The first year of college has passed!

1. Tori Amos - 31,968 plays (last year: #1, 28,624 plays)
2. Kylie Minogue - 8,267 plays (first year)
3. Björk - 7,442 plays (last year: #2, 7,230 plays)
4. Madonna - 7,247 plays (last year: #3, 6,843 plays)
5. Lady Gaga - 7,102 plays (last year: #4, 4,891 plays)
6. Liz Phair - 4,924 plays (last year: #5, 4,810 plays)
7. Cat Power - 4,486 plays (last year: #6, 4,432 plays)
8. Kate Bush - 4,408 plays (last year: #7, 4,360 plays)
9. Alanis Morissette - 4,158 plays (last year: #8, 4147…

These last four years documented the music I listened to during high school. I'm curious to know how different my charts will be once I graduate college.

1. Tori Amos - 28,624 plays (last year: #1, 25,974 plays)
2. Björk - 7,230 plays (last year: #3, 5,893 plays)
3. Madonna - 6,843 plays (last year: #2, 6,349 plays)
4. Lady Gaga - 4,891 plays (last year: #5, 4,419 plays)
5. Liz Phair - 4,810 plays (last year: #4, 4,649 plays)
6. Cat Power - 4,432 plays (last year: #9, 3,323 plays)
7. Kate Bush - 4,360 plays (last year: #6,…

1. Tori Amos - 25,974 plays (last year: #1, 18,354 plays)
2. Madonna - 6,349 plays (last year: #7, 2,701 plays)
3. Björk - 5,893 plays (last year: #2, 5,195 plays)
4. Liz Phair - 4,649 plays (last year: #3, 4,493 plays)
5. Lady Gaga - 4,419 plays (last year: #4, 4,172 plays)
6. Kate Bush - 4,172 plays (last year: #5, 4,108 plays)
7. Alanis Morissette - 3,938 plays (last year: #8, 2,575 plays)
8. Feist - 3,439 plays (last year: #9, 2,558 plays)
9. Cat Power - 3,323 plays (last year: #13, 1,952 plays)
10. Radiohead- 3,221 plays…

I forgot to write this on the anniversary of the day I joined Last.fm. Oh well… It's close enough.

1. Tori Amos - 18,354 plays (last year: #1, 12,420 plays)
2. Björk - 5,195 plays (last year: #3, 2,950 plays)
3. Liz Phair - 4,493 plays (last year: #2, 3,859 plays)
4. Lady Gaga - 4,172 plays (last year: #14, 876 plays)
5. Kate Bush - 4,108 plays (last year: #5, 1,730 plays)
6. Radiohead - 2,780 plays (last year: #7, 1,528 plays)
7. Madonna - 2,701 plays (first year)
8. Alanis Morissette - 2,575 plays (last year: #20, 541…

Edited on October 23, 2011.

This year, a large amount of my favorite + potential favorite artists are releasing or have released new material. I predict that this will be my favorite year in music.

Albums that I have enjoyed so far:
Adele - 21
One favorite track: Turning Tables

Lady Gaga - Born This Way
One favorite track: Hair

PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
One favorite track: Let England Shake

Tori Amos - Night of Hunters
One favorite track: Fearlessness

Björk - Biophilia
One favorite track: Crystalline

Amanda Palmer - Amanda Palmer Goes Down Under
One favorite track:…

I figured that since Final Fantasy's older albums will be re-released under his real name, Owen Pallett, then I should file all FF plays under OP. This explains my spike of OP plays. This has irked me for so long, and I just want everything under one artist name.

I shall divide the artists that I'm interested in into "female singer-songwriters and female-fronted bands" (regardless of genres), "indie/alternative rock", and "miscellaneous". Some of these artists are already in my library, but the amount of plays are less than 100, so they qualify. I will continually add to the list and remove artists as I progress.

Female Singer-Songwriters and Female-Fronted Bands
Fiona Apple
Little Dragon
Lykke Li
Ani DiFranco
Heather Nova
She & Him
Evelyn Evelyn (Amanda Palmer's side project that I've yet to listen to)
Metric
Gossip
Rasputina
Aimee Mann
Rilo Kiley
Jefferson Airplane
Janis Joplin
Marianne…

Alright, so it has been a little over a year since I joined last.fm. I shall record my present top 30 in order to compare it to next year's charts.

1. Tori Amos - 12,420 plays
2. Liz Phair - 3,859 plays
3. Björk - 2,950 plays
4. Feist - 2,195 plays
5. Kate Bush - 1,730 plays
6. Michael Jackson - 1,534 plays
7. Radiohead - 1,528 plays
8. Rufus Wainwright - 1,412 plays
9. Peaches - 1,235 plays
10. PJ Harvey - 1,225 plays
11. Regina Spektor - 1,183 plays
12. Ximena Sariñana - 1,012 plays
13. Led…

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Above all, there are few musicians that I put on the same level as Tori. She's very important to me & I consider her a role model. Anyways, she gets the honor of being first in my OMGLOVEs series, where I pick ten songs from some artist/band that I just love. So…here it is.

Tear In Your Hand

What can I say? The instrumentation is beautiful. I love how she manages to make this breakup song sound like the complete opposite. A bit of lyrical dissonance. Oh and that moment where she sings "maybe it's time to wave goodbye…