Dan Griffiths

Listening

Numbers

Counted from Last.fm since January 2007, with Spotify filling some of its gaps. A lot is missing: everything before then, the car, and the weeks the scrobbling quietly stopped working.

The collection

2,594 albums by 1,397 artists: 1,999 hours of music, or 83 days without stopping. 808 GB in all, and 333 of the albums are hi-res.

When it's from

70% came out in 2010 or later. The oldest is Chet Baker Sings by Chet Baker, from 1956.

  1. 1950s 2
  2. 1960s 23
  3. 1970s 31
  4. 1980s 57
  5. 1990s 271
  6. 2000s 388
  7. 2010s 978
  8. 2020s 840

Most collected

  1. King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard 18
  2. Nine Inch Nails 18
  3. Mogwai 12
  4. Wilco 12
  5. Deftones 11
  6. Radiohead 11
  7. Sonic Youth 11
  8. clipping. 11
  9. Bright Eyes 9
  10. Cursive 9

Labels

  1. 4AD 61
  2. Sub Pop Records 52
  3. Domino 42
  4. Columbia 38
  5. Warp 33
  6. Matador 32
  7. Saddle Creek Records 31
  8. Jagjaguwar 29
  9. RCA 27
  10. Dead Oceans 27

Extremes

Longest
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross2h 53m
Shortest
Fall Back Florence Road20 min
Fastest
I Heard It's A Mess There Too Aesop Rock157 bpm
Slowest
Dessau Codeine85 bpm
Loudest
The Uncanny Valley Perturbator
Quietest
The Glory of Fruit Bats Fruit Bats

Found this year

Albums I played for the first time this year.

Cover of Deg by Vulfmon

Deg

Vulfmon

61 plays

Cover of Vol.1 by Angine de poitrine

Vol.1

Angine de poitrine

54 plays

Lately, by sound

The last 60 days have leaned mid-tempo (~123 BPM) and balanced in tone: quieter than usual.

Played every year

The albums I keep going back to, by how many years I've played them in.

Cover of The Ugly Organ by Cursive

The Ugly Organ

Cursive

17 years

Cover of Siamese Dream (Deluxe Edition) by The Smashing Pumpkins

Siamese Dream (Deluxe Edition)

The Smashing Pumpkins

15 years

Seen live

150 artists in the collection I've also seen live. Seen most:

  1. Every Time I Die 5
  2. Idlewild 5
  3. METZ 4
  4. Queens of the Stone Age 4
  5. Everything Everything 4
  6. Deftones 4
  7. Reuben 4
  8. Big Thief 3
  9. Blood Red Shoes 3
  10. Mac DeMarco 3
  11. Ryan Adams 3
  12. Hundred Reasons 3

How old the music is

What I played in 2026 was 4 years old on average.

  1. 2007 5
  2. 2008 3
  3. 2009 5
  4. 2010 4
  5. 2011 4
  6. 2012 3
  7. 2013 3
  8. 2014 3
  9. 2015 2
  10. 2016 8
  11. 2017 10
  12. 2018 7
  13. 2019 7
  14. 2020 6
  15. 2021 12
  16. 2022 6
  17. 2023 5
  18. 2024 4
  19. 2025 5
  20. 2026 4

Played into the ground

145 artists I have one or two albums by and have played 20 times or more. Played most:

  1. Deep Sea Diver 2 albums 885
  2. Vulfmon 2 albums 775
  3. Young Legionnaire 2 albums 582
  4. Cat Clyde 2 albums 579
  5. The Faint 2 albums 458
  6. He Is Legend 2 albums 417
  7. Slow Club Paradise 342
  8. Siriusmo Mosaik 297
  9. Speedy Ortiz 2 albums 293
  10. Jamie xx 2 albums 290

Fresh loves

26 artists new to the collection in the last three years with 10 plays or more. Played most:

  1. Lizzy McAlpine 1,244
  2. Cat Clyde 579
  3. Confide 184
  4. Nine Inch Noize 92
  5. Angine de Poitrine 66
  6. HISS 54

Back on

Albums I came back to this year after years away.

Cover of Free All Angels by Ash

Free All Angels

Ash

15 years away

Cover of Tyrannosaurus Hives by The Hives

Tyrannosaurus Hives

The Hives

13 years away

Streaks

The longest run of days with music was 46 days, ending 4 August 2024. Right now: 4.