is not as varied as I expected:


By way of illustration, the top 50 artists and tracks are listed below.

Bands/artists
1 Mogwai (426)
2 Suede (409)
3 Ryan Adams (368)
4 Public Service Broadcasting (346)
5 Macklemore & Ryan Lewis (257)
6 Pink Floyd (228)
7 British Sea Power (225)
8 All India Radio (205)
9 Bruce Springsteen (204)
10 Christine and the Queens (194)
11 Marillion (182)
12 CHVRCHES (181)
13 The National (177)
14 Frightened Rabbit (176)
15 Luna (168)
16 Twenty One Pilots (167)
17 Minor Victories (160)
18 Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band (148)
19 Malcolm Middleton (141)
20 Michael Kiwanuka (139)
21 Trembling Blue Stars (139)
22 Idlewild (129)
23 HÆLOS (128)
24 Hello Saferide (121)
25 Young Fathers (121)
26 Phosphorescent (120)
27 R.E.M. (119)
28 Manic Street Preachers (117)
29 Bob Mould (115)
30 Dido (112)
31 Low (110)
32 Tindersticks (108)
33 Wolf Alice (107)
34 Torres (106)
35 King Creosote (103)
36 Burial (101)
37 Lucinda Williams (96)
38 Pale Honey (95)
39 Richard Hawley (94)
40 Best Coast (93)
41 Sarah Cracknell (93)
42 Blur (87)
43 Saint Etienne (87)
44 Roger Waters (83)
45 Radiohead (82)
46 MBONGWANA STAR (79)
47 Lykke Li (76)
48 The Leaf Library (75)
49 Glasvegas (74)
50 M83 (72)

Songs
1 Minor Victories — Folk Arp (56)
2 Twenty One Pilots — Ride (49)
3 Sufjan Stevens — All of Me Wants All of You (45)
4 Michael Kiwanuka — One More Night (43)
5 Christine and the Queens — Paradis Perdus (43)
6 Public Service Broadcasting — Go! (38)
7 Twenty One Pilots — Stressed Out (38)
8 Macklemore & Ryan Lewis — Can't Hold Us (feat. Ray Dalton) (37)
9 Suede — No Tomorrow (37)
10 Ryan Adams — Shake It Off (37)
11 Christine and the Queens — Tilted (37)
12 Macklemore & Ryan Lewis — Dance Off (Feat. Idris Elba & Anderson .Paak) (36)
13 Violenta Josefina — Ascensor (35)
14 Public Service Broadcasting — Fire In The Cockpit (33)
15 Mogwai — Ether (32)
16 Frightened Rabbit — Get Out (32)
17 Public Service Broadcasting — The Other Side (31)
18 Public Service Broadcasting — Valentina (31)
19 Wolf Alice — Bros (29)
20 Torres — Cowboy Guilt (29)
21 Public Service Broadcasting — Everest (29)
22 Young Fathers — Feasting (28)
23 Public Service Broadcasting — The Race For Space (28)
24 British Sea Power — The Great Skua (27)
25 HÆLOS — Separate Lives (26)
26 Sarah Cracknell — Take the Silver (26)
27 Public Service Broadcasting — Tomorrow (26)
28 Ryan Adams — Wildest Dreams (26)
29 Public Service Broadcasting — E.V.A. (25)
30 Public Service Broadcasting — Gagarin (25)
31 Public Service Broadcasting — Sputnik (25)
32 Ryan Adams — Bad Blood (24)
33 Ryan Adams — Welcome To New York (24)
34 Ryan Adams — Blank Space (23)
35 Ryan Adams — How You Get The Girl (23)
36 Minor Victories — A Hundred Ropes (22)
37 Moby & The Void Pacific Choir — A Simple Love (22)
38 Ryan Adams — All You Had To Do Was Stay (22)
39 King Creosote — You Just Want (22)
40 LNZNDRF — Beneath the Black Sea (21)
41 Macklemore & Ryan Lewis — Downtown (feat. Melle Mel, Grandmaster Caz, Kool Moe Dee & Eric Nally) (21)
42 Haley Bonar — I Can Change (21)
43 Ryan Adams — I Know Places (21)
44 Ryan Adams — I wish you Would (21)
45 The Wedding Present — Marblehead (21)
46 Chester See, Kevjumba & Ryan Higa — Nice Guys (21)
47 Ryan Adams — This Love (21)
48 The Leaf Library — asleep between stations (20)
49 CHVRCHES — High Enough To Carry You Over (20)
50 Torres — Sprinter (20)