I almost did this manually by creating Smart Playlists for years and putting the number of songs into Excel, but it turns out there’s a Java program for it already:
This is a graph of the music I have/listen to by release year. The blue line represents songs I have. The green line is songs times the number of times I listen to them.
1994 was apparently a big year, surpassed only by 2008, which gets a huge bump listening-wise, I’m assuming due to the presence of Gods Of The Earth.
The program can break it out by genre, too, which is fun:
This is Metal only (ranging from Black Sabbath to Goatwhore)
(Anybody know any good metal albums that came out in 1998? Apparently, I’m missing out)
Rock: (a pretty generic category, ranging from AC/DC to Clutch to The Big Wu)
Alternative (Soul Coughing, Cake, The Decemberists, Murder By Death):
Punk:
(Note: I lived with Ben in 2001)
Pop (LOL):
This stuff only covers listening history for the last three years or so since I had lost my iTunes Library somewhere in there and had to start over.