zero point nine

End of 2007 Music Chart #

Posted on: December 19, 2007 - 9:18 pm

I know everyone does it, and very few people are interested but here is my Artists and Songs of the year, according to Last.fm. I think that makes it a bit more honest. I can’t pretend to be a huge fan of some trendy, indie band when I’ve really been listening to tosh all year.

So strangely The Magnetic Fields makes it to the top of the pile. I can’t say that I have been listening to them that much, but the fact their album has 69 bloody songs on it, which means they come up on the random rotation quite a lot (compared to other less prolific bands). All the rest make perfect sense except I thought Springsteen would be higher, considering I was listening to about 4 of his albums quite a lot this year (Nebraska, Magic, Seeger Sessions and some bootleg I downloaded somewhere).

So perhaps the prettiest song makes it to the top of the pile. I was swithering over whether I preferred the Postal Service’s original version or this one by Iron & Wine, but the play count has spoken. Magnetic Fields isn’t such a surprise in this case, All My Little Words was the reason I bought the album (after hearing it on The Shield).

The problem with Last.fm is that it only records about half of my listening, so I should add that, if I could be arsed synching my iPod, Lily Allen, Malcolm Middleton, OK Go and Kate Nash would likely have made an appearance somewhere.

Tagged as: end of year chart, last fm, music