Me: You can't gamify me, internet. I see your games! Also me: Hot damn, it's the 1st! I can see whic

Me: You can't gamify me, internet. I see your games! 

Also me: Hot damn, it's the 1st! I can see which bands Apple Music said I played the most last month! 

There is no app whose opinion of me I wonder about more than Apple Music's. I want Apple music to have a category for people who listen like I do. I suspect I am deep in the flâneur quadrant of music listeners. I play so many bands that even my most played bands don't amount to that much. 

For example, in September, my most played band amounted to only 3% of my total play time. I suspect this is unusual? But I have no idea really. I like to think it is.

My most played bands in September, if you're curious: The Budos Band, Beck and Juliana Hatfield.

In August: The Budos Band, Iron & Wine and Phoebe Bridgers.

In July: Lera Lynn, Avalon Emerson, Harumi Nomoto Trio (this year has marked a bit of a turn to straight instrumental music — no clue why).

The Budos Band has been a recent discovery. I was listening to The Mix-Up by The Beastie Boys and really digging it, so I asked ChatGPT to tell me some similar albums by less culturally thunderous acts. It gave me a bunch of recommendations, but Budos has stuck.