Music of the Year - 2012

After losing the number one spot in my charts last year, with the release of Infinity Overhead Minus the Bear reclaimed the number one position from Portugal. The Man. It seems that on average I listened to music less in 2012 than I did in 2011, seeing one fewer artist overall with a thousand plus plays. Another noteworthy observation is my neglect of albums that were released in 2012. Where only two of the top ten albums from 2011 had less than two hundred plays, a whopping six did this year.

Top Artists

1. Minus the Bear (1273)
2. Mutemath (1179 Plays)
3. Demon Hunter (1100 Plays)
4. Thrice (795 Plays)
5. The Dear Hunter (693 Plays)
6. Inhale Exhale (577 Plays)
7. Modest Mouse (474 Plays)
8. The Answering Machine (470 Plays)
9. Soilwork (453 Plays)
10. Deftones (451 Plays)

2012 Albums

1. Demon Hunter - True Defiance (Deluxe Edition) (624 Plays)
2. Minus the Bear - Infinity Overhead (546 Plays)
3. Inhale Exhale - Movement (209 Plays)
4. Circa Survive - Violent Waves (203)
5. Before Their Eyes - Redemption (196 Plays)
6. Our Last Night - Age of Ignorance (195 Plays)
7. Linkin Park - Living Things (181 Plays)
8. Deftones - Koi No Yokan (175 Plays)
9. As I Lay Dying - Awakened (144 Plays)
10. Lamb of God - Resolution (138 Plays)

Music of the Year - 2011

I completely blanked on doing this, so a week late I present my top artists and albums from 2011 as observed from my charts over at Last.fm. Notably, for my top ten artists my numbers are down significantly from last year. Where I had Minus the Bear ranking in at number one with just under 2000 plays last year, this past year my highest was Portugal. The Man with just under 1300 plays. Also this year for top albums I compiled the list based upon my Last/fm charts rather than iTunes.

Top Artists

1. Portugal. The Man (1263 Plays)
2. Dance Gavin Dance (1260)
3. Silverstein (1123 Plays)
4. The Dear Hunter (1043 Plays)
5. Modest Mouse (980 Plays)
6. Madina Lake (851 Plays)
7. Soilwork (617 Plays)
8. Slipknot (593 Plays)
9. Emery (584 Plays)
10. August Burns Red (571 Plays)

2011 Albums

1. Downtown Battle Mountain II - Dance Gavin Dance (684 Plays)
2. Rescue (Deluxe Edition) - Silverstein (671 Plays)
3. Leveler (Deluxe Edition)  - August Burns (435 Plays)
4. The Color Spectrum The Complete Collection - The Dear Hunter (429 Plays)
5. In The Mountain In The Cloud - Portugal. The Man (395 Plays)
6. World War III (Deluxe Editon) - Madina Lake (348 Plays)
7. Beast (Deluxe Editon) - DevilDriver (318 Plays)
8. Children Of Fire - Oh, Sleeper (268 Plays)
9. Scurrilous - Protest the Hero (164 Plays)
10. Taking Back Sunday - Taking Back Sunday (139 Plays)

Music of the Year - 2010

Rather than struggle to place bands and albums on a purely subjective basis, I've decided to rely mostly upon the number of plays I have on each album and total number of plays on each artist. Taking inspiration from Last.fm, I will do general top artists for the year based upon my scrobbles irregardless of whether an album was released by that artist or not. Then I will go through my top ten albums of the year strictly on the basis of plays.

Artists
1. Minus the Bear (1967 Plays)
2. Demon Hunter (1439 Plays)
3. Soilwork (1001 Plays)
4. Disarmonia Mundi (910 Plays)
5. Haste the Day (901 Plays)
6. Underoath (838 Plays)
7. Circa Survive (769 Plays)
8. Portugal. The Man (720 Plays)
9. Our Last Night (702 Plays)
10. Ill Nino (623 Plays)

2010 Albums
1. The World Is a Thorn - Demon Hunter (53 Plays)
2. Omni - Minus the Bear (50 Plays)
3. We Will All Evolve - Our Last Night (50 Plays)
4. Disambiguation - Underoath (40 Plays)
5. Blue Sky Noise - Circa Survive (32 Plays)
6. Attack of the Wolf King - Haste the Day (30 Plays)
7. The Panic Broadcast - Soilwork (29 Plays)
8. American Ghetto - Portugal. The Man (22 Plays)
9. Dead New World - Ill Nino (18 Plays)
10. The Powerless Rise - As I Lay Dying (11 Plays)