Over the past 18 years, I’ve logged more than 300,000 songs on Last.fm. There were a few gaps when the scrobbler stopped working or when I switched from Spotify to Apple Music, but it still captures most of my listening habits.
The chart pulls from all that data to show how my taste has shifted over time. Unfortunately, there’s still no way to include long drives (for someone with nothing to think about) with CDs or the radio. It’s been fun to see the evolution from indie playlists to full-on sad dad music.
I used to build this chart by hand every quarter via Illustrator and decided to try chatgpt to help build an interactive version. Since I intimately pull every data point, I found it easier to locate any data issues it may have produced.
Interactive version: https://winkitude.com/charts/lastfm.html
Tools: D3.js, excel, chatgpt, itunes API (for album images)
Posted by linksfromwinks
30 comments
Color schema here is so good )
Always wanted this data personally but switched platforms far too many times and never setup last.fm. Really amazing work. Interactive version is really nice.
Interesting alternation between stable periods and big shakeups. What happened in 2016–17 — did you get a new partner or something?
I recognize like 5 of these artists
I’m amazed his similar, your music listening is.
Sigur Ros going right into a nose dive made me laugh.
This is really nice, also upvote for electrelane 😉
I see a lot of things I hear(d) a lot too (like kinks, dr dog, arcade fire, lcd and so on)… so I suggest to you to give ‘man man’ and ‘future islands’ and ‘cocorosie’ a go …0
So proud of you seeing the walkmen, silver jews, and pavement near top ranks in the 2025 stack.
Your colour scheme is as good as your music taste
/r/modestMouse would approve.
I feel like you and I are the two people that listen to Ambulance LTD. Such a promising first album and such a letdown that nothing ever followed.
Damn, this is impressive.
You have good taste.
Night shift by Lucy Dacus is also really high up
In my “most listened to music”
Also + 5 for the modest mouse. Go see them sometime they are amazing live. I have seen the 4 times and every time I’m like “damn”
In the unpredictability of life, Modest Mouse remains the one constant
This might be the most intensely millennial-hipster thing I’ve ever seen. Good work, though 👍
Haven’t seen the name “starlight mints” in god knows how long
“Sad dad music” hit me like a ton of bricks. My listening list is shockingly similar to yours. You gave me a lot to think about there stranger. lol.
Seeing these artists, their rankings, and the changes over time, I’m not convinced you aren’t my best friend haha. He listens to pretty much every single artist listed here.
Hell yea modest mouse on top!
We have extremely similar music taste
Love Harry Nilson rising from the dead
The Nilsson drop off is so sad
This is one of the most fun posts I’ve seen here in a while- well done!
For some reason I can’t find the line with Built to Spill… Must be my old eyes failing me.
You also really fell in love with pavement in 2018
And Silver Jews did something to your ears (twice) over the last ~10 years
sonic youth never stood a chance 😔
Nice to see a fellow lastFM user in here, and a Modest Mouse fan too 😀
Interesting to me that Explosions in the Sky still consistently rates up there for you. They are one of my favorite bands, but after All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone in 2007, I felt like the quality of their new releases just wasn’t there and I kinda lost interest. But I’ll still go back to them every once in a while.
The Hood Internet still up there after all these years is heartwarming.
You have been incredibly consistent with the music you listen to
Sad dad music… but where Radiohead?
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