2024 in Music

This year I have been listening to one album a day (on weekdays) from the book 1001 Albums to Listen to Before You Die. I rate the album out of five stars and write a short review which I post to Mastodon and Albumwhale. There's a handy website that gives you your daily listen, and if anyone would like to join in, you are welcome to join our group here. 

There are lots of stats that you can pull out of this! This year, I've listened to 253 albums with an average rating of 3.4. There were 4 that I skipped that featured Eric Clapton, Kanye West and Morrissey. My standard deviation from the global rating was 0.94.

My favourite decade was the 1950s and least favourite, the 2000s:

Decade	Albums	Rating	Global Rating
1950	11	4.18	3.52
2010	10	3.6	3.38
1970	67	3.51	3.51
1960	45	3.44	3.5
1990	45	3.36	3.32
1980	43	3.19	3.3
2000	32	3.16	3.34

My favourite genres were:

Genre	Rating
Musica-tradicional-cubana	5 (3 albums)
Latin-jazz	4.75 (4)
Jazz-trumpet	4.67 (3)
World	4.67 (3)
Jazz-blues	4.4 (5)
Downtempo	4.33 (3)
Hard-bop	4.33 (3)
Cool-jazz	4.25 (4)
Trip-hop	4.2 (5)
Merseybeat	4.17 (6)

and least favourites:

Genre	Rating
Yacht-rock	2.75 (4)
Baroque-pop	2.67 (6)
Bubblegum-pop	2.67 (3)
Jazz-rock	2.67 (3)
Classic-canadian-rock	2.67 (3)
Stomp-and-holler	2.5 (4)
Alternative-metal	2.44 (9)
Industrial	2 (4)
Industrial-rock	2 (4)
Industrial-metal	1.67 (3)

I think I'm going to be cross posting my reviews here as well under the #music tag