September Recap

I spent a good part of September moving, which meant a lot more music than the previous months.  In fact, it was a 35% jump from August, all the way up to 2161 scrobbles. That makes it the highest scrobble month since March. 763 artists comprised 1590 individual tracks, with each artist averaging 2.83 scrobbles per. The top genres of September were Rock, Alternative Rock, and Alternative, with Synthpop and Hard Rock rounding out the top 5. 11p-12a was the top hour, with a surprise 10a-11a getting the 2nd most scrobbles. 10p-11p was 3rd.


Top Tracks of September

10. Assemblage 23 - The Other Side Of The Wall
The question most months is "which A23 song will represent the group in the top 10 of the month, since we already know they'll be one of the most played artists".

9. Ashbury Heights - Spiders
Ashbury Heights has two types of songs. Really really good, or really really annoying. Spiders is the jammiest of all their jams.

8. Smith & Thell - Forgive Me Friend
Amusingly, S&T fell back to #8 despite getting more scrobbles this month than they did in August. That just goes to show the major spike in plays across the board.

7. Paul Simon - Mother And Child Reunion
I was feeling pretty low when I listened to this song, like, 4 times in a row. Sometimes sadness just hits you like that.

6. Cold - Ocean
New Cold album = lots of Cold scrobbles.

5. Ashbury Heights - Missing Mr. Marchie
This album was released late last year, and this might just be a song that sneaks into the countdown at the 11th hour.

4. VNV Nation - Only Satellites
 Another month, more satellites.

3. Cold - Sad Happy
New Cold album, pt 2... even more scrobbles.

2. The Broken Relics - Where The Creatures Roam
The end of year push is pretty heavy for The Relics. There's another month of heavy listening before the list is hammered out... where will they end?

1. Alvvays - In Undertow
 This song reminds me of 1901 by Phoenix; a song I didn't necessarily care for when it came out, but a year later it exploded onto my radar and set everything on fire.


Top Artists of September

10. Ashbury Heights
You had to assume they'd be somewhere in the top 10 artists with 2 songs getting heavy rotation.

9. Anberlin
Anberlin might finish 3rd among bands with the most scrobbles by December. I think you already know who the top 2 will be, just not the order.


8. Alvvays
I was sitting there listening to In Undertow and I realized that, for all the plays it had gotten in the last two years, I hadn't actually listened to the damned album that it was on.  Whaaat? That has been remedied.


7. Evanescence
Sometimes, I just need some Amy and Ben in my life. Not whatever the new album is, or the last album either. No, I'm talking Origin. It's almost always Origin.

6. Five Iron Frenzy
Attack of the Random Ska!!

5. Assemblage 23
...told you so.

4. Korn
The new Korn album................... reminds me of the last Korn album. And the one before it. That's not a bad thing, but it's not necessarily a good thing. There are subtle differences, and the music isn't bad, but Jon Davis has been wringing out the same towel for his lyrics for 25+ years now.

3. The Cars
RIP Ric Ocasek.  I had actually been spinning "You Might Think" lately because I heard this abominable Weezer cover of it and needed to cleanse my ears.
 
2. VNV Nation
Who did you expect to be #2? Surely you already know who number one is...
 
1. Cold
...but what you don't know is the sheer chasm between 1 and 2 (and the rest, really). How can I equate the gravity to you? Cold had more scrobbles than #s 10 through 4 combined. Cold comprised 9.3% of all scrobbles, whereas VNV and The Cars were just over 1.5%. The math is startling, but the new record still needs some time to simmer with me.


As always, thank you to the good folks at Last.FM for all of these statistics.