It is a replication of last year's topic suggested by Dark Lord of the Sith:

Not necessarily your #1 pick for best album, but the album that you just can't get enough of and listen to more than the others.

If your most listened to album isn't one that was released this year, that's cool.

My picks:

Arcade Fire (both albums)

Radiohead - In rainbows (I can't get enough of this record, it is stil growing on me, definitely the best album of 2007)

My Morning Jacket - Z (waiting for the new one in june!)

LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver (what a year 2007 was!)

2008 Records (two of them, far more listened than others):

Bon Iver - Emma ...
Portishead - Third

According to my iPod Play Count (which i don't put much weight in because it only counts those songs that you listen to the entirety of, which my ADD kind of spoils), these are the albums of the year that i have listened to the most:

1. Foals - Antidotes (I'm very surprised, but I've listened to every song at least 20 times all the way through, yeeesh)
2. BORIS - Smile (Japanese Version, though the American version is making its way up the list)
3. Portishead - Third
4. NIN - The Slip ("1,000,000" being my most listened to song of the year so far)
5. My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges (Strangely, "Evil Urges" & "Highly Suspicious" are top-10 songs played by me for the year, so i guess I'm of the minority that doesn't mind those tunes).

2008 albums:

Langhorne Slim - s/t
Jason Anderson - "The Hopeful and the Unafraid"
The Mountain Goats - "Heretic Pride"

Other albums:

Bob Dylan - "Blonde on Blonde"
Okkervil River - "Down the River of Golden Dreams"

Pretty standard artists for me...

Easily Vampire Weekend's self-titled debut as per most played album in 2008 released in any year. (about 18 times) Other than that,
"White Blood Cells" - White Stripes
"Doolittle" - Pixies
"Oh, Good Grief" - Vince Guaraldi

69 Love Songs - The Magnetic Fields (one of my all time favorite albums)
Brighter than Creations Dark - Drive by Truckers
Alopecia - Why?
Look Out Mountain, Lookout Sea - Silver Jews

Shihad - Beautiful Machine. (When You Coming Home is a great song).

Yeasayer - All Hour Cymbals.

HDU - Metamathics.

Toumani Diabate - The Mande Variations.

Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
Josh Ritter - The Historical Conquests Of Josh Ritter
Girls In Hawaii - Plan Your Escape

In my car:
Cut Copy - In Ghost Colors
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Burial - Untrue (great for night driving)

Headphones:
Portishead - Third
Erykah Badu - New Amerykah
Eluvium - Copia

just got the new subtle record, Exiting Arms, and i have a feeling i m gonna be spending a lot of time with it.

Most to least (of the most)
Sam Roberts - Love at the End of the World
Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
The National - Alligator
Beck - Odelay

M83 - digital shades vol. 1 and saturdays = youth
Teenage Fanclub - Grand Prix and Bandwagonesque
Future of the left - Curses
The Field - Sound of light EP
Primus - Frizzle fry

Panda Bear - Person Pitch
Menomena - Friend or Foe
Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Hercules and Love Affair - Hercules and Love Affair
Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
Portishead - Third

I have not gotten even close to tired of 2007 releases, and am already getting bored with 2008 releases. I hope '08 gets better, or it mihgt jus be '07 was so good.

*Edit - The Atlas Sound album slipped my mind. Defenitely one I listen to before I fall asleep almost every night. Gives me exciting dreams. And Black Keys - Attack and Release, a relatively weak release but I love the Black Keys.

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spank rock and benny blanco - bangers & cash
disfear - live the storm
cult of luna - eternal kingdom
wolves in the throne room - two hunters
why? - alopecia
amon tobin - permutation
king geedorah - take me to your leader
mf doom - is viktor vaughn vaudeville villain
kanye west - graduation
the intelligence - deuteronomy
indian jewelry - we are the wild beast
gza - liquid swords
d yellow swans - dreamed
torche - meanderthal

Rank: Album (# of listens to least listened to song, # of listens to most listened to song)

1: Vampire Weekend (20, 31)
2: Times New Viking (13, 23)
3: Fleet Foxes (15, 20)
4: Black Keys (16,19)
5: Born Ruffians (11, 22)

I like that, elfpat. Gonna copy that.

Vampire Weekend s/t (21, 11)
Mountain Goats "Heretic Pride" (13, 10)
She & Him "Volume 1" (16, 9)
Bon Iver "For Emma, Forever Ago" (10, 8)

Based on what Last.Fm tells me...

Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago (47,15)
The Microphones - The Glow Pt 2(23,10)
The Dodos - The Visiter (14,6)

Although my stats are a bit low because well last.fm doesn't scrobble my ipod properly...

how'd you get last.fm to show that for just '08?

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Originally posted by Liberalkid:
Based on what Last.Fm tells me...

Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago (47,15)
The Microphones - The Glow Pt 2(23,10)
The Dodos - The Visiter (14,6)

Although my stats are a bit low because well last.fm doesn't scrobble my ipod properly...

Once they design a version of Last.fm that scrobbles the CD player in my car, my numbers are going to sky rocket.

Subtle especially gets a ton of rotations in my car stereo. and I spend sometimes 3 hours a day in the car...

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I have not gotten even close to tired of 2007 releases, and am already getting bored with 2008 releases. I hope '08 gets better, or it mihgt jus be '07 was so good.

Agree. I'm back to Spoon Ga X5, Person Pitch and Strawberry Jam these days.

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Originally posted by kalibtweli:
how'd you get last.fm to show that for just '08?

You go into the Charts tab, and you can choose to show overall, weekly, past 3 or 6 months for artists, albums or songs.

Most listened to of albums in 2008 for me (with # of song listens)

1 The Unicorns – Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone? 69
2 Pixies – Doolittle 68
3 Neutral Milk Hotel – In the Aeroplane Over the Sea 66
4 Animal Collective – Sung Tongs 58
5 Joanna Newsom – The Milk-Eyed Mender 57
6 Spoon – Kill the Moonlight 53
7 Spoon – Gimme Fiction 47
8 Broken Social Scene – You Forgot It in People 42
9 Neutral Milk Hotel – On Avery Island 40
10 Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – Clap Your Hands Say Yeah 38

Most listened to of 2008 is Bon Iver, Vampire Weekend and Last Shadow Puppets, though MGMT and Dan Friel will be catching up pretty quick! And I second that they need to make the car CD player scrobblable.

For me they just need to fix the ipod scrobbling.. Its a little better now I remember to used to listen to my ipod for a few days a ton and then I'd plug it into my computer and when the scrobble box would come up it'd be like 1 song that I hadn't even listened to run on sentences ftw