Spotify Users: Who are your top artists?

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https://www.statsforspotify.com

Top all Time:

1. Radiohead
2. ABBA
3. Kero Kero Bonito
4. The Beatles
5. Lemon Demon
6. Weezer
7. St. Vincent
8. Neutral Milk Hotel
9. Les Misérables - International Cast
10. MGMT
11. Sleater-Kinney
12. R.E.M.
13. Fastball
14. Fleet Foxes
15. Muse
16. CHVRCHES
17. Soundtrack/Cast Album
18. Les Misérables - 10th Anniversary Concert Cast
19. Steven Universe
20. The Flaming Lips
21. Les Misérables - Original London Cast
22. The Dresden Dolls
23. Andrew Lloyd Webber
24. David Bowie
25. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
26. Counting Crows
27. Pulp
28. Oasis
29. The Magnetic Fields
30. Tom Waits
31. The Beach Boys
32. T. Rex
33. The Cardigans
34. Carly Rae Jepsen
35. Arcade Fire
36. They Might Be Giants
37. Amanda Palmer
38. The Avalanches
39. Elton John
40. Sigur Rós
41. "Weird Al" Yankovic
42. Outkast
43. Coldplay
44. Belle & Sebastian
45. Vasily Petrenko
46. Garbage
47. Pixies
48. Superorganism
49. The Postal Service
50. Bastille

I chose top of all time, because it's way funnier to remember what weird stuff you apparently once super loved back in the day. (Muse and Steven Universe being the obvious examples).

Some notes:

- I am quite a basic music listener, in that I tend to return to old favourites and listen them into oblivion - a lot of these bands and artists are in there because I was fascinated with only two or three songs (sometimes completely random ones, like an album track from Sigur Ros i listened to like a hundred times). This accounts for the insane level of Fastball.

- I've been involved in musical theatre productions, which explains the Les Mis and ALW.

- i make no apologies that my music taste leans towards fairly entry level hipster/mu stuff.

[SWE]

1. The Front Bottoms
2. Modern Baseball
3. The Greeting Committee
4. McCafferty
5. K. Flay
6. Mom jeans
7. Jimmy Eat World
8. Sorority Noise
9. Kanye West
10. Weezer
11. Camp Cope
12. Hot Mulligan
13. Motion City Soundtrack
14. Paramore
15. blink-182
16. AJJ
17. Retirement Party
18. PUP
19. Courtney Barnett
20. Bad bad hats
21. the tenth
22. Martha
23. Soccer Mommy
24. Destroy Boys
25. American Football
26. Sheryl Crow
27. Dollar Signs
28. Billy Cobb
29. The Beatles
30. Cooler
31. Daisy the Great
32. Mumford and Sons
33. Pat the Bunny
34.The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die
35. Dropkick Murphys
36. Friends at Best
37. ONSIND
38. Bo Burnham
39. Free Throw
40. Cyberbully Mom Club
41. Remo Drive
42. Avril Lavigne
43. Sunny Day Real Estate
44. Grouplove
45. Alanis Morinette
46. The Hotelier
47. Michael Cera Palin
48. Phil Ochs
49. Marietta
49. Pete Seeger

[parochial boy]

Oh cool. Mine are

1. Les Cowboys Fringants
2. Fokofpolisiekar
3. Fäaschtbänkler
4. Marcel et son Orchestre
5. Die Heuwels Fantasties
6. Les 3 Fromages
7. Mes Aïeux
8. Disiz la Peste
9. The Pogues
10. The King Blues
11. The Cat Empire
12. Mango Groove
13. Enter Shikari
14. Elmer Food Beat
15. LaBrassBanda
16. Patent Ochsner
17. Black M
18. Blankass
19. The Men They Couldn't Hang
20. Strombers
21. Maybeshewill
22. Stress
23. Dr Peacock
24. Boulevard des Airs
25. Die Brasserie
26. Erwin and Edwin
27. Lostprophets 😳
28. Therapie Taxi
29. Barcella
30. Anach Cuan
31. Meute
32. Youngblood Brass Band
33. Dananananaykroyd
34. Babylon Circus
35. Les Betteraves
36. Txarango
37. Damso
38. Louise Attaque
39. Youssoupha
40. Gallowstreet
41. Zoufris Macaras
42. Soprano
43. Eiffel
44. Vald
45. Georgio
46. Guizmo
47. Vianney
48. Macklemore
49. Fauve
50. Wolf Alice

Actually a couple of bands in there that I don't even recognise, all testament of my ability to obsessively listen to some bands/genres for a while and then completely forget about them. Cowboys Fringants are a deserved top because they are the band I keep going back to.

I'm also kind of proud of how international that list is. Ten different countries in my top 10, although two Afrikaans bands in my top 5 of all time is... a little bit lol.

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27. Lostprophets 😳

Lmao, I'm surprised their songs are still even available on stream.

What is Afrikaans music like anyway? I imagine Die Antwoord isn't entirely representative...

[Grumpier Than Thou]

All time:

1. Silent Planet
2. The 1975
3. JID
4. BROCKHAMPTON
5. Death Grips
6. Run The Jewels
7. Dance Gavin Dance
8. The Devil Wears Prada
9. Promise Breaker
10. Enter Shikari
11. August Burns Red
12. Cane Hill
13. Kendrick Lamar
14. Zeal & Ardor
15. Sleep Token
16. The Callous Daoboys
17. Kublai Khan TX
18. Denzel Curry
19. Left Behind
20. Underoath
21. Turnstile
22. Converge
23. Rage Against The Machine
24. Bayside
25. My Chemical Romance
26. Boston Manor
27. SeeYouSpaceCowboy
28. Tyler, The Creator
29. glass beach
30. Daughters
31. The Used
32. Code Orange
33. Hayley Williams
34. Billie Eilish
35. iwrestledabearonce
36. letlive.
37. Currents
38. Kanye West
39. Azusa
40. Dayseeker
41. Every Time I Die
42. La Dispute
43. Greyhaven
44. Injury Reserve
45. Poppy
46. The Hives
47. Vein
48. Night Verses
49. mewithoutYou
50. Fall Out Boy

[parochial boy]

27. Lostprophets 😳

Lmao, I'm surprised their songs are still even available on stream.

What is Afrikaans music like anyway? I imagine Die Antwoord isn't entirely representative...

I'm pretty sure I haven't listened to them since the whole story broke - so I must have been listening to them a lot before it all happened for them to still be up there.

Most Afrikaans music is, predictably, country and folk about "back on the farm". Of the two I've got up there, Fokofpolisiekar are fairly standard rock/punk, but quite fun as they kind of play against traditional afrikaans conservative culture (claiming I understand a word they're saying, lol); and die Heuwels Fantasties are basically the same people, but playing more kind indie/pop stuff.

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All time:

1. Silent Planet
2. The 1975
3. JID
4. BROCKHAMPTON
5. Death Grips
6. Run The Jewels
7. Dance Gavin Dance
8. The Devil Wears Prada
9. Promise Breaker
10. Enter Shikari
11. August Burns Red
12. Cane Hill
13. Kendrick Lamar
14. Zeal & Ardor
15. Sleep Token
16. The Callous Daoboys
17. Kublai Khan TX
18. Denzel Curry
19. Left Behind
20. Underoath
21. Turnstile
22. Converge
23. Rage Against The Machine
24. Bayside
25. My Chemical Romance
26. Boston Manor
27. SeeYouSpaceCowboy
28. Tyler, The Creator
29. glass beach
30. Daughters
31. The Used
32. Code Orange
33. Hayley Williams
34. Billie Eilish
35. iwrestledabearonce
36. letlive.
37. Currents
38. Kanye West
39. Azusa
40. Dayseeker
41. Every Time I Die
42. La Dispute
43. Greyhaven
44. Injury Reserve
45. Poppy
46. The Hives
47. Vein
48. Night Verses
49. mewithoutYou
50. Fall Out Boy

Do you watch Anthony fantano?

[Clarko95 📚💰📈]

Incomprehensible mix of American R&B and 80s soul/funk, plus mainstream pop/alternative from Sweden, France, Germany, Italy, and India

1. Armin van Buuren
2. Tonbandgerät
3. Llewellyn
4. Eric Prydz
5. Stiftelsen
6. ABBA
7. Walking On Cars
8. Cartel
9. Gyllene Tider
10. Markus Krunnegård
11. Ritviz
12. Billie Holiday
13. Ready for the World
14. Rihanna
15. Dagny
16. Gareth Emery
17. kent
18. The Weeknd
19. Michael Jackson
20. Sportfreunde Stiller
21. Superbus
22. Antonello Venditi
23. blink-182
24. The Cure
25. Paul van Dyk
26. Patti LaBelle
27. Håkan Hellström
28. Gyllene Tider
29. Zero Assoluto
30. Nazia Hassan

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My Top Artists of All Time right now are:

1. Metallica
2. The Beatles
3. Coldplay
4. The Rolling Stones
5. Fabrizio De André
6. Pink Floyd
7. Lucio Dalla
8. Queen
9. The Who
10. Antonello Venditti
11. Edoardo Bennato
12. Red Hot Chili Peppers
13. Lucio Battisti
14. Gino Paoli
15. Dire Straits
16. Caparezza
17. Guns N' Roses
18. Eminem
19. Nirvana
20. Billy Joel
21. U2
22. Johnny Cash
23. Chuck Berry
24. Adriano Celentano
25. Supertramp
26. Deep Purple
27. Fiorella Mannoia
28. Michael Jackson
29. The Beach Boys
30. David Bowie
31. Neil Young
32. Tears for Fears
33. Neffa
34. Green Day
35. Stevie Wonder
36. Bob Dylan
37. Genesis
38. The Police
39. Ligabue
40. Oasis
41. Elton John
42. Radiohead
43. Jovanotti
44. Paul McCartney
45. AC/DC
46. Francesco De Gregori
47. David Gilmour
48. Sting
49. Cesare Cremonini
50. Fausto Leali

I have 15 Italian artists and 35 Anglophone ones. Among the Anglophone ones there are more Britons than Americans, which I suppose is interesting. My musical tastes are very basic in a certain sense, but also an odd collection of that.

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Incomprehensible mix of American R&B and 80s soul/funk, plus mainstream pop/alternative from Sweden, France, Germany, Italy, and India

- SNIP -

Wait, your highest Italian artist is Venditti and not Chiara Galiazzo?

[Cassius]

1. John Williams
2. The Red Army Choir
3. Elvis Presley
4. Creedence Clearwater Revival
5. Gordon Lightfoot
6. The Dubliners
7. Jerry Reed
8. Frank Sinatra
9. The Pogues
10. Roy Orbison
11. The Chieftains
12. Tennessee Ernie Ford
13. Merle Haggard
14. Al Jolson
15. Hans Zimmer
16. Tom Jones
17. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
18. Perry Como
19. Don McLean
20. The Doors
21. Howard Shore
22. Manic Street Preachers
23. Bobby Horton
24. Elton John
25. Sammy Davis Jr
26. The Rolling Stones
27. Martin Phipps
28. Johnny Cash
29. The Seekers
30. Max Boyce
31. Willie Nelson
32. T. Rex
33. James Horner
34. Boney M.
35. Van Morrison
36. Sweet
37. Andy Williams
38. Don Williams
39. Vangelis
40. Randy Newman
41. Goldie Lookin Chain
42. Mike Curb Congregation
43. Robert Goulet
44. Les Miserables - 10th Anniversary Concert Cast
45. Glenn Miller
46. Treorchy Male Voice Choir
47. Nat King Cole
48. The Beach Boys
49. Rocky Sharpe & the Replays
50. Peter, Paul and Mary.

Even worse than I thought.

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

1. Pete Seeger
2. George Strait
3. Bruce Springsteen
4. Jamey Johnson
5. Merle Haggard & The Strangers
6. John Prine
7. Dwight Yoakam
8. Cher
9. Bill Anderson
10. Iris DeMent
11. Old Crow Medicine Show
12. Parker Millsap
13. Merle Haggard
14. Shovels & Rope
15. Neko Case

19. Reba 20. Sturgill 22. Cash 25. Rhiannon Giddens 26. Jimmie Rodgers 27. Kristofferson 31. Emmylou 32. Fleet Foxes 33. Sinatra 34. Hank 39. Iron & Wine 40. Nitty Gritty Dirt Band 41. Arlo 42. Carter Family 45. Dylan

I have not used this much in a couple years, and this seems to have radically changed from the last time this link was posted not so long ago so I'm calling this out as #FakeStatistics.

Last 6 months is: 1. Gregory Alan Isakov (friend linked) and 2. Colter Wall

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

Going with the "last 6 months" list, which I think more accurately reflects my current taste:

1. Nirvana
2. Fall Out Boy
3. Paramore
4. Hawthorne Heights
5. New Found Glory
6. My Bloody Valentine
7. Jimmy Eat World
8. The Starting Line
9. The All-American Rejects
10. The Birthday Massacre
11. Evanescence
12. Sovereign Grace Music
13. A Day To Remember
14. Green Day
15. Boards of Canada
16. Pickin' On Series
17. Slowdive
18. The Cure
19. Cocteau Twins
20. Sunny Day Real Estate
21. Björk
22. blink-182
23. Pavement
24. ERock
25. Deftones

I cut the list off at 25, because most of the ones listed afterwards I haven't listened to in the better part of a year. I would remove Sovereign Grace Music (I only have like, two songs downloaded by them), ERock, and Pickin' On Series (cover artists that I also haven't listened to in the better part of a year).

Burzum didn't make any of the lists, surprisingly, despite the fact that I've downloaded all of Varg's ambient work. I don't think their algorithm is very good.

But, I've also been listening to a lot more dreampop/shoegaze and a lot less dungeon synth lately, so that might be why Slowdive and MBV are listed instead.

[Alcibiades]

With the caveat that I only started using Spotify two years ago (and that, unlike my less lazy fellow bloggers, I cannot be arsed to type out 50 artists):

1. Pavement
2. Bob Dylan
3. Arcade Fire
4. Sufjan Stevens
5. Neutral Milk Hotel
6. Big Thief
7. Bon Iver
8. Fleet Foxes
9. Pixies
10. The Band
11. Guided By Voices
12. The Microphones
13. Simon & Garfunkel
14. Stephen Malkmus
15. The Byrds

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2. The Red Army Choir

Lmao

[Crumpets]

This seems very off. Like, I think I've listened to one Blasting Company album twice and have one of their songs on my "Liked songs" list, but somehow they're #15, ahead of Belle & Sebastian, who I listen to all the time? I'm not sure how they're calculating this, if it's by raw number of plays or some other metric. Or maybe I just don't remember what music I listen to. Entirely possible.

1. U2
2. Gipsy Kings
3. Bruce Springsteen
4. First Aid Kit
5. Green Day
6. Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox
7. Ramones
8. Balalaika Ensemble Wolga (lol)
9. The Beatles
10. The Head and the Heart
11. Pink Martini
12. Queen
13. The Shins
14. David Bowie
15. The Blasting Company
16. The Beach Boys
17. Katzenjammer
18. Belle & Sebastian
19. Anamanaguchi
20. The Rolling Stones
21. Amy Winehouse
22. Caro Emerald
23. Elton John
24. John Williams (the guitarist, not the composer)
25. Guns N' Roses
26. Coldplay
27. Madonna
28. Led Zeppelin
29. Jamie Berry
30. Playing for Change
31. Buddy Holly
32. Meat Loaf
33. Kesha
34. Fleet Foxes
35. Harry Belafonte
36. The Monkees
37. Parov Stelar
38. Weezer
39. Of Monsters and Men
40. Ivan Kupala
41. The Kinks
42. Buena Vista Social Club
43. My Chemical Romance
44. Deladap
45. George Harrison
46. Flight of the Conchords
47. Pearl Jam
48. Lady Gaga
49. Toots & the Maytals
50. Macklemore

I think a better representation of what I listen to is my all-time top tracks, which looks very accurate.

1. Your Light - The Big Moon
2. I Saw You Blink - Stornoway
3. Un Sueño en la Floresta - Agustín Barrios
4. Swan Lake, Op. 20, TH 12 (Arr. C. Debussy): Act III: Danse napolitaine - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
5. Sweet and Dandy - Toots & the Maytals
6. Mr. Blue Sky - Electric Light Orchestra
7. Csardas - Vittorio Monti
8. Judy is a Punk - Ramones
9. Outro - M83
10. It's a Shame - First Aid Kit

[Clarko95 📚💰📈]

Incomprehensible mix of American R&B and 80s soul/funk, plus mainstream pop/alternative from Sweden, France, Germany, Italy, and India

- SNIP -

Wait, your highest Italian artist is Venditti and not Chiara Galiazzo?

I guess it's skewed by my more recent Venditti phase, which started after I got Spotify, while my Chiara phase was before I got Spotify. If you reconciled my iTunes play count with Spotify, the list above would change radically

[Cassius]

2. The Red Army Choir

Lmao

I mean that was the least of my worries in comparison to Al Jolson almost making the top ten and the Treorchy Male Voice Choir somehow being in the top 50.

[JGibson]

Got Spotify around 2012 or so, but heavily used it since 2015.


Top 25 (Last 6 Months)
1. Taylor Swift
2. Foo Fighters
3. AC/DC
4. Weezer
5. The Killers
6. Katy Perry
7. Machine Gun Kelly
8. Green Day
9. Morgan Wallen [virtually all of his plays came prior to the February 2021 racism incident]
10. The Pretty Reckless
11. Kelsea Ballerini
12. Luke Combs
13. Aly & AJ
14. Billie Eilish
15. Thomas Rhett
16. Lana Del Rey
17. Maroon 5
18. AJR
19. Maren Morris
20. Blake Shelton
21. Linkin Park
22. Dan + Shay
23. Gwen Stefani
24. Chevelle
25. Twenty One Pilots



Top 40 (All-Time):
1. Taylor Swift
2. Weezer
3. P!nk
4. Carrie Underwood
5. Kelly Clarkson
6. Five Finger Death Punch [mostly shunned the band after their release of the Living The Dream video promoting anti-masker/QAnon sentiments]
7. Shinedown
8. Maroon 5
9. Foo Fighters
10. Three Days Grace
11. Cage The Elephant
12. Twenty One Pilots
13. Katy Perry
14. Disturbed
15. Lady Gaga
16. Panic! At The Disco
17. Lady A
18. Godsmack
19. Papa Roach
20. Kelsea Ballerini
21. Breaking Benjamin
22. Keith Urban
23. Thomas Rhett
24. Demi Lovato
25. Maren Morris
26. Luke Combs
27. The Killers
28. The 1975
29. Green Day
30. Avril Lavigne
31. Muse
32. Thirty Seconds To Mars
33. Ed Sheeran
34. Seether
35. Imagine Dragons
36. Pearl Jam
37. The Black Keys
38. Korn
39. Halsey
40. Jason Aldean

[ultraviolet]

1. Taylor Swift
2. Katy Perry
3. Lady Gaga
4. Maroon 5
5. Carly Rae Jepsen
6. Leona Lewis
7. Kelly Clarkson
8. Rihanna
9. Ariana Grande
10. Mariah Carey
11. P!nk
12. Miley Cyrus
13. Sia
14. Panic! At The Disco
15. Ed Sheeran
16. OneRepublic
17. Imagine Dragons
18. Ellie Goulding
19. Adele
20. Owl City
21. Lorde
22. Britney Spears
23. Selena Gomez
24. Dua Lipa
25. Camila Cabello

Lol we don't have to see any more. Also this isn't 100% accurate because I have last.fm which tracks and shows individual streams, and it differs from this slightly. Anyway, let's be friends JGibson

[If my soul was made of stone]

With the caveat that I haven't used Spotify since November:


1. Tod Dockstader
2. Anthony Braxton
3. King Crimson
4. Halim El-Dabh
5. Dick Raaijmakers
6. Pauline Oliveros
7. Einstürzende Neubauten
8. Wayne Shorter
9. Thelonious Monk
10. Jean-Claude Risset
11. Pierre Henry
12. Vladimir Ussachevsky
13. Louis and Bebe Barron
14. Miles Davis
15. Raymond Scott
16. Dizzy Gillespie
17. Rahsaan Roland Kirk
18. Alice Coltrane
19. Arditti Quartet
20. Cecil Taylor
21. Eric Dolphy
22. Mary Halvorson Quintet
23. Collegium Vocale Gent
24. Ornette Coleman
25. Daphne Oram

[Grumpier Than Thou]

Do you watch Anthony fantano?

I do!

[Donerail]

I nuked my Spotify account last week — I initially created it linked to my Facebook, wanted to delete my Facebook account, and found that I had to create an entirely new Spotify account just to be able to log in without reactivating my Facebook account. Horrible design flaw, imo.

My top artist of the last week is Katie Pruitt.

[JGibson]

1. Taylor Swift
2. Katy Perry
3. Lady Gaga
4. Maroon 5
5. Carly Rae Jepsen
6. Leona Lewis
7. Kelly Clarkson
8. Rihanna
9. Ariana Grande
10. Mariah Carey
11. P!nk
12. Miley Cyrus
13. Sia
14. Panic! At The Disco
15. Ed Sheeran
16. OneRepublic
17. Imagine Dragons
18. Ellie Goulding
19. Adele
20. Owl City
21. Lorde
22. Britney Spears
23. Selena Gomez
24. Dua Lipa
25. Camila Cabello

Lol we don't have to see any more. Also this isn't 100% accurate because I have last.fm which tracks and shows individual streams, and it differs from this slightly. Anyway, let's be friends JGibson

Agreed with the Spotify and Last.fm discrepancies.

[Astatine]

1. Taylor Swift
2. Loote
3. The Chainsmokers
4. Why Don't We
5. Halsey
6. SHY Martin
7. Lauv
8. Timeflies
9. Destkie Pesni
10. Bebe Rexha
11. Hailee Steinfeld
12. Ariana Grande
13. Jonas Blue
14. Julia Michaels
15. Cheat Codes
16. David Guetta
17. Demi Lovato
18. ZAYN
19. Selena Gomez
20. Clean Bandit
21. Anne-Marie
22. gnash
23. Kygo
24. MKTO
25. 5 Seconds of Summer