I believe the responsible parties are: Lorn, less.people, The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble, Death in Vegas, Shlohmo, Ramin Djawadi, and Gustavo Santaolalla.
Funnily enough, that was my most listened song from them! I got to see them do it live during the Spicy Meatball Tour, and his voice is fucking (fucking) POWERFUL!!!
They just went back on limited tour for 20th anniversary of Ocean Avenue and I got to finally see them in concert. It was amazing. They also said that they were thinking about coming out with some new stuff.
What were your other top genres? Why do you think you've transitioned away from EDM? I feel like I've been slowly listening to EDM more over the years (and pop is always my staple), but this year R&B managed to sneak its way into my top five.
Why? Access probably. I get exposed to a lot of EDM from friends and I do really love it a lot. My favorite right now is Apashe.
On the flip side, I'm older. Radio is gone far as I'm concerned so my rock/metal taste have just kind of sat there until this year I got annoyed and for a while made a concerted effort to find new music I like. But now that list has sort of stagnated again. I just don't have the time.
Radio sucked, and continues to suck. But it did act like a kind of filter for the previous generations. With it gone those few of us who are still interested in new music have a harder time.
Reasonable! I usually need music to focus on work. I also have music going any time I'm driving, for sure. And sometimes I even have it going when I sleep--although, I don't think I did a lot of night music in 2023. Definitely more 2022. I think my number was in the 180s last year, maybe because I've been watching more Youtube videos this year. I should cut Youtube out and go back to music--probably a healthier use of my time lol.
Bit of a mixed bag. Arctic monkeys and fall out boy makes sense as top 2. I think my music taste varies wildly enough that Katy Perry and P!nk must have just sneaked in there over other artists.
The scene is still good, I'm not clued up on the Vicks but from searching no, it's not common at all now but rolling is still 90% of the crowd. Went to a Stu Allen memorial show last week with my mates dad, the 50s crowd still got it, glow sticks and whistles.
More Anjunadeep these days for me. Jody Wisternoff (Way out west) and James Grant (Jonos Brother). They luckily do a lot of shows near me so it's quite available but we travel for them.
Never been to a tritonal event or artist show actually, quite new to me these.
Did the same thing with King Gizz this year as I did QOTSA in 2020. Find them around September, listen to them almost exclusively for the rest of the year, and end up in the top 0.5% or better
Bit of a pet peeve for me that the recap slide at the end doesn't give the artist for the names of the songs. There are many songs out there with the same title.
I've been listening a lot of a song called "Box of Bones" recently for example, but mine isn't from a pop punk band.
Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness because I saw him at his birthday show last year and love his vocals.
Let You Down by NF sneaks into every playlist cause I got emotional damage. Lol
Both have Steps as my favourite artist which mostly isn't surprising. The top song on the two differ, though - for Spotify it's Samo mi se spava by Serbian singer Luke Black, and Apple Music it's Twisted by Australian prog metal band Voyager. Both artists entered Eurovision 2023, though Twisted wasn't the entry.
Awaiting ListenBrainz's which'll be released in the new year, as that will have some of the most accurate data, as it includes things from my local library
I usually listen to everything just a little bit.I also listen to untracked mixes on youtube like JAZZ PL concerts and 飛行船の上のシンセサイザー弾き
Of course there isn't good way to share wrapped in English. My genre is Japanese Jazz Fusion.
I listen to PolarisRadio every day on my way to.work. 273 plays for Sea of Stars. I like most of his works. Gorillaz is also in that Playlist but I don't get that far every day driving.Sabaton and Voltaire are straight choices I hit play on. I'll listen to their new albums day one.
Genres listened to in total: 154
My genres:
Chillhop
Gaming EDM (I guess? I'd just group it to general EDM)
Lo-Fi Beats
Jazz
(Japanese) vTuber music (weird to call this a genre)
In regards to vTuber music: Since it's very diverse I list the artists instead:
Hololive (incl. Korone, Bae, Marine, Suisei, and loads other artists)
Partly related: Hatsune Miku (Deco*27 and others), Anime OP/EN music, Touhou.
I really didn’t listen to much music this year. I guess not engaging in my main hobby that let me listen to music as much really hindered my listening time.
Top artist is The Tedeschi Trucks band, no surprise there. Best God damn band on tour right now. Listened to them so much this year as I got tickets to one of their shows this past July.
It was a good year of listening for me.
Edit: after scrolling through the comments, pretty cool seeing very few repeated bands.
(If you're wondering why mine looks weird it's from YT Music instead of Spotify)
I always find with these recaps that I don't remember listening to one specific song more than others, and I'm constantly surprised by what the top 5 are. That being said, I usually just listen to the personalized mixes, so maybe part of it is the algorithm deciding that I really like a song because I haven't skipped it 🤷
Looks like all the top songs are Disney. Moana, The Lion King, Aladdin, The Princess and the Frog.
I'm just wondering if that first one is from Tron Legacy? If it is, I'd have to say the daughter has better taste in music. 😆
My 10month old son has always just shut up and listened whenever sound of silence comes on (the disturbed version, he doesn't care for S+G it seems) and that was my number 1 by a distance I think.
367 listens, so more than daily, I don't mind though as it's a proper banger and I could listen to David Draimans voice forever.
I dont axtually know how spotify calculates the songs, but I believe its a mix between minutes spent listening to the song and how many times the song was played
I'm in the top 3% of listeners for Sabaton, but my most played song was 59 times Another Love by Tom Odell. And I'm an alchemist because I create more playlists than other users. Overall I listened to 44 genres.
Also, as for current favorite artist/album/song, I would say:
Favorite Artist: This one is hard to decide because there's a lot of candidates, but in terms of "will I like probably anything they release?" probably Young Medicine.
Favorite Album: CCL Dive by Cityfires. This has been my favorite album for a long time. Make sure to listen to it with headphones or in a quiet room, because it has a lot of quiet parts and small details.
Favorite Song: daisy chain by wishlane, jacob geoffrey & defsharp. Absolute banger, love the energy and I definitely listened to this on repeat for a while when I found it.
I randomly got into "she's kerosene" by the interrupters this year. Saw it on a very amateur bmx clip reel and couldn't get it out of my head all year.
Having said that, it didn't make my Spotify wrapped list.
Top artist: Cautious Clay (pop/r&b) (top 0.05% of listeners)
Top song: That's Hilarious by Charlie Puth (pop)
To be honest, I don't think my top song is really standout compared to the others in my top. But I had a rough day and played that song on repeat like a zillion times for some reason.
Some bangers from my top five are:
#2: How I Want Ya - Dawin Remix by Hudson Thames (pop/electronic)
And
#5: Want You in My Room by Carly Rae Jepsen (pop)
I use Apple Music, but my top artist was AJR. 14 of my top 15 songs were by them. Over half my listening time. Their just resonate with my life right now, and I can’t get enough.
My second my played was Snails House. I love the bops they put out!
I have to say, Fia (the German representative) had the song with the best message, and I liked her backstory a lot. The song she submitted is called "Ohne Worte" (translation: without words).