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    [OC] My cumulative music listening habits (18 years)


    Over the past 18 years, I’ve logged more than 300,000 songs on Last.fm. There were a few gaps when the scrobbler stopped working or when I switched from Spotify to Apple Music, but it still captures most of my listening habits.

    The chart pulls from all that data to show how my taste has shifted over time. Unfortunately, there’s still no way to include long drives (for someone with nothing to think about) with CDs or the radio. It’s been fun to see the evolution from indie playlists to full-on sad dad music.

    I used to build this chart by hand every quarter via Illustrator and decided to try chatgpt to help build an interactive version. Since I intimately pull every data point, I found it easier to locate any data issues it may have produced.

    Interactive version: https://winkitude.com/charts/lastfm.html

    Tools: D3.js, excel, chatgpt, itunes API (for album images)

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    2. twillrose47 on

      Always wanted this data personally but switched platforms far too many times and never setup last.fm. Really amazing work. Interactive version is really nice.

    3. Pit-trout on

      Interesting alternation between stable periods and big shakeups. What happened in 2016–17 — did you get a new partner or something?

    7. Far_Carpenter5572 on

      This is really nice, also upvote for electrelane 😉
      I see a lot of things I hear(d) a lot too (like kinks, dr dog, arcade fire, lcd and so on)… so I suggest to you to give ‘man man’ and ‘future islands’ and ‘cocorosie’ a go …0

    8. Lead-Radiant on

      So proud of you seeing the walkmen, silver jews, and pavement near top ranks in the 2025 stack.

    11. ok-milk on

      I feel like you and I are the two people that listen to Ambulance LTD. Such a promising first album and such a letdown that nothing ever followed.

    12. Comprehensive_Ad6598 on

      Damn, this is impressive.
      You have good taste.

      Night shift by Lucy Dacus is also really high up
      In my “most listened to music”

      Also + 5 for the modest mouse. Go see them sometime they are amazing live. I have seen the 4 times and every time I’m like “damn”

    14. _thebronze on

      This might be the most intensely millennial-hipster thing I’ve ever seen. Good work, though 👍

    16. Great_Fox_623 on

      “Sad dad music” hit me like a ton of bricks. My listening list is shockingly similar to yours. You gave me a lot to think about there stranger. lol.

    17. Miccles on

      Seeing these artists, their rankings, and the changes over time, I’m not convinced you aren’t my best friend haha. He listens to pretty much every single artist listed here.

    23. cogito_ergo_catholic on

      For some reason I can’t find the line with Built to Spill… Must be my old eyes failing me.

    24. datingoverthirty on

      You also really fell in love with pavement in 2018

      And Silver Jews did something to your ears (twice) over the last ~10 years

    27. WordsMakethMurder on

      Interesting to me that Explosions in the Sky still consistently rates up there for you. They are one of my favorite bands, but after All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone in 2007, I felt like the quality of their new releases just wasn’t there and I kinda lost interest. But I’ll still go back to them every once in a while.

    31. GGATHELMIL on

      That’s neat. Here i am still listening to panic at the disco, fall out boy, mcr and various other top artists from the early 2000s. I just went to the simple plan tour a few months ago featuring bowling for soup, 3oh3! And lølø.

    32. forenergypurposes on

      Dusting off some tracks that I haven’t listened to since 2010 after seeing this. We lived through a golden age of hipsterdom.