{"id":50377,"date":"2023-12-02T18:19:04","date_gmt":"2023-12-03T02:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=50377"},"modified":"2025-01-27T11:39:53","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T19:39:53","slug":"not-a-spotify-wrap-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/12\/02\/not-a-spotify-wrap-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Not a Spotify Wrap-up"},"content":{"rendered":"

Okay, so lots of people are posting their end-of-year Spotify wrap-ups showing off their listening habits. I don\u2019t subscribe to Spotify (they don\u2019t pay their artists nearly enough<\/a>, and they have a history of supporting podcasters I have issues with<\/a>, so they don\u2019t get my money), but I do have Apple Music (who, really, should also pay their artists more, but they\u2019re at least better than Spotify<\/a>), and Apple does an end-of-year \u201creplay\u201d thing.<\/p>\n

Of course, even this is a very small peek at my listening habits, because I really don\u2019t use Apple Music all that much. I get it as part of a subscription bundle, and only really use it briefly in the mornings before work, or occasionally in the evenings before bed. Most of the time I listen to songs from my local collection.<\/p>\n

That said, though, here\u2019s what Apple says about the, oh, 10% (if that) of my music listening that it knows about\u2026.<\/p>\n

Top Artists<\/h2>\n

\"Top \"6\nBonobo\n71 \"11\nVNV<\/p>\n

549 total artists<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. The Orb 137 minutes<\/li>\n
  2. Nine Inch Nails 136 minutes<\/li>\n
  3. Dolly Parton 128 minutes<\/li>\n
  4. Orbital 124 minutes<\/li>\n
  5. Underworld 89 minutes<\/li>\n
  6. Bonobo 71 minutes<\/li>\n
  7. Hooverphonic 69 minutes<\/li>\n
  8. Imperative Reaction 64 minutes<\/li>\n
  9. Velvet Acid Christ 61 minutes<\/li>\n
  10. Apoptygma Berzerk 51 minutes<\/li>\n
  11. VNV Nation 50 minutes<\/li>\n
  12. Seabound 50 minutes<\/li>\n
  13. Front Line Assembly 46 minutes<\/li>\n
  14. Rotersand 44 minutes<\/li>\n
  15. Icon of Coil 44 minutes<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I’m quite amused that Dolly landed so high on this list, particularly how out of place she looks. But her recent Rock Star<\/em> album is great, and it has been getting a lot of plays since it came out. Worth it!<\/p>\n

    Top Songs<\/h2>\n

    \"Top \"6\nModern \"11\n12\n13\n14\n15\nSOME<\/p>\n

    Again, I’ve listened to many of these tracks far<\/em> more times this year than is represented here, and have listed to a lot of other stuff as well, probably far more than the 4-8 times shown in these screenshots. That said, it’s not really that bad of a sampler of what I listen to.<\/p>\n

    So…it’s a weird list, and only somewhat representative of my tastes. But hey, since I have a limited sample size to work from because I don’t stream much of what I listen to, it’s what we get.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Streaming only accounts for maybe 10% of my listening, but here’s what Apple Music thinks I’ve been listening to this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2035,2043],"tags":[5829,5824,5826,2473,1860,5827,5832,5828,3588,5831,5830,5825,2410,2150,2368],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50377"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}