I since learned that I could a download from Spotify a JSON of all the tracks I’ve listened to this past year. Wrangled that into album form and added the stuff I listened to elsewhere, and now I have a spreadsheet that tells me I’ve listened to at least 35 new-to-me albums this year very nice :D

Cosigned on Folklore being #1. I respect your justifications here, memetic value is a legitimate metric. I'm fascinated by you ranking Midnights so highly since I feel like I saw so much negativity for it. I don't think it'd be in my top 5 but I've been looping way more songs than I expected on first listen.

Thanks for indulging me. I'm curious about the personal connection!