I'm always a little too excited to see this, lol. I already have a good idea of who and what I played the most...but seeing the breakdown is always interesting to me. No surprises for me:

My most listed to song of the year was Freddie Gibbs - 1985

Top Artists in order were:
Freddie Gibbs
The Alchemist
Westside Gunn
Tanya Morgan
Roc Marciano
(I played the SHIT out of that Tanya Morgan - Be Right Back)

Top podcasts were:
The Dan LeBatard Show
Jemele Hill is Unbothered

...I'm from the era when A.I. was the answer, now they think ai is the answer - Marlon Craft

My most listed to song of the year was Daft Punk - Crescendolls

Top Artists in order were:
OutKast
Stevie Wonder
Daft Punk
Kanye West
Thundercat


Top podcasts were:
For F1s Sake
Jemele Hill is Unbothered
Questlove Supreme
Way Down In The Hole

*America's Favorite*

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...I'm from the era when A.I. was the answer, now they think ai is the answer - Marlon Craft

Yup. It is great. It goes episode by episode of the 1st season of the Wire.

*America's Favorite*

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"This is the streets, and I am the trap." � Jay Bilas
http://www.popmatters.com/pm/archive/contributor/517
Hip Hop Handbook: http://tinyurl.com/ll4kzz

i can see my top songs, which were:

Smoke DZA f. T-Pain - Dark Web
070 Shake - Guilty Conscience
GASHI - The Sauce
Goldlink f. Brent Faiyaz - Crew
Kut Klose - Surrender

so, like, that's only ONE song from 2020 technically (070 Shake).

now, i did listen to all these songs quite a bit, but i'm curious how "Crew" is on this list there HAS to be songs I played more than that.

maybe i'm wrong, and i did play that song 4th most, but i REALLY REALLY don't think so.

and scroll mad far down...it's still there. Just above "Made For You" and "Uniquely Yours"

...I'm from the era when A.I. was the answer, now they think ai is the answer - Marlon Craft

these, according to Spotify, are my top artists.

big sean
ty dolla $ign
saint jhn
chris brown
august alsina

now, of those, i'd only PERSONALLY put SAINt JHN on that list. but it depends how "top" is defined. you'd think it'd be based on plays but if it was, how come none of it matches my top songs.

so, yeah, i dunno. i mean, i listened to ONE August Alsina song quite a bit, but that makes him one of my Top 5 artists?

lol.

one of them being "intensity"
so there may have been like
a couple of days or a week where you had something going strong

IT WAS ONE WEEK, SPOTIFY!!

like, "intensity."

lol.

i mean, if you know me or follow me here you know i live to share new music. i know i listen to a lot of new shit but to see it was almost 1K new artists...wow.

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...I'm from the era when A.I. was the answer, now they think ai is the answer - Marlon Craft

The seven got bumped down a line
2,00
7

Across 800 genres.

Last year it listed countries and I was really looking forward to that stat but I guess podcasts replaced it.

See ya, JAK
http://www.staugustinepics.com/

Winner of OKP Second Photo Kontest
Pic #6 http://www.tha-renaissance.com/effstop/kontest2

impressive.

Top 5 Artists:
Drake
dvsn
Gunna
Freddie Gibbs
Thundercat

Top artists:

Bob Marley and the Wailers

Grateful Dead

Run the Jewels

Stevie Wonder

Nas

Artists:
Freddie Gibbs
Tame Impala
Madlib
The Alchemist
A Tribe Called Quest

Madlib and Alchemist def got the Freddie rub. Bandana and Alfredo were def played a ton.


Songs:
Tame Impala - Lost In Yesterday
Mick Jenins - Carefree
Eminem (feat. Royce) - You Gon' Learn
Westside Gunn (feat. Joey Bada$$ & Tyler, the Creator) - 327
Conway & Alchemist - Shoot Sideways

https://ibb.co/Q6fK65p

But I can't entirely blame them that my top 5 artist are Usher, Chris Brown, Justin Beiber, Lucky Daye and Drake.

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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

to just do a family plan, lol. Everyone have their own account. My wife's #1 artist was Usher...oldest son's was Lil Uzi Vert. I did not need that in my mix, lol.

...I'm from the era when A.I. was the answer, now they think ai is the answer - Marlon Craft

The problem is SPotify never made it easy to distribute playlist amongst users. So all the playlist we have over the years are in the main account and it would be annoying to transfer to new accounts on my plan.

But the truth is, it doesn't really matter because the personalized mixes are on point....And I generally like my wife's taste. She keeps me young-ish.

It's the kids stuff that's terrible.

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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

thought about the family plan.

does mean she has to start over from scratch or do we still share
mixes?

there are times she forgets to go offline and I’ll bam up her ballet rehersal
with some PE.

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TBH the fact that you're even a mod here fits squarely within Jag's narrative of OK-sanctioned aggression, bullying, and toxicity. *shrug*

I use Apple Music not Spotify, so not sure how to quantify it - but my listening habits have pivoted to a ton of mixes/streams (IG, Twitch, mixcloud, etc).

My wrapped has songs I listened to once or maybe in like January lol

what a different time it was. Kobe was alive, sports were full throttle, Covid hadn't kicked in the door. So wild to think about.

...I'm from the era when A.I. was the answer, now they think ai is the answer - Marlon Craft

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...I'm from the era when A.I. was the answer, now they think ai is the answer - Marlon Craft

oh, my dude, 'wheels on the bus' I see you're a kids bop connoisseur

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https://soundcloud.com/swageyph/yph-die-with-me

1009 new artists
75818 minutes of music

top artists
Drake
The Weeknd
Saint Jhn
Lil Uzi
Future


top songs
Drake - War
Future & Drake - Life is Good
Tyla Yaweh & Post Malone - Tommy Lee
Lil Baby & Gunna - Heatin Up
Saint Jhn & A Boogie - Monica Lewinsky

top pods
Bill Simmons (his misery over the Lakers winning was glorious to follow throughout the bubble)
The Right Time w/ Bomani Jones
Bodega Boys
Brilliant Idiots (Charlamagne & Andrew Schultz)
Joe Budden Podcast

<--- Big Baller World Order

but listen to Bo, Mina and a couple others on the ESPN app. I need to gone head and consolidate.

...I'm from the era when A.I. was the answer, now they think ai is the answer - Marlon Craft

<--- Big Baller World Order

youtube music made a playlist of my 2020 in review. not sure if it is meant to be in order of most played or just random since it doesnt show play counts for songs.

heres the first 10 in the list
RTJ - Ohh La La
Elzhi - Jason
Glass Animals - Tangerine
Skyzoo - Give and Take
Glass Animals - Helium
Felt - Find My Way
Snoh Aalegra - Dying 4 Your Love
Felt - Dont Do Me Like That
KRS-One - Sound of da police*
Amine - Easy
Buckwild - Asian Kingpins*

including the 11th song since krs isnt from 2020. also, this is on my public profile so it is pretty much from around august to now. dont think its reflecting what i listened to on google play music before the transition.

for anyone curious enough, heres the whole playlist
https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLe_Vl0p1Py7daaQdO3v_Vr2IMIgU4OX76

also, my "2020 favs" playlist that i made
https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLe_Vl0p1Py7cLza3EqIGif4xyxrL_JWQS

im working on my top 50...or 100 or so playlist for the weird people that dont have time to go through a 300+ song playlist

~62k hrs of music

>My most listed to song of the year was ((O)) & FKJ - Vibin' Out
>
>Top Artists in order were:
>Pi'erre Bourne
>Jelly (lmao but he put out like 6 projects so not surprised)
>Smino
>Uzi (also surprised but he put out a lot)
>Bari

>
>Top podcasts were:
>Jemele Hill is Unbothered
>Millionaire Mindset

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The Brand Pod
https://www.youtube.com/@themonarchbrand
https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/2023071.rss

The Life Pod
https://www.youtube.com/@thewaterpodcast
https://redcircle.com/shows/the-water-podcast

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"A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. More than that no man is entitled, and less than that no man shall have." - TR

mainly use it in the car and i'm barely driving these days so it's mostly "get me to the grocery store and back" length songs and very few full albums. it's still a fairly accurate snapshot of my listening habits

according to wrapped:

• discovered 92 new artists
• listened to 270 artists this year
• artist of the year - young thug, top 6% of listeners
• listened to lil wop's "mobster" before it hit 50k streams
• top throwback decade - 2000s, most played song was mr len's "this morning (feat. juggaknots)"


top genres

1 - rap
2 - underground hip hop
3 - float house
4 - chicago rap
5 - hip hop


top songs - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1EMduz98zHmtZ2?si=9mOf8nGFQJCxvFj1bGI9ZA

1 - young thug "surf (feat. gunna)"
2 - freddie gibbs & alchemist - "baby $hit"
3 - galcher lustwerk - "cig angel (dance mix)"
4 - actress - "rap"
5 - harrison bdp - "decompression"


top artists

1 - young thug
2 - the alchemist
3 - playboi carti
4 - lil uzi vert
5 - galcher lustwerk


top podcasts

1 - hollywood handbook
2 - 'the wire': way down in the hole
3 - comedy bang bang: the podcast
4 - the rewatchables

Little Dragon - Hold On
Jay Elec’s - Flux Capacitor
KAASI - Who You Are

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TBH the fact that you're even a mod here fits squarely within Jag's narrative of OK-sanctioned aggression, bullying, and toxicity. *shrug*

I stopped pirating and went straight in 2020 mostly so I could see what this looked like after a full year of using Spotify. Also, I got ratio'd by most pirates preferring FLAC to V0 these days, but I guess I only kind of miss micromanaging an iTunes Library that barely functions under the weight of ~200,000 songs...


• 2,445 new artists
• 774 genres

TOP GENRES (aka I bet a lot of those 774 genres are some bullshit, lol)
• Indie Rock
• Indie Soul
• Hip Hop
• Pop
• Indie Pop

TOP SONG
• Helado Negro - Running
First listened January 3rd, Most listened March 12th (I fell asleep with the song on repeat that night), 50th listen April 1st, 67 total listens

TOP SONGS
• Helado Negro - Running
• Faye Webster - Kingston
• Grimes - Delete Forever
• Jay Som - Tenderness
• Jessica Pratt - Back, Baby

The first three I get, the last two are the result of a playlist I listened to a LOT early in the pandemic and then just algorithms constantly pulling those two songs on artists' radios.

TOP PODCAST
The Daily, 157 episodes for 5,591 total minutes and longest binge with 11 straight episodes one day (probably the first day I started listening)

POD STATS
47,814 total minutes listening to podcasts
• New York Times - The Daily
• The Ringer - The Bill Simmons Podcast
• The Ringer - The Press Box
• Giant Bomb - Giant Bombcast
• Giant Bomb - The Giant Beastcast

(Bodega Boys would've totally been on this list, but I fell behind a bit just before the pandemic and always told myself I wanted to catch up and experience sliding into the pandemic with them...but the sports, movies and news pods just kept piling up and before I knew it I was in August still telling myself I was going to listen to everything from February forward...I'll just start fresh in the new year...)

MUSIC STATS
• ZAIA - WINGZ is a song I listened to before it hit 50,000 streams. This kid is gonna be big I think, I loved that whole album. He's like a focused KiD CuDi.
• I listened to more music from the 2000s than any other decade
• Cotton Jones - I Am the Changer was my top song from the 2000s
• Favorite Faye Webster song was Kingston, and I listened to her for just over 1,000 minutes putting me in the 0.1% of top listeners (I thought she was far more popular than that!)
• 3,247 total artists this year
• I missed the time listening stat, but I know I shared in my Instagram Stories that one of the panels said I spent around 135,000 total minutes listening to Spotify, so I can assume I spent about 90,000 minutes listening to music...which seems odd, since I definitely listen to podcasts more frequently. Suppose it makes sense when I consider I often fall asleep to Spotify like I used to do with radio.

TOP ARTISTS
• Faye Webster
• Gustavo Santalalla
• ZAIA
• MF DOOM (I truly have no idea how he is on this list other than a lot of Metal Fingers beats being on my work playlist)
• Fiona Apple

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"This is the streets, and I am the trap." � Jay Bilas
http://www.popmatters.com/pm/archive/contributor/517
Hip Hop Handbook: http://tinyurl.com/ll4kzz

Like a person can have a list of their favorite artist and favorite songs that they have been listening to all year, and another person can come along and not heard of a single act on their list (except MF Doom and Fiona Apple).


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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

And/or contender for video of the decade "Oblivion" fame?

But yea, I'll say my stats look weird even to me LOL. Other than Fiona, Faye and ZAIA, these weren't the artists I thought most about this year on any of these lists, yet here they are.

~~~~~~~~~
"This is the streets, and I am the trap." � Jay Bilas
http://www.popmatters.com/pm/archive/contributor/517
Hip Hop Handbook: http://tinyurl.com/ll4kzz

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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

People, if you havent yet, go peep his album! It's FUCKING GOOD.

Most Listened song: Little Brother - Light It Up
Was excited to find this on there and played the hell out of it.

Most listened artists:
1. Little Brother
2. L.E.G.A.C.Y.
3. The Alchemist
4. Nas
5. Conway The Machine

I'd post my list but I have no idea how to access it.

<--- Me when my head hits the pillow

Scroll down a little, it’s not on the first row.

“So back we go to these questions — friendship, character… ethics.”

Y'all buy those labels, I was born supreme

that album pretty captures 2020 in a lot of ways. For me it's legit classic material.

In a generation of swine, the one-eyed pig is king.
-Hunter S. Thompson

I’m a big fan of Swimming.

“So back we go to these questions — friendship, character… ethics.”

Eminem
Big Krit
Meg the Stallion
Wise Intelligent
Nicole Bus

top song was Meg's Captain Hook.

Y'all buy those labels, I was born supreme

Top Artists
Medasin
Tinlicker
Nate Mercereau
Sithu Aye
Christian Scott Atunde

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