Spotify Wrapped/Your (Top) Songs of 2023

[Moonface]

Seems it's that time of year again for those who use Spotify, but for anyone who doesn't feel free to share whatever lists the music service you use might provide for your year in listening or just share what music you've found yourself listening to a lot, discovered, or whatever else.

Here's my wrapped:

• Minutes Listened To: 11,776
  
• Genres: 23
  
• Top Genres: Rock, Alternative Metal, Pop Punk, Modern Rock, and J-Pop
  
• Apparently Pittsburgh, USA is the one place on the planet where people are more likely to be fans of a lot of what I listened to in 2023, which was Tool, Fall Out Boy, and Deftones.
  
• Total Songs: 655
  
• Favorite Song: Forty Six & 2 by Tool
  
• Top Songs: Forty Six & 2 by Tool, Right Side of the Bed by Atreyu, Sorry by Nothing But Thieves, Sulfur by Slipknot, and Metalingus by Alter Bridge
  
• Peak Day: March 31 at 145 minutes
  
• Top 29% of listeners worldwide
  
• Total Artists: 180
  
• Top Artist: Tool (Top 3% listener, 1,076 minutes total)
  
• Top Artists w/ Peak Listening Month: Tool (March), Fall Out Boy (May), Linkin Park (April), Deftones (October), Kings of Leon (October)
  

I wonder how different these would be if Spotify actually made a decent shuffle feature instead of the shit system they use now where it insists half my library just doesn't exist for weeks at a time.

[Mr EliteL]

Time to go to Pittsburgh with a giant speaker/player on your shoulder and start blaring them songs out, eh? *shot*

As I do not use Spotify I'll do my own way as usual although I have to ponder a bit on what my placings are, I think I can get top and second easily. Hmm.
The only thing I wish I had was the amount of time I listened to music.

Artists

1. Seventh Wonder
2. Ad Infinitum
3. Kamelot
4. Light The Torch
5. Celldweller/Amaranthe

Huh didn't take as long as I thought I would. Similar-ish to past lists, although it's probably bound to be anyway.
Both Seventh Wonder and Ad Infinitum released a new album earlier this year so those have been an easy go-to just for that. I usually listen to any of my Kamelot albums anyway but a bit more so this year I guess than the rest. Oh, and I finally listened to Shadow Theory that I just hadn't for the years I've had plus the new album The Awakening, but those two just don't compare to the earlier albums anyway.
Light The Torch's two albums Revival plus You Will Be The Death Of Me are easy to just get into (for me), although I just acquired two earlier albums of theirs, one I don't particularly like, but I gave it a full listen anyway but it doesn't hurt the two I do enjoy. I've yet to listen to the second acquired album though, because I only just ordered it. Been listening to Celldweller's End of an Empire quite a bit, and other stuff so that just snags the final spot I feel, although Amaranthe possibly could've gotten 5th too...I'll actually add it too.

Songs

1. I Carry The Blame - Seventh Wonder
2. Eternal Rains - Ad Infinitum
3. III Ways To Epica - Kamelot
4. Line of Fire - Heartwind
5. The Great Divide - Light The Torch

All of the songs are in a playlist on my mp3, 3-5 could be any of the others in this playlist but I repeatedly played 1 & 2 a lot since I got the albums and were my favourites from that with I Carry The Blame possibly being my favourite Seventh Wonder song, but I really shouldn't count out the 30-minute epic that is The Great Escape. III Ways To Epica I feel takes 3rd purely for my recent flex to listen to it over and over to some random YouTube comment and that I listen to the song in the playlist plus it's respective album too anyway. 4 and 5 were probably played more than the rest in my playlist.

[Moonface]

Did you discover any new music at all this year @Mr EliteL or were any new songs just ones from artists you already listen to but hadn't heard those songs yet?

I was curious how many songs I added to my library this year and how many were completely new discoveries, which Spotify Wrapped doesn't cover but fortunately my library can show me when I added each song into it.

Total Songs Added in 2023: 25
Songs Added:

1. Snake Eater - Cynthia Harrell
   
2. Heaven, Iowa - Fall Out Boy
   
3. What a Time To Be Alive - Fall Out Boy
   
4. I Miss You - blink-182
   
5. Down - blink-182
   
6. First Date - blink-182
   
7. Stay Together For The Kids - blink-182
   
8. The Rock Show - blink-182
   
9. Love From The Other Side - Fall Out Boy
   
10. Hold Me Like a Grudge - Fall Out Boy
    
11. Fake Out - Fall Out Boy
    
12. So Much (For) Stardust - Fall Out Boy
    
13. Can You Feel My Heart - Bring Me The Horizon
    
14. Empire (Let Them Sing) - Bring Me The Horizon
    
15. Sleepwalking - Bring Me The Horizon
    
16. Shadow Moses - Bring Me The Horizon
    
17. Drown - Bring Me The Horizon
    
18. Happy Song - Bring Me The Horizon
    
19. I Touch Myself (Handz Up Club Mix) - Jan Wayne, Scarlet
    
20. What's My Age Again? - blink-182
    
21. Under the Influence - Citizen King
    
22. Black Hole Sun - Soundgarden
    
23. Nine Thou (Grant Mohrman Superstars Remix) - Styles Of Beyond
    
24. Dark Passage (avocado) - Stewart Copeland
    
25. Movies - Alien Ant Farm
    

Total New Artists: 1

So the only new artist I discovered this year was Bring Me The Horizon, who I had heard of but just never listened to before. I heard them perform live as an opening act for Fall Out Boy when I saw them live earlier this year and really liked a lot of the songs, so that whole section of songs 9-18 are all additions done after seeing that show. The batch of blink-182 songs is just from me remembering they exist and adding songs of theirs I like into my library, and others are all songs I knew of but hadn't added to my library yet for whatever reasons.

[Mr EliteL]

Mostly new music by the groups I follow, although you reminded me there was one I hadn't known about before when I first heard it round my friend's but I've forgotten what it was, I should've made a note of it.  There's been other stuff but they were not good enough for me to buy for myself or listen to a lot, nowhere near the level of what I already usually listen to.