Surely this needs no introduction at this point.

My brother Chris and I are heavy users of my music page to the point that we have "fight" over what songs show up in the trending list. Now, this is a bit difficult because our listening habits are quite different and we have a lot of overlap in music tastes.

Now, if you clicked that link up there (or recall from when that post when up), I log each and every song that is played. This is a never ending source of fun for me as I constantly find new ways of interpreting the data, the Dx Top 10, for instance.

That said, it has been some time since I've crunched these numbers into some nice graphs, so I thought it would be fun to display our battle for dominance as such. The following data was culled from February to April of this year (where I began accurately tracking who played what). For additional details, hover over a row.

Soung Counts

Matt		Chris
3516 February: 1002 March: 1350 April: 1164	Total Song Plays	3300 February: 963 March: 1121 April: 1216
1160 February: 555 March: 665 April: 609	Indv. Songs Played	99 February: 56 March: 56 April: 60
3.03	Avg. Plays Per Song	33

As you can see, I listen to a much more diverse selection of music than my brother. Having lived with him, I know that when he gets stuck on a song, he will listen to it many times over, back to back. What I generally do is queue up whatever serves my fancy and then let it play through the entire library randomly for the rest of the day. Keep this in mind as you pore over the following graphs.

Top 5 Tags

1141 February: 392 March: 581 April: 441	anime	2809 February: 811 March: 992 April: 1006
720 February: 215 March: 271 April: 237	game steins gate	745 February: 133 March: 139 April: 473
530 February: 159 March: 205 April: 166	ed	641 February: 180 March: 214 April: 247
332 February: 114 March: 128 April: 90	final fantasy op	532 February: 96 March: 253 April: 183
183 February: 41 March: 66 April: 76	madoka ef	345 February: 179 March: 97 April: 69

Top 5 Albums

165 February: 81 March: 61 April: 23	World God Only Knows Steins;Gate	745 February: 133 March: 139 April: 473
152 February: 47 March: 65 April: 40	Final Fantasy X Ef - A Tale of Memories	345 February: 179 March: 97 April: 69
135 February: 20 March: 77 April: 38	Ef - A Tale of Memories School Days	335 February: 200 March: 120 April: 15
126 February: 20 March: 40 April: 62	LoZ: The Wind Waker Ano Natsu	190 February: 86 March: 99 April: 5
121 February: 39 March: 65 April: 17	Madoka Vol. 1 OST Papkiki	187 February: 6 March: 85 April: 29

Top 5 Songs

142 February: 70 March: 54 April: 18	Koi no Shirushi (Mio Version) Euphoric Field	345 February: 179 March: 97 April: 69
135 February: 20 March: 77 April: 38	Euphoric Field Another Heaven	238 February: 0 March: 0 April: 238
120 February: 6 March: 85 April: 29	Coloring	187 February: 34 March: 106 April: 47
87 February: 26 March: 52 April: 9	Sis Puella Magica! Namida no Riyuu	180 February: 79 March: 90 April: 11
82 February: 38 March: 39 April: 5	Sky Clad Observer A.R.	157 February: 0 March: 0 April: 157

I would like to make a special note here about Chris' plays of Another Heaven and A.R. were added to the page on 4/17 and 4/21 respectively. So, his high play count for those two songs were crammed into a very short period of time.

Songs Listened to by Hour

123	12 am	2
47	1 am	10
1	2 am	3
0	3 am	0
0	4 am	0
0	5 am	0
0	6 am	7
21	7 am	36
298	8 am	60
458	9 am	132
422	10 am	179
271	11 am	110
148	12 pm	108
379	1 pm	197
394	2 pm	299
224	3 pm	401
172	4 pm	371
64	5 pm	341
25	6 pm	337
53	7 pm	367
46	8 pm	158
124	9 pm	76
132	10 pm	57
114	11 pm	49

Now this is what I find most fascinating: numbers reflecting our lives. I have a desk job with a constant connection to the internet, so most of my playing happens at work during normal business hours. Chris works a super early shift at Wal-Mart, so his sond playing doesn't really begin until he gets home in the afternoon. However, he's pretty solid whereas I taper off throughout the day... that is until after my nap in the evening when I begin programming.

So, that was fun. I'll probably do this again in another few months as I've added additional statistics into the logs, namely when a song is played through its entirety and when it's skipped. Until next time.