I never thought I’d see this pressed to vinyl. An absolute staple of my high-school life and adding this to the collection brings immense joy.
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This makes me so happy. I … really never expected I'd be listening to new The Academy Is… music again. Up there with The Format as the most shocking/exciting to me over the last year or so. Spoiler: The entire album has the same breezy vibe as this song. Feels like a mother fucking spring day set to music. "L Train" sent me into an immediate groove.
Getting Last.fm Counts in Raycast
Look, I like Last.fm. It’s fun. I like seeing my stats. I’ve written about it a lot.
I include my weekly stats on all of my Top 9 posts and during the week I often like to see where I’m at. So, I wrote a simple script for Raycast to quickly calculate the stats and output them in the app:
The script’s on Github.
Chorus.fm’s Top 30 Albums of 2025
I had to re-read how I introduced this feature the past few years to make sure I didn’t repeat myself. But, here we are again at the start of a new year and it’s the best time to recap our favorite albums of 2025. Below you’ll find the contributor best of 2025 list with blurbs written by the staff talking about why we loved these albums. Each album title links to a streaming page so you can check out anything you may have missed. There’s also a playlist featuring a song from every album on this list, and a few staff members have shared their individual lists and some commentary in their blogs.
The final list is the combination of ten contributors and represents what each of these individuals liked most over the past year. It’s really that simple. So, before commenting something negative or mean, please think about the people behind the lists and the time spent putting together something that’s supposed to be fun and represent what the contributors to this website enjoyed the most over the past twelve months.
As always, thanks for spending 2025 with us, and I hope you find something new to check out and love.
Note: Check the bottom of this post for links to individual contributor lists.
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Why hello here, it looks like it’s time for yet another best of list.
You can subscribe to my newsletter if you’re interested in a weekly rundown of the music and other entertainment I consume, and the staff compiled best of 2025 list can be found here.
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Chorus.fm Wrapped – 2025 Edition
I’ve been wanting to build something like this for a while and used the last quiet days of 2025 to finish it. I needed to figure out a better way to handle a bunch of people hitting the page at the same time and better cache the results so it’s not calculating the big queries with each hit. And after a soft launch in the Q&A thread I think I’m relatively comfortable that the servers can handle it as built.
The feature is a supporter only perk and can be found here: forum.chorus.fm/wrapped
It will take ten to thirty seconds to render the first time and then should be instant after that when you return (same thing for past years if you go back in time). It will automatically update to the new year on January 1st each year, and when I come up with other stats to calculate I’ll update the script to include those as well. I went with the basics to start with.
I thought this could be something fun to start off the year with.
And that’s a wrap on 2025.
All the stats are totaled and my most played albums of the year are on slide two. Best of the year lists will be posted on the website on January 5th.
Only having twenty spaces to document December is near impossible.
A month of family, friends, and trying to wind down the year. A month of traditions. The holiday parties, the annual PJs, movie, and way too much Chinese food night, and all the rest. It was a wonderful month full of joy. I’ll miss the warm holiday decoration glow.
Onward to 2026.
December 2025
This took a bit of time to measure and install but it was totally worth it. I think my office is pretty much “done” for now. The skateboard addition really makes it all feel complete for me.
The Stats: 102 artists, 118 albums, 276 tracks (295 scrobbles)
One more week of listening before the end of the year. Get those final stats in.
