iTunes by the Numbers

Recently saw this done on another blog, thought it’d be interesting to do myself…

Total Length
» 13,727 songs, 37.4 days, 49.78 GB

First and Last Songs (by title)
» “A-Punk” – Vampire Weekend
» “3000 Flowers” – Destroyer

Shortest and Longest Songs
» “Untitled” – Grizzly Bear – 4 seconds (from the Friend EP.  Upon listening, this is just 4 seconds of pleasant silence.)
» “Funky Skunk” – DJ Shadow – 1:06:19 (Funky Skunk is one album-long mix of mostly funk cuts from Shadow. I honestly can’t say if I’ve ever actually heard all of it at once.)

First and Last Albums (by title)
» A.M. – Wilco
» 1999 – Prince

First and Last Artist (by name)
» A.C. Newman
» !!!

Top Five Most Played Songs
(Unfortunately, this is skewed since we recently moved our files from the PC to the Mac, and I couldn’t figure out how to move my 4 years of play data with it. Really, only four or five months of data is showing here, and the wife and I have obviously been wearing the newest Okkervil River album out).

» “Our Life is Not A Movie Or Maybe” – Okkervil River – The Stage Names (22)
» “A Girl in Port” – Okkervil River – The Stage Names (15)
» “You Can’t Hold the Hand of a Rock and Roll Man” – Okkervil River – The Stage Names (15)
» “Unless It’s Kicks” – Okkervil River – The Stage Names (14)
» “A Hold to Take Hold of the Scene” – Okkervil River – The Stage Names (12)

Search for the following words. How many songs show up?
» Sex: 72
» Death: 85
» Love: 716
» You: 1553
» Home: 115
» Boy: 209
» Girl: 195

First five songs that come up on Party Shuffle
» “Greatdayindamorning’/Booty” – D’Angelo – Voodoo 
» “I Know You Tried” – Luna – Bewitched
» “Two States (live)” – Pavement – Slanted and Enchanted (reissue)
» “K Hole” – Silver Jews – Tanglewood Numbers
» “Let There Be Light” – Justice – Cross