Favorite Music - 2010

Personally, this is my most interesting blog entry of the year. I analyzed my iTunes and iPod listening habits of the past year in Excel. You probably won't find it nearly as interesting as I did. Here are the results.

Top Play Counts of 2010

Rank	Song/Artist	Play Count
10	Won't Back Down - Eminem	47
9	If I Can't Have You - Kelly Clarkson	48
8	So Bad - Eminem	48
7	Almost Famous - Eminem	49
6	25 To Life - Eminem	50
5	Cinderella Man - Eminem	57
4	Not Afraid - Eminem	61
3	Already Gone - Kelly Clarkson	62
2	Cry - Kelly Clarkson	62
1	My Life Would Suck Without You - Kelly Clarkson	64

  No surprises here. Interestingly though, My Life Would Suck Without You was my number two played song of 2009, with an almost identical number of plays.

Top Played Albums of 2010

(This counts how many times songs were played from specific albums, not the count of times an album was listened to in its entirety.)

Rank	Album/Artist	Play Count
10	My December - Kelly Clarkson	135
9	My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy - Kanye West	138
8	Jagged Little Pill - Alanis Morissette	184
7	The Eminem Show - Eminem	236
6	Breakaway - Kelly Clarkson	255
5	Across the Universe - Soundtrack	263
4	LOVE - The Beatles	266
3	Life In Cartoon Motion - Mika	308
2	All I Ever Wanted - Kelly Clarkson	426
1	Recovery - Eminem	595

If Kanye hadn't released his album so late in the year, it would have been much higher. It will probably be the number two most played in 2011, right behind Kelly Clarkson's new cd. I was very surprised by Mika's Life In Cartoon Motion being ranked so high. I guess I never skip his songs.

Top Play Counts of 2010

(This counts how many times an artist's songs were played. So artists with a large catalog who were played a little, or artists with a small catalog that were played a lot should appear.)

Rank	Artist	Play Count
10	Lady Gaga	219
9	Kanye West	276
8	Britney Spears	280
7	Various (Across the Universe)	290
6	Fiona Apple	295
5	Mika	375
4	The White Stripes	485
3	The Beatles	751
2	Kelly Clarkson	963
1	Eminem	1267

Weird, I really don't remember listening to Eminem's back catalog that much. It must have happened between the releases of Relapse and Recovery. While Lady Gaga is at number 10, it should be noted that I only have seven of her songs, two of which were added very late in the year. Adjusting the totals, her other five songs had an average of 40 plays each, which is a statistically very high.

Well that's all. 2010, was a year dominated by Eminem and Kelly Clarkson.

Time to reset the play counts.