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I love the number 31. This is because my favourite NBA basketball player of all time - Reggie Miller - wore it.

I logged onto last.fm just after midnight ticked over from 2012 into 2013 and I opened up all of my charts for the previous 12 months. I want to present them, but I don't want to give you information overload.

Combine these two little snippets of information and it becomes obvious what I must do; present my top 31 most played Albums, Artists and Tracks of 2012.

I may also add some commentary here and there.

Note well that this is not my subjective ranked favourite stuff that was released in 2012, but rather just the raw number of listens (of stuff from all time periods) that I scrobbled.

New releases are tagged with *NEW*.
Bands I saw live (in 2012) are tagged with *SAW*

Albums:
1. Jack White – Blunderbuss (137 plays) - *NEW*
2. The Shins – Port of Morrow (132 plays) - *NEW*
3. Alabama Shakes – Boys & Girls (126 plays) - *NEW*
…

To keep with tradition, here is the bookkeeping on my scrobbles from 2012.
Some quick notes up front: This was my first year relying almost 100% on Spotify for my music. Spotify Premium allowed me to have my synced playlists on my phone at all times, likely allowing more plays than usual. Even with the incredible ease-of-access of music, I still feel like I wasn't as "into" or "on top of" music this year as usual.

10 Most Played Artists:
1. Hammock - 792 (893 overall, #7)
2. Every Time I Die - 393 (527 overall, #23)
3. Enter Shikari - 250 (250 overall, #74)
4. The Dillinger Escape Plan - 192 (604 overall, #21)
5. Sleigh Bells - 186 (504 overall, #26)
T-6. Helios - 167 (167 overall, #114)
T-6. Passion Pit - 167 (407 overall, #34)
8. Yeasayer - 163 (322 overall, #54)
9. Crystal Castles - 154 (657 overall, #16)
10. Animal Collective - 133 (1,272 overall, #2)

Hammock not only ran away with the most plays by an artist this year…

BEST OF 2012
Mais um ano se passou e estou aqui novamente (como diz jr. wannabe blair freitas) me achando O crítico. Meu ano foi legalzinho, um tanto monótono, um tanto triste, me distanciei de várias pessoas queridas, perdi algumas mas também ganhei novos amigos, houve várias mudanças, boas e ruins, como eu passando a comer mais coisa saudável e parando com os refrigerantes, e eu desmaiando toda hora e me sentindo mal most of the time, houveram minhas paixonites usuais e minhas angústias, minha raiva e minhas tristezas, minhas alegrias e minhas diversões, enfim, foi um bom ano razoavelmente, agradeço a quem me ajudou o ano todo, a quem me fez companhia, a quem me animou e a quem continua meu amigo depois de tanta coisa e tanto tempo e me desculpem por ter sumido tanto, vocês sabem o motivo. Esse ano também comecei um (inferno) curso técnico meio que forçado, ou seja, ocupou a maior parte do meu tempo, com curso técnico de manhã, escola à tarde e academia à noite, eu não tinha tempo para nada, além dos trabalhos e tudo mais. …

Here are my favorite 100 songs of 2012. (This list excludes Hip-Hop, for which I've made a separate list: http://www.last.fm/user/aerytwo/journal/2012/12/29/5phqfs_top_40_hip-hop_songs_of_2012). My favorite albums analysis is coming soon!

1. Andrew Bird - Fatal Shore
2. Michael Kiwanuka - Rest
3. The Lumineers - Flowers in Your Hair
4. John Mayer - Queen of California
5. The Shins - It's Only Life
6. Regina Spektor - Don't Leave Me (Ne me quitte pas)
7. The Lumineers - Ho Hey
8. Fiona Apple - Anything We Want
9. Andrew Bird - Orpheo
10. Jack White - Hip (Eponymous) Poor Boy
11. Tennis - Vegas
12. Dirty Projectors - Impregnable Question
13. The Asteroids Galaxy Tour - Ghost in My Head
14. Benjamin Gibbard - Lily
15. The Lumineers - Dead Sea
16. Hospitality - Argonauts
17. Tennis - Origins
18. Fiona Apple - Hot Knife
19. Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros - Dear Believer
20. Dirty Projectors - Swing Lo Magellan
…

1st update: 04 DEC 2012
2nd update: 09 DEC 2012

BEST ALBUMS
1 TWO DOOR CINEMA CLUB, BEACON
2 SHARON VAN ETTEN, TRAMP
3 CAT POWER, SUN
4 LANA DEL REY, BORN TO DIE
5 LADYHAWKE, ANXIETY
6 OF MONSTERS AND MEN, MY HEAD IS AN ANIMAL
7 METRIC, SYNTHETICA
8 JULIA HOLTER, EKSTASIS
9 ORBITAL, WONKY
10 B.O.B, STRANGE CLOUDS
11 Alabama Shakes, Boys & Girls
12 Muse, The 2nd Law
13 The Asteroids Galaxy Tour, Out of Frequency
14 David Byrne & St. Vincent, Love This Giant
15 Kaiser Chiefs, Start Revolution Without Me
16 The Fray, Scars & Stories
17 The Vaccines, Come of Age
18 The Maccabees, Given To The Wild
19 Regina Spektor, What We Saw From Cheap Seats
20 Keane, Strangelands
The Script, #3
Tribes, Baby
Bat For Lashes, The Haunted Man
Fiona Apple, The Idler Wheel...
Jens Lekman, I Know What Love Isn't
Ingrid Michaelson, Human Again
Miike Snow, Happy To You
Of Montreal, Paralytic Stalks
The Killers, Battle Born
Sigur Rós, Valtari


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1 (1) Somebody That I Used to Know
2 (2) Love After War
3 (5) I Won't Give Up
4 (4) California
5 (6) Waking Up Sideways
6 (3) Little Talks
7 (7) Shuffle
8 (14) It's Time
9 (8) Comeback Kid
10 (11) Towers
11 (10) This Isn't Everything You Are
12 (9) Free
13 (12) The A Team
14 (16) Trojans
15 (18) Shadow Days
16 (21) Safe and Sound
17 (17) Chains of Love
18 (22) Call Me Maybe
19 (13) Heavyweight
20 (20) A Thousand Years

New Songs
36 Houdini
37 Hold On
40 What Makes You Beautiful