According to the logs for my stream, as of 12:23 AM, KMAG played its 500,000th song!
I knew it was coming up and had been monitoring its progress ever since I missed out on it hitting 400,000. I updated KMAG last Monday with new songs so I saw that it would happen before the weekend. I just lucked out by remembering to check the log earlier in the evening. It had less than 60 songs to go to achieve this. There were a lot of great songs leading up to 500,000 too. A solid mix of tunes in my collection from the years sprinkled with new releases from Elefant, Vines, Missy Higgins, Subways, Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs and Jules Shear.
What was song number 500,000? Drum roll please.
“Surfin'” by William Orbit, from his new album Hello Waveforms.
Pretty anti-climatic for most of you since he’s not very famous, unless you know that he co-wrote/produced Madonna’s hits “Ray of Light” and “Beautiful Stranger.” Don’t hold that against him though, it probably made enough money for him to do more of his intelligent, impressive Electronica.
On to 1 million songs played. How long will that take? Based upon the current pattern to get to here, between three and four years give or take a couple weeks thanks to Central Texas having a lame power grid and hopefully the Mac Mini the stream is on won’t suddenly die like the iMac it started on.
From Austin to Adelaide
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