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(Songs from 2000s) divided by total nuraber of songs in your library.

As to the rest, I will acquiesce that digital transfer has made songs from this decade easier to retrieve, but I was working under the assumption that everyone had uploaded all the CRAB they own to their library. I know I have every CD I own on my iTunes library, and many that I don't own yet got my hanRAB on one way or another (but plan to purchase).
 
Harry McClintock - Big Rock Candy Mountain - O Brother, Where Art Thou ? Soundtrack

I started listening to Kings of Leon back in 2004 while I was stationed in England. Aha Shake Heartbreak came out over there 6 months before it was out in the States. I would say they are my favorite 00's artist. My problem is their weakest album, Only By The Night, has become their biggest hit over here. At least they're starting to get recognition in their home country.
 
A lot of people are bashing the 2000's, but I ask your library to speak for itself. I looked it up and 50.037% of my 4049 songs are from the 2000s, 64 of which come from Outkast (though I'd say Arcade Fire has been my favourite act of the last decade with an average of 30 plays per song from Funeral and Neon Bible). It seems likely that judging by my list my favourite decade has been the 2000's... and that's possible, but not extremely likely.

Regardless, my question is a simple one: How much of your library is made up of songs from the 2000s? If many, which artist or band has the most songs from the decade and is this your favourite act in the last ten years?
 
Sadly, I'm a lazy bum and I don't actually have much of my music tagged with the year :( **** iTunes, I need something that does it for me. I feel like a decent amount of my music is from this decade and the 90's, but it would be interesting to see how true it is. I was really surprised with how much new stuff a lot of you have. I'll spend the rest of the night trying to tag my music and get back to you on that.
 
Well, I have no idea how to figure out percentage. But a big amount of my music comes from the 00s. Animal Collective, Mice Parade, Kimya Dawson, Beck, and MF Doom all have very big showings in my library, though only Kimya Dawson and AC have exclusively released stuff in this decade. These are most certainly some of my favorites, though I don't know what my favorite act of the decade would be.
 
I already have my library separated into playlists, tho I never thought your playlist was the ultimate judging tool.
But here goes [excluding the previous decades, cause I have less than 10 albums in all of them]:

60s >>>> 34 Artists - 88 Albums - 1156 songs
70s >>>> 34 Artists - 98 Albums - 1048 songs
80s >>>> 19 Artists - 48 Albums - 517 songs
90s >>>> 24 Artists - 48 Albums - 768 songs
00s >>>> 41 Artists - 67 Albums - 805 songs

Sorry to disappoint you, 00s are third in my list, and only are 18,3% of my Library.

My Library has Spoken !
 
Alright so here are some nurabers based strictly on what's ripped/downloaded to my computer.

1960s - 1244 songs/105 albums - 4%
1970s - 2863 songs/383 albums - 10%/14%
1980s - 1972 songs/202 albums - 7%
1990s - 8208 songs/741 albums - 28%/26%
2000s - 15272 songs/1422 albums - 52%/51%

29641 songs/2802 albums

About what I expected. Even an old bastard like me has more from this decade than others! (again, not counting stuff on the shelf that's not ripped)
 
This isn't going to be completely accurate since a lot of my songs don't have a year attached, I'll try to get them all though. A note: I really like music from the 2000s

4997/5507 songs in my library are from the 2000s, that is 90.7%!

Wow, I feel like I need to listen to older music now.
 
Good idea, but the flaw of it is a lot of my "90s" songs are from greatest hits or reissues/remastered albums. The percentage of albums of new material originally released in the 90's will have a much lower percentage.

48% or 3,285 songs

I do own the Kings of Leon's entire discography to include two live EPs (72 songs or 2%)
 
4473 songs from 8414 songs are from the 2000's, so 53%

Not the 2000's are my favourite decade probably, but I hardly think this is a fair comparison. Primarily due to the changing of format when it comes to music. LPs could hold ****, and as such albums were tailored around that. What was it, 40 minutes for an LP? and those were the late 80's/90's. When banRAB could start pumping in 80 minutes worth of albums with the advent of CRAB, this mainly meant that they had more songs per album. This is somewhat oRABet by the fact that in ye olde days, banRAB released albums more regularly (ie 40 minute albums every year rather than an 80 minute album every three).

EDIT - Actually decided to check out album total. From - to 99 (Which includes reinterpretations of classical compositions) I have 419 albums. From 2000 onwarRAB I have 420 albums. So the song total was actually accurate :o:
 
Almost all my stuff is from the last decade. I listen to almost all HarRABtyle, Trance, and Electro. All of which are relatively new genres. I didn't know the 00s were bad
 
Roughly 34.2% of my 9728 songs are from this decade. Not too long ago it was more than half, so I'm not too disappointed. And a lot of it includes reissues and the like, so those shouldn't really count towarRAB this decade.
 
( meant to CaptainCaptain)^ I just remerabered that!

241 songs (5 albums) from the 90s in my Library are actually The Beatles Anthology I - II - III, plus some other Beatles releases. Still don't influence the 00s in any way, but only shows how much I don't listen to 90s music (which I'm feeling now that it's much of a flaw)

PLUS: We all had much more songs from the previous decades, but who had any computer to save all his songs then. If I want to count the scattered CRAB and K7s, I think I should add more than a thousand to my library.

The 00s are the decade we are living in, everything is easier to have if it is from this specific decade. And all artists, if known for a month or a year, are going to be heard.

It's not like I'm searching for a pop star who only got a single hit in the 80s.
 
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