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'After years of waiting, nothing came': My last.fm charts of 2023

'After years of waiting, nothing came': My last.fm charts of 2023

You know what I hate? Annual reviews that are published even before December (looking at you, Spotify Wrapped)! What’s the point of summing up the year with (sometimes less than) approx. 90% of the data? So, with things being what they are, we might have to come up with our own annual reviews. In this case, I want to use my Last.fm listening history for 2023. I have pre-compiled all the so-called “scrobbles” (plays of one track) via Last.

‚Arrest this man, he talks in maths‘ - Animating ten years of listening history on Last.FM

Previously, when Rcrastinate was still on blogspot.com, I had a first look at ten years of my playback history on Last.FM. But there is still a lot one can do with this dataset. I wanted to try {gganimate} for a long time and this nice longitudinal dataset gives me the opportunity. Loading and preparing the data First, I am loading the dataset. I already did some preparations like extracting the top five tags for each track and some other stuff I used in my previous entry.