Deep Cuts · The Stories Behind the Listening

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Artists I return to

Pick an artist to see when I listened to them most. Taller bars mean more listening hours.

Artist

3 of 138 artists

Songs from year

Tosca appears in 15 years of my history. I listened most in 2013.

Tosca · 2025

4.9 hours listened. A few songs from that year:

Dr. Dings · 10 playsOcean Beat · 9 playsSwimswimswim · 8 plays

How this is counted

Choose from 138 artists: the all-time top 120 by hours plus every annual top ten. Hours include short plays. 2012 and 2026 cover only part of the year.

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Songs on repeat

Each spike is a day I played the song. The gold band marks its busiest seven days.

SongTime range

Compare with three other songs

2022 · 68% IN ONE WEEK

Soul Heaven

Syl Johnson

65 of the year’s 95 plays happened in one week, starting 11 May 2022.

How this is counted

One winning song per year. Peaks use exact rolling seven-day windows; daily bins use Berlin dates, so edge days may extend beyond the shaded interval. When comparing songs, the plots share the same vertical scale.

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When I listen

Read each row from midnight to midnight. Taller bars show the hours of the day when I listened most. Pick a year to highlight it.

Highlight year

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In 2025, my busiest hour was 17:00. 40% of plays were in the evening, from 18:00 to midnight.

Read the selected year’s hourly values

00:00 · 510 plays · 2.5%01:00 · 294 plays · 1.5%02:00 · 168 plays · 0.8%03:00 · 76 plays · 0.4%04:00 · 69 plays · 0.3%05:00 · 89 plays · 0.4%06:00 · 86 plays · 0.4%07:00 · 255 plays · 1.3%08:00 · 526 plays · 2.6%09:00 · 357 plays · 1.8%10:00 · 552 plays · 2.8%11:00 · 949 plays · 4.7%12:00 · 1,163 plays · 5.8%13:00 · 1,188 plays · 5.9%14:00 · 1,270 plays · 6.3%15:00 · 1,261 plays · 6.3%16:00 · 1,363 plays · 6.8%17:00 · 1,753 plays · 8.8%18:00 · 1,550 plays · 7.7%19:00 · 1,548 plays · 7.7%20:00 · 1,497 plays · 7.5%21:00 · 1,503 plays · 7.5%22:00 · 1,203 plays · 6%23:00 · 779 plays · 3.9%

How this is counted

Bar height shows the percentage of that year’s plays; common scale 0–16%. Berlin time throughout, including streams abroad. Select any year by touch or keyboard.

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Which discoveries stuck?

Choose a year when I discovered new artists. Then see how many I listened to again in the years that followed.

First heard inListened again in

336 of 2,516 artists

I first heard 2,516 artists in 2021. I played 13% of them again in 2025.

Common Saints · 11.8 hPale Jay · 9.9 hArc De Soleil · 8.1 hGotts Street Park · 6.4 hBALTHVS · 5.5 h

How this is counted

“First heard” means the first play of at least 30 seconds in this export, not necessarily the first in my life. An artist counts as returning with one such play in a later year. 2012 and 2026 are partial years.

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Years with similar taste

Compare the kinds of music I listened to in two years. Similar bar lengths mean a similar mix of genres.

First yearCompare with

2025 ↔ 20262026 has the closest genre mix to 2025 in this history. The bars show each genre’s share of listening hours.

20252026

Trip-hop & downtempo

8.8%

8.1%

Ambient & drone

0.5%

0.7%

Jazz & nu jazz

16.6%

24.9%

Soul & funk

21.2%

13.1%

Electronic & dance

15.9%

16.5%

Hip-hop & beats

3.9%

4.3%

Soundtrack & classical

1.9%

2.5%

Rock & psychedelia

5.2%

3.7%

Pop, indie & folk

8.2%

5.3%

World & dub

3.1%

5.3%

Audio dramas

0%

Unclassified

14.9%

15.5%

Hear a song from each year

2025 · LlopsisCentrafuge - Son Kite Rmx · 137 plays

2026 · AntixFree as We Are - Perfect Stranger 2021 ReRub · 19 plays

See the full year-by-year map

Brighter squares mean a closer genre mix. Find one year on the left and the other along the bottom.

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How this is counted

Comparison bars use all music hours, including an explicit unclassified share. Distance uses classified hours only (Jensen–Shannon distance, base 2). Current distance: 0.149 (0 means the same mix, 1 means no overlap). Coverage: 2025 85.1%; 2026 84.5%. Artist-level genres describe catalogue tags, not the sound of every track.

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What changes without…?

Do my favourite artists change when I leave out music for running, workouts, or time with my son? Compare the two lists.

Compare yearMusic forSecond list

Running: 75.3 hours · 6.5% of 2025’s recorded music time.

Show all ten artists

The whole year

1. Llopsis
19.4 h
2. Thievery Corporation
14.8 h
3. Sade
14.7 h
4. Monophonics
14.1 h
5. Antix
14 h

Without running

1. Thievery Corporation
14.8 h · ↑ 1 place (was #2)
2. Sade
14.7 h · ↑ 1 place (was #3)
3. Monophonics
14.1 h · ↑ 1 place (was #4)
4. Common Saints
11.9 h · ↑ 3 places (was #7)
5. Parcels
11.8 h · ↑ 3 places (was #8)

How this is counted

Both sides share an hours scale. Contexts follow the owner’s artist and playlist rules; playlist tracks count wherever they were played. These labels do not verify individual workouts or who was present. Running starts in November 2024.

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How often I listen

Two simple measures: how many days I played music, and how long I listened on those days. Longer bars mean more.

Habit year

In 2025, I listened on 348 of 365 days.That’s 95% of days, averaging 3.3 hours on days with music.

* Partial year: 2012 starts in March; 2026 ends in October.

How this is counted

A listening day has at least one play of 30 seconds or more. The average includes all recorded music time on those days, plus any short plays on other days. Durations can overlap across devices. The two bar columns have separate scales: 0–100% of days and 0–5 hours.