music geekery

[kmusser]

Some music stats, might be of interest to other music geeks. My collection is currently at 13,585 tracks. I'm slowly incorporating my father's music collection into my own, which will probably double that at least. I wanted to document the make-up of my collection before it gets overwhelmed.

By genre:
12% - alternative
10% - celtic
9% - pop
7% - folk/rock
6% - faire
5% - musicals (this is ambug666's fault)
5% - blues
4% - folk
4% - new wave
3% - soundtracks
2-3% each - rock, progressive, geek rock, blues/rock
1-2% each - jazz, pagan, comedy, country, goth, classical, techno, punk, rap, soul, filk
less than 1% each - new age, avant garde, holiday, childrens, world, metal, bluegrass, southern rock, reggae, swing, ska, latin, ragtime, disco, christian, mashups, calypso, spoken word, gospel, zydeco, and opera

By decade:
38% - 1990's
27% - 2000's
15% - 1980's
8% - 1970's
6% - 1960's
1% each - 1950's, 1940's, 1930's, 2010's
less than 1% each - earlier decades to the 1690's

Comments

[ambug666.livejournal.com]

5% - musicals (this is [info]ambug666's fault)

Bwahahahahahahahaha!

I have been working to de-musical my mp3 player too.

[aylinn.livejournal.com]

92976 tracks here. but that's because I "vampire" music across the net. legally. I love amazon's samplers. between the freebies doled out by them, e-music & iTunes - I can score anywhere from 10 to over a 100 free songs a week.

we need to compare libraries & swap some day... I LIKE musicals!

[aylinn.livejournal.com]

FYI -
amazon has several nice "sampler collections" still available:
http://www.amazon.com/s/qid=1304516396/ref=sr_st?redirect=true&bbn=163856011&rh=n%3A163856011%2Cp_36%3A0-499%2Cp_n_feature_browse-bin%3A625150011&sort=price

& here's the Free on iTunes facebook page:
http://apps.facebook.com/freeonitunes/?ref=ts