Being a nerd, I love using nerd tools to analyze things.  One of the nerd tools I have been using for the past five years is last.fm.  This site tracks (scrobbles) all the songs played on my computer, iPod, iPhone etc. Sure, it doesn’t get all of them and sometimes it messes up, but it does a pretty decent job.

Here are the top ten tracks I listened to in 2010 according to last.fm:

1
Flo Rida – Low
24
2
P!nk – So What
23
3
Train – Hey, Soul Sister
17
4
P!nk – Sober
14
4
Norwegian Recycling – Acoustic Alchemy free download
14
4
Kevin Fowler – Pound Sign (#?*!)
14
7
P!nk – Just Like a Pill
13
7
Howie Day – Collide
13
7
P!nk – Stupid Girls
13
7
P!nk – Bad Influence
13

A couple of observations:

Flo Rida coming in #1 was a surprise at first, but it make sense as I introduced the song to the boys midway through the year and they always requested it on our drive into Scouts – and often it wasn’t just once a trip.

The abundance of tracks by P!nk doesn’t surprise me in the least.  I like her music and listen to it often.  In fact, when I go to my All-Time chart, the most popular track is Stupid Girls and her tracks are littered throughout that chart as well.

Train coming in at #3 with Hey, Soul Sister is a surprise to me because I really disliked the song when it first came out.  It sounded too much like a whitey trying to act ghetto.  The song grew on me mainly because it was played so darn often and once I listened to the lyrics, it turned out to be a good track.

Norwegian Recycling came as no surprise because I sorta introduced the family to mashups in 2010 and Acoustic Alchemy was one of the family favorites.  It is a masterpiece.

Kevin Fowler’s Pound Sign was a track I liked the first time I heard it and frankly, I just went back to it when I was searching around for something to entertain.

Mashups played a role in Howie Day’s song, Collide making it into my most-listened list for 2010 as I never heard it until it was part of a mashup that Manny sent me.  I loved it in the mashup and finally researched the lyrics, found the artist and track, and downloaded to see if I like the original.  I did.  It was late in the year when I found it so for it to make the top 10 is surprising with such a short time.

The numbers of all the tracks are surprisingly low and I think that is because my library is so large.  I had thousands of listens this year (over 43,000 since 1995) and less than 100 songs were played more than 5 times in 2010.

So, who did you play the grooves off last year?  Who will be the big winners in 2011?  Is this just crazy to care?