I am a pretty obsessive tracker. I record every show I see on Concert Archives, movies I watch on Letterboxd, records I own on Discogs, and of course I have multiple spreadsheets and apps for my workouts. Of course, I have to track the songs I listen to as well, for which I use Last.fm. As you can see, I'm getting pretty close to 100,000 scrobbles (Last.fm speak for "songs listened to"), and my obsessive nature has me itching to get to that completely pointless milestone.

For someone who is so obsessed with music, 15 scrobbles a day is pretty low. That's only partially due to the fact that I listen to a lot of music where tracks that are 10-25 minutes long are the norm. The rest is because of the age of my account. I've been using Last.fm consistently for the last eight years. But I actually signed up for it nine years earlier, back in 2009. I don't exactly recall what happened, but it looks like I used it to track 330 songs back in 2009, then completely forgot all about it until the very end of 2017 (which is when, as a Google Music/YouTube Music user, I got jealous of Spotify's annual stats). I've been using it consistently since then, but my account has a full seven years of inactivity. All those years of zero tracks really pulls the daily average down. 

My actual daily average is more like 30-40 songs, which would be even higher if I didn't have to do stupid things like "go to meetings" or "live my actual life." That's no where near high enough to get to 100k tracks before the end of the year - I'd need more like 60-70 tracks per day, and there's only so much grindcore out there. But I figure I can get there by February or so, when I'll begin by annual project of listening to an album I've never heard before each day of the month. And once I hit that 100k goal? Onto the next completely meaningless goal, I suppose. Maybe I'll focus on trying to fix that daily average count.