# Your iTunes play count **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 15, 2008, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-itunes-play-count/463699 "2008-09-15T14:27:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![stucco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e56c9b/32.png) [@stucco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stucco)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-itunes-play-count/463699/21 "2008-09-16T02:51:49Z")
On The Radio - Regina Spektor Far Away - Cut Copy Cherbourg - Beirut Piazza, New York Catcher - Belle and Sebastian Ice Cream - Muscles Senegal Fast Food - Amadou and Mariam Five Years - David Bowie Biomusicology - Ted Leo and the Pharmacists Atlas - Battles (yeah **Captain** ) Hold Up - Girl Talk I listen to most of my music on my ipod, so I think this best represents what I listen to when I get ready in the morning. ---
**Author:** ![Vox\_Imperatoris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Vox\_Imperatoris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vox_Imperatoris)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-itunes-play-count/463699/22 "2008-09-16T03:01:12Z")
> [@Vox\_Imperatoris](#): > > 1. Doctor Jones- Aqua- **134** > 2. Oh Oh Oh Sexy Vampire- Fright Ranger- **129** > 3. Less Than Three- Becky- **124** > 4. Roses are Red- Aqua- **119** > 5. My Oh My- Aqua- **118** > 6. Lollipop- Aqua- **112** > 7. Best Friend- Toy-Box- **109** > 8. The Sailor-Song- Toy-Box- **107** > 9. Butterfly- Smile.dk- **105** > 10. Domo Domo Domo- Smile.dk- **103** > > **I had no idea they were all over one hundred…** > > Yes, they are all Danish except two (and all bubblegum dance), why do you ask?😛 > > Valete, > Vox Imperatoris [Bold numbers new] We could post the actual play count numbers, too. Valete, Vox Imperatoris ---
**Author:** ![Slacker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@Slacker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slacker)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-itunes-play-count/463699/23 "2008-09-16T03:09:21Z")
> [@HongKongFooey](#): > > _Bolding mine_ > > One of these things is not like the others. Someone in the family is a Rock Band/Guitar Hero player I think. 😉 Me: 1. 03.45: No Sleep - The Cardigans (301) 2. Communication - The Cardigans (296) 3. Wise Up - Aimee Mann (280) 4. Feathers and Down - The Cardigans (276) 5. Rise Up With Fists! - Jenny Lewis (258) 6. Going Through the Motions - Aimee Mann (243) 7. Breakin’ Up - Rilo Kiley (242) 8. Silver Lining - Rilo Kiley (239) 9. Just Like Anyone - Aimee Mann (229) 10. The Scientist (Live) - Aimee Mann (207) ---
**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:** [September 16, 2008, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-itunes-play-count/463699/24 "2008-09-16T03:12:52Z")
> [@HongKongFooey](#): > > _Bolding mine_ > > One of these things is not like the others. I know. The Emmylou Harris is an outlier. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-itunes-play-count/463699/25 "2008-09-16T03:24:53Z")
Destiny - Zero 7 Teardrop - Massive Attack Sanvean (Live Version) - Dead Can Dance With This Love (Choir) - Peter Gabriel Lunatico - Gotan Project Little Fluffy Clouds - The Orb Natural Blues - Moby Rhapsody In Blue - NY Philharmonic Does He Love You? - Rilo Kiley Boudaries of Imagination - Armin van Buuren :dubious: That doesn’t look right to me. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-itunes-play-count/463699/26 "2008-09-16T03:37:45Z")
Taking a page from **psycat** ’s book, from last.fm: Overall 1. Tool – The Pot 2. Talking Heads – And She Was 3. Sarah Fimm – Virus 4. Jesca Hoop – Seed of Wonder 5. Dar Williams – Are You Out There 6. Sarah Fimm – Sets Us Apart 7. Tegan and Sara – Walking With The Ghost 8. Songs: Ohia – Tigress 9. Charlotte Martin – Veins 10. Wolfmother – White Unicorn From the past six months 1. Grand Ole Party – Look Out Young Son 2. O.A.R. – Heard the World 3. José González – Heartbeats 4. Thea Gilmore – The Gambler 5. Momus – Akiko Masuda 6. Grand Ole Party – I.N.S.A.N.E. 7. Eddie Vedder – Hard Sun 8. Grand Ole Party – Nasty Habits 9. Talking Heads – And She Was 10. Tool – The Pot If you make it three months instead of six, three more Grand Ole Party songs jump into the top ten. I love them. ---
**Author:** ![appleciders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85f322/32.png) [@appleciders](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/appleciders)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-itunes-play-count/463699/27 "2008-09-16T04:28:25Z")
“Two Coins”-Dispatch-176 “AM Radio”-Everclear-174 “Lovers in a Dangerous Times”-Barenaked Ladies-172 “The General”-Dispatch-171 “Under African Skies”-Paul Simon-171 “Wonderwall”-Oasis-170 “Angel Pumping Gas”-Postal\*-169 “Love Is The Seventh Wave”-Sting-165 “Sweetest Thing”-U2-163 “End Of The Line”-Traveling Wilburys-162 This is more representative of what I listened to in high school, though, since everything else has had only two years to accumulate play count. I have a big old list of around 500 of my favorite songs that I play most of the time and add to and subtract from occasionally, so it takes a really long time for new stuff to get singled out for playing or put on the iPod enough times to make it to the top. I see that “The General” has fallen from top place, though- for the last three years or so it’s been on top, but I never single it out anymore. \*This may be the wrong artist. Google mostly has it listed as the Postal Service, though, which it’s definitely not. If anyone knows better, let me know! ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-itunes-play-count/463699/28 "2008-09-16T05:01:45Z")
All is Full of Love—Bjork—155 Hell (Live Version)—Tiger Lillies—150 Rock Shop (Main Theme)—Robocop soundtrack—114 Theme to “The Last Valley”—John Barry—105 Jisas Yu Holem Hand Blong Mi—Melanesian Choirs—104 Love Song for a Vampire—Annie Lennox—103 Ladies and Gentlemen we are Floating in Space—John Coxton—101 Not Gonna Get Us—T.a.t.u.—93 Prospero’s Speech—Loreena McKennit—83 I Can’t Stop Loving You—Ray Charles—83 With slight variations, I think this has been about the same lineup for the last five years…and a lot of the plays probably date from a few years ago, too. Still my favorites, though. Huh. I think these might be good starters for a “Byronic Moodiness” playlist, come to think of it. ---
**Author:** ![Lisa-go-Blind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Lisa-go-Blind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lisa-go-Blind)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-itunes-play-count/463699/29 "2008-09-16T05:11:20Z")
1. LCD Soundsystem - “Someone Great” (24) 2. Jackie Lomax - “Sour Milk Sea” (21) 3. David Bowie - “Suffragette City” (19) 4. The Exciters - “Tell Him” (19) 5. Guided By Voices - “Teenage FBI” (19) 6. The Hollies - “Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress” (19) 7. The Rolling Stones - “19th Nervous Breakdown” (19) 8. Crowded House - “Weather With You” (17) 9. The Essex - “Easier Said Than Done” (17) 10. Cyndi Lauper - “When You Were Mine” (16) ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-itunes-play-count/463699/30 "2008-09-16T05:11:41Z")
> [@Convict](#): > > \ > Despite what you see here my library is very diverse. Apparently I just don’t listen to most of it. No kidding - I listen to everything, honest! ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-itunes-play-count/463699/31 "2008-09-16T05:19:05Z")
1. Take Me Home Tonight (Be My Baby) - Eddie Money/Ronnie Spector 2. Du Ronda - Lou Christie 3. Rock and Roll Girls - John Fogerty 4. Love Hurts - Nazareth 5. Baby Baby - The Vibrators 6. Would You…? - Touch and Go 7. I Wonder Why - Dion and the Belmonts 8. Do Ya - ELO 9. Li’l Red Riding Hood - Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs 10. I Ran - Flock of Seagulls ---
**Author:** ![Pollux\_Oil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/858c86/32.png) [@Pollux\_Oil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pollux_Oil)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-itunes-play-count/463699/32 "2008-09-16T05:37:48Z")
My most played list is kind of weird because I don’t use iTunes that often on the computer…it’s really just there because I need to put songs on my iPod. 1. Never Wanted to Dance - Mindless Self Indulgence 2. Redrum - Immediate Music 3. Bleed It Out - Linkin Park 4. Evening Wear - Mindless Self Indulgence 5. Osc-Sync Carnival (Lightning) - Hidenori Shoji 6. Crash - Papa Roach 7. Sexy! No No No - Girls Aloud 8. Rock & Roll Queen - The Subways 9. Fame \< Infamy - Fall Out Boy 10. What I Want - She Wants Revenge ---
**Author:** ![Monkey\_Chews](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/65b543/32.png) [@Monkey\_Chews](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monkey_Chews)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-itunes-play-count/463699/33 "2008-09-16T07:34:14Z")
Looking on my work computer… 1. Must I Paint You a Picture? - Billy Bragg 2. 9 Crimes - Damien Rice 3. Tomorrow Wendy - Andy Prieboy & Johnette Napolitano 4. Eyes Wide Open - The B-52’s 5. We Get On - Kate Nash 6. Star Witness - Neko Case 7. The Origin Of Love - Rufus Wainwright 8. This Heart Attack - Faker 9. One - U2 10. The Magic Position - Patrick Wolf … which is a lot different than what it would be at home, even though they’re essentially the same collection. ---
**Author:** ![meenie7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7993a0/32.png) [@meenie7](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meenie7)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-itunes-play-count/463699/34 "2008-09-16T08:17:48Z")
This reflects heavily the fact that I listen to techno when I’m writing… 1. Orbital – The Box (edit) (a 4 minute section of a 28 minute song, which I find very compelling.) 2. Orbital - Spare Parts Express 3. Daft Punk - Voyager 4. Tally Hall - Taken for a Ride 5. Air - Cherry Blossom Girl 6 - Don Huonot - Suojelusenkeli 6. Moogwai - Neon 7. Daft Punk - Veridis Quo 8. Air - La Femme d’Argent 9. Air - Kelly, Watch the Stars! ---
**Author:** ![Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/angel_of_the_lord/32/2949_2.png) [@Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angel_of_the_Lord)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-itunes-play-count/463699/35 "2008-09-16T11:32:12Z")
“Waltz, No. 2 (XO)” – Elliott Smith “Pictures at an Execution” --The Kissers “Beat That My Heart Skipped” --Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip “Mari-Mac” --Great Big Sea “The Wrong Side” --Abney Park “Step It Out Mary” --Boiled in Lead “Have You Ever” --The Offspring “Fireplace” --REM "White & Nerdy\* --Weird Al “Turkish Song of the Damned” --The Pogues ---
**Author:** ![Lilacs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Lilacs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lilacs)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-itunes-play-count/463699/36 "2008-09-16T12:10:40Z")
Ok…I will probably date myself but here we go. 1. Seven Nation Army - The White Stripes 2. Take Me Out - Franz Ferdinand 3. Oye Como Va - Santana 4. What’s This Generation Coming to - Urge Overkill 5. Sexy Back - Justin Timberlake 6. White and Nerdy - Weird Al Yankovic 7. The Distance - Cake 8. Low Rider - War 9. Everyday People - Sly and the Family Stone 10. Evil Ways - Santana hmm…How did Justin Timberlake get in there? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-itunes-play-count/463699/37 "2008-09-16T13:47:47Z")
> [@Yookeroo](#): > > Destiny - Zero 7 I _love_ that song. It’s the closest thing my wife and I have to an “our song”. I listened to the Zero 7 album a lot when I went away travelling for six months and the lyrics of Destiny really resonated. I’ve only had my iPod fo a month, and before that I used iTunes to make some playlists for our wedding, so this is not wholly representative: Sweet About Me - **Gabriella Cilmi** Soul Bossa Nova - **Quincy Jones** Time to Pretend - **MGMT** Ahprahran - **The Sugargliders** I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor - **Arctic Monkeys** Darkside Lightside - **Ash** (this is only here because I kept playing the last few seconds of it to adjust the “end time” to get rid of the silence before the hidden track) I Want You Back - **Jackson 5** The Ice Hotel - \*\*Stacey Kent \*\*(must be down to the missus as I don’t even know this tune…) Sofa (of my Lethargy) - \*\*Supergrass \*\*(best title of the whole top 10!) Other Side of the World - \*\*KT Tunstall \*\*(the wife again) BTW I don’t understand people saying that their play counts don’t reflect what they play as they listen to most music on their iPods - isn’t the whole point that when you sync your iPod it updates the count? (My iPod Touch sometimes crashes and loses the info, which is annoying). ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-itunes-play-count/463699/38 "2008-09-16T15:04:33Z")
> [@Colophon](#): > > \ > BTW I don’t understand people saying that their play counts don’t reflect what they play as they listen to most music on their iPods - isn’t the whole point that when you sync your iPod it updates the count? (My iPod Touch sometimes crashes and loses the info, which is annoying). I think it must, which explains why almost all my Top 10 are Prince - he’s my go to playlist when I can’t think what I want to hear at work. ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-itunes-play-count/463699/39 "2008-09-16T19:19:01Z")
1. Koushik, _Battle Rhymes for Battle Times_ 2. Roy Budd, _The Final Option_ 3. Boccherini, _La Musica Notturna Delle Strade Di Madrid_ 4. Snap Ant, _Saviour Piece_ 5. Daft Punk, _Veridis Quo_ 6. Guido & Maurizio De Angelis, _Violent Rome_ 7. Madvillain, _Great Day (Four Tet Remix)_ 8. Ulrich Schnauss, _On My Own_ 9. Kelpe, _Quick Broken Harp_ 10. Tindersticks, _City Sickness_ ---
**Author:** ![Stauderhorse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@Stauderhorse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stauderhorse)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-itunes-play-count/463699/40 "2008-09-16T21:20:38Z")
1. Savin’ Me, _Nickelback_ (102) 2. Far Away, _Nickelback_ (83) 3. If Everyone Cared, _Nickelback_ (75) 4. Fall Into Sleep, _Mudvayne_ (65) 5. Follow you Home, _Nickelback_ (65) 6. Someone that you’re with, _Nickelback_ (59) 7. Valentine’s Day, _Linkin Park_ (58) 8. Rock Star, _Nickelback_ (53) 9. Fight for all the wrong reasons, _Nickelback_ (50) 10. Bleed it out, \*Linkin Park \*(48) Anyone care to guess what my favorite band is? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-itunes-play-count/463699.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-itunes-play-count/463699.md?page=3)