{"id":16893,"date":"2021-06-28T04:41:48","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T10:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=16893"},"modified":"2021-06-14T06:47:38","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T12:47:38","slug":"itunes-top-200-artists-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/itunes-top-200-artists-8\/","title":{"rendered":"iTunes Top 200 Artists: #8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/itunes_image.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4029\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/itunes_image.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"268\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/itunes_image.jpg 268w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/itunes_image-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/itunes_image-90x90.jpg 90w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 268px) 100vw, 268px\" \/><\/a>It\u2019s been 4 years since we last counted down the Top 200 artists in my iTunes library. Since my iTunes stats are still intact, across multiple PCs, iPods, iPads, and iPhones, I figured it was time to take another look at the artists that have entertained me the most based on number of plays from late 2007 through January 1, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Formed in 1990 after the demise of Mother Love Bone following the death of singer Andrew Wood, Pearl Jam checks in today at #8 as we continue with the top 10.\u00a0 The new group burst onto the Seattle grunge scene in 1991 and, by the second half of 1992, became a world wide sensation<a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/pj_wrigley.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13968\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/pj_wrigley.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"656\" height=\"492\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/pj_wrigley.jpg 656w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/pj_wrigley-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 656px) 100vw, 656px\" \/><\/a>#8:\u00a0Pearl Jam<br \/>\niTunes stats: 653 plays<br \/>\nPrevious ranking:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/itunes-top-200-artists-1-10\/\">#9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The grunge godfathers move up on spot thanks to an 88% increase in plays, thanks in part to my attending their 2018 show at Wrigley Field.\u00a0 Their 653 plays come from 42 tracks and 12 different albums.\u00a0 <em>Go<\/em>, tied for their\u00a0most listened to song, earned additional plays after being used as the walkup song for\u00a0White Sox star Paul Konerko&#8217;s final seasons and its inclusion on my various victory playlists.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve seen them in concert twice: at Soldier Field back in 1995 and the aforementioned Wrigley Field performance in 2018.\u00a0 The first show took place during the tour they put on without using Ticketmaster, which led to a lottery for tickets. Pearl Jam came out and performed an astounding\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.setlist.fm\/setlist\/pearl-jam\/1995\/soldier-field-chicago-il-4bd66332.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">29 song<\/a>\u00a0set, including 2 encores. \u00a0My favorite memory of the night was during the performance of\u00a0<em>Better Man<\/em>, when my friend Joe, not understanding the meaning of the song, said that all of the girls sang it about him, that they couldn\u2019t find a better man.\u00a0 Ironically, this was my last visit to old Soldier Field, which would be \u201crenovated\u201d in 2001 and 2002.<\/p>\n<p>The second show, more than 20 years later, came a long time since I had last considered myself a Pearl Jam fan.\u00a0 The show, while entertaining, certainly dragged for long periods between songs that I knew as the last album that I owned came out prior to the 1995 show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been 4 years since we last counted down the Top 200 artists in my iTunes library. Since my iTunes stats are still intact, across multiple PCs, iPods, iPads, and iPhones, I figured it was time to take another look at the artists that have entertained me the most based on number of plays from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[2635,2888,1358,3477,328,4225,2636,176,2432,4224,595],"class_list":["post-16893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-andrew-wood","tag-ipad","tag-iphone","tag-ipod","tag-itunes","tag-joe","tag-mother-love-bone","tag-pearl-jam","tag-soldier-field","tag-ticketmaster","tag-wrigley-field"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16893"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17557,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16893\/revisions\/17557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}