2008 March 4
MUSIC: Our music-listening history in graph form
Posted by Clint under Audio, Carolyn, Clint, Computer, Journal, Media, Music, PeopleCheck out the image, and explanatory caption HERE, because the image does not fit into a blog very well. This is what years of last.fm data looks like… It’s good to log your music, it lets you study your own habits. You can see the period of time where I didn’t collect any stats too — something I regret. I had to listen to 242,000 songs to get this graph; that’s 509 days straight, but in reality this took a good 7 or 8 years. Of course, the graph doesn’t seem go all the way back to the beginning of my data. . . . But you can definitely see, visually, how our music listening is more focused than it was during “the construction years”.
Also: The full-size image is HERE, but contains no explanation.
2008 March 5 at 7:21 PM
You should submit this to Information Aesthetics. It’s the kind of visual aid they love.
2008 March 5 at 7:36 PM
Where do you think I heard about it? ??
2008 March 6 at 3:05 PM
This is cool. So it looks like you’ve been listening to a lot more Gwar, Ween, and Ministry lately…
2008 March 6 at 3:06 PM
Well, I went to the Gwar concert and Ween concerts around the time that both of those sections “pinch off” into 0. And the Ministry concert is in 4/2008! Click through to the flikr picture - I added some notes actually.
2008 March 7 at 5:14 AM
This is an interesting research. And you listened to very impressive amount of songs.
I can say that 200k+ is something like 20% of all existing songs…
2008 March 7 at 10:42 AM
No it isn’t, it’s nothing near 20% of all existing songs. Gracenote’s song database (which only accounts for cds) contains 46,002,354 songs. So it would be more like 0.4%. Of course, I only have about 20,000 songs — 200,000 is how many times I’ve listened to any song in the past few years — even the same song over and over.