My scrobling counter on Last.fm just ticked past 30 000 this weekend, and the lucky track (among those recorded by Last.fm), was La Roux with Bulletproof. The song is one of my favourites on the self titled debut album from La Roux.

Are you on Last.fm? Make sure to add me It’s a great way to discover new music!

Following up on Aleksander’s encouragement earlier today, here is my music taste over the last 3 months Good mix of almost everything in there!

I’m into indie, rock, electronic, pop and female vocalists, including:
Röyksopp, Schiller, Carolina Liar, The Killers, Ratatat, U2, Kent, Empire of the Sun, Lily Allen, Sharon den Adel, Ladyhawke, La Roux, Paul van Dyk, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, a-ha, Air Traffic, The Duke Spirit, Cut Copy, Paramore, Nightwish, Hard-Fi, Foo Fighters, Snow Patrol, Mr. Mister, KT Tunstall, Nelly Furtado, Iglu & Hartly, Donkeyboy, Adele, Amy Macdonald, James Morrison, Kate Ryan, Kleerup, Sophia Somajo, Rihanna, A Flock of Seagulls, Flight of the Conchords, Razorlight, The Pigeon Detectives, Kings of Leon, The Presets, Keane, Ellie Goulding, Evanescence, Knut Avenstroup Haugen, Garbage, The Sounds, Paul Oakenfold, Peter Buffett, Passion Pit.

Check out my music taste: http://www.last.fm/user/lastkarbo

What’s your taste? To Paste Your Taste, go to your Last.fm profile, go the list of “Top Artists” on your profile. Choose “Last 3 months”, then click the link titled “Paste Your Taste”. Copy and paste the text to your blog.

Following Aleksander’s example I thought I would post my music charts for 2008. These charts have been recorded by Last.fm and  does not include tracks played on my iPod and some quite heavy use of Spotify without scrobbling during December. However, the charts should give a fairly accurate picture of what was hot on my playlists during 2008

Top 10 artists

1. Coldplay (310)
2. Keane (228)
3. The Kooks (202)
4. Thirteen Senses (199)
5. Within Temptation (175)
6. Amy MacDonald (165)
7. The Killers (155)
8. Kent (144)
9. Nightwish (135)
10. The Cardigans (120)

Top 10 tracks

1. Sex On Fire – Kings of Leon (49)
2. Wire To Wire – Razorlight (47)
3. Violent and Young – Iglu & Hartly (45)
4. All the Love In Your Hands – Thirteen Senses (45)
5. Ooh La – The Kooks (44)
6. Call Someone – Thirteen Senses (43)
7. Human – The Killers (40)
8. Contact – Thirteen Senses (39)
9. Generation Ex – Kent (35)
10. Nothing In My Way – Keane (35)

Top 10 albums

1. Contact – Thirteen Senses (156)
2. Perfect Symmetry – Keane (104)
3. Inside In Inside Out – The Kooks (101)
4. Konk – The Kooks (95)
5. Best Of – The Cardigans (88)
6. X&Y – Coldplay (83)
7. The World is Outside – Ghosts (77)
8. Black Symphony – Within Temptation And The Metropole Orchestra (74)
9. Under The Iron Sea – Keane (72)
10. Slipway Fires – Razorlight (60)

That’s it! What’s your top 10?

The news of a new version of Spotify just came down the wire, and this new version is Scrobbling!

The ability to scrobble what you play to Last.fm has been one of the most requested items over the last couple of weeks and it’s great to see that the developers are listening to the community and fanbase that is starting to build around the application.

For those of you unfamiliar with Spotify; it’s a music service where you install an iTunes-, or Songbird-, like application on your computer and access music from the huge repositories of owned by several of the largest record companies. The downside is that you do not get to copy the music to your devices, but it’s one hell of a service for listening to music on your computer!

I got an invite (the service is still in closed Beta) a couple of weeks back and I have been using it constantly since that. It even runs on Linux with Wine, which is great. A few glitches here and there – the most annoying one being that the playback keeps stopping now and then and you have to restart the app. Once they fix that, and the app is out of Beta, I will be surprised if I don’t pay up those 99 NOK per month for ad-free music and the ability to share lists with friends.

I am sure Spotify will be at the top of Best Application of 2009 – it’s definitively one of the best things that has happened to music for years.