Here it is, my annual Top-Played Songs post! I’m going to take a deep dive into what music I downloaded, bought, and streamed in 2022. Let’s go!
Music Library Stats
Changes in Methodology
This year, I added about 900 songs to my personal music library. That’s down slightly from last year. As always, I got most of the songs from the Freegal library service, with the rest being purchases from Amazon’s Digital Music Store. I’d say it was a pretty good year in music.
I reused the tally method that I developed last year, where I combine my play counts from iTunes and the Musicolet app to determine my top songs. This time around, I shook things up by watching the song rankings unfold in real time. Every three months, I tallied up my play counts and published the results on Twitter. I did my final tally on November 6 instead of sometime in December to give myself more time to work on this post.
While it was a fun experiment in theory, it turned out to be slightly boring in practice. Other than the order, the very top songs barely changed. I guess I played those songs so much that it was practically impossible for anything else to break through. I don’t know if I’ll do this again. Maybe I’ll do something less frequent, like a six-month check-in.
Top Songs
Now, here are my Top-Played Songs of 2022:
Two things become immediately obvious. First, all of the songs are K-Pop. This is the second year in a row where that’s been the case. I did enjoy several non-K-Pop albums—Beyoncรฉ’s Renaissance, Mariah Carey’s Caution, Doja Cat’s Planet Her, Adele’s 30, Lizzo’s Special, and the three Fifty Shades of Grey soundtracks—but I didn’t play any of those songs enough for them to rank.
Second, the guy group NCT (and its various subunits) is 2022’s undisputed MVP. Not only do they have the top song of the year, but they account for ten of the sixteen songs on the list: four from NCT 127, three from NCT U, two from NCT Dream, and one from WayV.
Becoming an NCTzen has been in the works for a long time. It began when I heard NCT 127’s “Limitless” and “Fire Truck” on Spotify a few years ago. I didn’t connect with the group again until SuperM came along and properly introduced me to Taeyong, Mark, Ten, and [redacted]. I got pulled farther into their world when I borrowed some of their albums from the library. The final nail came after I laughed myself silly watching The NCT Show on YouTube. Oh, they had me good!
I’m going to spend a fair amount of words in this post rambling about NCT. It’s unavoidable. To be fair, though, I’m going to gloss over most of their entries and highlight some of the other artists on the list.
First Place
NCT 127’s “Favorite (Vampire)” is my top-played song of 2022. I listened to it 128 times. That’s a good 20-30 more plays than my top songs have had since 2018 when 2PM’s “Take Off” had the exact same number of plays.
The Ilichils are, hands down, my favorite NCT subunit. I love those guys. They’re fantastic performers, with tons of style, swagger, charm, and versatility. Every member brings something special and essential to the table. Sure, I have a bias or four, but I genuinely like all nine of them. Moreover, their antics on- and offstage are a constant source of amusement. I never know what shenanigans they’ll get into next.
I officially got into 127 during their Favorite album era. I bought “Favorite (Vampire)” in November 2021, shortly after it was released. I think I truly fell in love with the song after I saw the guys perform it on The Kelly Clarkson Show. It was so exciting, watching them crush it on American TV.
That December, “Favorite (Vampire)” was my sixth top-played song of the year. But that wasn’t the end. After I reset my play counts in January 2022, it immediately shot back up the list. It was at #1 by June and refused to budge for the rest of the year.
This song has such a hold on me because it’s exquisite from start to finish. I love the music. One minute there’s this fairytale-like tune with angelic whistling and vocalizations. Then BOOM! That sick bass line kicks in. I always crank the volume so I can get the full effect of that transition.
The lyrics, which are translated in the music video, are deep. The guy is involved with a distant, possibly toxic, woman (“Loving you is incomplete and dangerous”), but he’s willing to put up with her ways (“In this disastrous night, I take the price for wanting you”) because he’s so in love with her (“I love you and love you/I want to hurt even more desperately in this destiny”). Whew!
And let’s have a hand for the amazing music video too. That dance move where they hold their belts and pelvic thrust back and forth is quite a way to start things off! Very on brand for them. Their outfits are gorgeous too. The โTRAGICโ black-and-gold uniforms are classy and fancy, while the beautiful colors and bold patterns of their “POETIC” outfits give off an African vibe that they all wear well.
The most memorable moments, however, are Yuta sitting in a bathtub full of blood, Taeyong’s cute mullet, Jaehyun with fang marks on his neck, and Doyoung all dolled up during the bridge.
The grossly underrated “Sit Down!,” which comes in at #12 with 59 plays, is a repeat offender as well. It first popped up on my radar in 2020 when I was trying out the Amazon Music Unlimited service and casually dipping my toes into 127’s music. AMU’s “My Year In Review” for 2020 put it at #7. I eventually bought it, and it became my tenth top-played song of 2021.
“Sit Down!” is so good. With those little bleep-bloops against that trap-influenced beat, it’s hard to listen to it without wanting to do some light twerking. I was so happy when they used the song in some of the promotional YouTube Shorts for their 2 Baddies album.
My favorite part is Johnny’s catchy spoken lines, “Don’t get up/Don’t stand up/Please don’t put your hand up/And don’t make me tell you again.” The way he says it, all bossy-like, is very attractive. I also like the sassy way that Doyoung sings, “I smell some jealousy~” in the second verse.
Fifth Place
Although “Don’t Stop” from ATEEZ began 2022 at the top of my list, it ends the year at #5 with 75 plays. Still not bad. Clearly, my love for them is still going strong.
When the group announced that they would be releasing a new song through the Universe app, I knew from my previous experience with MONSTA X—who did the same thing with “Kiss or Death,” my #9 song this year—that it wouldn’t be available on Freegal with the rest of their Korean discography. I didn’t sweat it. I was more than happy to plop down that $1.29 on Amazon.
“Don’t Stop” surprised me. It’s so fresh, so different from their previous stuff. They’re evolving and I like it. Just like the other times they’ve unexpectedly switched up their sound, however, it suits them. An Arabian flavor weaves through the beat, creating an exotic atmosphere that practically screams “pirate.” It’s also blessedly bass-heavy.
I do wish they’d tone down the amount of autotune/distortion, which makes it harder to distinguish between the members sometimes. But they use that effect so much in their songs that I’ve learned to live with it.
The music video for “Don’t Stop” is so cool. They don’t dance or sing. They act out a mini movie. The group splits up for separate missions: a kidnapped and tied up Mingi is dropped off in the desert; San and Wooyoung are playing poker in a back room with a large, shady guy; Hongjoong is angrily setting his house on fire; and Seonghwa, Yeosang, Yunho, and Jongho are breaking into a pawn shop.
They’re collecting things like a deed, a telescope, and a box full of gold, which are apparently related to a pirate ship. I have no idea what’s going on beyond that. Are they reclaiming stuff that was stolen from them, or are they gathering stuff that they need for a journey? I don’t know. Either way, it’s enjoyable to watch.
“Wonderland (Symphony #9 from The Wonderland)” from their time on the Kingdom: Legendary War show is another notable ATEEZ song. It got as high as #6 before dropping off the list after June. The original “Wonderland” had always been a top fave, but I couldn’t go back to that version after I heard the epic “Symphony #9.” It adds a bunch of pirate-y sound effects like a screeching kraken, a crew working on a ship’s deck, and a horn-filled “Anchors Away!” sample.
The highlight, however, is Jongho’s reworked part in the bridge. He soars up three impressive steps past the single high note he did in the original. The entire song briefly pauses in the face of his power. Gives me chills!
Sixth Place
“Touchรฉ,” a song by the solo male artist WOODZ, comes in at #6, though it technically has 75 plays like “Don’t Stop” (alphabetical order and all that). The song managed to hold its own well against the NCT onslaught. It bounced between #2 and #3 throughout the year before settling at its ultimate position.
I learned about WOODZ from a random Twitter conversation I stumbled into where the participants were discussing his song “Feel Like.” I’m always on the lookout for new artists, so I headed over to YouTube and gave the song a listen.
Instant like! I was entranced by his beautiful voice. It’s sweet, smooth, and melodic, well-suited to singing about love, lust, and loss. But don’t get it twisted—he has zero problems hitting those high notes (see “Accident”) or busting a rhyme (try “Trigger”) when he wants to. Plus, his R&B-infused pop songs themselves are wonderful. I often listen to them on a loop.
For some reason, “Touchรฉ” (featuring Moon) hit me the hardest. It features this slinky guitar twang that vaguely reminds me of a James Bond theme, though the song itself is about a broken relationship. Based on the translation I read on Color-Coded Lyrics, I gather that the song’s male narrator (aka WOODZ) can’t figure out why his relationship feels so off. The female narrator (aka Moon) flat out tells him the answer: “I don’t love you anymore.”
Hence the โtouchรฉโ: he hurts her by essentially blaming her for everything, so she hurts him back with those words. WOODZ’s delivery is perfect. It sounds like he’s trying to be calm about the situation but his emotions keep breaking through. The way that he repeatedly whispers “touchรฉ” during the chorus reads like he’s replaying the conversation on a loop in his mind.
WOODZโs other song “Waiting” didn’t fare as well as “Touchรฉ” against NCT. It was at #10 during the January-March period and at #13 during the April-June period, but it dropped off sometime after that.
Nevertheless, “Waiting” is a terrific song. There’s something so vulnerable and heartbreaking about the way WOODZ sings it, especially the line in the chorus “Why you make me crazy?” and the later vocalization that sounds like he’s crying out in frustration. I get emotional during that song, for real. Every time I listen to it, he has me wanting to yell, “Yeah, why is she making him cry?!” The brilliantly dramatic music video doesn’t help either.
I also enjoyed WOODZ’s most recent EP Colorful Trauma. I was admittedly nervous when I learned that he planned to lean more into rock territory with it. I’m not the biggest rock fan most of the time, and it wasn’t the kind of music I wanted from him.
However, the wonderful lead single “I hate you” assuaged any doubts I had. He found the right balance: the songs are certainly built on a punk rock base, but at their core, they’re the same ol’ R&B-infused pop that I love from him. The rest of the album is wonderful too, with “Better and Better” being my top fave.
Ninth Place
MONSTA X may have lost their MVP title to NCT this year, but they’re still my MVP Runner-up with two songs, the single “Kiss or Death” and “Mercy” from their NO LIMIT EP.
“Kiss or Death” is at #9 with 68 plays, though it got as high as #4 during the January-March period. I bought the single on Christmas Day 2021 when I picked up MX’s The Dreaming and NO LIMIT albums from Amazon’s Digital Music Store as my gifts to myself. I almost skipped it. I’d only heard it once or twice, so I wasn’t sure how much I actually liked it. But I went for it. Glad I did. It became one of my all-time favorite MX songs.
“Kiss or Death” is the very definition of a bop. I literally bop my head throughout the song, albeit at different speeds. Joohoney and I.M’s back-to-back, rapid-fire rhymes at the beginning of both verses require more of a fierce head bang, whereas Minhyuk, Hyungwon, Shownu, and Kihyun’s pre-chorus, chorus, and bridge sections are more of a leisurely, mid-tempo nod. I like the music so much that I would probably buy an instrumental version of it.
Lyrically, the song is about a man who’s lusting after a woman who’s pushing him to his limits with her teasing. According to Genius’s translation, the chorus says, “I clearly can’t deny you, kiss or deathโฆYou dig deeper, burning my heart up even more/My senses keep rising up and I can’t handle it.” The game is simultaneously fun and frustrating. The more she gives him, the more he wants. Flirty!
Then there’s “Mercy,” my #14 song with 53 plays. I truly love NO LIMIT. It’s one of their best albums. Of the three tracks that graced the list at one point or another, “Mercy” is the only one that survived the year. Oh, how it utterly destroys me! Not only do Joohoney and I.M slap me across the face with their excellent verses, but the one-two punch of Hyungwon and Minhyuk’s beautifully melancholy voices and the raw plea in Kihyun’s flawless delivery as he sings the chorus is almost too much for my poor heart to handle. Props to Hyungwon and his pen on this one!
I have to mention some of their solo work too. Kihyun killed it with his Voyager and Youth releases! Both albums have zero skips. They’re mostly full of energetic and heartfelt pop/rock tracks, like my personal faves “Rain” and “‘Cause of You.”
The genre he chose is quite different from MX’s hip-hop-heavy style, but he owns it like a total boss. Listening to him oh-so-casually flex his remarkable skills, especially the rare moments when he lets his voice completely off the leash, is so satisfying. I would humbly request that he do more collabs with Hyungwon. Hyungwon’s songs really fit Kihyun’s voice like a glove.
I.M, on the other hand, was a guest on Heize’s song “Distance” from her fabulous album Undo. As you may already know, Heize featured heavily on my 2020 list back. Her albums are automatic buys for me.
When I heard that she was collaborating with I.M, I just about lost my crap! Heize and I.M? One of my favorite solo female singers and my MX bias? Making a song together?! The possibilities were exciting. The reality is even sweeter. Their song is a reggae-influenced break-up song where she sang in that angelic voice of hers and he rap-sang an incredible verse in that smoky tone of his. I enjoy every second of it.
Tenth Place
Stray Kids’ “Venom” is at #10 with 64 plays. I got into SKZ back in 2020 thanks to a Freegal playlist that included their song “God’s Menu.” The next thing I knew, I had collected most of their albums from the service. Nowadays, I fall somewhere between a casual listener and a full-blown STAY: I like the group and I’m always eager for their new releases, but their music tends to be hit-or-miss for me overall.
That said, ODDinary falls solidly into the “HIT” category in my opinion. That EP is FIRE! I like almost every song. “Maniac” is a terrific lead single. It even briefly appeared on the list during the July-September period.
“Venom,” the EP’s opening track and subsequent single, is better. That creepy plinky sound that mimics a spider crawling around, that simple and repetitive “Geomichul!” chorus, that crazy beat—it all just works. And if there’s one thing that SKZ does exceptionally well, it’s rap. Changbin, Felix, Hyunjin, and Han go in hard on that bridge. I often rewind the song just to hear that section again, it’s that mesmerizing.
“Venom” isn’t SKZ’s first time on my list, though. “Red Lights,” Bang Chan and Hyunjin’s subunit track from the group’s NOEASY album, was #12 in 2021. The song almost made a comeback this year. It hovered around the bottom of the list for the first half of the year.
People don’t talk about “Red Lights” enough. I didn’t realize how much versatility the group has until I heard this song. It’s worlds away from the vibe they projected with “God’s Menu” or “Back Door.” It has tough guitar riffs, sensual violins, breathy singing, and steamy lyrics.
The (lightly) erotic music video takes things even farther. Bang Chan and Hyunjin are choking each other, writhing in chains on their beds, and gazing suggestively at each other across a loaded dinner table. Even the choreography, in which the chains are also incorporated, is intricate and seductive. My head nearly exploded the first time I saw it.
Sixteenth Place
Last but not least is “Pirate” from Everglow, the lone female artist to rank this year. It has 50 plays.
Even though I don’t listen to a lot of girl groups these days, I’ve enjoyed their recent singles “Bon Bon Chocolat,” “La Di Da,” and “First.” When “Pirate” was released, I gave the MV a looksee. And once again, they DID THAT! I immediately downloaded it from Freegal and listened to it so much that it reached #5. Unfortunately, “Pirate” got pushed down until it barely made the cut.
I think the chorus is what got me. I couldn’t stop singing, “‘Cuz I’m a pirate yeah yeah/A pirate yeah yeah.” It’s addictive. Of course, I was so busy singing that part that it took me a minute to realize why the ladies call themselves pirates.
Check out the lyrics, “Girls all over the world/Dance tonight/And we could be anything, anything.” They’re saying to women, “Don’t wait for things to be given to you. Be like a pirate and take what you want.” The catchy chant, pulsing club beat, and powerful message join forces to create one hell of a good song.
Sadly, the only other female artist (and the only J-Pop song) that came close to making the list is LiSA and her Demon Slayer anime theme, “Akeboshi.” “Akeboshi” was at #12 during the January to March period only.
I had just started reading the Demon Slayer manga when I started hearing about the anime and its quality opening and ending themes. I checked them out for myself and the rumblings were right—all of the songs are great.
However, none of them quite lived up to LiSA’s epic first theme “Gurenge” until I heard “Akeboshi.” LiSA sounds like a true rock goddess, like a disciple from the school of Ayumi Hamasaki and Mika Nakashima. The range of her deceptively soft voice continues to blow me away. Plus, I love the juxtaposition of the modern guitars and the traditional Asian instruments.
Streaming Music Stats
Spotify Wrapped Stats
Here are my Spotify stats for 2022:
I listened to a lot more Spotify this year than in the previous years: 2,827 minutes. That’s 2,200 minutes more than in 2021. The reason for the spike is that many of the new albums and artists I wanted to hear weren’t available on Freegal or hoopla and I couldn’t afford to buy them. As a result, I listened to a lot of Spotify’s “This isโฆ” playlists.
My Top Artist is NCT 127. No way! (/sarcasm/) I spent 688 of those 2,827 minutes on Spotify listening to the subunit.
Fellow NCT subunits WayV and NCT Dream are my #2 and #4 artists respectively.
I got into WayV around August. I’d caught glimpses of them from their songs on the NCT group albums, “Nectar” and “Miracle.” I liked what I saw. Literally. They’re all super talented and super attractive. I began to wonder if the rest of their music was as good.
Despite my initial hesitations about getting into C-Pop given my lack of knowledge about Chinese languages and culture, I watched their music videos and streamed their songs. As it had with J-Pop and K-Pop, none of my worries ultimately mattered because the music was dope! Thus, WayV became the first official C-Pop artist in my music library.
Honestly, it took me awhile to warm up to NCT Dream. I discovered them in May, sometime in the midst of their Glitch Mode and Beatbox eras. I was interested in the subunit because of Mark and Haechan (who are also in 127), but everyone seemed kinda young, and I assumed that their music would be too bubblegum pop-ish for me.
I wasn’t in their target audience, so I was about to move on. Then I fell in love with “Glitch Mode.” Then I fell in love with “Hot Sauce.” Then I realized that I may have misjudged and dismissed Dream too quickly. So, I went back and streamed their albums. Lo and behold, the music clicked for me and I became a fan. I can’t believe I almost fumbled that one!
The other two artists are Tomorrow X Together (#3) and SHINee (#5).
TXT is a new-to-me group. I’ve been dabbling in their music since last year when I borrowed some of their albums from hoopla. But I didn’t seriously start listening to them until I checked out a physical copy of their Japanese EP Chaotic Wonderland from the library earlier this year and fell in love with their song “0x1=LOVESONG (I Know I Love You).”
Their discography is absolutely solid! I added “MOA” to my list of Multi affiliations with quickness. I was so gone on them that I even suffered through two hours of early morning news segments to watch them perform on Good Morning America. I can’t wait to buy their albums.
SHINee, on the other hand, is an old favorite. In fact, “Lucifer” was the first K-Pop song I ever bought. I faithfully stanned themโฆuntil Jonghyun died. I didn’t know how to deal with that situation. I didn’t want to deal with it. So, I disengaged with the group. Out of sight, out of mind.
This year, I decided to face my emotions and start listening to their music again. I had missed a lot of material over the years, both group and solo releases. I loved their latest album/repackage Don’t Call Me/Atlantis, especially the title tracks and the B-sides “Attention” and “Marry You.” It’s still hard sometimes, counting four instead of five, but the joy of rediscovering the group has been worth it.
As for my Top Songs, all five songs are from NCT 127. The song I played the most was “Lemonade.” I listened to it nine times. I have no idea how I came to love that song so much. All I know is that nobody can say the word “lemonade” in front of me. Without fail, I will launch into the song. The song sank that deeply into my subconscious. People probably think I’m nuts.
As usual, Spotify throws in some interesting extra information about my music habits. My listener type is “The Replayer,” and my tags are “familiarity, timelessness, loyalty, and uniqueness” or “FTLU.”
In a nutshell, I’m a “comfort listener” who sticks with the same songs and artists. I can’t argue with that. I have like three playlists that I don’t deviate from much. I’m not ashamed of that fact, nor do I see myself changing in the future.
YouTube Music Stats
After we finally got unlimited phone data this year, I started watching a lot more music videos on YouTube. This naturally led to me discovering YouTube Music, Google’s music streaming service. I was happy with Spotify, so I didn’t bother with it right away.
I changed my mind after I started getting irritated with certain elements of Spotify’s UI and the limitations of its free tier. I like YouTube Music (YTM). I can play songs and albums on demand for free if I watch an ad or two between them. Like Amazon Music Unlimited, it integrates music videos into the service too, though I have documented several problems with being served the right video. Both of those features are worth their weight in gold for me.
Another valuable aspect of YTM is that it has its own version of Spotify Wrapped. These Recaps, as they’re called, cover the songs I listen to on the service and the videos I watch on YouTube each season of the year. Therefore, I was able to watch the progress of my top songs on the service like I was doing with my own music library.
Summer Recap
Here are my Recap results for the summer months:
At that point, I had streamed music for 2,344 minutes on YTM.
My Top Summer Artist is NCT 127. I’m absolutely shocked! (/more sarcasm/) The rest of the artists were all NCT subunits except for SuperM, who came in fifth place. That makes sense given how much I love that group. I rewatch their music videos at least once a week.
All of my Top Summer Songs are from NCT. NCT 127’s “gimme gimme” is at #1. I’ve been wearing the music video out since I first saw it. Since I started using YTM, I’ve been doing the same thing with the audio version. I want to buy the song, but 127’s Japanese albums aren’t available digitally on Amazon, and I don’t have access to iTunes right now.
My Top Summer Playlist is NCT Dream’s “Glitch Mode – The 2nd Album Official Audio.” After I bought “Glitch Mode” and decided to try more Dream music, I listened to a YouTube playlist that contained “music videos” for each song on Glitch Mode. I wasn’t using YTM at that time, so that was the best way to see what other songs I liked from the album.
As for my Top Summer Album, I was surprised to see DPR IAN’s Moodswings In To Order in the role. I couldn’t figure out how YouTube knew how much I had played it. I got the album from Freegal and listened to it offline.
Then I remembered that I had watched the music and official audio videos for the album when it first came out. Since I was listening to individual NCT songs more than any specific album of theirs, I can see how YTM concluded that MITO was my top album. No complaints here. He’s an awesome artist and it’s an amazing album.
Fall Recap
Somehow I missed my Fall Recap, so I don’t have my full stats for that time period. What I do have is the 100-song playlist that YTM made of my Top Fall Songs. Here are the top five songs:
Seeing as four of the five songs are from NCT 127, it’s safe to say that they are my Top Fall Artist. WayV is responsible for the remaining song, “Bad Alive (English Version),” so they are probably #2 again.
My Top Fall Song is NCT 127’s “Simon Says.” It was #2 on my Summer Recap. I don’t remember exactly how I first got into this song. I guess I found it when I was running through all of their music videos. In any case, I became obsessed with it for a time.
The runner-up is 127’s “2 Baddies” from their new album of the same name. Seeing as the thumbnail for the song is a still from the music video rather than an image of the album cover, I assume that YTM means that I watched the video more than I listened to the song. Yeah, probably. I played the music video for that song two times in a row the second it was released and I’ve watched it almost daily since then.
Year-End Recap
At the end of November, YTM released my final music stats for the year:
In 2022, I listened to YTM for a total of 7,866 minutes. That’s 5,039 minutes more than on Spotify and over 5,500 minutes more than I had logged during the summer.
My Top Artist is NCT 127. I spent 1,889 of those 7,866 minutes listening to them. That’s more than twice the amount of time I listened to them on Spotify. The rest of the list remained mostly NCT-filled, though NCT Dream took NCT U’s spot at #3 and pushed them down to #4.
There’s also a shake-up at #5, with Stray Kids replacing SuperM. That probably happened because I watched the music videos for “Maniac” and “Venom” like crazy on YouTube and I listened to my new faves “Taste” and “3Racha” a bunch of times on YTM since I haven’t bought SKZ’s Maxident album yet.
My Top Song for 2022 is NCT 127’s “gimme gimme.” It clawed its way back up the list from #5 during the fall. I listened to it 69 times overall. To put things into perspective, the song would rank at #9 if it’s included on my personal music library’s top-played list, right after their other song “Sticker” (70 plays).
For once, some of the songs on my multiple lists overlap. “Sticker,” “Hot Sauce,” and “Make A Wish (Birthday Song)” appear on YTM’s list and on the one for my music library. “Make A Wish” is nearly in the same position on both lists (#5 versus #4).
When it comes to the similarities between Spotify and YTM’s results, only “gimme gimme” and “Simon Says” appear on both lists. “Sticker,” “Make A Wish,” and “Hot Sauce” aren’t on Spotify’s list because I don’t stream songs that I already own. But they are on YTM’s list because YTM seems to combine music video plays and song play counts. I played those three videos a lot.
An odd statistic from YTM is for a favorite live performance, which goes to 127’s “2 Baddies.” But which performance specifically? I mean, I watched almost every live performance of the song on the music shows like M Countdown and Inkigayo. Plus, there’s a performance version of the song’s music video. Maybe they counted all of those videos together and were just pointing out that I enjoyed watching the live performances. I did. Very, very much.
Lastly, YTM provides some tidbits about my music habits as well. My “music personality” is “The Beats Boss,” because “79% of the songs I listened to were hits” and “61% of my music was amped up.” True. I do tend to listen to upbeat singles more than ballads and whole albums.
It also says that “74% of my listening in 2022 was songs on repeat.” As I’ve already established from Spotify’s similar assessment, that is true too. I can’t help it. I like what I like.
All-in-all, I’m happy with YouTube Music. I’m not sure if I’m ready to choose between it and Spotify just yet. They both have their uses and work well together. I also think I would like to try YTM’s premium version first. On top of that, I still haven’t tried Apple Music.
Conclusion
And that was my year in music for 2022! Until next year!
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