Top Music

KEXP is doing a big countdown of the "top artists of all time" as voted by listeners during their current pledge drive. Some things are surprisingly to me or I just downright disagree with but whatever. They're currently at number 12 (Bob Marley), and I bet the top five will include Bob Dylan and the Beatles, with Nirvana being number 1 (Nirvana always seems to be number 1 on their rankings). On my work computer's iTunes, I decided to see who the top artists are as ranked by number of plays (per individual song) for me. This iTunes goes back to 2006, so I guess it's more like my favorite artists over the past 4-5 years.

1	TV On The Radio
2	Scissor Sisters
3	Jenny Lewis & The Watson Twins
4	Q And Not U
5	The Mountain Goats
6	Mates Of State
7	Bright Eyes
8	Weezer
9	Gorillaz
10	Lucero
11	M. Ward
12	Ted Leo & The Pharmacists
13	Tuscadero
14	Neko Case
15	Crooked Fingers
16	Death Cab For Cutie
17	The Roots
18	Sufjan Stevens
19	Billy Bragg & Wilco
20	Social Distortion
21	Cloud Cult
22	Blue Scholars
23	The Go! Team
24	Barenaked Ladies
25	Iron & Wine

Huh, that's surprising too; I wouldn't call Scissor Sisters my 2nd favorite band, though I obviously like them. I did skip duplicates, though that should really move the artist up in the ranking. I guess it would be better to do number of plays per artist total instead of per song.