My Listening Hours: Statistical Analysis, January–March

As a complement to this post, here's a little statistical breakdown. This is super-anal, I don't even really know what I intend to glean from this, if anything. Nevertheless I find it interesting to look over. In the first twelve weeks of 2009, I listened to 88 different albums at least once from beginning to end.

Those albums' release dates broken down by year and/or decade:

2009: 5
2008: 10
2000–07: 20
1990s: 17
1980s: 5
1970s: 16
1960s: 12
1950s: 3

The same albums broken down by anal-compulsive iTunes genre tags:

Indie Rock: 26
Classic Indie (i.e., indie rock c. 1985–95): 9
60s Rock, Electronic: 7 each
Krautrock: 6
Alternative, Avant-Garde, Metal, Jazz/Dinner Music: 4 each
70s Rock, Brasilia, Country, Oldies, Punk: 3 each
Folk: 2

11 albums spent three or more weeks in rotation:

Five Weeks
Andrew Bird, Noble Beast
Animal Collective, Merriweather Post Pavilion
Dr. Dog, Fate
Faust, Faust IV

Four Weeks
Neko Case, Middle Cyclone
Little Joy, s/t
Wavves, Wavvves

Three Weeks
Andrew Bird, Useless Creatures
David Bowie, Low
Mission of Burma, Signals, Calls, and Marches and Vs.

This year I also began noting the number of times I listened to an album all the way through from beginning to end:

Andrew Bird, Noble Beast: 18
Animal Collective, Merriweather Post Pavilion: 12
Neko Case, Middle Cyclone: 10
Wavves, Wavvves: 7
Dr. Dog, Fate; Faust, Faust IV; Little Joy,  s/t; Mission of Burma, Vs.: 5 each