Notes:
Despite making an effort to spend less time playing music mindlessly in the background, I have listened to 2000 more minutes than in 2023. Still much less than the 60000 I had in 2022. I'm more interested in last.fm's statistics though; Spotify says my biggest listening day was June 10, but according to last.fm, that day had the 8th most songs played (only 139 songs that, October 4 was the #1 with 202 songs). Unsurprisingly, all of the top 10+ were days I embarked on a 12+ hour road trip.
The 2112 songs was a cool coincidence, although I did not listen to particularly much Rush this year.
My top five songs weren't really a surprise. According to last.fm, several more songs were tied for #3, 4, and 5, each having 17 plays this year. I have really enjoyed the Police and Chicago tracks. The Wobbler tracks are fine, I listened to them a lot in June, and they probably came up in shuffle slightly more than other tracks as well. Serenade For 1652 is like a 50 second intro bit of fluff, not exactly a song I was just rockin out to over and over. Rubato Industry is actually a pretty neat track, but I wouldn't say it's in my top five new discoveries this year either. I didn't discover Questions 67 and 68 this year, but it was the song that got me into Chicago and remains by far my favorite song from the band.
I feel like I didn't really listen to more U2 than usual in February, no clue what that's about.
I'm slightly surprised that Chicago is my top artist because I only started listening to them in August. But, earlier in the summer I began to focus on bands with smaller discographies, whereas I spent two months focused primarily on Chicago's first nine studio albums. The Police is not a surprise at all. Soft Machine was what I spent July mostly listening to and trying to like, but I never really 'got' them. They, like Chicago, have parts of their discography divided into very shorts tracks rather than longer suites, which might affect how Spotify tracks things. I enjoyed Chicago and The Police a lot more than Soft Machine though. I can't believe Jethro Tull still made my top five for the fourth year in a row. I suppose I was listening to a lot of their non-album material earlier in the year. Steely Dan is also sort of strange because I only began listening to them in October. I guess bands with larger discographies move to the top more easily because it takes longer to get tired of them?