I know my Best of 2006 page is long, long overdue but one of the things I have been doing during the times I can’t think, can’t write and/or I’m killing time; is sifting through KMAG’s logs (the home/main version). With a little help from BBEdit, FileMaker Pro and Excel, I culled out all the entries entailing errors and matters not pertaining to it playing a song. Then I broke up every year into a separate database to keep on file. I started going through and counting up the details, etc. on the stream’s patterns and trivial landmarks when it has played 500,000 songs. When I started, 2006 wasn’t finished, as in, it was still December so I began the tedious process of gathering the numbers on 2005. Here are the results.
Songs Played: 133,013
Songs in Playlist: 5255
Most Played Top 30 Song of 2005: “The Ballad of the Kingsmen” by Todd Snider at 158 times.
Average Number of Times a Top 30 Song is played: 108.9 times.
Most Played, Non-Top 30 Song of 2005: “The Loneliest Person I Know” by Splender at 43 times.
Average Number of Times a Non-Top 30 Song is played: 21.2 times.
Most Played Artist/Band of 2005: David Bowie at 1599 songs/times.
Artist/Band with the Most Songs in 2005: David Bowie at 70 songs.
Seems that the last two go hand in hand. With the Most Played Song, it usually helps if it is one of my current Top 30 Songs at the beginning of the year since it will get played once every 10 hours for five to seven weeks and then randomly for the remainder.
This also states that I really like David Bowie’s stuff. Sure, but I think he just has the advantage of making good material since the late Sixties. I definitely need to see how the analysis goes for 2006 and try to crank up the amount of tunes from other personal favorites. I know this points out how I have overlooked many possibilities to expand the stream by a couple hundred.