Spotify Year in Review • Page 8

Yeah, last.fm is so much better for collating stats.

 

My last.fm top 30. I don’t understand how some of those in my last.fm top 5 aren’t in my Spotify top 5.

EDIT: no wait, I do. It’s because at least three in that top 5 have been on various collaboration releases that I edit on last.fm, so it counts those too. Madlib had Madvillain, Quasimoto, his jazz albums, the Freddie Gibbs albums. Add them all up and he’s way out front.

 

I don’t think Spotify is inaccurate, but the way Spotify works isn’t fully suited to create wraps ups

 

It counts features and collabs as hits for each individual artists. So if you listen to a lot of hip hop for example, the results can be kinda inaccurate.

 

It’s been forever since I’ve logged into last.fm, but it seems my listens are still logged, so that’s cool lol. The stats are a bit fucked up because my Spotify is connected to Sonos, which my girlfriend also uses — but all things considered, it’s wayyyy more accurate.

Lots of Jenny Dee, Vasudeva, Redveil, Knxwledge, Thundercat, and Hayley Williams towards the top.

 

Top five songs - two from the new Nils Frahm, two from the new Code Orange, and Rotten Apple by Alice In Chains.

Yeah that seems about right.

 

I haven't used Spotify much this year as I have my own collection now, but my #1 genre was emo which is pretty ok.

 

That’s what I mean. It's not technically inaccurate, just weird.

 

It's what led me to pay for last.fm pro, so I can edit collab albums to be accurate. What can I say, i'm a pedant. I need things to be labelled correctly and spotify is terrible at that!

 

I used Spotify this year more than any year in the past just do to the COVID shutdown. When I worked from home for a few months I had it on 8-hours a day, at minimum. So my numbers are all over the place...like it said I discovered 748 new artists, which is probably true just because I mostly listened to a band's radio playlist.

My top 5 artists (according to Spotify):

The Gaslight Anthem
Spanish Love Songs
Brian Fallon
Trace Mountains
The Front Bottoms

I definitely did not listen to Trace Mountains fourth most this year, but I did listen a lot.

My number one song of the year was 'Routine Pain' and that is so fitting for 2020.

 

During the first wave I took a deep dive into Elvis’ discography and apparently it was enough to not only make him my most listened to artist on Spotify, but to also put me in the top 2% of Elvis listeners. The latter leads me to think that most Elvis fans aren’t into streaming yet.

 

No, they're more into frying, just like their idol... ;)

 

I had a similar situation a few years ago with The Beach Boys, with Wrapped stating I was in the top 1% of listeners, and I couldn’t understand why.

What you’re saying makes sense—those older artists may get an insane amount of listens spread across the board, but their devoted listeners probably aren’t very common on the platform.

 

Yeah that's what I think. A lot of people probably listen to Suspicious Minds every now and then, but most dedicated Elvis fans are probably still more into physical media.

 

God damn it

 

My top 100 songs playlist is always so boring as an album listener. I've got 15 songs off the 1975 album on there, 8 of 10 off the Katie Pruitt album, 9 of 13 off Ruston Kelly, 8 of 11 off Phoebe Bridgers, and 8 of 16 off Taylor Swift. That's fully half of my playlist lol and we're not even getting into the 5 Waxahatchee, Westerman, and Nation of Language songs.

 

For sure. My Wrapped is always weird because a majority of my music consumption on it is done using Spotify’s offline downloaded option, which it tends to not always count. I know I listened to RMR’s “Rascal” everyday after work for a month straight. Last.fm reflects that, but Spotify doesn’t.

 

Top 5:
The 1975
The Strokes
Bright Eyes
Dua Lipa
Portugal. The Man


Kinda funny the 1975 ended up being my top band... I actively disliked them just two or three years ago.
Also, I don't think I listen to PTM all that frequently. I think I binge listened to their whole discography one day and it somehow cracked the top 5.

 

Honestly, feel like their stats are off, but it's all good.

 

Does Apple Music usually do something like this too? I forget.

 

https://music.apple.com/replay

You can see your info they just don't have the easy to share charts like spotify (at least not yet, but maybe theirs is still coming)

 

Am I the only one who’s still using LAST FM?

 

I still use the Last.fm ‘Similiar To’ feature to discover new artists bc I prefer that algorithm over Spotify’s ‘Fans Also Like’. Haven’t used the site for stats in years, though.