Happy New Year in association with Last.Fm

Welcome 2012! Olympics, Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II, 200th birthday of Charles Dickens. It will be an eventful year for sure!
The main event on my blog here is the annual Last.Fm summary which is I think a funny and interesting way of following one's improvement of musical taste. So, here are my Top 20 artists and Top 10 songs from 2011. No huge changes in the top 3 but Kasabian is a new incomer in the top 5 and Kaiser Chiefs has got on my list, too! We're not a long way from celebrating now ;)

Top 20 artists

1 Pulp 465 plays
2 The Beatles 272 plays
3 Muse 159 plays
4 The xx 148 plays
5 Kasabian 132 plays - Velociraptor! is my favourite album of 2011
6 Red Hot Chili Peppers 123 plays
7 Coldplay 118 plays
8 Florence + the Machine 108 plays
9 Quimby 101 plays
10 Parov Stelar 90 plays
11 Kaiser Chiefs 86 plays
12 Tenacious D 83 plays
13 30 Seconds To Mars 82 plays
14 Jarvis Cocker 77 plays
15 Ákos 72 plays
16 Esben And The Witch 65 plays
17 Supernem 64 plays
18 Foo Fighters 63 plays
19 Arcade Fire 63 plays
20 Elbow 62 plays

Top 10 songs

1 Pulp – Bar Italia 24 plays
2 The xx – Islands 22 plays
3 The xx – VCR 21 plays
4 Pulp – Mile End 20 plays
5 Mint Royale – Blue Song 20 plays - (quite an oldie but just discovered it) favourite of 2011
6 Esben And The Witch – Marching Song 20 plays
7 The xx – Crystalised 20 plays
8 Pulp – I Love Life 19 plays
9 The Heavy – How You Like Me Now 18 plays
10 The xx – Heart Skipped a Beat 18 plays

Annual Last.fm summary

Happy New Year everyone! As I'm having a bit of a hangover here, I'm going to leave just a quick note about how my musical taste has "changed" over a year. Here are my Last.fm-made charts of 2010. (It's funny that while in 2009 Franz Ferdiand was the first with 889 plays, in 2010 it dropped back to No. 8. And actually it's quite weird to see Hans Zimmer at No. 14.)

My Top 20 Artists

1. Muse - 943 plays
2. Pulp - 685 plays
3. The Beatles - 435 plays
4. Ákos - 354 plays
5. Quimby - 258 plays
6. Jarvis Cocker - 229 plays
7. Placebo - 217 plays
8. Zagar - 206 plays
9. Franz Ferdinand - 198 plays
10. Red Hot Chili Peppers - 189 plays
11. Coldplay - 150 plays
12. The White Stripes - 143 plays
13. The Wombats - 127 plays
14. Hans Zimmer - 126 plays
15. Editors - 100 plays
16. The Raconteurs - 94 plays
17. Kasabian - 85 plays
18. Primal Scream - 84 plays
19. thenewno2 - 80 plays
20. Infant Sorrow - 79 plays


And here is my top 10 songlist from 2010:
(This isn't particularly surprising :D )

1. Muse - Undisclosed Desires, 47 plays
2. Pulp - This Is Hardcore, 43 plays
3. Pulp - Lipgloss, 42 plays
4. Muse - Uprising, 40 plays
5. Jarvis Cocker - Angela, 36 plays
6. Pulp - Common People, 35 plays
7. Pulp - Underwear, 34 plays
8. Pulp - Babies, 32 plays
9. Muse - Starlight, 31 plays
10. Muse - I Belong To You/Mon Cœur S'ouvre à ta Voix, 30 plays

I should post the video of Undisclosed Desires now, but as Pulp won this chart with the most tracks played, here's a slightly old classic by a slightly old classic:

'cos this is hardcore...

I love Last.fm scrobbler :)

If you haven't joined Last.fm yet, do it quickly! I think it's fun to see how many times have you listened to a track or an artists. Well, he're is my 2009 flashback:

Top 20 Artists:
1 Franz Ferdinand - 889
2 Ákos - 664 (HUN)
3 The Beatles - 496
4 Coldplay - 488
5 Placebo - 430
6 AC/DC - 412
7 Oasis - 280
8 The Dead Weather - 250
9 30Y - 240 (HUN)
10 Tenacious D - 229
11 Quimby - 227 (HUN)
12 The Kills - 201
13 Elbow - 186
14 Red Hot Chili Peppers - 160
15 Stereophonics - 151
16 Kispál és a Borz - 118 (HUN)
17 The White Stripes - 104
18 White Lies - 101
19 The Raconteurs - 101
20 The Cardigans - 99














Top 10 Tracks:
1 Franz Ferdinand – Ulysses - 95
2 Franz Ferdinand – No You Girls - 74
3 Placebo – For What It's Worth - 65
4 U2 – Get On Your Boots - 56
5 The Dead Weather – Treat Me Like Your Mother - 51
6 Franz Ferdinand – Turn It On - 46
7 Placebo – Battle For The Sun - 46
8 Franz Ferdinand – Lucid Dreams - 45
9 Elbow – Grounds For Divorce - 44
10 Placebo – Devil In The Details - 40