It\'s my favorite time of year for a variety of reasons. My birthday was [annotation note="I turned 21 and went to The Muddy, MIT\'s grad student run pub, twice on one day"]a few weeks ago[/annotation], it\'s almost Christmas and it\'s okay to listen to Christmas music again, and SPOTIFY RELEASES SPOTIFY WRAPPED!!!\r\n\r\nFor those of you who\'ve been following the blogs, you probably already know that I love Spotify a lot. I actually love tracking my own music data so much that I\'m [annotation note="but also too cheap to pay for the full version, lol"]too impatient[/annotation] to wait for Spotify to give me a glimpse once a year, so I use last.fm to track my music year round. But I love the info that Spotify gives because they talk about your trends and provide you with really specific, random things that are just cool to know. So of course, I begged Abby if I could make the blogger Spotify Wrapped compilation because there\'s nothing I love more than looking at people\'s Spotify data.\r\n\r\nYou can observe this below for yourself, but there was an interesting trend this year of people feeling like their Spotify Wrapped didn\'t represent them in some way. The data that Spotify provides is objective, which means that they are simply returning the artist that played the most songs from, and the genres that you listened to the most songs from. I\'m sure the data itself isn\'t wrong. But as Abby brought up last year, people seem to disagree with how the data represents them. I think it brings up an interesting discussion of how objectivity isn\'t always \'the Truth\' with a capital T.\r\n\r\nBut anyways, let\'s get into the HARD DATA about the bloggers music habits!\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nBlogger: me\r\n\r\nMost listened to[annotation note="yes i know it\'s actually albums but most of the bloggers couldn\'t recognize the album by its cover but we could recognize the band"]bands[/annotation] from the winter: She Wants Revenge, Pearl Jam, Arctic Monkeys, The Wombats\r\n\r\nMost listened to bands from the spring: Arctic Monkeys, Cage the Elephant, Blitzen Trapper, Pearl Jam\r\n\r\nMost listened to bands from the summer: Pearl Jam, She Wants Revenge, Nine Inch Nails, David Bowie\r\n\r\nMost listened to bands from the fall: Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Taylor Swift, June Carter\r\n\r\n[annotation note="defined as most listened to"]Favorite[/annotation] artist / Hours listened to them / Top song by them:\xc2\xa0She Wants Revenge / 16 hours / "Tear You Apart"\r\n\r\nTop 5 artists: She Wants Revenge, Pearl Jam, David Bowie, Arctic Monkeys, Cage the Elephant\r\n\r\n[annotation note="defined as the number of countries you listened to artists from"]World Citizen[/annotation]: 54\r\n\r\nTop genres: Rock, Pop, Indie pop, Showtunes, Modern Bollywood\r\n\r\nTop 5 songs: "Furr" by Blitzen Trapper, "Fluorescent Adolescent" by Arctic Monkeys, "Black Hole Sun" by Soundgarden, "Tokyo - Vampires & Wolves" by The Wombats, " "Head Like A Hole" by Nine Inch Nails\r\n\r\nTop 100 songs playlist: it\'s alright\r\n\r\nNew artists listened to: 725\r\n\r\nBest new artist: Blitzen Trapper\r\n\r\nMinutes listened in 2019: 35,264\r\n\r\nArtist of the Decade:\xc2\xa0Pearl Jam\r\n\r\nComments from the blogger: despite my valiant efforts to listen to more music and change up my taste a bit, my top 100 songs playlist showed me that i listen to the same like 50 songs on repeat and honestly that\'s true. also i was a little miffed that my artist of the decade was my boyfriend\'s favorite band because that felt too cringey, but honestly they\'re really good so i\'m over it.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nBlogger:\xc2\xa0Cami\r\n\r\nMost listened to bands from the winter: Ariana Grande, lovelytheband\r\n\r\nMost listened to bands from the spring: Kanye West, BTS, scarypoolparty\r\n\r\nMost listened to bands from the summer: BTS, Willow Smith, Tyler, the Creator\r\n\r\nMost listened to bands from the fall: Brockhampton, Frank Ocean, Harry Styles, Rex Orange County\r\n\r\nFavorite artist / Hours listened to them / Top song by them:\xc2\xa0BTS / 45 hours / "Boy with Luv ft. Halsey"\r\n\r\nTop 5 artists: BTS, Ariana Grande, Tyler, the Creator, Joji, The 1975\r\n\r\nWorld Citizen:\xc2\xa052\r\n\r\nTop genres: Alternative r&b, K-pop, pop rap, pop, emo rap\r\n\r\nTop 5 songs: "Wait A Minute!" by WILLOW, "7 rings" by Ariana Grande, "Out Loud" by scarypoolparty, "i\'m so tired..." by Lauv ft. Troye Sivan, "thank u, next" by Ariana Grande\r\n\r\nTop 100 songs playlist: the range of moods on this playlist is very large\r\n\r\nNew artists listened to:\xc2\xa0643\r\n\r\nBest new artist: lovelytheband\r\n\r\nMinutes listened in 2019: 33,405\r\n\r\nArtist of the Decade:\xc2\xa0Drake\r\n\r\nComments from the blogger: lowkey kinda disappointed i didnt listen to more music this year?? last year i listened to 83,684 min of music. also very sad that my music is pop dominated when i felt like i listened to a lot of alt r&b this yr but! thats just how it b. my bts bias is suga. talk to me about him. also, bts is probably at the top because i listened to them on repeat for every. single. flight, including los angeles to london and back.\r\n\r\nComments from me: that is so many hours of BTS. i am impressed\xc2\xa0 \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nBlogger:\xc2\xa0Ankita\r\n\r\nMost listened to bands from the winter: Kenshi Yonezu, Des Rocs\r\n\r\nMost listened to bands from the spring: The Fratellis, Mother Mother, Arctic Monkeys\r\n\r\nMost listened to bands from the summer: The Fratellis, Arctic Monkeys, Abhi the Nomad\r\n\r\nMost listened to bands from the fall: The Fratellis, Arctic Monkeys, Abhi the Nomad\r\n\r\nFavorite artist / Hours listened to them / Top song by them:\xc2\xa0The Fratellis / 20 hours / "Whistle For The Choir"\r\n\r\nTop 5 artists: The Fratellis, Arctic Monkeys, Mother Mother, Abhi the Nomad, Cage the Elephant\r\n\r\nWorld Citizen: 56\r\n\r\nTop genres: Rock, Modern rock, Indie-pop, pop, pop-rap\r\n\r\nTop 5 songs:\xc2\xa0"Whistle For The Choic" by The Fratellis, "Little Apple" By Chopstick Brothers, "Sex n\' Drugs" by Abhi The Nomad, "Infinitesimal" by Mother Mother, "3\'s" by Nodaway\r\n\r\nTop 100 songs playlists: as somebody who would know, ankita\'s music taste has improved exponentially over the years\r\n\r\nNew artists listened to:\xc2\xa01207\r\n\r\nBest new artist:\xc2\xa0The Fratellis\r\n\r\nMinutes listened in 2019: 33,225\r\n\r\nArtist of the Decade:\xc2\xa0Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton\r\n\r\nComments from the blogger:\xc2\xa0damn so i love The Fratellis, what else is new...also the songs i discovered/listened to while I was in Taiwan this summer really defined the rest of my year, which is interesting\r\n\r\nComments from me:\xc2\xa0to bring up the point i made at the top of this post, isn\'t it whack how ankita listening to the hamilton soundtrack nonstop (literally fucking nonstop) in 2016 \'defines\' the rest of her decade??? objectivity is not truth people\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nBlogger:\xc2\xa0Sabrina\r\n\r\nMost listened to bands from the winter: Ariana Grande\r\n\r\nMost listened to bands from the spring: Carly Rae Jepsen, Billie Eilish\r\n\r\nMost listened to bands from the summer: Carly Rae Jepsen, Hozier, Billie Eilish\r\n\r\nMost listened to bands from the fall: Carly Rae Jepsen, Lana Del Rey\r\n\r\nFavorite artist / Hours listened to them / Top song by them:\xc2\xa0Carly Rae Jepsen / 64 hours / "Warm Blood"\r\n\r\nTop 5 artists: Carly Rae Jepsen, Billie Eilish, Hozier, Ariana Grande, The 1975\r\n\r\nWorld Citizen:\xc2\xa051\r\n\r\nTop genres: Pop, Indie Pop, Alternative R&B, Rock, Rap\r\n\r\nTop 5 songs: "wish you were gay" by Billie Eilish, "bad guy" by Billie Eilish, "Warm Blood" by Carly Rae Jepsen, "needy" by Ariana Grande, "Movement" by Hozier\r\n\r\nTop 100 songs playlists: here, have all the gen z bops\r\n\r\nNew artists listened to:\xc2\xa0501\xc2\xa0\r\n\r\nBest new artist: Labrinth\r\n\r\nMinutes listened in 2019: 81,020\r\n\r\nArtist of the Decade: Frank Ocean\r\n\r\nComments from the blogger: showing this to myself whenever i have doubts about whether i technically make the millenial cutoff (i clearly do not). a little sad that i have moved almost exclusively into the Pop Zone with regards to genre (because I do still like other genres, Alt R&B especially!), but i guess its a welcome change from last years Sad Alt Music for 137,568 minutes.\r\n\r\nComments from me: if i ever need to know what the people of my generation are listening to nowadays i think i shall consult sabrina\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nBlogger:\xc2\xa0Petey\r\n\r\nMost listened to bands from the winter: Architects, Sigur Ros, Luniz, Between the Buried and Me\r\n\r\nMost listened to bands from the spring: The Receiving Ends of Sirens, Architects\r\n\r\nMost listened to bands from the summer: Architects, Dispose, Bring Me The Horizon, Podcast\r\n\r\nMost listened to bands from the fall: Devil Wears Prada\r\n\r\nFavorite artist / Hours listened to them / Top song by them:\xc2\xa0Architects / 30 hours / "Mortal After All"\r\n\r\nTop 5 artists:\xc2\xa0Architects, Devil Wears Prada, Between the Buried and Me, Sigur Ros, I See Stars\r\n\r\nWorld Citizen:\xc2\xa023\r\n\r\nTop genres:\xc2\xa0Metalcore, Rock, Hiphop, Pop, Progressive Metal\r\n\r\nTop 5 songs:\xc2\xa0"RIGGED" by The Plot In You, "Moongod" by The Devil Wears Prada, "Mortal After All" by Architects, "I Got 5 On It" by Luniz & Michael Marshall, "FEEL NOTHING" by The Plot In You\r\n\r\nTop 100 songs playlists: behold the worlds emoest teen, chris petey peterson\r\n\r\nNew artists listened to: N/A\r\n\r\nBest new artist: N/A\r\n\r\nMinutes listened in 2019: 36,577\r\n\r\nArtist of the Decade:\xc2\xa0Between the Buried and Me\r\n\r\nComments from the blogger:\xc2\xa0an old MITAdmissions proverb says: to understand the mindset of an angsty teen, you must become an angsty teen.\r\n\r\nComments from me:\xc2\xa0how did petey manage to not listen to a singular new artist the ENTIRE year??? i am honestly baffled\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nBlogger:\xc2\xa0Abby\r\n\r\nMost listened to bands from the winter:\xc2\xa0Cage the Elephant, The Clash (twice?), David Bowie\xc2\xa0\r\n\r\nMost listened to bands from the spring:\xc2\xa0Wavves (??????), Tom Petty (twice), White Reaper\r\n\r\nMost listened to bands from the summer:\xc2\xa0The 1975 (lmao), Cage the Elephant (again), Led Zeppelin, Pixies\r\n\r\nMost listened to bands from the fall:\xc2\xa0N/A\r\n\r\nFavorite artist / Hours listened to them / Top song by them:\xc2\xa0Cage the Elephant / 5 hours / "Back Stabbin\' Betty"\r\n\r\nTop 5 artists:\xc2\xa0Cage the Elephant, Toadies, The 1975, Guided by Voices, White Reaper\r\n\r\nWorld Citizen:\xc2\xa024\r\n\r\nTop genres:\xc2\xa0rock, noise pop, post-grunge, pop rap, indie punk\r\n\r\nTop 5 songs:\xc2\xa0"No 13 Baby" (Pixies), "Tyler" (Toadies), "Straight to Hell" (The Clash), "Laid" (James), "New York City Cops" (The Strokes)\r\n\r\nTop 100 songs playlists: i concur with abby\'s taste in music\r\n\r\nNew artists listened to:\xc2\xa0252\r\n\r\nBest new artist:\xc2\xa0White Reaper\r\n\r\nMinutes listened in 2019:\xc2\xa010,174\r\n\r\nArtist of the Decade:\xc2\xa0The 1975\r\n\r\nComments from the blogger:\xc2\xa0I have many comments: Over the past couple of years, my music consumption has decreased, which explains why my "decade" results are heavily skewed toward the music I listened to (ad infinitum) in 2017. 2017 was also the year that my sister freeloaded off my account, so that\'s why SZA and Mac Demarco are over-represented. I am deeply confused at the frequent occurrence of the 1975; I feel like I have listened to them sparingly? Weirdly enough my past three years\' top songs have been three different Pixies songs off the same album and yet the 1975 is somehow my artist of the decade/ Make it make sense. Cage the Elephant is number one because I had to listen to their new album over and over to learn the songs for a concert I went to. It\'s not even my favorite album. Led Zeppelin is over-represented because of a 4-5 hour road trip I took over the summer alone, appropriate cruising down the 101 music. If that makes me a boomer then so be it. Also, I can\'t name a single Wavves song. I think that popped up because Twitter drama about him being a landlord prompted me to see what the music is like. I don\'t remember. Overall, this wrapped is a good summary of what I listen to on repeat to induce a calming, meditative mental state. It just so happens that the music that does that for me is whiney male vocalists backed by loud electric guitars.\r\n\r\nComments from me:\xc2\xa0abby just made me realize that whiney male vocalists backed by loud electric guitars also do it for me musically\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nBlogger: Alex\r\n\r\nMost listened to bands from the winter:\xc2\xa0Hozier, Led Zeppelin, Foo Fighters, Fall Out Boy\r\n\r\nMost listened to bands from the spring:\xc2\xa0Carly Rae Jepsen, Hozier, The xx\r\n\r\nMost listened to bands from the summer:\xc2\xa0Car Seat Headrest (twice), The Mountain Goats, an NPR podcast i listened to for six minutes\r\n\r\nMost listened to bands from the fall:\xc2\xa0Car Seat Headrest (twice), The Mountain Goats, PUP\r\n\r\nFavorite artist / Hours listened to them / Top song by them:\xc2\xa0Hozier / 60 hours / "Almost (Sweet Music)"\r\n\r\nTop 5 artists:\xc2\xa0Hozier, Carly Rae Jepsen, Car Seat Headrest, The xx, Fall Out Boy\r\n\r\nWorld Citizen:\xc2\xa033\r\n\r\nTop genres:\xc2\xa0Modern Rock, Pop, Rock, Indie Rock, Motown\r\n\r\nTop 5 songs:\xc2\xa0"The Sky Is A Neighborhood" (Foo Fighters), "Sedona" (Houndmouth), [annotation note="why is this not alex\'s most listened to song by hozier??? i am confusion"]"Shrike" (Hozier)[/annotation], "You Can Call Me Al" (Paul Simon), "Almost (Sweet Music)" (Hozier)\r\n\r\nTop 100 songs playlists: good shit good shit\r\n\r\nNew artists listened to:\xc2\xa0452\r\n\r\nBest new artist:\xc2\xa0PUP\r\n\r\nMinutes listened in 2019:\xc2\xa045,075\r\n\r\nArtist of the Decade:\xc2\xa0Hozier\r\n\r\nComments from the blogger:\xc2\xa0My top songs are an intriguing mix of rowing practice music (Fall Out Boy, Panic! at the Disco, classic rock, Foo Fighters when I can sneak it into the queue) and music that I actually listen to. I expected Frank Ocean to be in my top 5 artists but he didn\'t even make my Top Songs playlist........home of phobia....I also feel like this was extremely winter-skewed, probably due to the sheer amount of time (especially IAP) I spent playing music at rowing practice and time in Stud 5th listening to music and studying for the 18.03 ASE. Check out my last.fm for more of what i\'ve been listening to in the summer/fall. Also my team switched to more EDM stuff and also more R&B in the fall but they haven\'t been using my Spotify account as much anymore, so that mostly didn\'t make it in.\r\n\r\nComments from me:\xc2\xa0also check out my last.fm :,) fun fact, alex and i have \'super\' music compatibility according to last.fm \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nBlogger: DJ\r\n\r\nMost listened to bands from the winter:\xc2\xa0Kelela, Lizzo, more Kelela, Oprah\'s Super Soul Conversations\r\n\r\nMost listened to bands from the spring:\xc2\xa0Carly Rae Jepsen, Solange, Blood Orange, more Solange\r\n\r\nMost listened to bands from the summer:\xc2\xa0Meg thee Stallion, Ari Lennox, Blood Orange, more Ari Lennox\r\n\r\nMost listened to bands from the fall:\xc2\xa0Teyana Taylor, Solange, Frankie Cosmos, Blood Orange\r\n\r\nFavorite artist / Hours listened to them / Top song by them:\xc2\xa0Blood Orange / 51 hours / "Hope"\r\n\r\nTop 5 artists:\xc2\xa0Blood Orange, Solange, Kelela, Meg Thee Stallion, Noname\r\n\r\nWorld Citizen:\xc2\xa059\r\n\r\nTop genres:\xc2\xa0Pop rap, Alternative R&B, Indie Rock, Pop, Chillhop\r\n\r\nTop 5 songs:\xc2\xa0"LMK_WHAT\'S REALLY GOOD REMIX" (Kelela), "BMO" (Ari Lennox), "Hungry Hippo" (Tierra Whack), "Act Up" (City Girls), "Best You Ever Had" (Meg Thee Stallion)\r\n\r\nTop 100 songs playlists: the intersection of mine and dj\'s music taste is approximately 0 but this is a bopping playlist\r\n\r\nNew artists listened to:\xc2\xa0612\r\n\r\nBest new artist:\xc2\xa0Meg Thee Stallion\r\n\r\nMinutes listened in 2019:\xc2\xa081,351\r\n\r\nArtist of the Decade:\xc2\xa0Frankie Cosmos\r\n\r\nComments from the blogger:\xc2\xa01) 2019 truly was the year of the Hot Girl Summer & 2) A significant portion of the music I listen to is not work appropriate :)\r\n\r\nComments from me:\xc2\xa0i think DJ wins the prize for most minutes listened this year\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nBlogger:\xc2\xa0Kidist\r\n\r\nMost listened to bands from the winter:\xc2\xa0Billie Eilish, J Cole\r\n\r\nMost listened to bands from the spring:\xc2\xa0Beyonce\r\n\r\nMost listened to bands from the summer:\xc2\xa0Meg Thee Stallion\r\n\r\nMost listened to bands from the fall:\xc2\xa0Melanie Martinez, Marina\r\n\r\nFavorite artist / Hours listened to them / Top song by them:\xc2\xa0Rihanna / 22 hours / "Needed Me"\r\n\r\nTop 5 artists:\xc2\xa0Rihanna, Billie Eilish, aimless, Megan Thee Stallion, Nao\r\n\r\nWorld Citizen:\xc2\xa046\r\n\r\nTop genres:\xc2\xa0lo-fi beats, pop, indie r&b, deep pop r&b, pop rap\r\n\r\nTop 5 songs:\xc2\xa0Act Up, Going Bad, Before I Let Go, No Guidance, Simon Says\r\n\r\nTop 100 songs playlists:\xc2\xa0N/A\r\n\r\nNew artists listened to:\xc2\xa0531\r\n\r\nBest new artist:\xc2\xa0aimless\r\n\r\nMinutes listened in 2019:\xc2\xa032,272\r\n\r\nArtist of the Decade:\xc2\xa0The Weeknd\r\n\r\nComments from the blogger:\xc2\xa0N/A\r\n\r\nComments from me:\xc2\xa0i honestly did not know that lo-fi beats were actually their own genre, i thought it was just a meme. also kidist and dj look like they would be music buddies\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nWhat does your Spotify wrapped look like? Let us know in the comments! And enjoy listening to all the BOPS in this post ;)