Unwrapping the Gift of Music | With 95.7 The Spin
December has arrived! ‘Tis the season of joy and many holidays. Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, New Year’s Eve or other festive festivities, there is one thing that we all can be united in: a love and passion for music. With all those holidays comes an unofficial holiday in my opinion, and that is the day when Spotify and other music apps all release your curated summaries from your year of music listening. For your reading pleasure, I will share with you what music our staff here at 95.7 the Spin have listened to this year.
I’ll start off with my Spotify Wrapped. I had a whopping 243,195 minutes, meaning 168 days! Now before you go and think I'm crazy, there’s a reason I have so many minutes; I like to listen to music at night so I often have my Spotify running all night so the minutes add up over time. My top artists this year starting from the bottom up were: Green Day, Skillet, NAOKI, Shinedown, and lastly Gorillaz with by far the most minutes listened at 27,189.
My top five songs for the year were:
Empire Ants - Gorillaz
Shout - Tears for Fears
Stylo - Gorillaz
Outcast - Shinedown
Fake Plastic Trees - Radiohead
Our Station Manager: Jude also uses Spotify and his Wrapped was very alternative, considering that was his top genre as well. He listened to 30,482 minutes this year, or 21 days of music! His favorite artists were: The Tragically Hip, Talking Heads, Megadeth, Incubus, and lastly his #1… The Smashing Pumpkins.
His top five songs this year were:
Once in a Lifetime - Talking Heads
Mayonaise - The Smashing Pumpkins
Mr. Brightside - The Killers
Trippin’ on a Hole in a Paper Heart - Stone Temple Pilots
Monkey Gone to Heaven - Pixies
Lastly, we have Rhileous our Program Director. They use Apple Music and for their Apple Music Replay they listened to over 1,047 unique artists this year. Their top four artists from #4 to #1 were: Kreator, ABBA, Alice Cooper, and finally, Ghost with over 7,000 minutes listened.
Their top four songs this year are:
Con Clavi Con Dio - Ghost
Faith - Ghost
Rats - Ghost
Zenith - Ghost
Those are some of our staff’s music tastes from this year! If you would like to tell us what your Spotify Wrapped or other Music summaries were for this year, then check out our socials @957thespin for our Music Unwrapped post!
