🎧Songs I Listened To The Most in 2016🎧

At the end of 2014 and again in 2015, Spotify put together personalized infographics illustrating a user's listening history for the year with statistics like the number of minutes or hours listened, top 5 songs listened to, top 5 artists listened to, top 5 genres listened to and the number of tracks listened to. Here's what my 2014 year end report card looked like:

In case you're wondering why Audionova was number 1, I know someone in the band. And you can see Prince right there at number 3 on my Top 5 Artists because his catalog was still in Spotify's library back then; he pulled his music from all streaming services EXCEPT Tidal on July 1, 2015, so I simply added all of his music via Local Files from my digital library and continue listening unabated - the only difference was no one was getting paid while I listened. For those wondering how many hours or days 29,591 minutes is equal to, the answers are 493 hours or 20½ days. Now onto 2015:

Without even trying, I upped my listening by 133 hours and switched my listening allegiance to Queen's catalog (though in truth Prince remained my number 1 listen) and "Stay A Little Longer" by the Brothers Johnson. Dad's passing in May 2015 put a hard stop to my music listening for about two weeks - it was just too difficult, too painful as every single song reminded me of him so rides with Mom during that time were unnaturally quiet which was a shame because Dad had installed a new stereo in his truck only a week before his fatal heart attack. But the music eventually came to my salvation and I was back on board with Spotify full-time. And for 2016, Spotify offers this on their stand-alone player:

But let me zoom in:

It's a little disappointing to a numbers and stats freak like myself and the Spotify forums are rife with disappointed users complaining about the lack of specific stats. The two things that almost everyone seems to agree on is that the Top Songs 2016 playlist is an accurate representation of the songs they listened to (minus Local File imports like Prince, Taylor Swift, Peter Gabriel, Def Leppard, Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, and Bob Seger) and it is in order from most-played to less most-played, with each playlist containing 101 songs. Before we get to my own Top Songs 2016 playlist, there was a pleasant surprise this year from last.fm of all places. For the first time, they offered a series of year-end graphics based on scrobbles from January 1, 2016, through "December 2016". My issues with last.fm are relatively minor (no widget for The Hideaway, inability to scrobble Spotify offline listening, failure to group all instances of a particular song despite multiple sources - the last two lead to less than comprehensive numbers) and it was kind of cool to see my report anyway and see how it stacked up to the three fellow bloggers I follow on last.fm. Click HERE to see my year in music on last.fm. Here's a small taste of the graphical goodness:

For the chart below, I've listed my Spotify Top Songs 2016 in countdown order from 101 to 1 and also looked up each song's ranking on my last.fm year-end report within the Top 1000. The numbers are wildly off and part of the reason is the aforementioned inability of the scrobbling technology to detect identical songs even though they are played from different albums - nearly thirty songs are represented on the last.fm rundown two, three, four or even five times. But I digress. Here are the 101 Songs I listened to the most within Spotify's massive library:

rank		My Most Listened To Tracks in 2016 (1/1/16-12-1-16)
last.fm	Spotify	title	artist	year
106	101	You Can't Change That	Raydio	1979
357	100	December 1963 [Oh What A Night!]	Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons	1976
978	99	Just Can't Get Enough	Depeche Mode	1981
	98	You're So Vain	Carly Simon	1972
364	97	Do Ya	Electric Light Orchestra	1976
160	96	Radar Gun	The Bottle Rockets	1995
49	95	Know Your Rights	The Clash	1982
203	94	Dancing In The Street	Van Halen	1982
148	93	Love Removal Machine	The Cult	1987
67	92	Can't Hold Us	Macklemore & Ryan Lewis feat. Ray Dalton	2012
928	91	I Wanna Be Sedated	Ramones	1978
24	90	Renegade	Styx	1978
145	89	Let Your Love Flow	The Bellamy Brothers	1976
102	88	Tube Snake Boogie	ZZ Top	1981
279	87	Stay With Me	Faces	1971
41	86	Walk All over You	AC/DC	1979
320	85	Alone Too Long	Daryl Hall & John Oates	1975
29	84	Everybody Wants You	Billy Squier	1982
669	83	Bennie And The Jets	Elton John	1973
47	82	Find Another Fool	Quarterflash	1981
694	81	Call Me	Blondie	1980
26	80	The Boys Are Back In Town	Thin Lizzy	1976
125	79	Every Time I Think Of You	The Babys	1978
174	78	The Reflex	Duran Duran	1983
66	77	Call the Doctor	Austin Lucas feat. Cory Branan	2016
3	76	China Grove	The Doobie Brothers	1973
52	75	Lights Come On	Lights Come On	2016
104	74	Walk This Way	Aerosmith	1975
54	73	Listen To What The Man Said	Wings	1975
48	72	Hang Fire	The Rolling Stones	1981
16	71	The Fighter	Keith Urban feat. Carrie Underwood	2016
199	70	Burn It To The Ground	Nickelback	2008
72	69	Don't Change	INXS	1982
244	68	London Calling	The Clash	1979
	67	Fame	David Bowie	1975
	66	Lost In Music	Sister Sledge	1979
70	65	Does Your Mother Know	ABBA	1979
172	64	The Edge of Heaven	Wham!	1984
37	63	Rhiannon	Fleetwood Mac	1975
240	62	Kiss You All Over	Exile	1978
38	61	S.O.B.	Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats	2015
278	60	Stay	Rihanna feat. Mikky Ekko	2012
18	59	You're Only Lonely	JD Souther	1979
80	58	Here Comes the Night	Nick Gilder	1978
21	57	Clean My Wounds	Corrosion Of Conformity	1994
23	56	Pump It Up	Elvis Costello & The Attractions	1978
17	55	Tragedy	Bee Gees	1979
131	54	Girl Crush	Little Big Town	2015
	53	The Force	Lettuce	2015
297	52	Turn To Stone	Joe Walsh	1972
46	51	Don't You Write Her Off	McGuinn, Clark & Hillman	1979
84	50	Jane	Jefferson Starship	1979
34	49	Kids In America	Kim Wilde	1981
13	48	Cat People (Putting Out Fire)	David Bowie	1983
77	47	Girl U Want	DEVO	1980
303	46	When You Say Nothing At All	Alison Krauss and The Union Station	1994
75	45	Georgy Porgy (disco version)	Toto feat. Cheryl Lynn	1978
263	44	Rock 'N' Roll High School	Ramones	1979
460	43	Little Stereo	Teddybears feat. Daddy Boastin'	2005
28	42	Whole Lotta Love	Led Zeppelin	1969
105	41	We Are The People	Empire of the Sun	2009
209	40	Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)	The Rolling Stones	1973
161	39	Renegades	X Ambassadors	2015
31	38	Hush	Kula Shaker	1997
539	37	Side To Side	Ariana Grande feat. Nicki Minaj	2016
2	36	Dani California	Red Hot Chili Peppers	2006
14	35	Good Girls Don't	The Knack	1979
85	34	La Grange	ZZ Top	1973
50	33	Let Me Love You	DJ Snake feat. Justin Bieber	2016
315	32	Adventure Of A Lifetime	Coldplay	2015
55	31	Malaguena Salerosa	Chingon	2003
32	30	I Want You to Want Me (live)	Cheap Trick	1978
101	29	The Visitors	ABBA	1981
10	28	Prime Time	The Tubes	1981
7	27	Holy Commotion	Pretenders	2016
58	26	Stressed Out	Twenty One Pilots	2015
598	25	Whiskey Lullaby	Brad Paisley feat. Alison Krauss	2003
45	24	Crazy On You	Heart	1975
8	23	The House That Built Me	Miranda Lambert	2009
121	22	Dreaming	Blondie	1979
276	21	Someone Somewhere (In Summertime)	Simple Minds	1982
25	20	Sorry (Latino Remix)	Justin Bieber feat. J Balvin	2015
51	19	Levels (Skrillex Remix)	Avicii	2011
60	18	Talk Talk	Talk Talk	1982
373	17	Electric Worry	Clutch	2007
30	16	Head Over Boots	Jon Pardi	2016
81	15	Hot Summer Nights	Night	1979
43	14	Black Magic	Little Mix	2015
20	13	Children Of The Sun	Billy Thorpe	1979
12	12	Undercover (Of The Night)	The Rolling Stones	1983
39	11	Tennessee Whiskey	Chris Stapleton	2015
62	10	Theme From S.W.A.T.	Rhythm Heritage	1976
36	9	Mama Can't Buy You Love	Elton John	1979
15	8	Take the First Step	Brandon Hixson	2016
6	7	Shoot to Thrill	AC/DC	1980
4	6	Rock and Roll Love Letter	Bay City Rollers	1976
5	5	Sail (Unlimited Gravity Remix)	AWOLNATION	2012
11	4	Stay A Little Longer	Brothers Osborne	2015
103	3	Unstoppable (Original Mix)	Revolvr & Genisis feat. SPLITBREED	2014
3	2	I Need Never Get Old	Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats	2015
9	1	BANG BANG BANG	BIGBANG	2015

My sincere thanks to all my viewers, commenters, and friends for helping me survive 2016.