In honour of International Women's Day: the lyrics to our Kitty Hawk song '16 Days'. It refers partly to the '16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence Campaign', that falls between 25 November, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, and 10 December, Human Rights Day.
It's a call to remember the struggle women face all across the globe when it comes to violence and inequality.
It's a call to topple down normative patriarchy.
It's a call to all to be thoughtful of these issues.
A call to men to tear down their own prejudice, be open and accepting and through that find a form of protection against insane expectations of what 'masculinity' must entail.
It is a shout out to strong women. A commemoration of the sisters Mirabal, who fought to topple a dictatorship and who were murdered because of it.
A shout out to women musicians, artists, label owners. To their resilience.
OK, the title might be a bit misleading, but since it's March now I thought it was a good time to make some 2017 lists. I will stick to hard data for this post, I might divulge in some more lists later on that will be based on memory, reviews and highs and lows.
For this post I will use data as collected by the website Last.fm. The website has been around for over a decade and after a few meagre years it looks like a lot of listeners are using it again. The website is a great collection of biographies, discographies, and 'related artists' (this was my go to tool back in the day to discover new artists, kinda like what many people are using Spotify's similar function for nowadays). On top of that it was great to use as a way to find shows of bands that you like in your neighbourhood. For me though, the most important element of the website is the 'scrobbling', which means collecting and storing all the data of the songs you have been listening to. For someone with a fetish for lists and data (on certain topics), it is quite wonderful to for example be able to see that I listened to Chelsea Wolfe for the first time on December 18th, 2011, that my most listened to song by The Afghan Whigs is 'Debonair' and that I've listened to Emma Ruth Rundle at least 2,576 times in total.
The 'at least' I just put in there marks an issue with this data: it only covers music I've listened to either on my laptop or on my phone, both of which are connected to the data collecting app. Everything I listen to on cd (rarely nowadays) or vinyl does not get counted. So there might be some artists higher on the lists here below if the ol' fashioned spins are also taken into account. I've been using it since 2006, although I haven't always been as connected to it on different devices or through different programs, that's why some years seem almost barren compared to others. The last couple of years though I've been pretty good at keeping the score. Anyway, enough of all these lousy disclaimers, here are some lists.
2017 Total Plays Scrobbled
Scrobbles 13,992
Scrobbles per Day (on average) 38
Artists Scrobbled 1,193
Albums Scrobbled 1,766
Unique Tracks Scrobbled 7,948
Top 25 Most Listened Artists 2017
1 Emma Ruth Rundle Emma Ruth Rundle More
1,921
2 The Dillinger Escape Plan 191
3 Mastodon 189
4 Tool 176
5 Black Rebel Motorcycle Club 165
6 Brand New 139
7 The Nocturnes 136
8 Afghan Whigs 126
9 Fiona Apple 124
10 Thursday 119
11 The Cure 117
12 Chelsea Wolfe 115
13 Marriages 115
14 Marilyn Manson 114
15 Mick Harvey 110
16 Mutoid Man106
17 Waxahatchee 106
18 Deftones 102
19 Manchester Orchestra 96
20 Weezer 96
21 Braid 93
22 AFI 91
23 Aesop Rock 87
24 The Mars Volta 87
25 HAIM 85
Top 25 Most Listened to Albums 2017 (number of tracks of said album)
1
Marked For Death - Emma Ruth Rundle 756
2
Some Heavy Ocean - Emma Ruth Rundle 583
3
Electric Guitar: One - Emma Ruth Rundle 157
4
Audiotree Live - Emma Ruth Rundle 119
5
Emperor of Sand - Mastodon 110
6
Science Fiction - Brand New 91
7
The Distance - Emma Ruth Rundle 83
8
Out in the Storm - Waxahatchee 78
9
Intoxicated Women - Mick Harvey 74
10
Aokigahara - The Nocturnes 72
11
IV - Black Mountain 65
12
Slowdive - Slowdive 63
13
War Moans - Mutoid Man 61
14
How - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club 58
15
Salome - Marriages 56
16
Losing - Bully 52
17
In Spades - Afghan Whigs 51
18
Integrity Blues - Jimmy Eat World 49
19
Protection (single) - Emma Ruth Rundle 48
20
Skeleton Tree - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds 48
21 Somnambulant - The Headless Prince Of Zolpidem 48
22
Bridges to the Heart - Jimmy Bakker 47
23
Hug Of Thunder - Broken Social Scene 47
24
Trumpeting Ecstasy - Full of Hell 46
25
Hiss Spun - Chelsea Wolfe 45
Top 25 Most Listened to Tracks 2017
This list consists completely of songs by Emma Ruth Rundle, so I will only bother you with the top three ERR songs:
1. Emma Ruth Rundle - Protection 131
2. Emma Ruth Rundle - Real Big Sky 115
3. Emma Ruth Rundle - Shadows of my Name 115
And here is the list for the top scrobbled artists of all time. Well, by me of course.
Top 25 Artists Scrobbled (since 2006)
Total Artists 4,948
1 Emma Ruth Rundle 2,576
2 Tool 1,769
3 Death Cab for Cutie 1,289
4 Radiohead 1,235
5 65daysofstatic 1,170
6 Norma Jean 1,095
7 The Rolling Stones 1,022
8 The Cure 956
9 Deftones 925
10 Machine Head 900
11 Gillian Welch 860
12 Taking Back Sunday 709
13 Black Rebel Motorcycle Club 700
14 Afghan Whigs 673
15 PJ Harvey 611
16 Brand New 549
17 Joy Division 549
18 Placebo 527
19 Nine Inch Nail 503
20 The Dillinger Escape Plan 502
21 Wilco
22 A Perfect Circle 487
23 The Beatles 486
24 Thursday 445
25 Something Corporate 418
