Queried September 2026
The listening ledger
133,170 plays, 7,346 hours, 9,079 artists since 2014 — the complete record, kept the way everything on this site is kept: queried, not remembered, unflattering rows included.
01The shape of it
Three eras
The 2017–18 towers are Seattle: 1,427 hours in the peak year, headphones on for about 3.9 hours of every day.
The long trough that follows is Seoul — a different life, a different soundtrack, and, the record insists, one horror sound effect on loop for a full year. See the table below; I will not be elaborating further.
The climb back starts in 2024 and is still going. Hover any year for its most-played artist.
02Trajectories
The top five, year by year
The all-time top five artists, each on the same scale, so the eras show: Above & Beyond owned the Seattle years, Rezz owns the comeback. One scale, five panels — the gaps are the finding.
03The unflattering table
Song of the year
Most-played track each calendar year, published exactly as queried. Yes, 2019 is a horror sound effect at 479 plays. Yes, 2025 is the song from Moana 2. A curated list would be more flattering and less true.
| Year | Track | Artist | Plays |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Lions | WALK THE MOON | 1 |
| 2015 | Want to Want Me | Jason Derulo | 6 |
| 2016 | I Want You | Tiësto | 46 |
| 2017 | Thief | Ookay | 97 |
| 2018 | Where The Wild Things Are | Zeds Dead | 47 |
| 2019 | Ghostly Voices - Horror Sound Effect | Ultimate Horror Sounds | 479 |
| 2020 | Echoes | WE ARE FURY | 34 |
| 2021 | Juicy | GRiZ | 73 |
| 2022 | Alive | Zeds Dead | 71 |
| 2023 | Before | Alex Lustig | 43 |
| 2024 | Fracture | Stephan Moccio | 47 |
| 2025 | Beyond | Auli'i Cravalho | 108 |
| 2026 | SOOTHSAYER | Deathpact | 32 |
04In the crowd
Seen live
The concert log is brand new and, at the time of this query, empty — so this section honestly cannot claim anything yet. Shows get logged as they happen; the cross-reference against the top ten appears here the moment there is one to make.
The summary version of all this lives on the homepage, under “Favorites, with receipts.” Same database, same rules.
05The invitation
Build something
that runs without you.
Type it here — it lands on my dashboard and pages my phone.