If you’re new here, be sure to check out the first post in this series. For all other, you know it, you love and you know what to expect. Kinda. Since this is only the second one and it’s 2 months late… Anyways, onwards and upwards with February’s Apple Music Replay.
February saw January’s stats, and took that personally. For being 2 days shorter than the previous month, my total Music Minutes™️ is almost 300 more than January – topping out at 2,704 minutes. Quite a feat if I do say so myself. Thats 45 hours of music goodness. I am inching closer to my goal of 48 hours of organically listening to music. I say organically, because it’s not something I want to work at. I already have too much to do each day.
This month saw the fantastic Dark The Suns reign supreme as my Top Artist, with 236 minutes in total played. To get really specific (because we can), that’s 8.73% of my total listening time… Very interesting. I blame the fact that Raven and the Nightsky is a fantastic, impressive, and all-around amazing album from Dark The Suns. It’s a perfect goth album, and I won’t hear any different!
Meanwhile, the song that I couldn’t get enough of was Dark Tranquility’s Identical To None, with 7 plays. I am amazed at how large my library and wide my music listening is when my Top Song has only 7 plays… But don’t let that detract you from listening to this song from the powerhouses of New Gothenburg Death Metal. (Thats the genre in case you were wondering. If you want to know why, I’d be more than happy to explain it to you. Possibly over an evening, and dinner. And somewhere where I can play you some examples. You know what, just come to my house for a day!)
Now, the Milestones! I really, really love these. Being sharable glances into your music habits, they surface things you may not even realise. And being a believer in beautiful data, these visualize my Month in Music so well. February really saw me squeak in with over 5,000 total minutes played, coming in clutch, right at the end. And while I didn’t make any more milestones for Artists listened to, I can see that I was just shy of 250 different bands. Had the month gone on for another 2 days, who knows what might have happened…
And with that, Feburary is a wrap. Despite being a short month, but the month I started #75Hard, it’s no wonder my Music Minutes™️ jumped by an extra 300. Those extra workout minutes all add up after all.
If you’re interested in what my 2024 listening habits are shaping up to be – here is my Replay playlist. As I listen to more music, have more songs on heavy rotation, and just use Apple Music throughout the year – this playlist will dynamically change and update.
