2016 My Year In Music
With 20 739 scrobbles (136 256 total) and 8 945 different artists listened (22 895 total), 2016 was a year marked by music discovery and algorithmic playlist creation. That resulted in an increase in scrobbles (5 893 more songs played than 2015) and number of artists played (3 223 more than 2015!). Just like in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015 here’s a review of the music I listened to through 2016. Here are my Loved Tracks of the Year by chronological order:
Jana Kramer — I Got the Boy Bear's Den — Auld Wives Bat for Lashes — Sunday Love Bear Hands — 2AM Secret Cinema & Egbert — Maximaal Koen Groeneveld — Pampus Here are my Top 84 played songs according to last.fm (played 6 times or more): 1 Sia — Cheap Thrills (10 times played) 2 Red Sun Rising — Emotionless 3 Ferry Corsten presents Gouryella — Neba 4 The Lumineers — Ophelia 5 The Head and the Heart — All We Ever Knew (9 times played) 6 blink-182 — Bored to Death 7 Imany — Don't Be So Shy (Filatov & Karas Remix) 8 Alan Walker — Faded 9 Cold War Kids — First 10 Killswitch Engage — Hate By Design 11 Young the Giant — Something To Believe In 12 Bear's Den — Auld Wives (8 times played) 13 Feder — Blind (feat. Emmi) 14 Red Hot Chili Peppers — Dark Necessities 15 Ferry Corsten & Cosmic Gate — Event Horizon 16 Skillet — Feel Invincible 17 kiiara — Gold 18 Bastille — Good Grief 19 Glass Animals — Life Itself 20 Zara Larsson — Lush Life 21 Desiigner — Panda 22 The Pretty Reckless — Take Me Down 23 Calvin Harris — This Is What You Came For (feat. Rihanna) 24 Shawn Mendes — Treat You Better 25 Kaleo — Way Down We Go 26 Grouplove — Welcome to Your Life 27 Paty Cantú — Amor, Amor, Amor (7 times played) 28 Thrice — Black Honey 29 Sam Hunt — Break Up in a Small Town 30 Jain — Come 31 Dimension — Dopamina 32 Tinie Tempah — Girls Like (feat. Zara Larsson) 33 Charly Black — Gyal You A Party Animal 34 Fitz and the Tantrums — HandClap 35 Nicky Jam — Hasta el Amanecer 36 Nothing More — Here's To The Heartache 37 Shaman's Harvest — In Chains 38 Black Stone Cherry — In Our Dreams 39 Weezer — King of the World 40 Saint Asonia — Let me Live my Life 41 Major Lazer — Light It Up (feat. Nyla & Fuse ODG) (Remix) 42 Five Finger Death Punch — My Nemesis 43 Galantis — No Money 44 Drake — Pop Style 45 Volbeat — Seal The Deal 46 Bat for Lashes — Sunday Love 47 Kongos — Take It from Me 48 The Dirty Heads — That's All I Need 49 Asking Alexandria — The Black 50 Volbeat — The Devil's Bleeding Crown 51 Mon Laferte — Tu Falta De Querer 52 Bear Hands — 2AM (6 times played) 53 Anne-Marie — Alarm 54 Møme — Aloha (feat. Merryn Jeann) 55 Tal — Are We Awake 56 Adelitas Way — Bad Reputation 57 Justin Timberlake — Can't Stop The Feeling! (Original Song From Dreamworks Animation's "Trolls") 58 Pierce The Veil — circles 59 The Kills — Doing It To Death 60 Papa Roach — Falling Apart 61 Stitched Up Heart — Finally Free 62 Beyoncé — Formation 63 Florida Georgia Line — H.O.L.Y. 64 Metallica — Hardwired 65 Twenty One Pilots — Heathens 66 Kygo — Here for You (feat. Ella Henderson) 67 Jana Kramer — I Got the Boy 68 León Larregui — Locos 69 Lukas Graham — Mama Said 70 DJ Snake — Middle (feat. Bipolar Sunshine) 71 Orkidea — Nana (Jerome Isma-Ae remix) 72 A Day to Remember — Paranoia 73 Zayn — PILLOWTALK 74 Twenty One Pilots — Ride 75 Bishop Briggs — River 76 Korn — Rotting In Vain 77 Thousand Foot Krutch — Running With Giants 78 Alter Bridge — Show Me A Leader 79 Paulina Rubio — Si Te Vas 80 Mario Bautista — Sin Tu Amor (feat. Elijah King) 81 Avatar — The Eagle has Landed 82 Rihanna — Work (feat. Drake) 83 Fifth Harmony — woRk fRoM hOmE (fEAt. Ty DolLA $igN) 84 Jack Garratt — Worry Now, you too can listen to all of them in this convenient playlist:
Finally, here are my MusicMonday recommendations of the year: Retro Culture - Cold Leif Erikson - Looking for Signs I Am Karate - Bitter Lemaitre - Stepping Stone Lower Dens - To Die in L.A. This Cold Night - Wings of Regret Anna Of The North - The Dreamer - Feki Remix Day Wave - Stuck Grand Blanc - Bosphore Elliphant - Spoon Me Jana Kramer - I Got The Boy Frankie Cosmos - Is It Possible / Sleep Song Summer Cannibals - Go Home Lost Film - Temporary Paerish - Then People Forget Nothing - Vertigo Flowers Junior Boys - Over It Pearl - The Club Goes Pop (feat. Xander Rushie) Fumaça Preta - Décimo Andar Kate Jackson - The End of Reason Camp Claude - In the Middle Part-Time Friends - All the Roads Chairlift - Moth to the Flame BRYCE - Burning Out Love Crushed Velvet - Other Places Sløtface - Sponge State Bear Hands - 2AM Bat For Lashes - Sunday Love Bear's Den - Auld Wives Twin River - Antony Twin River - Settle Down Alex Lahey - Let's Go Out Deap Vally - Smile More The Familiar - White Poison Nice As Fuck - Door Lost Tapes - Mexican Flag Teeth & Tongue - Dianne Black Marble - Iron Lung ZHU - Palm of My Hand Miya Folick - I Got Drunk Tourist Attractions - Million Miles Away Happy Accidents - Chameleon Voodoo Swing - So Fine Softer Still - New Age Mansionair - Speak Easy - Robotaki Remix Keeps - I Don't Mind Tijuana Panthers - I Took Her Phone Away
You can listen to them (and all of the previous ones) in this convenient playlist:
