Quinta-feira 2 Fev 2012, 17h:01

It has been customary for me to write a little blurb about my x-thousandth play on last.fm, solely for the purpose of me keeping track of when it occurred and what song it was.
50,000 was my all-time favorite song Paranoid Android by Radiohead on November 24, 2009.
60,000 was my third favorite song of all time, My Girls by Animal Collective on Dec. 26, 2010.

Now, we arrive at No. 70,000. Drumroll, please.

Actually, it happened by accident.

Not that it's a bad song, but certainly nothing worthy of "all-time" or other superlative descriptors. It occurred yesterday, Feb. 1, 2012, at 5:29pm.

Immigrant Song by Trent Reznor featuring Karen O, off of the soundtrack for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. It is a surprisingly worthy cover of an immortal classic by Led Zeppelin…it just doesn't fit with the other great songs "planned" for my big, round play counts.

Using the rate it took me to go from 50,000 to 60,000 to predict when I would get 70,000, I was actually eerily close. I said I would hit my 70,000th play on Jan. 27, 2012. Well, I was only off by 5 days! In predicting my 50,000th play from my 25,000th, I was off by nearly 5 months, so this is surprisingly close.

This means it took me 13 months, 6 days and about 16 hours to go from 60,000 to 70,000 plays. If I continue at this rate, I will log 80,000 on Mar. 8th, 2013 at around 9am.

We shall see.