50,000 scrobbled tracks; Last.fm, I love thee!
A minor celebration is in order - according to my profile page, I’ve finally passed the major milestone of 50,000 tracks played on my computer or on the Last.fm website. At 4min30 per track (guesstimate) that’s approx 3700 hours of listening. That’s just music from my PC, and doesn’t even include my mp3 listening. Blimey.
Just for the record, I believe the 50,000th track may have been one of the tracks on Elbow’s fantastic new LP, The Seldom Seen Kid.
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