{"id":5189,"date":"2026-01-02T16:46:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T16:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=5189"},"modified":"2026-01-02T16:46:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T16:46:18","slug":"2025-in-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=5189","title":{"rendered":"2025 in Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=5079\">I posted my listening for 2024<\/a>, so now it&#8217;s time for 2025:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5190\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5190\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/images\/\/cjbartram-stats-2025.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/images\/\/cjbartram-stats-2025-300x300.png\" alt=\"My Listenbrainz stats for 2025\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/images\/cjbartram-stats-2025-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/images\/cjbartram-stats-2025-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/images\/cjbartram-stats-2025-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/images\/cjbartram-stats-2025.png 924w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5190\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An overview of my listening in 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Again, my top artist was Nightwish, and top track was, this time, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UGfKMV5AbMI\">Sleeping Sun<\/a><\/em>. Italian goth-rockers <em>Lacuna Coil<\/em> dropped into 2nd place, followed by Canada&#8217;s <em>The Birthday Massacre<\/em>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5191\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5191\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/images\/\/songs-2025.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/images\/\/songs-2025-300x286.png\" alt=\"A screenshot of my most listened songs\" width=\"300\" height=\"286\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/images\/songs-2025-300x286.png 300w, https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/images\/songs-2025.png 528w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5191\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Favourite Songs 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5192\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5192\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/images\/\/artists-2025.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/images\/\/artists-2025-300x285.png\" alt=\"a screenshot of my most listened artists in 2025\" width=\"300\" height=\"285\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/images\/artists-2025-300x285.png 300w, https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/images\/artists-2025.png 529w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5192\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Favourite Artists 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Something went wrong with my portable listening data this year \ud83d\ude41 , so you have a reasonable snapshot of home listening, skewed towards workday listening.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/listenbrainz.org\/user\/cjbartram\/year-in-music\/2025\/\">Full data here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, I posted my listening for 2024, so now it&#8217;s time for 2025: Again, my top artist was Nightwish, and top track was, this time, Sleeping Sun. Italian goth-rockers Lacuna Coil dropped into 2nd place, followed by Canada&#8217;s The Birthday Massacre. Something went wrong with my portable listening data this year \ud83d\ude41 , so &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=5189\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2025 in Music<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5189"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5194,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5189\/revisions\/5194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}