Biggest Artists in your Library (by play time or number of tracks)

Simple, a topic about the artists in your library (iTunes/WMP/Winamp/Foobar/whatever) of which you have the most songs, or most hours and minutes of music.

There are currently 20 artists of which I have 50 or more tracks in my library.

	Artist	Tracks	Time (h:m)	Average track length (m:s)
1	Drs. P	180	8:29	2:50
2	The Rolling Stones	136	8:44	3:51
3	Judas Priest	135	9:50	4:22
4	Johann Sebastian Bach	133	4:56	2:14
5	Frank Zappa	92	7:57	5:11
6	The Beatles	89	4:09	2:48
7	The Doors	78	5:27	4:12
8	Jimi Hendrix	75	6:01	4:49
9	The Who	72	4:55	4:06
10	Led Zeppelin	69	6:50	5:57
11	Slayer	68	4:19	3:49
12	Pink Floyd	63	5:12	4:57
13	Motörhead	63	3:38	3:28
14	Bob Dylan	60	4:44	4:44
15	Queen	59	3:24	3:27
16	Creedence Clearwater Revival	55	3:37	3:57
17	Jerry Lee Lewis	54	2:16	2:31
18	The Kinks	53	2:32	2:52
19	Richard Wagner	52	18:09	20:57
20	Bruce Springsteen	50	3:35	4:18

edited 10th Jan '13 12:34:34 PM by MidnightRambler

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Tracks: Demon Hunter (70 tracks) Playtime: Between The Buried And Me (7h 18min 21s)

No regret shall pass over the threshold!

Sound Horizon - 128 tracks (some of which are rips from concerts), 10.7 hours total.

edited 10th Jan '13 3:40:16 PM by Sparkysharps

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Including some repeated tracks (via compilations, live albums, etc.) (WMP):

1 - Saint Etienne - 422 songs, 27(,2) hours;

2 - Bob Dylan - 316 songs, 24(,3) hours;

3 - The Fall - 345 songs, 24(,2) hours;

4 - The Durutti Column - 256 songs, 19(,1) hours;

5 - Happy Mondays - 220 songs, 17(,5) hours;

6 - The Beatles - 392 songs, 17(,4) hours;

7 - Kraftwerk - 183 songs, 16(,8) hours);

8 - Kate Bush - 229 songs, 15(,9) hours;

9 - The Doors - 240 songs, 15 hours;

10 - Stereolab - 171 songs, 13(,9) hours.

edited 10th Jan '13 8:36:13 PM by Quag15

The Fall and The Durutti Column are in your top five?

Marry me. Please.

*....*

*ahem*

My current iTunes line-up isn't entirely representative, given that my music library is spread across several computers; if it were, the presence the Merzbox alone would probably throw this list into utter chaos, not to mention all the other weird stuff I have lurking in my archives (mostly Nurse With Wound LPs, methinks). But as it stands...

1. Animal Collective: 264 songs, 31 albums.^note In addition to many B-sides, I'm seeing a surprising number of live recordings...
2. The Olivia Tremor Control: 218 songs, 19 albums.^note And here as well.
3. Sufjan Stevens, 213 songs, 13 albums.^note Yay, informal rarities compilations and silly interludes!
4. Current 93: 207 songs, 28 albums.^note This is where you start looking at me funny, I'm thinking.
5. The Dead C: 193 tracks, 30 albums.^note No, wait, this is where you start looking at me funny.
6. Jandek: 182 songs, 18 albums.^note And this is where you start to back away slowly...
7. The Legendary Pink Dots: 179 songs, 18 albums.^note And there's more where this came from! Cassette culture, for the win.
8. Jackie-O Motherfucker: 161 songs, 19 albums.
9. Sonic Youth: 136 songs, 10 albums.
10. Swans: 131 songs, 13 albums.
11. Bügsküll, 117 songs, 16 albums.^note Practically everything that they've ever recorded. Seriously.
12. Arcade Fire: 94 songs, 20 albums.
13. Cabaret Voltaire: 93 songs, 6 albums.^note Mostly just Methodology.
14. The Magnetic Fields: 86 songs, 6 albums.^note Mostly just 69 Love Songs.
15. Prurient: 84 songs, 14 albums.
16. Maher Shalal Hash Baz: 83 songs, 1 album.^note A triple-LP of short, mostly improvised jazz-pop tunes by an obscure Japanese group. Fun stuff.

I'll hide your name inside a word and paint your eyes with false perception.

1. Rihanna: 4 Albums, 60 Items *
   Mostly songs, but a couple of PDF files.
2. Florence And The Machine: 5 Albums, 46 Items *
   Excluding features and including singles.
3. Lady Gaga: 3 Albums, 43 Items *
   One double album.
4. Ellie Goulding: 2 Albums, 30 Items
5. Evanescence: 2 Albums, 28 Items
6. Lana Del Rey: 2 Albums, 25 Items
7. Nicki Minaj 1 Album, 24 Items *
   Only 22 are songs. It's a deluxe edition of a large album.

edited 11th Jan '13 8:51:33 PM by chihuahua0

1. Starflyer 59: 263 songs, 15:42:24
2. Duke Ellington: 190 songs, 13:43:56
3. The Beatles: 185 songs, 8:27:13
4. Johnny Cash: 172 songs, 7:35:37
5. Joy Electric: 161 songs, 10:21:46
6. Sufjan Stevens: 143 songs, 10:39:47
7. Jars of Clay: 129 songs, 8:58:39
8. Havalina Rail Co: 108 songs, 6:45:08

If I'm allowed to count Sixteen Horsepower and Woven Hand together, then they total 156 songs, 10:44:52

I didn't write any of that.

A post-script: The five artists with the most material in my music library as judged by length are thus:

1. The Flaming Lips: 28:28:20.^note "7 Skies H3". Dear God.
2. Throbbing Gristle: 23:08:01.^note I have most of TG 24 and TG+ on my computer, so this isn't surprising.
3. The Dead C: 22:31:07.^note Basically everything that they've released except for the "Golden"/"Canine" 12", 43 Sketch for a Poster (which I have elsewhere) and the absurdly rare Load box set.
4. Jackie-O Motherfucker: 22:22:06.^note Most of the U-Sound CD releases, plus most of their main discography. Lots of long jams.
5. Current 93: 20:01:18.^note A bunch of live shows and rare LPs help pad this out.

I'll hide your name inside a word and paint your eyes with false perception.

No question here for me that it's The Beatles. Now, let's see exactly how much...

...1086 songs, totaling to 2 days, 2 hours, 35 minutes, and 44 seconds worth of Beatles music. And that's not even counting any solo stuff. Not too bad I'd say.

(Question: How do you find in iTunes how many songs by each artist you have? Do you have to just select each group of tracks individually to find out? Because I have far too much music to do that.)

edited 12th Jan '13 3:34:06 AM by 0dd1

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View -> Show Column Browser -> Check 'Artists'

This gives you a list of artists. Click any artist to display only songs by that artist, and see the number of tracks, total playing time, and harddrive space. For example, if I click Richard Wagner (which is under W - gotta love the 'Sort Artist' tag), I see '52 songs, 18:09:21 total time, 1,80 GB'.

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I just scrolled through my album grid and looked at how many songs/albums were listed, then clicked to verify hours, but that's because I'm too stupid to do things the easy way...

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The Heartless Bastards - 43 songs, 3 hours.

Regina Spektor - 35 songs, 2.2 hours.

54-40 and Electric Six - 22 songs each, 81 and 71 minutes respectively.

Metric - 21 songs, 84 minutes.

Florence & the Machine - 20 songs, 79 minutes.

Sunshine Blind and Throwing Muses - 19 songs each, 87 and 68 minutes respectively.

The Duke Spirit - 18 songs, 69 minutes.

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That's not quite what I meant...but basically, you're saying there's no way to sort it by how many tracks you have by a certain artist? (Like, from most to least.) Because I've got too many songs in my library to do it manually.

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Well that was how you phrased the question Anyway, no, you can't sort artists by their "size" (alas). I just checked every artist of which I knew I had a lot of music, and wrote them down if I had more than 50 songs by them.

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Okay, here we go:

• Glee Cast: 135 items, 7.6 hours
• Flight of the Conchords: 84 items, 2.5 hours
• Billy Joel: 82 items, 6.1 hours
• Gorillaz: 66 items, 3.9 hours
• James Taylor: 59 items, 4 hours
• Fall Out Boy: 48 items, 2.7 hours
• The Clash: 39 items, 2.1 hours
• My Chemical Romance: 38 items, 2.3 hours

Christ, I used to love Glee. -embarrassed awkward face- I cut off everything after 30 items, which gave me the weird knowledge that I have 28 songs of Demi Lovato, Elton John, Rancid, and... Hans Zimmer. ??

edited 18th Jan '13 10:53:22 AM by LargoQuagmire

I should mention I'm not good at phrasing things well enough for anyone but myself to understand.

That's quite a diverse pool of music there

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The Glee thing is pissing me off way more than it should. Otherwise, I'm proud of it. Another 28-club member: Sharon Jones And The Dap Kings.

I don't quite have everything available here on my laptop, but for convenience's sake:

• Radiohead: 156 songs, 10.2 hours playtime, 8 albums, 4 EPs. (Repeats here and there due to b-sides existing on both EP's and Deluxe Editions)
• Modest Mouse: 103 songs, 7.2 hours playtime, 6 albums, 2 EPs.
• The Smashing Pumpkins: 105 songs, 6.8 hours playtime, 2 albums. (Mellon Collie reissue special edition is BIG)
• Arcade Fire: 37 songs, 2.7 hours playtime, 3 albums.
• The Shins: 44 songs, 2.5 hours playtime, 4 albums.
• Sufjan Stevens: 37 songs, 2.3 hours playtime, 2 albums.

Nothing else is very notable, still building though.

edited 18th Jan '13 2:49:03 PM by Ryuhza

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I actually have a bunch of Glee myself (for shame!) but only because I stole those songs from my friend—I've only ever seen one episode of Glee and I really did not like it

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Now my Rihanna collection has increased to about 74.

Florence needs to release new music if she wants to catch up, but I still have two RiRi albums to buy.

Not in order:

• Sonic Youth - 101 songs, 8.6 hours
• The Who - 231 songs, 14.3 hours (massive live albums)
• Swans - 121 songs, 11.3 hours
• Common - 59 songs, 4 hours
• Minutemen - 153 songs, 3.9 hours (up the punx)
• King Crimson - 85 songs, 8.1 hours (up the progz)
• Godspeed You! Black Emperor - 22 songs, 6.3 hours (up the post-rox)
• Gil-Scott Heron - 88 songs, 5.7 hours
• Kanye West - 92 songs, 6.2 hours (include Cruel Summer)
• Kyuss - 56 songs, 3.8 hours
• John Coltrane - 77 songs, 11.2 hours (up the jazz?)
• Miles Davis - 60 songs, 10.5 hours
• Ornette Coleman 65 songs, 7.9 hours

If you don't like a single Frank Ocean song, you have no soul.

Oddly, you just reminded me that I have all of Kanye West's main discography (not counting guest appearances on other people's songs...though I suppose that we could be here all week compiling those).

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Your library is really awesome, Erock!

I concur.

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