Updated July 19, 2010

Total Number Of Artists In Library

1,296

Total Number Of Tracks

10,826

Most Accumulated Points

Tangerine Dream (4370)

Most Track Selections

Tangerine Dream (336)

Most Music Library Appearances (Tape/Disc)

Tangerine Dream (198)

Artists With Longest Gap In Library Appearances

Paul Hardcastle (555) #47 - #602
Spandau Ballet (554) #30 - #584
The Steve Miller Band (553) #60 - #613

Longest Gap In Music Library Recordings

105 days
June 9, 2007 -- Sept. 22, 2007

Longest Track In The Music Library

"Blue Room"--Orb (ML #144)
(40 min.)

Tape / Disc With The Fewest Tracks

#600 (6)

First Library Entry To Include a CD (Compact Disc)

#53 (June 15, 1986)

First Library Entry To Be Recorded on the Mini Disc format

#238 (Jan 25, 1998)

First Library Entry To Be Recorded on the CD format

#343 (Aug 25, 2002)

Only Music Library Entry To Be Re-recorded

#38..originally recorded on May 23, 1985, it was re-recorded due to tape damage on June 28, 1997, deleting the track "Another Word" by Talk Talk

Most Used Song Title In The Music Library (11)

 

"Breathe"

Pink Floyd (#14)
Depeche Mode (#307)
Telepopmusik (#347)
Erasure (#416)
Blue Stone (#451)
Halou (#456)
Richard Butler (#459)
Bliss (#476)
Angels & Airwaves (#510)
Schiller (#526)
U2 (#567)

these are all different songs

Forms of Media of My Music Library

Type of Media

Dates In Use

Music Library #

Cassette Tape

Sept. 24, 1982 - Jan. 18, 1998

ML #1 - ML #237

Mini-Disc

Jan.. 25, 1998 - July 28, 2002

ML #238 - ML #342

Compact Disc

Aug. 25, 2002 - Oct. 29, 2006

ML# 343 - ML #485

Digital

Dec. 25, 2006 - present

ML# 486 -

Tracks That Appeared More Than Once
Note: remixes, live or alternate versions do not apply.
The practice of recording a particular track more than once no longer exists.
All of the following tracks were intentionally used more than once except "Twilight Painter" by Tangerine Dream.
All tracks were counted separately.
..

Artist

Title

Library #

Anthony Phillips

1984-Part 1

6 .. 20

David Bowie

Ashes To Ashes

2 .. 30

Genesis

Blood On The Rooftops

2 .. 58

Jethro Tull

Clasp

3 .. 25

Vangelis

Deliverance

19 .. 25

Freur

Doot Doot

11 .. 23

Michael Garrison

Escape

6 .. 28

The Korgis

Everybody's Got To Learn Sometime

2 .. 16

Depeche Mode

Everything Counts

16 .. 31

Peter Gabriel

Games Without Frontiers

2 .. 25

Pink Floyd

Goodbye Blue Sky

19 .. 38

Talk Talk

Have You Heard The News

4 .. 19

Peter Gabriel

Humdrum

11 .. 32

Peter Gabriel

I Have The Touch

5 .. 27

Thompson Twins

Kamikaze

9 .. 27

Genesis

Keep It Dark

4 .. 27

Dire Straits

Love Over Gold

3 .. 28

Genesis

Many Too Many

1 .. 20

Genesis

Me And Sarah Jane

3 .. 62

Roxy Music

More Than This

11 .. 23

Clannad

Now Is Here

26 .. 62

Jon & Vangelis

One More Time

20 .. 30

10cc

People In Love

7 .. 24

Dire Straits

Private Investigations

1 .. 18

Frankie Goes To Hollywood

Relax

28 .. 35

Journey

Send Her My Love

21 .. 35

Jon Anderson

Song Of Search

4 .. 20

The Police

Spirits In The Material World

2 .. 16

ELO

Stranger

12 .. 30

Rush

Subdivisions

1 .. 19

Roxy Music

Take A Chance With Me

7.. 16.. 30

Pink Floyd

The Gunner's Dream

9 .. 19

Giorgio Moroder

The Myth

3 .. 19

Talk Talk

The Party's Over

4 .. 29

Clannad

Theme From Harry's Game

31 .. 55

Saga

Time's Up

7 .. 19

Roxy Music

True To Life

19 .. 29

Tangerine Dream

Twilight Painter

50 .. 53

Foreigner

Waiting For A Girl Like You

4 .. 24

Dire Straits

Why Worry

40 .. 81

ELO

Yours Truly, 2095

2 .. 81

Artist Ranking Based on Premium Tracks
The following is a ranking of my Top Artists based solely on the number of appearances on a "Premium" entry ("Best Of".."Decade".."Year-End" and "20" series). Artists are listed that have appeared at least 14 times. In case of a tie, the artist with the most overall points are shown first. Figure in far left column indicates the artists current ranking on the Top 200 artist list.

Top 200
Ranking
Premium
Ranking

Artist

Premium Tracks
1
1

Tangerine Dream

54
4
2

Patrick O'Hearn

33
17
3

Enya

33
2
4

Depeche Mode

33
12
5

Peter Gabriel

28
20
6

Clannad

27
37
7

Genesis

25
31
8

Talk Talk

24
9
9

William Orbit

22
35
10

Cocteau Twins

21
13
11

A-ha

19
16
12

Orchestral Manouevers In The Dark

18
14
13

U2

18
45
14

Pink Floyd

18
50
15

Everything But The Girl

17
80
16

Electric Light Orchestra

17
3
17

In The Nursery

17
8
18

Yello

17
19
19

Mike Oldfield

16
46
20

Vangelis

16
23
21

Madonna

15
21
22

Sarah McLachlan

15
6
23

Delerium

14
32
24

Lightning Seeds

14
38
25

Bryan Ferry

14
66
26

This Mortal Coil

14
67
27

Dead Can Dance

14
72
28

The Moody Blues

14
128
29

Jon & Vangelis

14

Year By Year Library Output

1982
4*
1992
13
2003
32
1983
14
1993
19
2004
31
1984
15
1994
21
2005
33
1985
11
1995
18
2006
39
1986
17
1996
19
2007
28
1987
16
1997
14
2008
36
1988
14
1998
17
2009
38
1989
12
1999
24
2010
30
1990
12
2000
22

1991
17
2001
27

*Beginning in September

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