Tunage

Two and a half years and 35,294 songs along, I just discovered that you can listen to a radio station generated from my listening history. With whole songs and everything, not just teaser snippets.

And here it is:

That's pretty good, isn't it? Just hit play!

In that time, my top 10 artists were (Chart Placing, Artist Name, Number of Plays):

1 Gomez - 1,239
2 Amon Tobin - 906
3 The Beatles - 875
4 Lemon Jelly - 624
5 Athlete - 533
6 Super Furry Animals - 520
7 Blur - 445
8 Chicane - 436
9 Morcheeba - 423
10 Counting Crows - 421

And my top 25 tracks, moderated for a few nights when I left short playlists on repeat, were:

1 Mr. Scruff ? Get a Move On ? 61
2 A Flock of Seagulls ? I Ran ? 58
3 PJ Harvey ? You Said Something ? 57
4 Basement Jaxx ? Do Your Thing ? 48
5 The Caesars ? Jerk It Out ? 44
6 Blur ? Out of Time ? 43
7 Nitin Sawhney ? Sunset ? 43
8 New Radicals ? Mother, I Just Can't Get Enough ? 43
9 Nelly Furtado ? Powerless ? 42
10 The Divine Comedy ? Gin Soaked Boy ? 42
11 Ray Barretto ? New York Soul ? 42
12 Fun Lovin' Criminals ? Swashbucklin' In Brooklyn ? 40
13 Lemon Jelly ? '64 aka Go ? 40
14 The Mooney Suzuki ? Alive and Amplified ? 40
15 Mint Royale ? From Rusholme With Love ? 40
16 Good Charlotte ? Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous ? 40
17 Feeder ? Just the Way I'm Feeling ? 38
18 Lemon Jelly ? Ramblin' Man ? 38
19 Syntax ? Destiny ? 37
20 Echobelly ? I Can't Imagine the World Without Me ? 36
21 The Streets ? Turn the Page ? 36
22 Gomez ? How We Operate ? 35
23 Athlete ? Wires ? 33
24 Ryan Adams ? New York, New York ? 32
25 Gomez ? Rhythm & Blues Alibi ? 32

So...yeah!
There's a huge chunk of my life. Or at least, what I was listening to during a huge chunk of my life.

How much IS that, anyway? Let's say an average 3.5 minutes per song.

3.5 x 35,294 = 123529 minutes
Which is 2,058.8 hours
Or 85 straight days.
Which, considering that just my work iTunes library is 13.6 days in length, all of a sudden doesn't seem that long...but as a fraction of the time elapsed:
2 years, 6 months = 912 days

85 / 912 = 0.093

So I've been listening to music for 9% of my entire life in the last two and a half years.
That IS a lot.