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iTunes Top 200 Artists: #4

6 years ago, we first counted down the then Top 100 artists in my iTunes library.  Since that time, I’ve successfully managed to migrate my music collection to a new PC with the stats intact and expanded the count down to the Top 200..  It’s been 3 years, so I figured it was time to take yet another look at my Top 200 artists, based on the number of plays from late 2007 through January 1, 2021.

Widely known for his stand-up performances and his role as Spence Olchin The King Of Queens, Patton Oswalt checks in today at #4.  Oswalt began performing stand up comedy in 1988, eventually moving from Virginia to San Francisco and then Los Angeles, where he became part of the comedy scene.

 

 

#4: Patton Oswalt
iTunes stats: 1278 plays
Previous ranking: #6

A new album or two from funnyman Patton Oswalt adds 38 new tracks to the collection, which helped him to a 174% increase and a 2 spot jump in the rankings, moving into the top 5.  In addition to the 7 comedy albums, I’ve also read his book and, in 2018, saw him do a talk, moderated by author Gillian Flynn, about his wife’s book, about the search for the Golden State Killer.  Little did he, or anyone, know, the next day Sacramento police announced that they had made an arrest in the case.

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Book 12 (of 52) – I’ll Be Gone In The Dark

I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search For The Golden State Killer – Michelle McNamara

Writer Michelle McNamara became interested in a serial killer she would dub the Golden State Killer, writing an article for Los Angeles magazine in 2013.  She was working on turning that article into a full fledged book when she died unexpectedly in 2016.  McNamara’s widower, comedian Patton Oswalt, hired crime writer Paul Haynes and investigative journalist Billy Jensen to help finish the book, and I’ll Be Gone In The Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search For The Golden State Killer was finally released earlier this year.  In the book, McNamara lays out her case that numerous unsolved cases throughout California, attributed to the Original Night Stalker, the East Area Rapist, and the Diamond Knot Killer, were all the work of the same person.

In an interesting twist, Oswalt, Haynes, and Jensen did an appearance through Anderson’s Bookshop on April 23, which I attended to get an autographed copy of the book.  At the end of the talk, Oswalt seemed confident that the identity of the Golden State Killer would be uncovered one day.  Little did he know that the next day, Sacramento police would announce that they had made an arrest and that 72-year-old Joseph James DeAngelo, a former police officer, had been identified as the Golden State Killer.