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Using Youtube Music lately has given me a monthly insight to what my top played tracks are, top artists, etc. It's like a mini wrap every month and it's actually really nice instead of the yearly thing. I thought I'd document what Youtube Music has had to say about it.

I constantly listen to music. Depending on the task I am doing will effect what kind of music I listen to. However my usual go to's will always (for the most part) be metal, nu metal, and other kinds of metal too. On the occasions when I am writing or coding is a different story.

July - August 2025 Recap

  • Top Artists - Red Hot Chili Peppers, Sierra Ferrell, Turnpike Troubadours, Lana Del Rey, David Ferguson
  • Most Played - Around the World, Red Hot Chili Peppers. Mountain Banjo, Rhiannon Giddens. Made in Japan, Buck Owens Gin Smoke and Lies, Turnpike Troubadours. It Aint' Me Babe, Timothée Chalamet and Monica Barbaro.
  • Top Albums - The music of Red Dead Redemption 2: Housebuilding. Pink Floyd, The Wall. Alex G, Headlights. Destruction Age, Akiaura and LONWN

Brain Scratchers

A lot of songs tend to get over played, all because they scratch some interesting part of my brain. So here are this months brain scratchers.

  1. Around the World, Red Hot Chili Pepper
  2. Gin, Smoke, and Lies, Turnpike Troubadours
  3. Headlights, Alex G
  4. Appalachian Woman, Caledonia

Opinions on Streaming Platforms

Since I was twelve, maybe thirteen, I had always used Spotify and right into my Junior year of high school. I realized that I had been using it so much, and at that time it was way different than what it is now, I decided to invest into it by buying premium. Getting rid of the ads, getting the option of freely picking whatever song and downloading music to be able to listen offline. However, it wasn't until I had graduated and was around nineteen that I noticed a change in my Spotify.

The weekly discovery playlists had started to push more of the music I had heard on Tik Tok. It wasn't like those songs are bad, but they were no where near my taste of music, quite the opposite. No longer was I being recommended music based on my actual taste and what I had been recently listening to the week before, but now AI was starting to creep it's way inside the streaming service. A lot more playlists were being recommended to me that were created by AI, there was a whole DJ station (which don't get me started on) that was solely AI, and many other stuff by AI. I noticed it had stopped being about the listener and more about the crazes of AI and so called "trending" music at the time. By the beginning of 2025, I noticed that I actually hadn't heard anything new that was outside of my regular music bubble.

In short, I want to try other streaming platforms. I had used Apple Music for a very little bit, and while at the time it wasn't a bad expiernece I didn't have enough use of it to really make a solid opinion. I was also seventeen and a boyfriend was paying it for me and I had been an avid Spotify user.