2023 Music Wrap-Up
Dec. 30th, 2023 04:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
scrubjayspeaksI started buying music more frequently last year, and quickly realized this provided a massive improvement to my quality of life relative to cost. So for the past year, I have listened to at least one new album each week. Thursdays are New Album Day. (And Boy Juice Day, because Thursday is best day.)
I am a weirdo who doesn’t do streaming music but actually buys albums, organizes mp3s, and listens across multiple devices including some rather retro ones. So I do not have a tidy end-of-year, Spotify Wrapped-esque, service-generated data set to show off. I shall have to DIY that shit.
New albums* heard: 77
*(discretely purchased music items, includes singles, EPs, and other short forms along with “full” albums)
Contributing artists: 50
Oldest Album: The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (David Bowie, 1972)
Newest Album: It's Black Friday, Charlie Brown (Louie Zong, November 24, 2023)
Top artists by albums: Left At London and The Midnight, four albums apiece
Most repeated albums: DECIDE (Djo), 6666 (Four Fists), PORTALS (Melanie Martinez), Monsters (The Midnight), Bronco (Orville Peck), Fake News (Pinguini Tattic Nucleari)
Tracks of note: For Judas (Adeem the Artist), The Grand Experiment (Doomtree), THIS IS A PROTEST FOR YOUR HEART!!! (Left At London), Unjinxed (Four Fists), Maker (Anjimile), Live Another Day (Skyhill)
I am a weirdo who doesn’t do streaming music but actually buys albums, organizes mp3s, and listens across multiple devices including some rather retro ones. So I do not have a tidy end-of-year, Spotify Wrapped-esque, service-generated data set to show off. I shall have to DIY that shit.
New albums* heard: 77
*(discretely purchased music items, includes singles, EPs, and other short forms along with “full” albums)
Contributing artists: 50
Oldest Album: The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (David Bowie, 1972)
Newest Album: It's Black Friday, Charlie Brown (Louie Zong, November 24, 2023)
Top artists by albums: Left At London and The Midnight, four albums apiece
Most repeated albums: DECIDE (Djo), 6666 (Four Fists), PORTALS (Melanie Martinez), Monsters (The Midnight), Bronco (Orville Peck), Fake News (Pinguini Tattic Nucleari)
Tracks of note: For Judas (Adeem the Artist), The Grand Experiment (Doomtree), THIS IS A PROTEST FOR YOUR HEART!!! (Left At London), Unjinxed (Four Fists), Maker (Anjimile), Live Another Day (Skyhill)
