My most played artists of 2017 are...

Dusty Springfield
Sandie Shaw
Cilla Black
Gerry & The Pacemakers (I discovered these artists in late 2016)
+
Pet Shop Boys

 

Big Star
Willis Alan Ramsey
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Wilco
Edward Grieg
Rufus Wainwright
The Korgis
Morphine

 

My most played artists of 2017 are probably the same as my most played artists of 1967, with a few exceptions .

 

REM - 497 plays (first year I got into their albums)
The Beatles - 404 plays (got into them this year actually)
Genesis - 332 plays (no surprise...)
Talk Talk - 250 plays
Kate Bush - 240 plays (new to me this year too)

Really a case I'm moving away from prog year after year - only one pure prog band and two art rock groups which is only a good thing. I love a ton of obscure prog bands but knowing I haven't shoved myself into a genre is good for sure. Genesis would be higher if bootlegs counted though, I listen to the live boots half as much as the studio tracks even.

Runner ups are

Ultravox
OMD
Renaissance
Strawbs (an achievement since I have two albums by them lol)
The Enid

So... still prog but lots of synth pop and 80s stuff, hope next year gives a different list.

 

Megadeth
Radiohead
Tool
Pantera
Katatonia
L.A. Guns

 

Doors
Deep Purple
dire Straits
Black Sabbath
The Cars
Led Zeppelin
The Who
Rush
Fleetwood Mac
Allman Brothers

 

Bob Dylan...for the 41st year in a row.

 

Alan Parsons Project
George Michael
Prince

 

- Mike Oldfield
- Pink Floyd
- The Rolling Stones
- King Crimson
- Radiohead
- Coldplay

 

I have no way of determining a specific number or even saying for sure who tops the list, but I'm gonna guess my top 5 is:

Guided by Voices (I've been binge-listening to their two superb 2017 studio albums and revisiting the "classic era" Matador stuff, which I had been burned out on for a long time)
U2 (in anticipation of their wonderful new studio album I spent a lot of time listening to all of their previous albums, including all the live and "deluxe bonus outtake" stuff I have)
Samiam (listened to nothing but Samiam in the car for most of the year; my work commute was far less painful than usual this year)
The National (was a casual fan for a long time, but this year I became a fanatic)
My Morning Jacket (went on a MMJ bender a few months ago; it turned my frown upside down)

 

Definitely Miles Davis. I probably cycled through the existing 1960 European Tour recordings a couple times. But if you're buying the upcoming Bootleg Series release, you're getting the cream.

 

Who & Entwistle solo
Pretty Things
Strawbs
Move
King Crimson
James Gang & Walsh solo
Flo & Eddie
Mothers & Zappa
BeBop Deluxe
Hollies
Procol Harum
Renaissance
Small Faces

 

The Beatles, Michael Jackson, Culture Club, Boy George, Nirvana, and (the real band that did the music for the fictional group) The Rock-Afire Explosion.

 

Bill Evans

 

Elvis
Courtney Barnett
Grateful Dead
Faces
War on Drugs
Waylon Jennings
Bully
Those Darlins
60's Girl Group Compilations.

 

Top 5 Most Played: in my house/car/yard from 2017.

Blondie
REM
Olivia Newton-John
Andrew McMahon
Tom Petty

 

The Turtles
Flo & Eddie
Ringo Starr
and Supertramp

 

I'd guess my most played is probably Melanie de Biasio, with three really nice records I've been playing constantly all year, No Deal from 2013 (bought the vinyl earlier this year), Blackened Cities EP from last year, and the new Lilies. Yea, she would be hard to top for number of plays, at least on the turntable.

Maybe Broadcast too, have been pretty fixated with their first three records for most of the year.

And Virginia Wing too, their Forward Constant Motion was one of my big favorites last year, and has continued to get a lot of plays this year, along with the great Measures of Joy debut, which I really came to love this year, and the Rhonda EP, and the new Tomorrow's Gift with XAM Duo has been in near constant rotation for a couple weeks, including for the second time today. So yea, big Virginia Wing year for me.

 

Grateful Dead
Beatles
Tull
Who
Steely Dan

jerol

 

Longmont Potion Castle(!)
The Avalanches
The La's
Radiohead
Wire

 

Michael Head and the Red Elastic Band

 

Bartok
Van Halen
The Fugs

 

Bing Crosby
Fairport Convention ( and associates)

 

Based on listening to all three records with the Red Elastic Band, or just the latest? Listening to Michael Head records constantly isn't a bad habit to fall into at all, there's been times when The Magical World of The Strands is all I really needed for days on end

 

The new ones with TREB, thats the only new stuff this year for me, oh and The Olde Worlde but that was bit of a let down.

Spent the year with usual suspects, Kinks, Fred Neil, Matthew Sweet, Jason Falkner, XTC, Velvets etc