All entries for Sunday 12 November 2006

Pointless Statistics

One of the consequences of ripping all my music to MP3 and playing it in winamp is that winamp keeps track of each play of each song, and can generate and export a list of most played songs. I happened to glance over this list today, and am not entirely sure whether I should be embarressed or just confused. This is over the last 18 months or so since I last reinstalled winamp, every song played more than 10 times (playcount in brackets):

Green Day – Holiday (21)
Duran Duran – what happends tomorrow (21)
Bon Jovi – Blaze of Glory (20)
Coldplay – White Shadows (19)
Green Day – Boulevard Of Broken Dreams (18)
REM – Aftermath (17)
Bebel Gilberto – Aganjú (17)
Snow Patrol – Run (17)
Green Day – American Idiot (16)
The Rasmus – In The Shadows (14)
U2 – City Of Blinding Lights (13)
Simply Red – Fairground (13)
The Killers – Somebody Told Me (13)
Foo Fighters – DOA (13)
Pulp – Common People (13)China Crisis – Wishful thinking (13)
Blind Melon – No Rain (13)
The Killers – Midnight Show (12)
The Killers – Mr Brightside (12)
Bon Jovi – In These Arms (12)
Franz Ferdinand – This Boy (12)
Alice Cooper – Poison (12)
Oasis – Little By Llittle (12)
The Wonder Stuff – The Size of a Cow (11)
Tears for Fears – Mad World (11
Franz Ferdinand – The Fallen (11)
Robbie Williams – Let Love Be Your Energy (11)
The Farm – All Together Now-Original Version (11)
Queen – Living on My Own (Freddie Mercury) (11)
INXS – Beautiful Girl (11)
Keane – Somewhere Only We Know (11)
Electric Light Orchestra – Hold On Tight (11)
Bellamy Brothers – Let Your Love Flow (11)

(33 songs)

I did once try to compile a list of my top 20 or so favourite songs, but gave up. I don’t think, though, that I’d include any of the above songs. So maybe I don’t know myself as well as I thought?

Anyway, I’m blogging this to have something to refer people to next time I find myself unable to give a succint answer to the question “what sort of music do you listen to?”.

Jonathan Jones : 12 Nov 2006 18:23 |  Tags: Music Playlist |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem