No Ipod but Slayer wins by a long shot.
Man, I like this playlist. I now have to go burrowing in iTunes for the ones I don’t know.
My list is more like:
Rasputina
Abba ? For the kids, I think mostly.
Ramones
Led Zeppelin
The Specials
Green Day
Sean Paul
Toots and the Maytalls
Bob Marley
The Clash
English Beat (The Beat)
Richard Stagg (Bamboo Flute)
- Sort by Artist (or whatever you want to get totals in) in your iTunes Library. Remember that unless the names are identical, they will count as separate groups, e.g, Bruce Hornsby will count as a different artist than Bruce Hornsby and the Range.
- Right click on your Library icon and you will have an option to export your song list to a text file.
- You might be able to open the text file in Excel by choosing file type as All – but as I am logging into my worksite to use Excel from my work server, I have a little extra hoop jumping. I open the text file with my own desktop Wordpad, and then copy and paste it into the Excel Window once I’ve opened Excel on my work server.
- Under the Data Tab, select Subtotals and in the dialog box, do the following:
At each change in “Artist” use function “Count”. Add subtotal to “Artist”. Of the check boxes below, just make sure the “Insert Page Break” is not checked. Then “OK” - You should see 3 little boxes appear next to the top left corner of your sheet. Press the “2” button to shorten your list to all the artists (in column A), with a count of songs next to each artist in column B.
- If you care to sort the list of artists by count, select the whole grid, Press “CTRL G”, press the “Special” button, and the “Visible Cells Only” radio button. Copy this into a blank worksheet, and then sort by column B.
- The Beatles - 257
- Beck - 113
- Self - 90
- Radiohead - 90
- Sufjan Stevens - 90
- Death Cab for Cutie - 82
- Sleater-Kinney - 71
- Alkaline Trio - 63
- Cake - 63
- Guster - 60
- Tool - 54
- Queens of the Stone Age - 50
4118 songs total.
Not necessarily representative of what I listen to. Hardly ever listen to Death Cab, Alkaline Trio, or Cake anymore. Rest are pretty accurate though. Well I don’t play The Beatles too often either.
Oh and I realized I screwed up the numbering on my list too. I suck at life.
The Beatles, 217
Beck - 113
Isham Jones and his orchestra, with 170 out of a total 6,359 titles.
Well, they were tied at 4th. 
No surprise here:
Hanson - 206 songs, 14.7 hours
(hey, ONLY 10 of those songs are different versions of MMMBop)
Next up:
The Beatles - 139 songs, 6.9 hours
Metallica - 106 songs, 10.4 hours
Faith No More - 85 songs, 5.8 hours
**Infinite Monkeys ** (my dad’s experimental electronic ‘band’) - 76 songs, 4.2 hours
David Bowie - 59 songs, 4 hours
And almost a tie…
**Gary M. Hall/The Occupants ** (my stepdad’s “Strange, Beautiful and Unique music”) - 55 songs, 3.3 hours
Madonna - 54 songs, 4.4 hours
If it was just as easy to import my vinyl there would be a lot more David Bowie, and I really should have more Beatles, but I’m rather proud my family is solidly in the top ten. If my sister cranked out some more CDs she’d be up there too.
Crap, missed the edit window but I forgot two important ones!
In fourth place, with 89 songs (5.3 hours) - Nirvana
In sixth place (I think?) with 63 songs, can’t figure out the hours - The Who
As a former Seattle girl, I am so ashamed of that first one. :smack:
Like nonsuch, my numbers are so high because of the many bootlegs I’ve got of these bands:
From a playlist of 64,491 (I know, I have a problem) songs:
- R.E.M. - 2,074 songs (5.6 days)
- The Beatles - 1,369 songs (2.5 days)
- Robyn Hitchcock - 1,318 songs (3.5 days)
- Elvis Costello - 1,196 songs (2.9 days)
- U2 - 1,010 songs (1.2 days)
- Hüsker Dü - 808 songs (1.6 days)
- Prince - 757 songs (2.5 days)
- XTC - 513 songs (1.2 days)
- The Replacements - 475 songs (22.7 hours)
- The Clash - 455 songs (1 day)
Do you expect to live long enough to listen to all of these?
Heh. I already have. I cycle songs on and off my mp3 player weekly, and listen to it for at least 8 hours a day.
First off, a huge thank you to Boyo Jim for those excellent instructions! I always thought I had a pretty decent knowledge of spreadsheets, but once again, I was wrong 
Anyway: Out of 1,678 tracks – I’ve just started using iTunes and still have about 50 or 60 CDs I can’t figure out WHAT to do with. like why did I ever buy these in the first place, but I digress…
The Beatles – 146
The Beach Boys – 66
The Who – 59
Billy Joel – 53
The Eagles – 53
Rolling Stones – 39
Pink Floyd – 31 (yet Dark Side is like in my top 3 albums ever. Go figure).
Also, some of my other favorite music doesn’t show up because I’m mostly a fan of particular albums, like:
Emerson, Lake and Palmer – Brain Salad Surgery
Poco
J. Geils Band – The Morning After
Lynyrd Skynyrd
New Riders of the Purple Sage
Well, you get the idea. Can you tell I am OLD??? I thought so
Total of 16,891 tracks. My top 20 artists by number of songs are (with ones I still listen to a lot in bold):[ol]
[li]Bruce Springsteen - 308[/li][li]Los Lobos - 296[/li][li]Warren Zevon - 271[/li][li]R.E.M. - 215[/li][li]The Beatles - 214[/li][li]Talking Heads - 178[/li][li]Barenaked Ladies - 165[/li][li]Sufjan Stevens - 159[/li][li]Richard Thompson - 152[/li][li]Aimee Mann - 151[/li][li]Randy Newman - 137[/li][li]Indigo Girls - 131[/li][li]Lucinda Williams - 131[/li][li]They Might Be Giants - 129[/li][li]Radiohead - 119[/li][li]Wilco - 115[/li][li]Eels - 114[/li][li]Bruce Cockburn - 106[/li][li]Original Cast - 106[/li]Sam Phillips - 100[/ol]
Coheed and Cambria with three albums in, four if you include Sanchez solo project Prise Fighter Inferno. The most CDs I have is by Pink Floyd, but I haven’t put all of them in because A)I don’t listen to them as much lately, but mainly B)Most of them sound really horrible on shuffle (either too long, or get cut at the wrong part of a theme album/songs that fade into each other.)
Ani DiFranco - 307
Prince - 263
Billy Bragg - 224 (the way he releases the same songs over and over, that probably accounts for only 7 or 8 different songs)
Melissa Ferrick - 180
Juliana Hatfield - 158 (231 if you include Blake Babies and her other bands)
Dinosaur Jr. - 110
Thanks, I have that thought pretty often myself, only to have it dashed again by someone who knows WAY more tricks than I do.
Awww, thanks
And judging by your list you are exactly. . . 39 years old? Between 38 and 42?
ETA: and by the way, what’s your Simplify Media or Mojo username ?! (har)