# 5 most played songs on your iPod? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 14, 2009, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5-most-played-songs-on-your-ipod/499727 "2009-06-14T13:49:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2009, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5-most-played-songs-on-your-ipod/499727/1 "2009-06-14T13:49:33Z")
or iTunes, or whatever you use to computify your music. If you sort by ‘Play Count’, what comes up on top? Inspired by [First five songs on your iPod](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=521038). On mine - Warm up - me (64) Ventura Highway - America (24) I am a Man of Constant Sorrow - The Soggy Bottom (Boys, from the ‘O Brother, Where art Thou?’ soundtrack (19) Anniversary, from Letters to a Musical Friend - Buczinsky, Walter (19) Why I like Brahms, from Letters to a Musical Friend - Buczinsky, Walter (18) So mine is really skewed a) because just about anything in double digits is something I’ve had to lift/learn/work on/play or sing along with and b) because I had a complete failure of the hard drive in early Jan., and so this list only covers this year. So, I’m curious what other Dopers have listened to most. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2009, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5-most-played-songs-on-your-ipod/499727/2 "2009-06-14T14:26:10Z")
1. ``` [Tool](http://www.last.fm/music/Tool) – [The Pot](http://www.last.fm/music/Tool/_/The+Pot) -- 46 Plays 2. [Talking Heads](http://www.last.fm/music/Talking+Heads) – [And She Was](http://www.last.fm/music/Talking+Heads/_/And+She+Was) -- 45 Plays 3. [Jesca Hoop](http://www.last.fm/music/Jesca+Hoop) – [Seed of Wonder](http://www.last.fm/music/Jesca+Hoop/_/Seed+of+Wonder) -- 44 Plays 4. [Sarah Fimm](http://www.last.fm/music/Sarah+Fimm) – [Sets Us Apart](http://www.last.fm/music/Sarah+Fimm/_/Sets+Us+Apart) -- 42 Plays 5. [Sarah Fimm](http://www.last.fm/music/Sarah+Fimm) – [Virus](http://www.last.fm/music/Sarah+Fimm/_/Virus) -- 41 Plays 5. [O.A.R.](http://www.last.fm/music/O.A.R.) – [Heard the World](http://www.last.fm/music/O.A.R./_/Heard+the+World) -- 41 Plays ``` ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ea5d25/32.png) [@Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Scrappy_Hero_Pup)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2009, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5-most-played-songs-on-your-ipod/499727/3 "2009-06-14T14:47:08Z")
This is from my Shuffle, which is what’s plugged in right now. Please do not be alarmed. 1. “No Tengo Dinero” by Los Umbrellos 2. “The Stand” by the Alarm 3. “Last One to Die” by Rancid 4. “X Gonna Give it to Ya” by DMX 5. “Don’t Want to Fall in Love” by Jane Child Yes, I have strange taste. Don’t we all? ---
**Author:** ![wunderkammer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ed8c4c/32.png) [@wunderkammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wunderkammer)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2009, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5-most-played-songs-on-your-ipod/499727/4 "2009-06-14T18:14:55Z")
It looks like the list is the same for my iPod and for iTunes. Seems they sync up the play counts so I don’t get to see my differential listening habits. 1. “Leeds United” by Amanda Palmer–46 plays 2. Most of the album _In Rainbows_ by Radiohead–kinda tied\* for 23-28 plays 3. “Super Sexy Woman” by Sufjan Stevens–28 plays 4. “Us” by Regina Spektor–26 plays 5. “Fake Palindromes” by Andrew Bird–23 plays \*I don’t want my top 5 to be obliterated by a bunch of songs that I usually listened to as a complete album, so I cheated. Besides, the last time I played them was June of last year, so I don’t even feel bad about it. ---
**Author:** ![SuntanTigerTamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e5b9ba/32.png) [@SuntanTigerTamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanTigerTamer)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2009, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5-most-played-songs-on-your-ipod/499727/5 "2009-06-14T18:15:41Z")
Grouper - When We Fall (63) [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmLjF5EYe9U) The War On Drugs - Taking The Farm (60) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/ki4xBXucjSQ/hqdefault.jpg "The War On Drugs - taking the farm") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ki4xBXucjSQ) Of Montreal - Wicked Wisdom (60) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/OrvsF9MjIL0/hqdefault.jpg "of Montreal: Wicked Wisdom (Lip Sync)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrvsF9MjIL0) The Walkmen - On The Water (59) [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-mmQZ7SYLY) Beach House - Wedding Bell (55) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/-JqYVukDpqI/hqdefault.jpg "Beach House - Wedding Bell") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JqYVukDpqI) ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2009, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5-most-played-songs-on-your-ipod/499727/6 "2009-06-14T18:23:12Z")
Through the Fire and Flames - Dragonforce Nowadays Clancy Can’t Even Sing - Buffalo Springfield Like A Hurricane - Neil Young My Back Pages - Bob Dylan 30th Anniversary Concert Pancho & Lefty - Emmylou Harris ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2009, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5-most-played-songs-on-your-ipod/499727/7 "2009-06-14T18:30:01Z")
Whisky Train - Procol Harum Sister Disco - The Who Joke Shop Man - Bonzo Dog Band Green Shirt - Elvis Costello Pretty Words - Elvis Costello Selection is random; I do most of my iPod listening in shuffle mode. ---
**Author:** ![Frustrated\_Wonderer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a4c791/32.png) [@Frustrated\_Wonderer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frustrated_Wonderer)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2009, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5-most-played-songs-on-your-ipod/499727/8 "2009-06-14T19:14:15Z")
Tough one man. I’ll bump it up to top 10 songs, but without a specific order. All I know is that I listen to these songs a lot. **Comfortably Numb** by Pink Floyd **Clint East Wood** by Gorillaz **Don’t Look back in Anger** by Oasis \*\*The Sky Was Pink (James Holden Remix) \*\*- Nathan Fake **I Am The Walrus** - The Beatles **River (Robert Babicz Remix)** by Phonique **Baile Me** by Gipsy Kings **Grita** by Jarabe de Palo **Waiting in Vain** by Bob Marley **Black Dog** by Led Zeppelin ---
**Author:** ![Kneepants\_Erasmus\_the\_Humanist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/54ee81/32.png) [@Kneepants\_Erasmus\_the\_Humanist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kneepants_Erasmus_the_Humanist)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2009, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5-most-played-songs-on-your-ipod/499727/9 "2009-06-14T19:32:41Z")
All of my counts are really, really low. I don’t know why that is; I know I have listened to these songs more than what’s listed. And there are a shit load of songs that I apparently never have listened to, although I have. Does it not count when you listen via shuffle? That’s what I generally do. Anyhow…top ten … Army Dreamers- Kate Bush Paralyzed- Elf Power Walk Don’t Run- The Ventures World Where You Live- Crowded House Atom Tan- The Clash There is a Mountain- Donovan Arthur- The Kinks Sally MacLennane- The Pogues One Beat- Sleater-Kinney Here Comes My Baby- The Tremeloes (really?) ---
**Author:** ![Leiko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Leiko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leiko)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2009, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5-most-played-songs-on-your-ipod/499727/10 "2009-06-14T22:03:30Z")
iPod: The Egg- 1776 If I Apologised- Mirrormask soundtrack The Village Green Preservation Society- Kinks Zero Friction- The Presidents of the United States of America Not About You- Jonathan Coulton iTunes: If I Apologised- Mirrormask The Egg- 1776 Zydrate Anatomy- Repo! The Genetic Opera The Village Green Preservation Society- Kinks He Plays the Violin- 1776 ---
**Author:** ![panaccione](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/94ad74/32.png) [@panaccione](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panaccione)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2009, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5-most-played-songs-on-your-ipod/499727/11 "2009-06-14T22:11:36Z")
Jane says - Janes Addiction Velvet Waltz - Built to Spill Vicarious Atonement - Mars Volta Shed so many tears - Tupac The Past and Pending - The Shins ---
**Author:** ![Mangosteen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Mangosteen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangosteen)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2009, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5-most-played-songs-on-your-ipod/499727/12 "2009-06-14T22:34:27Z")
Ida Red (Asleep At the Wheel) Shaving Cream (Gruesome Three) Ebay (Parody of “I Want It That Way” by the Backstreet Boys) (“Weird Al”) You Know My Name (Beatles) Plastic Jesus (Paul Newman vocal) (Cool Hand Luke, Original Soundtrack Recording) ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2009, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5-most-played-songs-on-your-ipod/499727/13 "2009-06-14T22:47:22Z")
Unsurprisingly, 4 out of the top 6 played tracks are on my workout playlist. Fall Out Boy “Dance, Dance” 91 plays The Underwater “First Shot” 74 plays Finger Eleven “Falling on” 50 plays/“Paralyzer” 49 plays Make Believe “Say What You Mean” 44 plays Black Lab “She Loves Me” 44 plays The **big** draw back to the play count on Music Match is that it only counts songs once you’ve officially added the track to the library. I add every new track for the month on the same day, so songs like “Sour Cherry” by The Kills that I’ve already listened to 30 times this month won’t reflect having been played at all until the beginning of July. ---
**Author:** ![flickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7bcc69/32.png) [@flickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flickster)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2009, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5-most-played-songs-on-your-ipod/499727/14 "2009-06-14T22:54:46Z")
I’ll use my Rhapsody Library play count instead - 11,336 tracks - plays on full random 99.9% of the time [ul] [li]\*The Body Of An American \*- The Pogues[/li][li]_Wisteria_ - Art Farmer[/li][li]_Let The Good Times Roll_ - The Basin Brothers[/li][li]_I Feel Alright Again_ - Gatemouth Brown[/li][li]_Walk In The Light_ - The Holmes Brothers[/li][li]_June In January_ - Benny Carter[/li][li]_Caravan (Live)_ - Ben Webster[/li][li]_Poor Old Heart_ - Alison Krauss[/li][li]_Smoke Gets In Your Eyes_ - The Platters[/li][li]_Sandu_ - Arturo Sandoval[/li][/ul] ---
**Author:** ![Purd\_Werfect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47c2d/32.png) [@Purd\_Werfect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Purd_Werfect)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2009, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5-most-played-songs-on-your-ipod/499727/15 "2009-06-14T23:42:34Z")
_Would That I Were_ - Clifton Paisley _Legal in Suarez_ - In Tents _Gaze Upon This Wrinkled Visage_ - The Scrotes _We’re Not At All Here_ - The Brompton Flats _Pent Up Civility_ - The Drawbacks ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2009, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5-most-played-songs-on-your-ipod/499727/16 "2009-06-14T23:58:55Z")
Coldplay - Fix You - 663 U2 - Who’s Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses (The Temple Bar Mix) - 640 U2 - Running to Stand Still / Dirty Old Town (Live at Point Depot, Dublin, 31 Dec '89) - 619 David Usher - The Music - 608 U2 - I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For (Live at Point Depot, Dublin, 31 Dec '89) - 595 These five songs are all part of a few playlists that I alternate between. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2009, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5-most-played-songs-on-your-ipod/499727/17 "2009-06-15T00:15:05Z")
Also eliminating matches from the same album: Five Years Time, Noah and the Whale, 80 London Beckoned Songs About Money Written by Machines, Panic! at the Disco, 44 Everybody’s Coming to the Zoo, Lunch Money, 42 The Margretville Dance, The Prize Fighter Inferno, 36 Lounge (closing time), Modest Mouse, 34 Five Years Time I had on autorepeat for awhile. Ana Ng by TMBG was my autorepeat song a while before I got this computer or that would probably be in the hundreds. ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2009, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5-most-played-songs-on-your-ipod/499727/18 "2009-06-15T01:00:18Z")
“Drunken Sailor” performed by The Fenians “My Immortal” performed by Evanescence (really a tie with “Bring Me To Life”) “You Know That I’m No Good” performed by Amy Winehouse “Galway Girl” performed by The Fenians “Haunted” performed by Shane MacGowan and Sinead O’Connor ---
**Author:** ![Rachael\_Rage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71c47a/32.png) [@Rachael\_Rage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachael_Rage)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2009, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5-most-played-songs-on-your-ipod/499727/19 "2009-06-15T01:05:15Z")
Well, this is a little embarrassing (and inevitable). Please keep in mind that I got my current iPod about a week after this season of American Idol started. And I use it almost exclusively on my subway commute, and at least half that time I’m listening to podcasts and not music at all, so it’s not like I’m listening to this sort of thing all day long, every day. Okay? _Okay?!?!_ \ **Top 5 most-played** : 1. Adam Lambert: Mad World (Studio version) 2. Adam Lambert: Ring of Fire (Performance video) 3. Adam Lambert: The Tracks of My Tears (Performance video) 4. Adam Lambert: Feeling Good (Performance video) 5. Adam Lambert: Ring of Fire (Studio version) If we are skipping videos, here are the top 5 most-played _songs_: 1. as above 2. as #5 above 3. Adam Lambert: Born to be Wild (Studio version) 4. Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack: O…Saya 5. Adam Lambert: Whole Lotta Love (Studio version) Sigh. I am SO busted. ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2009, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5-most-played-songs-on-your-ipod/499727/20 "2009-06-15T01:53:54Z")
Australia - The Shins Spilt Needles - The Shins Endlessly - Muse A Comet Appears - The Shins Phantom Limb - The Shins In contrast, my Last.FM top 5 looks like this: Australia - The Shins Red Rabbits - The Shins Rearviewmirror - Pearl Jam I Will Follow You Into The Dark - Death Cab for Cutie Spilt Needles - The Shins Ha! I guess that’s not as much of a contrast as it used to be. I really must start branching out a bit more. ETA: Albums! Last.FM reports my top 5 albums are: Wincing The Night Away - The Shins (no surprises there) Tea and Sympathy - Bernard Fanning OK Computer - Radiohead X&Y - Coldplay Absolution - Muse Now that’s a little more variety! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5-most-played-songs-on-your-ipod/499727.md?page=2)