Spotify 20, done better (with Last.fm)

Spotify shared some data with their users for their 20th birthday, or something like this. I’ve not been in Spotify* for quite some time and don’t really know.

Anyway, I saw a post in the Jussi Mäntysaari Substack regarding this and immediately found the Spotify data annoying, just like their “year in music” ones previously.
So I’m doing it better, or the way I like it more anyway. First of all it’s called Listening since it has everything from local files, streams, CDs, vinyl listens from last 10 or so years and so forth (se below for more info) in it. Secondly, I’ve added numbers and other shit that I find more interesting.

Links to few playlists at the end.

Listening/22-ish

First day on Last.fm
15.2.2005, 17:49 (before this is 119 pages with "unknown date", that’s almost 6000 tracks)

Total songs listened to
176,854

First listened song (with a date)
Nekromantix - I'm a ShockStar

Top most listened tracks (unknown date, pre-15.2.2005)
Penance - Born To Suffer
Reverend Bizarre - Aleister
Warhorse - Doom's Bride

Most listened Artists
Clutch (1,165 times)

Most listened Albums
Bongripper - Terminal (312)
Baby Woodrose - Love Comes Down (264)
Golden Void - Golden Void (252)

Few related playlists @ Qobuz (use Soundiiz to export them to your platform):
Shrike's Top Tracks (2004 - 2026)
My annual Top 10 Albums 2005 - 2024 (it’s going to be updated)
Shrike's Best Albums of 2025 - Top 25
My on going This Year I’ve Mostly Listened playlist for 2026

More nerd shit: I’ve been using a web scrobbler extension for a very long time, all kinds of apps, plugins and scripts to send the data automatically, but needed to use the likes of Universal Scrobbler, Open Scrobbler, Vinyl Scrobbler and when it still worked the Discogs app, to send the data.

*I dislike the Spotify platform. Their business model and their owners dubious practices. I went through Tidal, Deezer, the old Google Music and ended up with Qobuz. They are a Hi-Res focused streaming service which pays the best compensation for artists (at the time of writing) and they are European company, French to be exact, which I find nice, as more money ends up in the EU economy.

Also, regarding the numbers and their exactness: There was a time around the 2010’s when I didn’t record my listens all that much; I had a small child, I played a lot of DJ gigs, mainly listened to CDs in-car, so I didn’t really listen to music at home that much which is all missing from said stats.
I think back then I imported a lot of pre-2004 listening data from my WinAmp to Audioscrobbler/Last.fm and this might be where the dateless plays are from, but am not sure if this was the case.