2017 In Review: My Most Listened To Songs, Artists and Albums, according to last.fm

While Spotify does a great job remembering the music HERC listens to while using the service, they had no idea what videos he was watching on YouTube, or which tracks he was listening to via iTunes or MediaMonkey, or what high-resolution tracks he was enjoying with Foobar2000. His Spotify account, however, is linked to his last.fm account and last.fm does keep tabs on what music he listens to on all the mentioned programs and apps so it provides a more accurate picture of what music he listened to this year. Before we get to his Top 81 Most Listened To Songs according to last.fm, let's geek out on some numbers. For comparison's sake, only the tracks scrobbled from January 1 through November 1 are included.

		scrobbles	avg. per day
	January	1659	53.52
	February	3252	116.14
	March	2027	65.39
	April	1718	57.27
	May	1607	51.84
	June	2049	68.30
	July	1338	43.16
	August	1170	37.74
	September	877	29.23
	October	586	18.90
	November	38	38.00
		16,321	53.51

For the 305 days represented by the chart, HERC listened to an average of 53 and a half songs per day but a closer look reveals the huge impact of discovering and listening to Bobby's B100.fm from mid-July through to November as the number of scrobbles took a tumble, falling from a daily average of almost 69 songs a day from January through June to less than half that amount - 33 songs a day - from July through the first day of November. The charts below show HERC's 100 Most Listened To Artists:

	100	Billy Idol	75	Red Hot Chili Peppers
	99	Wings	74	Neil Diamond
	98	The Cure	73	KC and The Sunshine Band
	97	The Black Keys	72	R.E.M.
	96	Luis Fonsi	71	Commodores
	95	Jackson Browne	70	Brothers Osborne
	94	Glen Campbell	69	Three Dog Night
	93	Elvis Costello	68	Styx
	92	Eddie Money	67	New Order
	91	Earth, Wind & Fire	66	Marvin Gaye
	90	Culture Club	65	Jon Pardi
	89	Bread	64	Van Morrison
	88	Bad Company	63	Journey
	87	America	62	Anastacia
	86	Steely Dan	61	The Kinks
	85	George Harrison	60	Ramones
	84	Carly Simon	59	Loverboy
	83	Atlanta Rhythm Section	58	Keith Urban
	82	Toto	57	James Taylor
	81	Eric Clapton	56	Billy Squier
	80	Creedence Clearwater Revival	55	ZZ Top
	79	10cc	54	REO Chuckwagon
	78	The Hollies	53	Donna Summer
	77	Paul Simon	52	Barry Manilow
	76	Bob Dylan	51	The Doors

	50	Hall & Oates	25	ABBA
	49	Chicago	24	The Who
	48	Bay City Rollers	23	Led Zeppelin
	47	Rod Stewart	22	Bruce Springsteen
	46	Jimmy Webb	21	Linda Ronstadt
	45	Duran Duran	20	Elton John
	44	Aerosmith	19	Blondie
	43	Talking Heads	18	Billy Joel
	42	INXS	17	Steve Miller Band
	41	Dan Auerbach	16	The Cars
	40	Stevie Wonder	15	The Rolling Stones
	39	Tom Petty	14	KISS
	38	The Police	13	Electric Light Orchestra
	37	Boston	12	AC/DC
	36	Bee Gees	11	Foreigner
	35	U2	10	Prince
	34	Thomas Rhett	9	Eagles
	33	Pretenders	8	The Clash
	32	J. Geils Band	7	David Bowie
	31	Cheap Trick	6	Dwight Yoakam
	30	John Mellencamp	5	Van Halen
	29	Devo	4	The Beatles
	28	Pink Floyd	3	Queen
	27	The Doobie Brothers	2	Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers
	26	Heart	1	Fleetwood Mac

Not really any surprises here. Classic Rock, Pop, Soul, New Wave and Country - that's HERC's musical comfort food. Let's see what albums HERC listened to the most in the first ten months of 2017. Here are the Top 36 Albums, ranked left to right from Stevie Wonder at 36 to Van Halen at Number One:

There are two singles, four Time-Life compilation albums, six greatest hits compilations, two 40th Anniversary releases and two box sets among the thirty-six albums pictured.

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As far as HERC's Most Listened To Singles, we limited the list to songs with nine or more plays/scrobbles. (To include the songs with eight scrobbles, the list would have swollen to 132.) In all, 2840 songs were scrobbled more than once and the 89 songs below were the most played.

	#	artist — title	year
	89	Carly Simon — You're So Vain	1972
	88	Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers — You Got Lucky	1982
	87	Chris Cagle — Wal-Mart Parking Lot	2005
	86	The Clash — Train in Vain	1982
	85	Brothers Johnson — Strawberry Letter 23	1977
	84	Justin Bieber — Sorry (Latino Remix)	2015
	83	Stephen Bishop — On And On	1977
	82	The Allman Brothers Band — Midnight Rider	1970
	81	Eagles — Life in the Fast Lane	1977
	80	Steve Miller Band — Jungle Love	1977
	79	Phil Collins — In The Air Tonight	1981
	78	Peter Frampton — I'm In You	1977
	77	The Black Keys — I'll Be Your Man	2002
	76	The Alan Parsons Project — I Wouldn't Want To Be Like You	1977
	75	Tom Petty — I Won't Back Down	1989
	74	Cheap Trick — I Want You To Want Me (LIVE)	1979
	73	Rose Royce — I Wanna Get Next To You	1977
	72	The Knack — Good Girls Don't	1979
	71	Devo — Girl U Want	1980
	70	James Taylor — Fire and Rain	1970
	69	Robert Palmer — Every Kinda People	1978
	68	Commodores — Easy	1977
	67	Fleetwood Mac — Don't Stop	1977
	66	ABBA — Dancing Queen	1976
	65	KISS — Christine Sixteen	1977
	64	KISS — Calling Dr. Love	1977
	63	Chicago — Baby, What A Big Surprise	1977
	62	L.T.D. — (Every Time I Turn Around) Back In Love Again	1977
	61	Eddie Money — Two Tickets to Paradise	1978
	60	Loverboy — Turn Me Loose	1981
	59	Imagine Dragons — Thunder	2017
	58	Eagles — Take It Easy	1972
	57	Led Zeppelin — Stairway to Heaven	1971
	56	Billy Joel — Piano Man	1974
	55	Black Sabbath — Paranoid	1971
	54	Audioslave — Like a Stone	2003
	53	Billy Joel — Just The Way You Are	1977
	52	Dwight Yoakam — If There Was a Way	1990
	51	Boston — I Had a Good Time	2002
	50	Toto — Hold The Line	1978
	49	Blondie — Heart Of Glass	1979
	48	The Marshall Tucker Band — Heard It In A Love Song	1977
	47	Stereophonics — Have A Nice Day	2001
	46	Elton John with Kiki Dee — Don't Go Breaking My Heart	1976
	45	Luis Fonsi with Daddy Yankee — Despacito	2017
	44	Red Hot Chili Peppers — Dani California	2006
	43	Heart — Crazy On You	1976
	42	Kansas — Carry On Wayward Son	1976
	41	Don McLean — American Pie	1971
	40	Steve Miller Band — Abracadabra	1982
	39	Steve Miller Band — The Joker	1973
	38	Jackson Browne — That Girl Could Sing	1980
	37	Guns N Roses — Sweet Child O' Mine	1987
	36	Cheap Trick — She's Tight	1982
	35	Annette Funicello — Muscle Beach Party	1964
	34	Kim Wilde — Kids in America	1982
	33	Mötley Crüe — Kickstart My Heart	1989
	32	Chicago — If You Leave Me Now	1976
	31	999 — Homicide	1978
	30	James Taylor — Handy Man	1977
	29	Billy Currington — Good Directions	2005
	28	Midland — Drinkin' Problem	2017
	27	Manfred Mann's Earth Band — Blinded by the Light	1976
	26	Ram Jam — Black Betty	1977
	25	The Emotions — Best of My Love	1977
	24	Yusuf fka Cat Stevens — Wild World	1971
	23	The Clash — Rock the Casbah	1982
	22	Pretenders — Holy Commotion	2016
	21	Eric Church — Drink in My Hand	2011
	20	Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers — Breakdown	1977
	19	America — A Horse With No Name	1972
	18	Clutch — Electric Worry	2007
	17	10cc — The Things We Do For Love	1977
	16	Atlanta Rhythm Section — So Into You	1977
	15	Faces — Stay with Me	1972
	14	Boston — More Than a Feeling	1976
	13	Fleetwood Mac — Go Your Own Way	1977
	12	Led Zeppelin — Whole Lotta Love	1969
	11	Jason Aldean — Lights Come On	2016
	10	Electric Light Orchestra — Do Ya	1977
	9	Miranda Lambert — The House That Built Me	2009
	8	Heart — Barracuda	1977
	7	The Babys — Isn't It Time	1977
	6	AC/DC — Shoot to Thrill	1980
	5	Keith Urban — The Fighter	2016
	4	Eagles — Hotel California	1977
	3	Jon Pardi — Head Over Boots	2015
	2	Brothers Osborne — Stay A Little Longer	2015
	1	Thomas Rhett — Craving You	2017