Though Spotify ‘wraps’ the year in the first week of December, and only counts up to the end of October, there’s plenty more counting out there that runs the full calendar year. As we head off into 2020 let’s pause for a second to count up the achievements of last year. While happiness can’t be quantified, plenty of other things can. I did this a year ago and there seems enough reason to run it again if anyone’s interested. 2019 was for me…
13385 scrobbles on last FM (up from 12734 in 2017)
73 books on goodreads (down from 75)
72 films on letterboxd (down from 84)
589k of running on Strava, amazing down a whole 2k from 591. Had I known might have run a bit more on the last one of the year.
NEW ENTRY! Cycling, as cycling to work 2 days a week – 917k.
Your Spotify wrapped (feel free to extrapolate from the Spotify year, your Nike +, stepcounters etc are all welcome in the interests of our curiosities.
Having now done this for three years, the stats are starting to stabilise: there’s time in my average fortnight to watch 3 films, read three books and run about 50k.
25K
Yes. 100 k would be good going – get there only a couple of months a year in the run up to a half.
Yeah same, well 110K in Aug and 99K in Sept.
Still don’t know what scrobbles are:
Running
2017 575km
2018 574km
2019 504km
However as I effectively had 3 months off for injury and illness in 2019, my monthly average was higher last year.
I wouldn’t know what a scrobble was if it hit me in the face, but well done on achieving so many of them. You are knocking them scrobbles out of the park, dude!
I ran for a bus last year, but missed it. Never again.
0,0 and zero.
Still buy physical product.
I have Spotify but dont really use it.
Occasionally will watch something on Youtube.
Also have a kindle fire but only read actual books. Thankfully so do most of the population as book sales are increasing year on year.
Same here – physical product all the way.
Streaming services are used to find a specific track at a specific moment or “skim listen” before committing to purchase of something I’m not familiar with.
No e-reader – most books are non-fiction and on a specific subject. This will be based on reviews or pot luck
I do listen to most stuff from Spotify and my book ‘reading’ is from Audible or local library (audiobook) downloads. I still prefer to read a newspaper in the traditional format (ie pages and columns) but I prefer to do that with downloads to my tablet and/or PC. I download most of my magazines (even the ones I get physically I also have on my tablet) but then as they’re mainly free from the library, it would be crazy to consume them any other way.
However… that doesn’t mean I know or care what the figures are. I don’t really understand why I would want to know, although, conversely, it does seem a perfectly reasonable thing to want to know.
Steve T and Rigid.
You am I.
0.3 k 2019
0.15 k 2018
A 100% increase. Chuffed to bits.
According to Spotify I listened to music on their site for 25,400 minutes this year, quite a lot down from previous years which is probably down to reduced time commuting. I listened to artists from 68 countries, and my favourite genre was opera, allegedly. I am told that I ‘really vibed’ (oh, do fuck off) with the Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Milan, which I am sure is as much of a shock to them as it is to me.
And my artist of the year through this decade has been
2010 Beth Neilsen Chapman
2011 Fleet Foxes
2012 John Eliot Gardner (classical conductor)
2013 Low
2014 Frazey Ford
2015 Rene Jacobs (classical conductor)
2016 John Eliot Gardner
2017 Laura Marling
2018 Van Morrison
2019 Daniel Barenboim (classical conductor and pianist)
Low, Ford, Marling and Morrison I believe, but frankly I find the rest of this fairly implausible. I can’t argue however with their conclusion that my Artist of the Decade was Van Morrison.
It is chez Moles view that the Spotify stats are not to be trusted. We worked out that son who admittedly is an obsessive jazzhead is listening to Spotify for 2 out of 3 minutes he is awake.
I tend to agree. I think it only aggregates plays from the Spotify app. Stuff I’ve played at home using Sonos doesn’t seem to be as prominent in the list although I reckon I’ve played certain albums just as much.
The only music-related stats that I’m interested in are,
1.] How many tracks in my music library have never been played and
2.] How many lossy (mp3 etc.) tracks are there that could be replaced with lossless ones.
Not really interested in any stats Spotify might offer. I only use it when at home, to evaluate possible purchases or using the Discover Weekly automated mix as music to fall asleep to.