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Spotify Wrapped 2023 is out, what's your top artist and top song for the year?

If you don't use Spotify, what's your favorite artist and song right now?

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They called me a vampire for listening to too much "emotional, atmospheric music."
- and you're not going to SHARE what this emotional, atmospheric music was?
  
  Apologies.
  I believe the responsible parties are: Lorn, less.people, The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble, Death in Vegas, Shlohmo, Ramin Djawadi, and Gustavo Santaolalla.

My top artist was Tenacious D, and my top song was Virtual Insanity by Jamiroquai.
- He does not need a microphone. His voice is fucking POWERFUL!!!
  
  Funnily enough, that was my most listened song from them! I got to see them do it live during the Spicy Meatball Tour, and his voice is fucking (fucking) POWERFUL!!!

My wife wrecked my algorithm. 🤣
- My kid did mine too. My #3 song was "Everything is Awesome" from the Lego Movie.
  
  Uh huh. Your kid. Sure. 🤣
- If you could turn back time
  If you could find a way
  You'd take back cher.

Most played artist: Yellowcard
Most played song: Sharks - Imagine Dragons
- Every time someone says I should check out Imagine Dragons I just start to imagine dragons. Then I've got not time for music.
  
  Imagine dragon deez nuts across your face. Gottem
- I feel like I need to revisit Yellowcard, one of their albums got heavy play in my early teenagehood.
  
  They just went back on limited tour for 20th anniversary of Ocean Avenue and I got to finally see them in concert. It was amazing. They also said that they were thinking about coming out with some new stuff.

For me Delain is my top artist, and Surgery from The Vincent Black Shadow was my top song!
- I have no idea how that is. But our usernames are...related. So, I felt compelled to respond.
  edit: that Vincent Black Shadow song is pretty good
  
  The Vincent Black Shadow is fantastic but they broke up way too early and only have two albums :(

For the first time in many years I've no EDM in my top five....feels weird. And apparently, I like A Day to Remember a lot more than I thought.
- What were your other top genres? Why do you think you've transitioned away from EDM? I feel like I've been slowly listening to EDM more over the years (and pop is always my staple), but this year R&B managed to sneak its way into my top five.
  
  Why? Access probably. I get exposed to a lot of EDM from friends and I do really love it a lot. My favorite right now is Apashe.
  On the flip side, I'm older. Radio is gone far as I'm concerned so my rock/metal taste have just kind of sat there until this year I got annoyed and for a while made a concerted effort to find new music I like. But now that list has sort of stagnated again. I just don't have the time.
  Radio sucked, and continues to suck. But it did act like a kind of filter for the previous generations. With it gone those few of us who are still interested in new music have a harder time.

- Man this looks like the bins when I worked at a record store in 2005.
  
  I thought exactly the same, if GuyDudeman isn't in his mid thirties I'd be stunned.

- King Gizz, Zappa, and TMBG are all favorites of mine!
  
  Apparently you'd love it in Santa Cruz
- Nice! You good good taste 👌

I tried to find someone with a higher play time lol
- Not easy to do. Breaking 100k minutes would be at the upper edge of my Spotify listening limit.
  
  Reasonable! I usually need music to focus on work. I also have music going any time I'm driving, for sure. And sometimes I even have it going when I sleep--although, I don't think I did a lot of night music in 2023. Definitely more 2022. I think my number was in the 180s last year, maybe because I've been watching more Youtube videos this year. I should cut Youtube out and go back to music--probably a healthier use of my time lol.
- Just topped ya ;). I listen pretty much the whole day.
  
  Killing it, lol. The Aviators must be furries haha

Top artist: Zeal and Ardor
Top song: Endeavour by Together to the Stars

I recently switched to hyperpipe and YouTube, but anyway

Caravan Palace
Trashcan
- Upvote for Caravan Palace

Favorite new album though, probably afterthoughts by red vox
- 👏👏🤣🤣

My most listened band was Linkin Park, and my most listened song was Intergalactic - Beastie boys.
- Nice very good ones!
- Linkin Park too with Lost as the most played song.

Bit of a mixed bag. Arctic monkeys and fall out boy makes sense as top 2. I think my music taste varies wildly enough that Katy Perry and P!nk must have just sneaked in there over other artists.

I use YouTube Music. Here is my recap:
- Upvote because you're in Berkeley or Cambridge
  
  Washington State. If you meant Berkeley, CA that would be closer than Mass.
- That's cool that YouTube started doing a recap. It's fun.
  
  I love it! My minutes played surprised me. 9% of my year.

- Thumbs up for Circa!

My top artist is King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard and the top song is Magenta Mountain by them.
I wonder if there's any gizzhead here lol
- Everyone's a gizzhead even if they don't know it yet
- GILAAA! GILAAA! GILAAA! WOOOOOO
- King Gizz was number 1 on my list this year too. Honestly, surprised how many I'm seeing in this thread lol
- *Raises hand

Favourite Artist: My Chemical Romance
Favourite Song: Misery Business - Paramore
- Misery Business is such a good song! Always gotta crank up the volume when that comes up!

I listened to a lot of nujabes this year
- I learned of nujabes from listening to the Samurai Champloo soundtrack. It's one of my favorite albums to listen to when running
- Nujabes, nice

I like trumpets :)

My list is as goofy as ever.

Top artist: Toby Fox as is usual every year for me lol (Undertale/Deltarune developer)
Top song: Nichibotsu by EX-LYD
- Bring the madness - Noisestorm Remix by Pegboard Nerds, Excision, Mayor Apeshit, Noisestorm
  Been a while since I've seen people mention Pegboard Nerds.
  
  man I used to listen to them and Krewella a lot when I was 16-18 lol. I've still got a soft spot for that era of EDM.
- What genre are these?
  
  mostly different forms of edm for the 5 tracks there
  nichibotsu - edm, chiptune
  ba-da-ba - electronic, hip-hop
  re:run - speedrun (drum and bass)
  bring the madness noisestorm remix - breakbeat, edm
  apocalypse - edm, chiptune
  the majority of things I listen to are indie game soundtracks

Oh oh oh here's mine :3c
- +44 - 155 is a great song, shame they only ever put out 1 album

I have a bit too much louie zong on my playlist
- Banger picks!

Artist: Nine Inch Nails (top .05% of listeners)
Song: Here, at the End of All Things by foxwedding

Top Artist - The Beatles (I relistened to their remaster of Revolver a lot this year, it's really very good!)
Top Song - 'Give It Up' by Public Enemy
- Same with the Beatles yet none of their songs made my top 5
  
  The Beatles have so many absolute bangers it's no wonder.
  
  2 made mine - 'Hey Bulldog' and 'Cry Baby Cry'.

I'm a little surprised that Cake topped my list this year. I don't recall listening to them more than the Gorillaz.

Top song is Comin Around by Andrew Duhon.
Top artist is The Tedeschi Trucks band, no surprise there. Best God damn band on tour right now. Listened to them so much this year as I got tickets to one of their shows this past July.
It was a good year of listening for me.
Edit: after scrolling through the comments, pretty cool seeing very few repeated bands.

This is almost identical to my Wrapped last year, with the exception of Kow Otani (Gundam Wing OST)

Marsh has been on a mad run this year doing All-night long 5 hour sets across the UK and USA.
- Tritonal and Above & Beyond! Are the kids still smearing Vicks on each other? Good times.
  
  The scene is still good, I'm not clued up on the Vicks but from searching no, it's not common at all now but rolling is still 90% of the crowd. Went to a Stu Allen memorial show last week with my mates dad, the 50s crowd still got it, glow sticks and whistles.
  More Anjunadeep these days for me. Jody Wisternoff (Way out west) and James Grant (Jonos Brother). They luckily do a lot of shows near me so it's quite available but we travel for them.
  Never been to a tritonal event or artist show actually, quite new to me these.

Just a bit of Tool this year..
- Sheeeeeesh
- This. Is. Necessary.

- Nice

I don't know why Nobuo Uematsu is on the top, but I am not mad.
- Quick question, what do you think of Gayazov Brothers?

Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness because I saw him at his birthday show last year and love his vocals.
Let You Down by NF sneaks into every playlist cause I got emotional damage. Lol

I really didn’t listen to much music this year. I guess not engaging in my main hobby that let me listen to music as much really hindered my listening time.
Top Artist: Sadistik
Top Song: Negative by Lil Xtra

My daughter uses my Spotify a lot. Let it go is the favorite song. Hooja is the artist.

Apparently Reptilia by The Strokes and I Am the Highway by Audioslave were approximately equal and I am in the top .05% of Marcy Playground listeners.

It looks like my top song this year was "Relapse" by Wage War, and top artist was Self Deception:

Makes sense, great tracks and artists all around!

Did the same thing with King Gizz this year as I did QOTSA in 2020. Find them around September, listen to them almost exclusively for the rest of the year, and end up in the top 0.5% or better

And I started listening to Purity filter in october, I am addicted
- Wow, I recently got into breakcore and Chill Breakcore sound so nice.
  Edit: Chrysalis from Purity Filter got me goosebumps just from listening.
  
  Im glad you like it :D
  While breakcore and sextrance/freeform trance have common influences, Purity Filter leans definetly more on the latter side

Top .05% for Rosendale too. Definitely binged.

I've always loved the band Lydia, here is mine.
- Bit of a pet peeve for me that the recap slide at the end doesn't give the artist for the names of the songs. There are many songs out there with the same title.
  I've been listening a lot of a song called "Box of Bones" recently for example, but mine isn't from a pop punk band.
  
  Yeah good call. That is a Third Eye Blind song in my list.

Kinda to be expected for me. Had my eurobeat and j-pop phase.
- That's a lot of minutes listened! I've still yet to beat the 100k minutes, last couple years I had around 90k :D
  
  I listen to music almost permanently at work (5-6h) + commute (about 45min) + at home.
  It quickly adds up.
- I'm curious...what are your other top genres?
  
  Genres listened to in total: 154
  My genres:
  Chillhop
  Gaming EDM (I guess? I'd just group it to general EDM)
  Lo-Fi Beats
  Jazz
  (Japanese) vTuber music (weird to call this a genre)
  In regards to vTuber music: Since it's very diverse I list the artists instead:
  Hololive (incl. Korone, Bae, Marine, Suisei, and loads other artists)
  Partly related: Hatsune Miku (Deco*27 and others), Anime OP/EN music, Touhou.

I've got two, from Spotify and Apple Music.
Both have Steps as my favourite artist which mostly isn't surprising. The top song on the two differ, though - for Spotify it's Samo mi se spava by Serbian singer Luke Black, and Apple Music it's Twisted by Australian prog metal band Voyager. Both artists entered Eurovision 2023, though Twisted wasn't the entry.
Awaiting ListenBrainz's which'll be released in the new year, as that will have some of the most accurate data, as it includes things from my local library

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