Too obsessed with stats

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Ever since I learned about apple replay stats last year I’ve been obsessing about it a lot. Whenever I’m listening to music I’m constantly thinking “is this gonna be my number one song of the month/year?” Or “I wonder who my top artist is gonna be?” I downloaded the stats.fm and when I looked at my top songs this year I stopped listening to them to give other songs a chance because I’m not listening to music “organically” anymore. By that I mean I’ll listen to a song repeatedly because I want it to be my number one song of the month. Amd it ends up being my number one song and I don’t like it because I kind of pushed it be my number one song since I constantly put it on repeat hoping for it to be my number one song. I know it’s a weird problem I have. But it’s hindering my music experience. When I first got Apple Music back in 2023 I didn’t know about stats. So I listened to music “organically” I only found out through my friend last December. Ever since I found out about it I constantly think about it. Whenever I listened to music last year and in 2023 I was listening to my favorite songs/artists alot but I wasn’t constantly thinking about who’s gonna be my top artist/song because I didn’t know about stats. Honestly I wish I didn’t find out because I’ve become obsessed with it. Or at least I wish I could look at my stats and instantly forget about them so I can start listening to music more “organically.”

Posted Sep 3, 2025, 6:29 PM UTC

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