It’s been a long time since I made some fun charts. I haven’t had as much time recently to make charts in my free time, but once I learned that I could download my own data from Spotify, I knew I had to make some cool charts with my Spotify data! These charts are fairly simple, but they give me more detail than I got in my Spotify wrapped. Each of these charts are interactive, so if you hover over or click on a bar, it will show you more information.
So of course the first thing to do is see who my top artists are. It seems to me that there are two ways to do this. We can look at the total number of times I listened to a song by each artist, or we can look at the total amount of time I spent listening to each artist. It’s worth noting that for all the charts in this issue, I filtered out songs that were played for less than 15 seconds cause I don’t think songs should count if I skipped them pretty early on. So without further ado, here are my top artists.
So clearly, I love Doris Day. She is by far my top artist using either metric. This is probably because in my effort to make a good 40s/50s playlist complete with all my favorite songs, I listened to every Doris Day album. I did this for the Ink Spots and Pied Pipers too, but there were a lot more on Spotify by Doris Day. Anyway, it is interesting to me how certain artists differ between the charts. Like how Ben Platt is a lot higher on the second chart than the first. Well that is because the songs in Dear Evan Hansen are few but long. The Andrew Sisters didn’t even make it on the second chart even though I listened to them the same amount of times as Ben Platt, probably because their songs tend to be shorter. I don’t know which metric Spotify used for my Spotify wrapped, but I think showing both paints a more complete picture.
Next I did the same thing for tracks. Again, I showed this both by count and time listened.
These charts are a lot more balanced than my artists charts. Dream a little Dream of Me is the top on both, though its worth mentioning that I listen to two versions of this - one by Doris Day and one by Ella Fitzgerald. It’s Been a Long, Long Time only appears so high on here because it is the first song on my 40s playlist, so it always plays first before I put it on shuffle. I’m sure it would be much higher if I did not filter out songs played for less than 15 seconds. You can see that some songs that were played the same number of times such as Again, On the Sunny Side of the Street, and I Don’t Want to Set the World on Fire don’t even make it on the second chart, cause they are shorter than some of those songs like Manhattan Serenade and My Way.
These are simple chart, but I was curious to know how much time I listened to Spotify each month, as well as the number of unique tracks and artists each month. Did I spend certain months listening to the same song over and over? Well let’s see.
First, I only got Spotify on March 22, so it’s interesting to me that I listened in March more than lots of the other months. August is clearly the highest, but I blame that on the 26 hour road trip from California, much of which was spent listening to my Spotify. The charts for the number of unique tracks and unique artists are similar. I think it’s fun that you can see which months I was exploring new music. For instance, July was when I listened to every Doris Day album, which explains why the number of unique artists was low compared to the amount of time I spent listening.
Last, there were some fun numbers that I can’t really display in a chart, but they are still fun to look at. I’ve listened to 1,394 different songs. When you only include songs I listened to more than once, there were only 390. I listened to 440 different artists, 201 of which I listened to more than once. My total listening time was 145.4 hours.
Well, this has been my own version of Spotify wrapped. If nothing else, it’s more specific than their version. Regardless, it’s fun to see what I’ve been listening to!