1 year of my last.fm!
A year ago, on 20th of May 2019, I learned of last.fm from some peeps at a Carly Rae Jepsen Discord I joined because she had released her new album a few days ago and I wanted to discuss it with other fans. I’m a bit of a stats nerd, so it was really exciting seeing, like, analytics of the music I was listening to during the past year, and, now that I’ve hit the first important milestone, I’m doing this post so I can compile my observations!
Content:
General Stats
Month Recaps
Some observations
General Stats:
Total scrobbles (listens) : 33302 (Assuming an average 3 minute song length, this is 1665 hours, which is 69 days of music (nice). However, if we give 8 hours for sleep every day, that’s 104 days of music and sleep, which conveniently matches the duration of a summer vacation. Nice. This is 91 songs a day, AKA around 4.5 hours of music a day.)
Top 15 artists:
Carly Rae Jepsen - 6469 scrobbles (One fifth of all songs listened, around 323.45 total hours, which means around 53 minutes a day)
Ke$ha - 2150 scrobbles (around 107.5 total hours, which means around 17 minutes a day)
Marina & The Diamonds (I am gonna be referring to her as that because we don’t claim L+F) - 1741 scrobbles (around 87 total hours, which means around 14.5 minutes a day)
Taylor Swift - 1620 scrobbles (around 81 total hours, which means around 13.35 minutes a day)
P!nk - 1218 scrobbles (around 61 total hours, which means around 10 minutes a day)
Lorde - 968 scrobbles (around 48.5 total hours, which means around 8 minutes a day)
Tessa Violet - 697 scrobbles (around 35 total hours, which means around 6 minutes a day)
Tove Lo - 692 scrobbles (around 34.5 total hours, which means around 6 minutes 5.8 day)
Britney Spears - 684 scrobbles (around 34.2 total hours, which means around 5.6 minutes a day)
Halsey - 646 scrobbles (around 32 total hours, which means around 5.3 minutes a day)
Charli XCX - 588 scrobbles (around 29.5 total hours, which means around 4.8 minutes a day)
Kim Petras - 577 scrobbles (around 29 total hours, which means around 4.7 minutes a day)
Dua Lipa - 529 scrobbles (around 26.5 total hours, which means around 4.3 minutes a day)
Meghan Trainor - 492 scrobbles (around 24.6 total hours, which means around 4 minutes a day)
Ariana Grande - 485 scrobbles (around 24.25 total hours, which means around 4 minutes a day)
Top 15 albums:
Emotion by Carly Rae Jepsen (1887 scrobbles, AKA around 94 hours) - Probably my favorite album ever.
Dedicated by Carly Rae Jepsen (1740 scrobbles, AKA around 87 hours) - A chill album that I really like!
Emotion: Side B by Carly Rae Jepsen (923 scrobbles, AKA around 46 hours) - A collection of B-Sides that is better than other people’s main material and its parent album
High Road by Kesha (792 scrobbles, AKA almost 40 hours) - THE PARTY ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Melodrama by Lorde (642 scrobbles, AKA around 32 hours) - Masterpiece
Kiss by Carly Rae Jepsen (642 scrobbles, AKA around 32 hours) - To be fair, all my streams from Kiss have been streams of its good songs, which are, like, 60% of the album
Electra Heart by Marina & The Diamonds (585 scrobbles, AKA around 29 hours) - An amazing concept album
reputation by Taylor Swift (476 scrobbles, AKA almost 24 hours) - I love the energy of this album
Bad Ideas by Tessa Violet (473 scrobbles, AKA 23.5 hours) - Amazing.
FROOT by Marina & The Diamonds (454 scrobbles, AKA around 22.5 hours) - This album really grew on me. It’s almost as good as EH.
The Truth About Love by P!nk (408 scrobbles, AKA around 20.5 hours) - My favorite P!nk album, filled with bops.
Manic by Halsey (407 scrobbles, AKA around 20.5 hours) - It has high highs and very low lows.
Animal by Kesha (396 scrobbles, AKA almost 20 hours) - Incredible
Future Nostalgia by Dua Lipa (373 scrobbles, AKA around 18.5 hours) - Very consistent and very good.
Sunshine Kitty by Tove Lo (358 scrobbles, AKA almost 18 hours) - Filled with bops.
Top 15 tracks:
Happy Not Knowing by Carly Rae Jepsen - Carly’s songs are usually growers for me - I don’t like them immediately, but when they grow on me, I love them passionately for a very long time. Happy Not Knowing was an exception. It was the song that I fell in love with on my first listen of Dedicated. It’s my second favorite on the album, after Too Much, but it turns out that it managed to beat it, even if Too Much has an MV. Good for it. Also, my aro ass can very much relate to the sentiment (even if Carly’s doing this to not hurt herself, I can very much Frankenstein this into an aromantic song, thank you very much) - (294 scrobbles)
Too Much by Carly Rae Jepsen - This song might as well have been called “Carly Rae Jepsen violently comes for Tumblr user @ravenclawer‘s ass”. I adore it, the MV is amazing, and it’s one of my favorite songs ever. - (277 scrobbles)
Your Type by Carly Rae Jepsen - I have called this song a song that can turn an aroace into a girl desperate for love for a period of 4 minutes and I stand by my word. My favorite CRJ song ever. - (251 scrobbles)
Want You In My Room by Carly Rae Jepsen - This song is so fun. - (217 scrobbles)
Let’s Get Lost by Carly Rae Jepsen - Let’s Get Lost is pure joy. I honestly think it’s a perfect pop song, and I could go as far as call it a quintessential Carly song. Like, one of the biggest advantages Carly has over many other artists in my eyes is the fact that her singing is so full of emotion - of joy, sorrow, pity. And this song showcases that well. My face literally lights up every time I hear it. - (206 scrobbles)
I’ll Be Your Girl by Carly Rae Jepsen - One of my faves on Dedicated. I love the pettiness behind it. To be frank, I was sleeping on this song until I saw fanart about it, and that fanart made the song click in my head. - (194 scrobbles)
Cry by Carly Rae Jepsen - This song is incredible. One of my top 3 favorite CRJ songs. I can’t really describe it, but.... it’s Cry. I have literally seen people pray for Dedicated Side B to have a “Cry”. It’s Cry, and that’s enough of an explanation. - (184 scrobbles)
Now That I Found You by Carly Rae Jepsen - It’s fun! I love the MV, it makes me wanna dance! A nice song! I am perplexed over why I have listened so much to it, as I like every single song from #9 to #15 more than it, but hey, data doesn’t lie. Oh shit, it just got to the prechorus, I take it back, it’s amazing. - (179 scrobbles)
Party For One by Carly Rae Jepsen - Jepsies shit on this song, and this angers me. It’s a bop, the music video is iconic, and it’s classic Carly. I love it. - (177 scrobbles)
LA Hallucinations by Carly Rae Jepsen - THE MOST SLEPT ON SONG FROM EMOTION. THE MOMENT WHEN THE “PLANES I’M HOPPING CARDS I’M DROPPING” HITS, MY WIG IS INSTANTLY EVAPORATED AND I DIE ON THE SPOT. - (172 scrobbles)
Run Away With Me by Carly Rae Jepsen - You know, this is also surprising, because I’m one of the three (3) CRJ stans that does not worship this song. Like, it’s amazing, but I can name 10 better song on Emotion only. But still, it’s amazing. LET’S RUN AWAAAYYY I’D RUN AWAY WITH YOUUUUU - (171 scrobbles)
Fever by Carly Rae Jepsen - You have not lived until you have shouted this song at the top of your lungs while biking in the countryside. One of my three favorite songs from CRJ. The live performance is also amazing. - (154 scrobbles)
The One by Carly Rae Jepsen - This song finally fully clicked for me in August, and, Jesus, this song is truly one of her best. IF YOU WANT TO, YOU COULD HOLD ME TIGHT, I DON’T WANNA BE THE ONE - (152 scrobbles)
Cut To The Feeling by Carly Rae Jepsen - It’s Cut To The Feeling, come on, it’s literally one of the best pop, nah, best songs in history. - (150 scrobbles, however, if we count a certain cover, it jumps to #5 with 209 scrobbles)
Making The Most Of The Night by Carly Rae Jepsen - I remember first hearing this song and reading a comment that said “This song is literal pop perfection”. And, you know what? I’m inclined to agree. - (149 scrobbles)
ooookay, so that top 15 is super diverse, so I’m gonna do a second top 15 with the songs that are not from CRJ lol
17. Crush by Tessa Violet - This song is SO GOOD. It’s not special to me or anything, but it’s SO GOOD. - (134 scrobbles)
20. Delicate by Taylor Swift - One of my favorite songs of all time. It’s up there with “Your Type”, “Please Don’t Leave Me” and the others. - (114 scrobbles)
23. Tonight by Kesha - as a user on r/popheads described it: “THE TRASHY HOE ANTHEM OF THE YEAR” - (134 scrobbles)
24. Primadonna by Marina & The Diamonds - My mental state when I drink five cups of Coca Cola in a row and I get too happy about life. - (111 scrobbles)
25. So Hot You’re Hurting My Feelings by Caroline Polachek - I wanted to dislike this song SO HARD, cause she just kept popping in my recommendations, but once I gave in.... a masterpiece. - (110 scrobbles)
27. Stay Over by Tove Lo - What is with me and desperate bops? Amazing, a masterpiece. - (108 scrobbles)
28. Physical by Dua Lipa - LET’S GET PHYSICAL MISS DUA! The MV is a masterpiece. - (108 scrobbles)
30. Supercut by Lorde - One of my favorite songs of all time. A bop, a masterpiece, the moment. - (105 scrobbles)
32. Liability by Lorde - The only song that has ever made me cry. - (100 scrobbles)
33. Talking Body by Tove Lo - A sexy bop. - (100 scrobbles)
38. You Need To Calm Down by Taylor Swift - It’s catchy, I like it - (98 scrobbles)
39. Don’t Start Now by Dua Lipa - DON’T SHOW UP - (97 scrobbles)
45. Convenient by Lo Lo - This song is so bitchy, it captures the exact kind of energy I’m striving towards. Masterpiece. - (89 scrobbles)
46. Between You & Me by Betty Who - A bop I discovered in summer! Amazing! - (87 scrobbles)
48. Green Light by Lorde - I’M WAITING FOR IT! THAT GREEN LIGHT! I WANT IT! - (87 scrobbles)
some fun stats (for me):
Top Artists:
CRJ has more scrobbles than #2, #3, and #4 combined and if she had a couple hundred more, we could add #5 to the equation.
I’m honestly surprised Halsey and Charli XCX even made it to the top 15, considering I don’t think of myself as a fan of them.
Britney at #9 is a welcome surprise.
It’s very curious to me how I have listened more to Meghan Trainor than Ariana Grande
Also, the small gaps after #7 are really funny. Like the gaps in #1 - #6 are in the hundreds, and the gaps in #7 to #15 happen to be something like 15 scrobbles lol
Top Albums:
I didn’t expect Electra Heart that high, but good for her
I am pretty sure I listened to reputation enough to help TS get to #5 of my Top Artists.
Just Emotion’s scrobbles would have been enough to get CRJ to #2
Top Tracks:
40% (6) of the top 15 all-time tracks are from Dedicated, 33% (5) are from Emotion, and the rest 27% (4) are from Emotion Side B (if we count Cut To The Feeling)
60% of the top 10 all time tracks are from Dedicated, 30% are from Emotion and 10% are from Emotion: Side B
Month Recap:
I will be treating the statistics like charts cause it’s fun lol
May 2019:
May 2019 in one sentence: Carly Rae Fucking Jepsen.
Top Artists:
Carly Rae Jepsen (404 scrobbles, AKA around 20 hours, AKA 2 hours a day) - CRJ released her new album a few days before I started my last.fm, so I was obviously listening to her a lot.
Sara Bareilles (65 scrobbles, AKA around 3 hours) - I was just discovering her hit songs.
Ke$ha (36 scrobbles)
Paramore (34 scrobbles)
P!nk (30 scrobbles)
Top Albums:
Dedicated by Carly Rae Jepsen (184 scrobbles, AKA around 9 hours, so probably one listen of the album a day) - It just came out, and I am a slut for CRJ.
Emotion by Carly Rae Jepsen (64 scrobbles, AKA around 3 hours)
Emotion Side B by Carly Rae Jepsen (63 scrobbles)
Kaleidoscope Heart by Sara Bareilles (29 scrobbles solely from Gotta Get Over You)
Kiss by Carly Rae Jepsen (27 scrobbles)
Top Tracks:
Want You In My Room By Carly Rae Jepsen (37 scrobbles) - You know, I’m kinda surprised it’s on top, since it’s not in my top 3 in Dedicated, but, to be fair, I probably listened to my top 3 a lot in the three days the album was out and I didn’t have last.fm. A bop.
Too Much by Carly Rae Jepsen (33 scrobbles) - My favorite song on the album. Legendary.
Gonna Get Over You by Sara Bareilles (29 scrobbles) - I had forgotten exactly how much of a bop this song was. I discovered it around the time I set up my last.fm.
LA Hallucinations by Carly Rae Jepsen (21 scrobbles) - One of my faves on Emotion. Deserved much better.
The Sound by Carly Rae Jepsen (19 scrobbles) - You know, this is kinda surprising, cause The Sound isn’t one of my faves, but, hey, it’s a bop.
As there were only 10 days of tracking, there is less material. On to the first full month of tracking!
June 2019:
Top Artists:
Carly Rae Jepsen (=) (990 scrobbles, almost 50 hours, so about an hour and 40 minutes a day) - Miss Carly Rae Jepsen continued her dominance over my ears and my heart during June. As she should.
P!nk (+3) (245 scrobbles, around 12 hours) - P!nk was my favorite artist of all time until 2019, and now shares that title with CRJ and Kesha. Dunno what I listened from her during June yet, but she is very much a summer artist.
Kim Petras (+16) (107 scrobbles, around 5 hours) - Kim Petras has bops, and released her debut album in late June, so I listened to quite a bit.
Taylor Swift (+33) (95 scrobbles)
Ke$ha (-2) (90 scrobbles) - Love her
Top Albums: (Carly Rae Jepsen Dominating My Life Part 2)
Emotion by Carly Rae Jepsen (+1) (303 scrobbles, aka 15 hours) - Oh, wow, Emotion managed to outperform Dedicated? Surprising, but, to be fair, this album is timeless and it has so many bops, I adore it.
Dedicated by Carly Rae Jepsen (-1) (230 scrobbles, aka 11.5 hours) - Dedicated is very much a spring album in my eyes, so as summer gets closer and closer, it seems to give some place to Emotion. I remember being really obsessed with Want You In My Room in June.
Emotion Side B (=) by Carly Rae Jepsen (164 scrobbles, aka 8 hours)
Kiss by Carly Rae Jepsen (+2) (63 scrobbles, aka 3 hours)
The Truth About Love by P!nk (+23) (54 scrobbles)
Top Tracks:
Too Much by Carly Rae Jepsen (+1) (48 scrobbles, AKA around 1.6 times a day) - I mean, are we surprised.
Want You In My Room by Carly Rae Jepsen (-1) (46 scrobbles)
Cry by Carly Rae Jepsen (+7) (44 scrobbles)
You Need To Calm Down by Taylor Swift (debut) (41 scrobbles) - I was obsessed with this song when it came out. Don’t know why people don’t like it.
Happy Not Knowing by Carly Rae Jepsen (+1) (36 scrobbles) - The first appearance of what will eventually become my top track of the year.
July 2019:
July was the month of my internship and my sea vacation. I love July.
Top Artists:
Carly Rae Jepsen (=) (803 scrobbles, around 40 hours, so about an hour and 20 minutes a day) - Third month in a row!
Taylor Swift (+2) (245 scrobbles, around 12 hours) - I actually don’t remember what I was listening to from her during July, we’ll get to that in the Top Tracks section.
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Cast (+8) (119 scrobbles, around 6 hours)
P!nk (-2) (118 scrobbles) - I always listen to P!nk when I’m on a sea vacation, it’s rules. Like, I associate Funhouse with the amusement parks near the sea.
Ke$ha (=) (106 scrobbles, around 5 hours)
Top Albums: (Carly Rae Jepsen Dominating My Life Part 3)
Emotion by Carly Rae Jepsen (=) (229 scrobbles, aka 11.5 hours)
Dedicated by Carly Rae Jepsen (=) (226 scrobbles, aka 11 hours) - Dedicated out there giving Emotion a run for its money.
reputation by Taylor Swift (+12) (127 scrobbles, around 6 hours)
Emotion Side B by Carly Rae Jepsen (-1) (85 scrobbles, aka 4 hours)
Kiss by Carly Rae Jepsen (-1) (74 scrobbles, around 3.5 hours)
Top Tracks:
In My Bed by Sabrina Carpenter (debut) (41 scrobbles, aka 1.3 times a day) - Wow, Carly has finally been dethroned on one chart! I remember discovering the MV for this song in July and really enjoying it. It’s a bop!
Too Much by Carly Rae Jepsen (-1) (38 scrobbles, aka 1.3 times a day) - Too Much ain’t going nowhere for a third month straight.
Now That I Found You by Carly Rae Jepsen (+54) / Your Type by Carly Rae Jepsen (+4) / I Did Something Bad by Taylor Swift (debut) (I had just discovered this song, and god, it’s amazing) (33 scrobbles, aka around 1 time a day)
Run Away With Me by Carly Rae Jepsen (+30) (31 scrobbles)
Between You And Me by Betty Who (debut) (This song is so summery, I adore it!) / Right Words Wrong Time by Carly Rae Jepsen (+106) (29 scrobbles)
August 2019:
I spent half the month biking in the German countryside, singing my heart out to Carly lol
Top Artists:
Carly Rae Jepsen (=) (544 scrobbles, around 27 hours, so about an hour a day) - Third month in a row!
Taylor Swift (=) (156 scrobbles, around 8 hours) - Her new album came out in late August, so I listened to it a bit.
Katy Perry (+6) (59 scrobbles, around 3 hours)
P!nk (=) (51 scrobbles)
Ariana Grande (+6) (48 scrobbles, around 2.5 hours)
Top Albums:
Emotion by Carly Rae Jepsen (=) (140 scrobbles, aka 7 hours)
Emotion Side B by Carly Rae Jepsen (+2) (125 scrobbles, aka 6 hours) - August 2019 was the moment Emotion Side B fuly clicked for me. Fever and The One got promoted to masterpiece level in my mind. Also, Side B is such an August album. I adore it.
Dedicated by Carly Rae Jepsen (-1) (85 scrobbles, aka 4.5 hours)
Lover by Taylor Swift (debut) (78 scrobbles, around 4 hours)
Kiss by Carly Rae Jepsen (=) (72 scrobbles, aka 3.5 hours)
Top Tracks:
Fever by Carly Rae Jepsen (+19) (THE MOST MEMORABLE SONG FROM AUGUST, YOU HAVE NOT LIVED UNTIL YOU HAVE SCREAMED “SO I STOOOOLE YOUR BIKE” WHILE RIDING A BIKE WHILE THE AUGUST SUN SETS AND THE SKY IS PINK) / Happy Not Knowing by Carly Rae Jepsen / Small Talk by Katy Perry (26 scrobbles, around 1 time a day)
Too Much by Carly Rae Jepsen (=) (25 scrobbles)
Party For One by Carly Rae Jepsen (+8) (24 scrobbles)
Queen Of Mean by Sarah Jeffrey (debut) (23 scrobbles)
I’ll Be Your Girl by Carly Rae Jepsen (+36) / Your Type by Carly Rae Jepsen (-2) (this particular song hits really different in August) (22 scrobbles)
September 2019:
Summer dies and I go back to school.
Top Artists:
Carly Rae Jepsen (=) (398 scrobbles, around 20 hours) - CRJ really said “y’all ain’t taking my spot on the top artists chart”
Marina & The Diamonds (+31) (107 scrobbles, around 5 hours)
Taylor Swift (-1) (103 scrobbles)
P!nk (=) (76 scrobbles) - P!nk is #4 for the third month in a row lol
Britney Spears (+1) (64 scrobbles)
Top Albums:
Dedicated by Carly Rae Jepsen (+2) (141 scrobbles, around 7 hours) - As summer dies down, Dedicated manages to outperform Emotion for the first time since the month of its release. Good for her.
Emotion by Carly Rae Jepsen (-1) (87 scrobbles, aka 4.5 hours)
Electra Heart by Marina & The Diamonds (reenter) (74 scrobbles, aka around 3.6 hours)
Lover by Taylor Swift (=) (36 scrobbles)
Emotion Side B by Carly Rae Jepsen (-3) (30 scrobbles)
Top Tracks: (AKA Marina and Lana teaming up to finally kick CRJ out of the top 2)
Doin’ Time by Lana Del Rey (debut) (31 scrobbles) - This is such a September song, it’s amazing.
Starring Role by Marina & The Diamonds (debut) (29 scrobbles) - This was around the time I realised this song is actually a masterpiece. Fuck me up, Marina.
Want You In My Room by Carly Rae Jepsen (+73) (28 scrobbles) - The MV came out in September, and I, naturally, adored it.
Obsessed by Mariah Carey (debut) (26 scrobbles) - I discovered the MV on Youtube and it was and still is, a bop.
Happy Not Knowing by Carly Rae Jepsen (-4) (25 scrobbles)
October 2019:
My biggest memories from this month: Discovering Melodrama and Bad Ideas. (Also Body Talk by Robyn)
Top Artists:
Carly Rae Jepsen (=) (420 scrobbles, around 21 hours)
Taylor Swift (+1) (252 scrobbles, around 12.5 hours) - I’m calling it: this is from my autumn listens of reputation + the song Red
Lorde (debut) (214 scrobbles)
Marina & The Diamonds (-2) (151 scrobbles)
P!nk (-1) (127 scrobbles)
Top Albums:
Melodrama by Lorde (debut) (200 scrobbles AKA around 10 hours) - Carly finally gets kicked out of the first place by a masterpiece of an album. Discovering Melodrama in autumn was a fucking experience. A masterpiece.
Emotion by Carly Rae Jepsen (-1) (196 scrobbles AKA around 10 hours) - It’s amusing to me exactly how close the two are lol
Bad Ideas by Tessa Violet (debut) (100 scrobbles, AKA around 5 hours) - I adore this album.
Turn Off The Light by Kim Petras (debut) (88 scrobbles, AKA around 4.5 hours) - I mean, it’s the Halloween month, you expect me not to listen to it?
Dedicated by Carly Rae Jepsen (-4) (79 scrobbles, AKA around 4 hours)
Top Tracks: In a shocking turn of events, CRJ is completely kicked out of the top 5. Autumn sadness (or, dare I say, melodrama)’s impact.
Graveyard by Halsey (debut) (42 scrobbles) - A bop. I also really liked the summer-autumnish aesthetics in the MV.
Supercut by Lorde (debut) (40 scrobbles) - Masterpiece.
Liability by Lorde (debut) (39 scrobbles) - When I listened to it for the first time, I cried. I never cry.
Do You Miss Me At All by Bridgit Mendler (debut)/ Clementine by Halsey (debut) (Ugh, this and Graveyard’s aesthetics. Me love it.) (35 scrobbles)
Red by Taylor Swift (debut) (34 scrobbles) - An acquaintance had the nerve to say it’s better than Delicate, so I gave it a listen. Spoiler Alert: It’s not, but it’s a good song.
November 2019:
Warm autumn is gone. Seasonal depression.
Top Artists:
Tessa Violet (debut) (256 scrobbles, AKA almost 13 hours) - And so, the artist who has the honor to end CRJ’s 6 month streak at #1 is revealed. I love Tessa. I continued to listen to her album in November, it’s amazing.
Carly Rae Jepsen (-1) (248 scrobbles, AKA around 12.5 hours) - She ain’t giving up without a fight, your honor.
Lorde (=) (179 scrobbles, AKA 9 hours) - *screams in Melodrama*
P!nk (+1) (154 scrobbles, AKA 7.5 hours)
Britney Spears (+7) (126 scrobbles) - I think I was discovering Britney in autumn.
Top Albums:
Bad Ideas by Tessa Violet (+2) (179 scrobbles, AKA around 9 hours)
Melodrama by Lorde (-1) (178 scrobbles) - THE GAP addjajdasla
Emotion by Carly Rae Jepsen (-1) (101 scrobbles)
The Truth About Love by P!nk (+4) (95 scrobbles)
Dedicated by Carly Rae Jepsen (=) (72 scrobbles, AKA around 3.5 hours)
Top Tracks:
So Hot You’re Hurting My Feelings by Caroline Polachek (debut) (62 scrobbles)
Don’t Start Now by Dua Lipa (debut) (54 scrobbles)
Haze by Tessa Violet (debut) (47 scrobbles)
Back To You by Selena Gomez (debut) (37 scrobbles)
Crush by Tessa Violet (debut) (34 scrobbles)
I feel like my variety of songs I get obsessed with shrinks as winter approaches. Or, you know, those five songs are that good.
December 2019:
*insert mental image of me desperately ignoring my final thesis project*]
Top Artists:
Carly Rae Jepsen (+1) (495 scrobbles, AKA around 25 hours) - Aaaand she’s back :)
Tove Lo (+43) (199 scrobbles, AKA 10 hours) - I think I discovered Sunshine Kitty around December, which was my introduction to Tove Lo after discovering Glad He’s Gone in the summer.
Tessa Violet (-2) (113 scrobbles, AKA around 5.5 hours)
Britney Spears (+1) (98 scrobbles) - It is most amusing to me how she keeps popping up in this chart, when I’ve never fully listened to an album of hers, and she doesn’t appear on the other two charts lol. Love her.
Taylor Swift (+1) (97 scrobbles)
Top Albums:
Dedicated by Carly Rae Jepsen (+4) (174 scrobbles, AKA around 8.5 hours) - Okay, I figured it out: Dedicated is a winter and spring album, Emotion is summer and autumn.
Sunshine Kitty by Tove Lo (debut) (170 scrobbles) - I discovered it that month, a solid album. Stay Over is my fave on it.
Emotion by Carly Rae Jepsen (=) (131 scrobbles)
Bad Ideas by Tessa Violet (-3) (75 scrobbles)
Emotion Side B by Carly Rae Jepsen (+14) (73 scrobbles)
Top Tracks: (wow, this top 5 is both diverse in terms of artists and immaculate in quality)
Happy Not Knowing by Carly Rae Jepsen (+117) (51 scrobbles) - Okay, so I’m pretty sure this is the point in which Happy Not Knowing began to gain on Too Much to eventually overthrow it as my most listened-to song.
Stay Over by Tove Lo (debut) (49 scrobbles) - I was and still am obsessed with this song.
Out Of Touch by Dove Cameron (debut) (41 scrobbles)
Crush by Tessa Violet (+1) (38 scrobbles)
Feeling of Falling by Cheat Codes feat. Kim Petras (debut) / I’m Fakin’ by Sabrina Carpenter (debut) (37 scrobbles)
January 2020:
I was in a trance between the middle of January and the middle of February. Music related things I remember: Listening to Selena Gomez’s singles and Halsey’s Manic in the beginning, being obsessed with Kesha’s new album High Road and Dua Lipa’s Physical at the end.
Top Artists:
Carly Rae Jepsen (=) (753 scrobbles, AKA around a whooping 37 hours, which is the highest scrobble rate since June and July lol)
Ke$ha (+10) (538 scrobbles, AKA 27 hours) - Her new album came out in the end of the month, I think she would have topped the chart if it was in the beginning lol
Halsey (debut) (291 scrobbles, AKA around 14.5 hours) - Her new album came out in the middle of the month. I enjoyed half of it, but that half was amazing.
Tove Lo (-3) (201 scrobbles, AKA around 10 hours)
Taylor Swift (=) (189 scrobbles) - I didn’t realise I listened to her that much lol
Top Albums:
Emotion by Carly Rae Jepsen (+2) (301 scrobbles, AKA around 15 hours) - Emotion and/or Dedicated almost constantly beating new albums every month will never fail to amuse me
Manic by Halsey (debut) (249 scrobbles, AKA around 12.5 hours)
Dedicated by Carly Rae Jepsen (-2) (214 scrobbles, AKA around 10.5 hours)
Animal by Kesha (debut) (128 scrobbles, AKA around 6.5 hours) - OOH, I remember that, I was relistening to Animal to get ready for High Road. A great album.
Emotion Side B by Carly Rae Jepsen (-1) (124 scrobbles, AKA around 12 hours)
Top Tracks: (This entire Top 5 outperforms every single song that has charted in the Top 5 yet, save for Caroline Polachek’s So Hot You’re Hurting My Feelings, which is only outperformed by the Top 2)
Talking Body by Tove Lo (debut) (a WHOOPING 89 scrobbles, which is very close to 6 hours. This has to be a record) - I discovered this song in the beginning of the month, and gods, it makes me feel so empowered and cool. It’s amazing.
Lay All Your Love On Me by ABBA (debut) (Again, a WHOOPING 65 scrobbles, which I think beats every single #1 on the Top Tracks chart yet save for Talking Body) - I discovered this masterpiece on the second day of the new year, and, I don’t know, this song is so fitting for the timeless period in January. I can’t describe it, but it’s amazing.
You Should Be Sad by Halsey (debut) (59 scrobbles) - Such a nice song, I love the MV too.
True Romance by Ashley Tisdale (debut) (58 scrobbles) - I discovered this song along with the top 2 on this chart and it’s amazing, I love it.
Cut To The Feeling by Elijah Mann (debut) (this CRJ cover is probably the best one I’ve heard yet. Amazing) / VIP by Kesha (debut) (54 scrobbles)
February 2020: The trance continues as I do the majority of the work on my thesis project in the last three weeks. As one does.
Top Artists:
Kesha (+1) (663 scrobbles, AKA around 33 hours) - Kesha joins Tessa Violet as the only artists who have managed to dethrone Carly on this chart. (Both of them were riding off the wave of their new albums which I adore)
Carly Rae Jepsen (-1) (564 scrobbles, AKA around 28 hours)
Marina & The Diamonds (+7) (256 scrobbles, AKA around 13 hours) - And so we enter the so called “Marina” period. When I discovered Marina in early 2019, I listened to her constantly from February to April, and then I slowly stopped listening to as much. I resonate most with her during these months.
Meghan Trainor (+2) (166 scrobbles, around 8 hours) - Meghan’s album came out on the 31st of January, along with Kesha’s, and, in a criminal offense to the entirety of the Internet, I am proud to announce I’m a casual Meghan fan. Don’t come at me.
Taylor Swift (=) (157 scrobbles, also third month in a row where she’s #5)
Top Albums:
High Road by Kesha (+6) (549 scrobbles, AKA around 27.5 hours) - High Road joins Melodrama and Bad Ideas as the only albums that have managed to dethrone CRJ’s Emotion and/or Dedicated on this chart. (With a gigantic lead, mind you)
Electra Heart by Marina & The Diamonds (+19) (143 scrobbles, AKA around 7 hours) - Aaaand Marina barely manages to outperform Emotion. Good for her!
Emotion by Carly Rae Jepsen (-2) (142 scrobbles, AKA around 7 hours)
Emotion Side B by Carly Rae Jepsen (+1) (115 scrobbles)
Dedicated by Carly Rae Jepsen (-2) / Treat Myself by Meghan Trainor (debut) (106 scrobbles) - THE WAY Meghan’s album could barely tie CRJ’s third highest album on the chart lol
Top Tracks: We have some insane numbers again due to my self-isolation to work on the thesis project.
Let’s Be Friends by Carly Rae Jepsen (debut) (76 scrobbles) - Y’all can obviously see what a new CRJ song can do to me lol
Physical by Dua Lipa (debut) (64 scrobbles) - It’s a bop with an incredible video!
Tonight by Kesha (+13) (61 scrobbles) - BITCH WE’RE GOING OUT TONIGHT
Kinky (feat. Ke$ha) by Kesha (debut) (58 scrobbles) - Dare I say, iconic.
BFF (feat. Wrabel) by Kesha (debut) (57 scrobbles)
March 2020: I attempt to get my life together and a global pandemic says “bitch you thought”
Top Artists:
Marina & The Diamonds (+2) (627 scrobbles, AKA around 31.5 hours) - Marina’s power over me during “Marina season” is unmatched
Carly Rae Jepsen (=) (477 scrobbles, AKA around 24 hours)
Lo Lo (debut) (222 sctobbles, AKA around 11 hours) - Lo Lo is an indie artist, whose music I discovered during March. She’s amazing, I DM’d her on Instagram to tell her so and she responded!
Dua Lipa (+6) (196 scrobbles, AKA almost 10 hours) - Her album “Future Nostalgia” came out at the end of the month. Amazing.
Conan Gray (debut) (175 scrobbles) - ALERT! ALERT! A MALE HAS APPEARED! The public is shocked. Anyways, his album Kid Krow also came out in the middle of the month - amazing.
Top Albums: (first time CRJ is kicked out of the top 3, and, hell, even the Top 4)
FROOT by Marina & The Diamonds (+8) (236 scrobbles, AKA around 12 hours) - That month, FROOT finally fully clicked for me. An amazing project.
Sweater Collection by Lo Lo (debut) (186 scrobbles, AKA around 9 hours)
Electra Heart by Marina & The Diamonds (-1) (167 scrobbles, AKA around 8.5 hours)
Future Nostalgia by Dua Lipa (debut) (157 scrobbles, AKA around 8 hours)
Emotion by Carly Rae Jepsen (-2) (150 scrobbles, AKA around 7.5 hours)
Top Tracks:
Convenient by Lo Lo (debut) (a WHOOPING 88 SCROBBLES, only 1 scrobbles below Tove Lo’s Talking Body, which currently holds the record of the most scrobbled track in a month) - This song is fucking amazing.
You & Jennifer by Bülow (debut) (I discovered this from one of Conan Gray’s vlogs, they are very relaxing to watch. Amazing) / Can’t Pin Me Down by Marina (65 scrobbles)
Solitaire by Marina (debut) (62 scrobbles) - I can’t believe I used to find this song boring before March.
Yours by Lo Lo (debut) ( (56 scrobbles)
Femmebot (feat. Dorian Electra and Mykki Blanco) by Charli XCX (debut) (50 scrobbles)
April 2020: Bored.
Top Artists:
Carly Rae Jepsen (+1) (212 scrobbles, AKA around 10.5 hours) - The Presiding Angel Of Pop returns to the top for the first time since January. As she should.
Marina & The Diamonds (-1) (194 scrobbles, almost 10 hours)
Kylie Minogue (debut) (176 scrobbles) - I really got into some of her singles, and I also listened to her album Fever. Sadly, it wasn’t good, so the majority of the scrobbles are from the singles.
Dua Lipa (=) (155 scrobbles)
Kesha (+3) (154 scrobbles)
Top Albums:
Future Nostalgia by Dua Lipa (+3) (141 scrobbles, AKA around 7 hours) - A great album, it was also my workout music.
Pure Heroine (Extended) by Lorde (debut) (110 scrobbles, AKA around 5.5 hours) - I discovered this album in April and, Lord (e), it really is as good as Melodrama.
Fever by Kylie Minogue (debut) (85 scrobbles)
Dedicated by Carly Rae Jepsen (+2) (69 scrobbles (ayyy))
Pang by Caroline Polachek (debut) (68 scrobbles) - I really got into some of the songs.
Top Tracks:
Fever by Kylie Minogue (debut) (52 scrobbles)
I Will Always Love You by Dolly Parton (debut) (50 scrobbles) - I discovered this song that month and Jesus, it’s so much better than Whitney’s version.
Levitating by Dua Lipa (debut) (41 scrobbles)
XS by Rina Sawayama (debut) ( (38 scrobbles)
Cool by Dua Lipa (debut) (35 scrobbles)
May 2020: Spring approaches.
Top Artists:
Rina Sawayama (+3) (184 scrobbles, AKA around 9 hours)
Charli XCX (+28) (165 scrobbles, AKA around 8 hours)
Carly Rae Jepsen (-2) (162 scrobbles, AKA around 8 hours)
Kesha (+1) (130 scrobbles, AKA around 6.5 hours)
Lorde (+1) (127 scrobbles, AKA around 6.5 hours)
Top Albums: (this is the first month in which Emotion and Emotion Side B are dropkicked into oblivion out of the Top 40 lol)
Sawayama by Rina Sawayama (+27) (182 scrobbles, AKA around 9 hours) - Okay, so, after having r/popheads scream at me indirectly and after getting obsessed with XS, I finally gave this a listen and, man, this is such a stellar record.
Dedicated by Carly Rae Jepsen (+2) (85 scrobbles, AKA around 4 hours) - I discovered Dedicated’s true calling as soundtrack while cooking. Amazing.
Pop 2 by Charli XCX (debut) (74 scrobbles) - You know, the irony here is that I dislike, like, 60% of the album. Like, these scrobbles are solely from Track 10, Backseat, Out Of My Head and Femmebot.
Pure Heroine (Extended) by Lorde (-2) (70 scrobbles) - Because it’s spring and we’re in a pandemic and I’m 19 and I’m on fire
WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? by Billie Eilish (debut) (44 scrobbles) - I first listened to this album when it came out and I found it boring. Then, I participated in a rate on r/popheads which made me do a relisten, and this album is actually really solid!
Top Tracks:
Track 10 by Charli XCX (debut) (48 scrobbles) - I am not a Charli XCX fan. Like, I feel like a big part of her experimental tracks drop the ball. This, however? This is a masterpiece.
Queen Of Disaster by Lana Del Rey (debut) (42 scrobbles) - I heard this song from Tiktok lol. First unreleased song on the chart!
Bad Friend by Rina Sawayama (debut) (28 scrobbles) - I do not want to comment on the ways miss Sawayama brutally called me out in this song.
Dead Horse by Hayley Williams (debut) (27 scrobbles) - A bop.
XS by Rina Sawayama (-1) (25 scrobbles)
Some Observations:
Carly Rae Jepsen has spent 9 months on top of the Top Artists chart.
There has been a CRJ album in the Top 5 Albums every single month, with Dedicated only being kicked out in March, and Emotion in April and May.
The only Top Albums yet: Emotion (4 months), Dedicated (3 months), Melodrama (1 month), Bad Ideas (1 month), High Road (1 month), FROOT (1 month), Future Nostalgia (1 month), Sawayama (1 month)
The only male artists that have appeared on the chart are Conan Gray as #5 on the Top Artists chart in March and Elijah Mann on the Top Tracks chart in January as #5
The lowest place CRJ has been kicked to in the Top Artists chart is #3.
The lowest place CRJ has been kicked to in the Top Albums chart is #5.
The songs with the most scrobbles on the monthly Top Tracks Chart: (also, just noticed #1 and #2′s artists have Lo in their names lol)
Talking Body by Tove Lo
- 89 scrobbles in January (#1). That correlates to around 3 listens a day.
Convenient by Lo Lo
- 88 scrobbles in March (#1)
Let’s Be Friends by Carly Rae Jepsen
(#1) - 76 scrobbles in February
Lay All Your Love On Me by ABBA
(#2) - 65 scrobbles in January.
You & Jennifer by Bülow
and
Can’t Pin Me Down by Marina
- 65 scrobbles in March, tied for #2 in March
The only artists who have managed to briefly dethrone CRJ on the Top Artists chart: (The longest wait between CRJ’s #1s is two months: she didn’t have the top spot in February and March)
Tessa Violet (after the release of her new album and by 8 scrobbles)
Kesha (after the release of her new album, and with a healthy lead of 99 scrobbles)
Marina & The Diamonds (out of nowhere, and with the biggest gap yet, with 150 scrobbles)
Rina Sawayama (by 20 scrobbles) / Charli XCX (by 3 scrobbles lol)
This was fun, I might edit in some more observations later!
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