Diario

Part 1 - Best Albums of 2012

# 10 - Lost Songs (46 plays in my library)
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# 9 - Celebration Rock (50 plays)
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# 8 - Nieder mit der GbR (51 plays)
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# 7 - I Know What Love Isn't (59 plays)
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# 6 - Floral Green (61 plays)
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# 5 - Mit K (122 plays)
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# 4 - Lex Hives (176 plays)
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# 3 - Oceania (201 plays)
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# 2 - Coexist (226 plays)
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This list will be updated from time to time.
It does not contain all of my albums and EPs, because that would take too long. Here are most of them.

Please post a comment if you have any recommendations for bands or albums.

Format used:
Artist
Album

My Jazz and Classical collection: http://www.last.fm/user/f611/journal/2012/10/06/5mqdjt_music_i_own:_jazz_and_classical

Numbers and Symbols

†††
EP †

30 Seconds To Mars
30 Seconds to Mars
A Beautiful Lie
MTV Unplugged: Thirty Seconds to Mars - EP
This Is War

A

Acid Mothers Temple & the Cosmic Inferno
Just Another Band from the Cosmic Inferno
Starless and Bible Black Sabbath

Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O.
Dark Side of the Black Moon: What Planet Are We On?
In C
Lord of the Underground - Vishnu and the Magic Elixir
Minstrel in the Galaxy
Myth Of The Love Electrique
Nam Myo Ho Ren Ge Kyo

Agalloch
Marrow of the Spirit

Alanis Morissette
Jagged Little Pill

Alcest
Écailles de lune
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0-10
2Pac - Me Against The World
3 Doors Down - Seventeen Days
3 Doors Down - 3 Doors Down
3T - Brotherhood
(+44) - When Your Heart Stops Beating

A
ABBA - The Complete Singles Collection
ABBA - Arrival
ABBA - The Visitors
Adams, Bryan - So Far So Good
Adams, Bryan - On a Day Like Today
Adams, Ryan - Gold
Adele - 19
Adele - 21
A fine frenzy - One Cell in the Sea
Aguilera, Christina - Christina Aguilera
Aguilera, Christina - Stripped
Aguilera, Christina - Back to Basics
The Album Leaf - Into The Blue Again
Allen, Lily - It's Not Me, It's You
American Pie - Soundtrack
Angel, Ashley Parker - Soundtrack To Your Life
Angels & Airwaves - We Don't Need to Whisper
Angus & Julia Stone - Down the Way
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare
Arctic Monkeys - Suck It and See
Arctic Monkeys - Universal
Arthur, Joseph - Redemption's Son
ASD - Wer Hätte Das Gedacht
Ashanti - Ashanti
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It's based on their most popular albums from the Top 500 Artists on last.fm, but there would be a few omissions, so if you find any missing ones, leave a comment, please!

As of 8 April, 2012, there're 75 albums with over 1,000,000 listeners (certificated PLATINUM), 9 of them even surpassed the 40,000,000 plays mark.

Rank - Listeners - Plays - Ratio (Average plays per listener) - Artist – Album
1 - 2,200,500 - 41,634,000 - 19 - The Killers – Hot Fuss
2 - 1,979,100 - 37,625,000 - 19 - Coldplay – X&Y
3 - 1,932,500 - 38,927,000 - 20 - Coldplay – A Rush of Blood to the Head
4 - 1,864,700 - 28,961,000 - 16 - Nirvana – Nevermind
5 - 1,710,900 - 33,812,000 - 20 - The Kooks – Inside in Inside Out
6 - 1,707,000 - 32,473,000 - 19 - Coldplay – Parachutes
7 - 1,696,700 - 42,521,000 - 25 - MGMT – Oracular Spectacular
8 - 1,683,400 - 38,898,000 - 23 - System of a Down – Toxicity
9 - 1,682,400 - 44,756,000 - 27 - Radiohead – OK Computer
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Meine Top Alben 2011:

Amplifier - The Octopus
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Ja ja, ich weiß…. das Album hatte ich bereits in meiner letztjährigen Top-10-Liste, da es eigentlich Ende 2010 im Online-Format erschienen ist. Allerdings kam es als Doppel-CD erst Anfang 2011 in die Läden, da die Band das Album komplett in Eigenregie kreierte und auch den Vertrieb selbst übernahm. Und wenn ich ehrlich bin, habe auch ich das Album erst in diesem Jahr in seiner vollen Gänze gehört und erfasst und was soll ich sagen… Obwohl ich Doppelalben ja immer kritisch gegenüberstehe („Stadium Arcadium“ anyone?) ist The Octopus für mich komplett von vorn bis hinten gelungen. Vom mächtigen Chor-Finale im Eröffnungsstück „Minion's Song“, über das stampfende „Interglacial Spell“ und das dunkle Titelstück bis hin zum abschließenden „Trading Dark Matter on the Stock Exchange“, der apokalyptische Soundtrack zur Weltwirtschaftskrise. Die zweite Platte übertrifft für mich sogar noch die erste. …

Here is my humble top 20 at the end of this year.

20. TesseracT- One
Fine mix of djent-y prog metal with excellent vocals and atmosphere.

19. Liturgy- Aesthethica
Essential hipster black metal. I find the band's point of view hilarious but the music is great.

18. Beardfish - Mammoth
After Destined Solitaire, I am happy to see a Beardfish album come close to 2008's Sleeping in Traffic Part 2.

17. Efrim Manuel Menuck - Plays 'High Gospel'
Like a a sliver mount zion album, but easier to digest, and with a broader range.

16. Falls of Rauros - The Light That Dwells in Rotten Wood
Agalloch-esque folky epic black metal. Does the job nicely. Well mixed, too.

15. Red Hot Chili Peppers - I'm With You
This sort of album rides so high in my charts this year because, compared to the albums above (especially the metal ones), it is simply more fun to listen to. Doesn't hold a candle to Stadium Arcadium but still contains many excellent songs.

14. Mastodon - The Hunter
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