5 Most Played Artists of 2010

[Maiden33]

Just something I had been giving some thought to, so I figured I'd post this as an open question for everyone. This is open to any/all artists, regardless of if they released anything in 2010, or hell, the past 10 years. I don't expect people to have exact figures (considering even a Last.fm page won't be totally accurate). Just a guess of the 5 artists you listened to the most in the past year.

[street_burial]

1. Chevelle
2. Skeletonwitch
3. Better Than Ezra
4. Hail The Villain
5. Municipal Waste

are the 5 bands i listened to the most this year

[IrritatedTrout]

Just a guess but I'd say:

-Iron Maiden
-Led Zeppelin
-Kiss
-Alice in Chains
-Jethro Tull

[Akumu]

According to my last.fm Last 12 Months chart:

1. Pain of Salvation
2. Kamelot
3. Orphaned Land
4. Seventh Wonder
5. Ihsahn

[Dextrimental]

1: PanterA
2: Slayer
3: Lamb of God
4: Hatebreed
5: Iron Maiden

[Maiden33]

My own list, not ranked:

1) Avantasia
2) Kansas
3) Seventh Wonder
4) Billy Joel
5) Gotthard

Just a guesstimate. Some of the "old favorites" (Maiden/Savatage/Blind Guardian) may have outranked some of these in total plays throughout the course of the year just by habit, but these were definitely the 5 artists that have defined this past year for me in terms of overall listening.

[mankvill]

Most of the music I listen to is scrobbled, sooooooooooooooooo:

1. Radiohead - 904
2. High On Fire - 775
3. Sleep - 453
4. Black Sabbath - 324
5. Iron Maiden - 319
6. Magrudergrind - 315
7. Minor Threat - 313
8. Saint Vitus - 292
9. Converge - 280
10. Lair Of The Minotaur - 273
11. Boris - 258
12. Blind Guardian - 254
13. Overkill - 253
14. Vektor - 242
15. Autopsy - 236
16. Sodom - 232
17. Slayer - 231
18. Judas Priest - 230
18. Metallica - 230
20. Death - 227
21. Bolt Thrower - 217
22. Immolation - 215
23. Ben Folds - 210
23. Megadeth - 210
25. Anaal Nathrakh - 209
26. Asphyx - 202
27. Impaled - 199
28. Windir - 194
28. Revocation - 194
30. Destroyer 666 - 192

[MPF]

I'll have to do it with my itunes since I reset the most plays thing back in January:

1.) Periphery
2.) Torche
3.) Ihsahn
4.) Devin Townsend
5.) Alcest

[larvtard]

according to my last.fm, but it's probably not very accurate anyway.

1) slayer
2) nasum
3) death
4) mastodon
5( high on fire

[Indestructible]

Cant really say, I listen to so much,.


Nevermore
alter Bridge
Stemm
Green Day
His Name Was Yesterday
Fear Factory

[ChildrenofSodom]

Tim McGraw
Between the Buried and Me
Blind Guardian

Lately, its been Allegaeon and Paradise Lost.

[maidenpriest]

Blind Guardian
Iron Maiden
Alter Bridge
Opeth
Avantasia

[ravenheart]

Hmm... difficult. To be honest, I listen to so much stuff in a year that not a lot of bands get much repeat listening. And I have my mp3 player on shuffle all the time.

However, if I had to guess:

Guns N' Roses
Therion
Annihilator
Alice Cooper
Kreator

[TonyD]

I just started using last.fm so I'm gonna estimate, in no order

Torche
Clutch
Megadeth
Queens of the Stone Age

With a steady diet of Baroness, Sabbath, Mastodon, Kyuss and Creedence. I have noticed even before this thread, that I don't listen to Meshuggah almost ever anymore.

[ShatteredFlame]

My last.fm is accurate:
Katatonia - 771
Wolfbrigade - 662
Devin Townsend (though I do scrobble DTB and DTP under this name also) - 605
Asphyx - 521
Wu-Tang Clan - 486

And according to Normalisr - a last.fm app that bases your charts on the amount of minutes I listened to:
Katatonia - 3585 minutes
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - 3351 minutes
Agalloch - 3312 minutes
Devin Townsend - 2994 minutes
Isis - 2759 minutes

[DethMaiden]

Tough without a last.fm, but I'll take a stab:

Blind Guardian
Alcest
Iron Maiden
Coheed and Cambria
Atheist


Maybe something like that, which leaves out tons more.

[mastodon421]

Just a guess, can't say an exact amount
Mastodon
The Dillinger Escape Plan
The Faceless
As I Lay Dying
Between The Buried and Me

[jhdeity]

Mine were either tied into upcoming shows, great new music or just stumbling back upon great old school stuff:

1) Deftones
2) Fear Factory
3) Sadus
4) Sacred Reich
5) High on Fire
6) White Stripes / Dead Weather
7) Godflesh
8) Overkill
9) 40 Below Summer
10) Sodom
11) Hed PE
12) Meshuggah
13) Exhorder
14) At The Drive In
15) Periphery / Bulb
16) Dillinger Escape Plan
17) Shining
18) Glassjaw
19) Death Angel
20) Eminem
21) Anthrax
22) Howl
23) Athiest
24) Bison BC
25) Triptykon
26) Ihsahn
27) Cloudkicker
28) Lair of the Minotaur
29) Hellish Crossfire
30) Danzig
31) Rick Ross
32) Heathen
33) Flotsam & Jetsam
34) Volumes
35) Rob Zombie
36) Vektor
37) Man's Gin
38) Hail of Bullets
39) Mentors
40) Misery Index
41) Agalloch
42) Carnivore
43) Intronaut
44) Mutiny Within
45) Martriden
46) Richard Cheese
47) Spineshank
48) Chimaira
49) Sw1tched
50) Shadows Fall

[smearCampaign]

Deftones
High on Fire
Skeletonwitch
Kylesa
Bassnectar

[idrinkwine732]

As far as time (using normalisr)

Agalloch
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Iron Maiden
Death
Cormorant

As far as plays:

Iron Maiden
Agalloch
Death
Mastodon
Cormorant

[makethemsuffer12]

Taking a wild guess:
Chimaira
Maiden
Devin Townsend
Mastodon
Megadeth

[Sanitarium78]

Rush
Iron Maiden
Nevermore
Dio (including his Rainbow, Sabbath and H&H material)
Alice Cooper

Over the last month I started listening to Avantasia. If I had gotten into them earlier in the year they would probably have made the top five. Since Rush and Maiden are my top two bands of all time, they will always be numbers one and two with me on lists like this.

[hailthecrisis]

Epica
Rush
Nevermore
Sarah Blackwood
The Creepshow
Cancer Bats
Blackguard
Scar Symmetry
Dimmu Borgir
Symphony X

Top Ten.

[SomewhereInTime72]

Hard to tell since only about 1/3 of my music listening is scrobbled to last.fm (rest is on my ipod which isn't set to scrobble or on my stereo). But as a rough guess my top 5 most listened for this year would be:

1. Motoi Sakuraba*
2. Capcom Sound Team*
3. Pain of Salvation
4. Iron Maiden
5. Black Sabbath

*This is completely honest, this was the year where I just listened to a ton of video game music, possibly those two composer's more than any other individual bands. :eyes: The other 3 have more obvious reasons why I might have been heavily into them this year. :tongue:

[JRA]

If I were to guess...

Morbid Angel
Immortal
Dissection
Kreator
Judas Priest

[girnny777]

I only just restarted my last.fm in July, but I'd say it's pretty accurate

Judas Priest
Soilwork
Iron Maiden
Megadeth
Metallica

[DementedX14]

Amon Amarth
Iron Maiden
Soilwork
Rammstein
Opeth
Tool
Pantera
In Flames
Type O Negative
Fear Factory
Nevermore

[Crionics]

Top 10 According to Last FM

1. Iron Maiden
2. Slayer
3. AC/DC
4. Misfits
5. Megadeth
6. Blind Guardian
7. Discharge
8. Bolt Thrower
9. Judas Priest
10. Black Sabbath

[PowerMaiden]

1. Iron Fucking Maiden



















2. Slayer
3. Amon Amarth
4. Anthrax
5. Pink Floyd


Cheers !
PowerMaiden

[Natrlhi]

I have no cool technological way to prove this, so like others I am going to have to venture a guess.

Let's do it this way...I'll just list ten bands I listened to a hell of a lot, in no particular order, and we'll say that the top five is probably in there. :D

High on Fire - they are definitely in the top five - I listen to them when I work out all the time
Lair of the Minotaur - I damn near wore my copy of "Evil Power" the fuck out this year :fist:
Red Sparowes - ditto above comment for LotM...I'm lucky my copy of TFIEBTLTA still plays
Triptykon - listened to the album a ton when I first bought it, and then a bunch more just before (and after) I saw them live :rocker:
The Ocean - between both of their new albums and some listening to their old stuff now and then, I'd say they are a lock for top five as well
Isis - because I always listen to a shitload of Isis, and I played them a lot in tribute when I heard that they were breaking up this year :(
Kylesa - unlike "Static Tensions", their new album had to grow on me - and that took a while, so yeah - lots of playing time...
Howl - one of my favorite new discoveries of this year, I played the shit out of their album
Karma to Burn - most rifftastic album of the year - hands down...this one was my main soundtrack for whenever I drove my Mustang this year :fist:
God Is an Astronaut - their new one just blew me away...it's just so damn smooth it's fucking disgusting...I had that one in my car stero for WEEKS

So, yeah. The top five most played are definitely in that list somewhere. :D

[Wizard in Black 666]

Brokencyde
Good Charlotte
Suicide Silence
Pa Pa Roach
Crazy Town

[MetalIsArt]

Metallica
Led Zeppelin
Black Sabbath
Judas Priest
Dio

[goregutsbleed]

according to my itunes

Dimmu Borgir
Cradle of Filth
Slayer
Five Finger Death Punch
Venom

[illuminatus917]

Alcest

Godspeed You! Black Emperor
A Silver Mt. Zion
Type O Negative
Pink Floyd
Arcade Fire

[hellawaits77ny]

Very cool thread. I'd say I listened to these 5 bands the most in 2010. No particular order :

1) Slayer
2) Cannibal Corpse
3) Biohazard
4) All Shall Perish
5) Pantera

[Wizzbang11]

According to Normalisr:

1. Iron Maiden
2. Arghoslent
3. Mortuary Drape
4. GWAR
5. Voivod

[The Colonel]

Quicksand
Refused
Bouncing Souls
Nasum
Eyehategod

[idrinkwine732]

2. Arghoslent

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