Music
What this is
This is almost a decade of listening history, which means it catches durable taste, private phases and a lot of repetition. Across the full archive, Bladee sits at the top.
Figure 1
The archive
The archive is long enough to show habits, phases and long-running fixations.
150k+
tracks in the archive
7k+
artists represented
17k+
albums represented
Figure 2
Top artists across the archive
The long view puts phase-heavy artists and genuine fixtures next to each other.
Figure 3
Listening by year
The shape of the archive by year.
Top artists over time
| Artist | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bladee | |||||||||||
| Sigur Rós | |||||||||||
| The Radio Dept. | |||||||||||
| The 1975 | |||||||||||
| Johann Sebastian Bach | |||||||||||
| Radiohead | |||||||||||
| Grateful Dead | |||||||||||
| Cocteau Twins |
Genre-family drift
The river uses MusicBrainz artist genres matched by MBID, with no fuzzy artist search. It classifies most of the archive by broad genre family and leaves unclassified artists out.
Electronic / ambient Pop / R&B / dance Rock / indie / folk Dream pop / shoegaze / post-rock Classical / jazz / soundtrack Hip-hop / reggaeton Metal / heavy alternative
Most-played albums
- Clinging to a Scheme · The Radio Dept.
- Tárrega: Recuerdos de la Alhambra;/ Lágrima; Danza mora; Adelita; Pavana; Jota · Francisco Tárrega
- 333 · Bladee
- The Fool · Bladee
- Cold Visions · Bladee
- Good at Falling · The Japanese House
- A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships · The 1975
- X 100PRE · Bad Bunny
Albums I return to
Albums I tend to rinse on repeat, one entry each.
- Drifters / Love is The Devil · Dirty Beaches
- With Gary Peacock · Paul Bley
- ÁTTA · Sigur Rós
- Diego Ortiz: Recercadas del Tratado de Glosas · Jordi Savall
- An Empty Bliss Beyond This World · The Caretaker
- Pistachio Island · Ilkae
- Tárrega: Recuerdos de la Alhambra;/ Lágrima; Danza mora; Adelita; Pavana; Jota · Francisco Tárrega
- Pop · Gas
- One Day · Loidis
- Bach: The Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (1981) - Gould Remastered · Johann Sebastian Bach