A (very minor) milestone

27 May 2006 was a Saturday.  I remember sitting in the back-yard and reading a story in the paper about internet music sharing services: Pandora, last.fm and others.   I signed up for both Pandora and Last.fm, but Pandora’s Canadian availability was short-lived.

I have, however, stuck with Last.fm for the past 6.5 years and last week I passed 50,000 “scrobbles” (A ridiculous word they use to describe the process of logging each track you listen to in their database.)

Here are my top 5 artists, after 50,000 listens, along with the playcount for each.

Here’s the thing, I found out about at least two of these artists (Loscil and Max Richter) from the last.fm site.  SO, I guess you’d say that it was a success.

Truth be told I eliminated 3 albums that actually placed in the top 5 because they were double albums, or in one case contain a very large number of very short tracks.  Although I do like these albums, I didn’t think it was fair that they should make the top 5 as the greater number of tracks gives them an advantage.  The albums that would have made the list were: Bill Frisell’s “History, Mystery”, Linda Ronstadt’s “‘Round Midnight” and Ronn McFarlane’s “The Scotish Lute”.

And here are my top 5 tracks (which actually consists of 7 tracks due to a 4 way tie for 4th place):