spotify wrapped 2023

2023-12-05

(An even more boring post than usual up ahead, so proceed with caution.)

yours, tiramisu

Unsurprisingly, Bob Dylan dominated my Wrapped this year. I spent 8,493 minutes listening to him, which is 13.9% of the 61,252 minutes I spent listening to music this year. He also has 25 songs on my 100 most-listened to tracks (27 if you count covers of songs he wrote).
Mon Laferte is my #2 artist for the second year in a row, after being #1 in 2021. Chopin also makes the top 5 again (for the second or third year running, I can't remember).
42 artists were represented in my top 100 tracks. Of them, only 16 had more than 1 track, and 7 had more than 2. They are:
- Bob Dylan, 25
- SZA, 9
- Mon Laferte, 6
- Omar Apollo, 5
- aespa, 4
- Chopin, 4
- KAROL G, 3
I'm not sure how Rap managed to come out as my top genre. Only one rap song made my Top 100 (Run for Your Life, at #72).

Blood On The Tracks is the most-represented album with 7 tracks, followed by Highway 61 Revisited with 6; Blonde On Blonde with 5; Planet Waves, Bringing It All Back Home, and Hard Rain (Live) with 2; and The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan with 1. That's about the order I'd say I like them, too.
My favorite Bob Dylan songs, ranked:

Two songs in my Top 100 are covers of songs Dylan wrote: Adele's Make You Feel My Love and Nina Simone's Just Like A Woman. I like both better than Bob's originals.

I was surprised Sibelius made my top 5: none of his pieces are in my top 100. I did spend a lot of time listening to Håvard Gimse's Sibelius: Piano Music, Vol. 4 though, which is lovely.
The highest ranked classical piece in my Wrapped came in at 15th, and it was Kissin playing Schumann's Abegg Variations, Op. 1.
The only other classical pieces in my top 100 were Chopin's Piano Sonata No. 3 in B Minor, Op. 58 (Leif Ove Andsnes) (all 4 movements), and 2 of Rachmaninoff's Opus 23 Preludes, No. 4. Andante cantabile in D Major and No. 2. Maestoso in B-Flat Major (Nikolai Lugansky).
J.S. Bach, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Robert Schumann, and Sergei Bortkiewicz take places 6, 7, 8, and 10 in my top 10 artists, respectively, followed by Liszt and Mendelssohn.

After English, Spanish was the most represented language in my top 100, with 23 songs, followed by Korean with 7. Somehow, a French song makes it too, but it's Mon Laferte singing La Vie En Rose.
The only two Korean songs not by girl groups in my top 100 are 내 맘을 볼 수 있나요 and 무제(無題) (Untitled, 2014).

I picked 10 favorite songs last year, so to keep the trend alive, here we go: