In my rush to pick up Somara in time for the evening showing of WALL•E, I forgot to confirm this landmark KMAG achieved. August is always its anniversary month and sometime later, the stream will have played its 800,000th song. No idea which song was number 7000. I’ll just arbitrarily say Aimee Mann’s new single “Freeway,” because she’s really grown as a writer. I also got into her solo stuff 15 years ago thanks to NPR’s story about Aimee’s debut album Whatever. A friend once said, “After listening to her stuff in ’til Tuesday, do you think you’d ever predict anyone would still be interested in Aimee Mann’s music?”
Here is some trivia to put KMAG’s playlist into perspective. If I had it play the songs from beginning (AC-DC’s “Back in Black”, hey I have weak spot for those guys) to end (the Zutons’ “Pressure Point”), it would take at least 19-and-a-half days to complete based upon an average of 15 songs/hour. As for its sheer number, I’ve already bludgeoned to the death the fact that my stream works from a larger pool of material (number, not genres) than 90 percent of today’s commercial stations.