Apostrophe S

Inspired by my brother’s post, I decided to share some of my iTunes statistics, just for the hell of it. iTunes is (and probably will be for a long, long time) the way I store and listen to music, whether at home or on the go with the iPod. So everything I have is in there.

Sorted by song title:
First Song: “-” by Guster (from Keep It Together)
Last Song: “ZX81″ by Pitchshifter

Sort by time:
Shortest Song: “Untitled” by Pete Yorn (from Day I Forgot)
Longest Song: KCHAT radio by various artists (from the GTA Vice City soundtrack)

Sort by album:
First: ( ) by Sigur Rós
Last: Zaireeka (disc 4) by The Flaming Lips

Top 10 most played songs

1. “Wonderwall” by Ryan Adams (77 plays)
2. “Go To Sleep” by Radiohead (70 plays)
3. “Primitive (The Way I Treat You)” by Ambulance Ltd (67 plays)
4. “Kissy Kissy” by The Kills (63 plays)
5. “Hitched” by The Kills (63 plays)
6. “Ha Ha High Babe” by Black Rebel Motorcycle Club (57 plays)
7. “Are You Gonna Be My Girl” by Jet (57 plays)
8. “A Perfect Day Elise” by PJ Harvey (56 plays)
9. “Somebody Told Me” by The Killers (55 plays)
10. “Dear Prudence” by The Beatles (54 plays)

(I can’t believe R.E.M. doesn’t show until #21! This doesn’t really reflect my overall music trends. Interesting.)

Search… (top result, by last played, for kicks)

“sex”, how many songs come up?: 21 (”Super Sex” by Morphine)
“love”, how many songs come up?: 452 (”I Hate the Way You Love, Pt. 2″ by The Kills)
“you”, how many songs come up?: 1023 (”What You Live By” by Harvey Danger) Awesome song!
“death”, how many songs come up?: 52 (”Kiss of Death” by Robert Rodriguez, from the Sin City soundtrack)
“hate”, how many songs come up?: 19 (”I Hate the Way You Love, Pt. 2″ by The Kills)
“wish”, how many songs come up?: 26 (”The Christmas Wish” by John Denver & the Muppets)
“song”, how many songs come up?: 201 (”Wine, Women and Song” by Harvey Danger)
“girl”, how many songs come up?: 154 (”About A Girl (Home Demo” by Nirvana, from Sliver)
“fool”, how many songs come up?: 23 (”Fool for You” by Ryan Adams, from Bedhead 3)

Songs whose year is 2005: 1,482
Songs whose year is 2004: 1,112

Number of songs with play count of 0: 8,067 (Sheesh, I gotta improve that. It just comes in so fast!

Total number of songs: 14,632 (that’s 40 days, 8 hours, 49 minutes, and 12 seconds of recorded sound. Not bad.)

Well, that’s what Corey’s list asked for, plus a few additions of my own. If you can think of any other interesting statistics, post it in the comments and I’ll check it out and update the entry.