Updated June 9, 2008

Total Number Of Artists In Library	1,167
Total Number Of Tracks	9.473
Most Accumulated Points	Tangerine Dream (3794
Most Track Selections	Tangerine Dream (289)
Most Music Library Appearances (Tape/Disc)	Tangerine Dream (169)
Artists With Longest Gap In Library Appearances	The Beatles (470) #16 - #486 David Gilmour (432) #22 - #454 Joni Mitchell (427) #81 - #508
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	(tie) #262 and #308 (8)
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 (10)	"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) 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	52
4	2	Patrick O'Hearn	33
15	3	Enya	32
2	4	Depeche Mode	30
8	5	Peter Gabriel	28
13	6	Clannad	27
31	7	Genesis	25
25	8	Talk Talk	24
28	9	Cocteau Twins	21
17	10	William Orbit	19
19	11	A-ha	19
9	12	Orchestral Manouevers In The Dark	18
41	13	Pink Floyd	18
18	14	U2	17
46	15	Everything But The Girl	17
71	16	Electric Light Orchestra	17
3	17	In The Nursery	16
12	18	Mike Oldfield	16
14	19	Yello	16
42	20	Vangelis	16
20	21	Madonna	15
23	22	Sarah McLachlan	15
6	23	Delerium	14
38	24	Lightning Seeds	14
32	25	Bryan Ferry	14
60	26	This Mortal Coil	14
61	27	Dead Can Dance	14
64	28	The Moody Blues	14
115	29	Jon & Vangelis	14

Year By Year Library Output

1982	4*	1991	17	2000	22
1983	14	1992	13	2001	27
1984	15	1993	19	2002	24
1985	11	1994	21	2003	32
1986	17	1995	18	2004	31
1987	16	1996	19	2005	33
1988	14	1997	14	2006	39
1989	12	1998	17	2007	28
1990	12	1999	24	2008	19

*Beginning in September

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