listening dna

1. 01Acid Ghost3.7%
2. 02The Neighbourhood3.4%
3. 03Mr.Kitty2.9%
4. 04Chase Atlantic2.5%
5. 05Men I Trust1.9%
6. 06Asal1.3%
7. 07Lana Del Rey1.2%
8. 08Lil Zey1.1%
9. 09The Weeknd1.0%
10. 10marwan moussa0.9%
11. 11Metro Boomin0.9%
12. 12TV Girl0.9%

the other 5,957 artists share the remaining 78%. “Effective artists” is the inverse Herfindahl index — the number of equally-played artists with the same spread.

• indie10.4%
• dream pop7.8%
• rap7.6%
• indie pop6.9%
• rnb6.5%
• hip-hop6.5%
• pop5.3%
• electronic5.2%
• indie rock3.8%
• lo-fi3.5%
• trap3.3%
• shoegaze2.9%
• alternative2.8%
• rock2.1%
• synthpop2.1%
• emo rap1.8%

community tags attached to artists, weighted by my plays. They describe 78% of all plays — the remainder belongs to artists without tag data (metadata is still being collected in the background). These are other people’s labels, not genres I assigned.

artists heard for the first time, per month (peak 398). The first archived month is inflated: everything is “new” when the record begins.

• 1960s22 plays · 0.0% · 5 albums
• 1970s88 plays · 0.1% · 6 albums
• 1980s321 plays · 0.4% · 11 albums
• 1990s1,147 plays · 1.3% · 45 albums
• 2000s2,091 plays · 2.4% · 75 albums
• 2010s40,952 plays · 47.8% · 683 albums
• 2020s41,010 plays · 47.9% · 883 albums

by album release year. Release years are known only for albums that appear in one of my imported playlists — that covers 62% of all plays, so read this as a sample (percentages are of that sample), not the whole archive.

hours listened

6,708

≈ 280 days of sound

average play

3.2 min

measured plays

91%

124,601 of 137,151

actual time played, available only for plays that came with a measured duration. The remaining plays have no duration on record, so the true total is higher.