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music friday 2024

hello. music friday is a kind of musical potluck, where i ask people in various places what their favorite song they listened to that week was, then compile them into playlists. you're probably aware of this if you're reading this. if not, well: that's about all there is to it.

i've been doing this every week since 2022-10-28. this was a thing i did mostly on cohost, but now cohost is not around. i wanted to have somewhere to collect the aggregate stats for all of 2024, though, so: i'm here now. 2025 is, as they say, the year of blogs. (many people are saying this.)

overall stats

there are 299 unique entries for submitters. 35 of these are [LATT]. and then there's a few minor variants that i probably didn't catch on my data cleanup pass.

let's ballpark it at 250 people or so who submitted songs in 2024. that's a lot! folks sent in 1,503 submissions.

if you want to take a look for yourself, you can see the full data here. it's sorted by submitter, so you can easily find yourself and see your past year of music fridays.

top artists from music friday 2024

  1. 13 submissions from 4 people: kendrick lamar
  2. 8 submissions from 8 people: magdalena bay
  3. 7 submissions from 3 people: king gizzard & the lizard wizard
  4. 6 submissions from 6 people: chappell roan
    6 submissions from 5 people: creepy nuts
  5. 5 submissions from 4 people: charli xcx
  6. 4 submissions from 3 people: talking heads
    4 submissions from 2 people: babehoven
    4 submissions from 2 people: man man
    4 submissions from 2 people: sumac
    4 submissions from 1 person: azali
    4 submissions from 1 person: metric
  7. and then there is a 29-way tie for artists who got sent 3 times...
  8. ...a 107-way tie for artists who got sent 2 times...
  9. ...and a 1,091-way tie for artists who only got sent once.

the five songs that tied for most-submitted song at 3 submissions a pop

affliation scoreboard

i get a lot of people very confused by the affiliation. that's okay, sometimes, to live in confusion. here's how everyone did.

  1. [RT]: 399
  2. [CHST]: 258 (eggbug lives forever in our hearts)
  3. [HAUS]: 114
  4. [THCR]: 112
  5. [LORE]: 109
  6. [KLDE]: 107
  7. [HCC]: 99
  8. [∀]: 88
  9. [RHG]: 77
  10. [LATT]: 60
  11. [RNV]: 20
  12. [SLSK]: 19
  13. [HSMT]: 14
  14. [SFPC]: 12
  15. [∅]: 8
  16. [SOFA]: 5
  17. [OPG]: 2

top submitters

  1. [∀] @mrfb (88 songs) (editor's note: eat SHIT, losers)
  2. [RT] @leivathan (70 songs)
  3. [HAUS] jadles (56 songs)
  4. [THCR] chris (44 songs)
  5. [RT] moose @icbmoose (41 songs)
  6. [LORE] @sven-kroosl (40 songs)
  7. [RHG] lee mack (37 songs)
  8. [THCR] @vaklam (36 songs)
  9. [RT] overheater (30 songs)
  10. [HAUS] lior + [LORE] stantium (25 songs)

thank you all for your music curation and data entry labor. i look forward to hearing what everyone was enjoying this year, as well.

whenever you think you've got your song for the week, 📮 send it along.

💖 mrfb

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