1. Hammerfall - One More Time (17 times)
2. Dream Theater - Outcry (16 times)
3. As I Lay Dying - From Shapeless to Breakable (15 times)
= Dream Theater - Far From Heaven (15 times)
= Megadeth - Guns, Drugs & Money (15 times)
6. As I Lay Dying - Paralyzed (14 times)
= Dream Theater - Build Me Up, Break Me Down (14 times)
= Dream Theater - Breaking All Illusions (14 times)
= Dream Theater - In the Presence of Enemies, Part 2 (14 times)
= Dream Theater - Afterlife (14 times)
= Helloween - You Stupid Mankind (14 times)
= Testament - D.N.R. (14 times)
13. Dream Theater - Hollow Years (13 times)
= Hammerfall - Let's Get it On (13 times)
= Iron Maiden - When the Wild Wind Blows (13 times)
= Iron Maiden - Children of the Damned (13 times)
= Megadeth - Sudden Death (13 times)
18. As I Lay Dying - War Ensemble (12 times)
= As I Lay Dying - Electric Eye (12 times)
= Dream Theater - A Change of Seasons (12 times)
= Dream Theater - The Rover/Achilles Last Stand/The Song Remains the Same (12 times)
= Dream Theater - This is the Life (12 times)
= Dream Theater - Sacrificed Sons (12 times)
= Dream Theater - In the Presence of Enemies, Part 1 (12 times)
= Hammerfall - Outlaw (12 times)
I think it's time for a reboot!
1.
(new) Iron Maiden - Wasting Love (
20 times)
2.
(↑) Helloween - You Stupid Mankind (
19 times)
=
(↓) Hammerfall - One More Time (
19 times)
=
(↑) Iron Maiden - Children of the Damned (
19 times)
=
(↔) Dream Theater - Outcry (
19 times)
=
(new) 3 Inches of Blood - Demon's Blade (
19 times)
=
(new) Dream Theater - Honor thy Father (
19 times)
=
(↑) Iron Maiden - When the Wild Wind Blows (
19 times)
9.
(new) Gojira - Rise (
18 times)
=
(↓) As I Lay Dying - From Shapeless to Breakable (
18 times)
=
(new) Iron Maiden - The Wicker Man (
18 times)
12.
(↓) Megadeth - Guns, Drugs & Money (
17 times)
=
(new) Helloween - World of Fantasy (
17 times)
=
(new) 3 Inches of Blood - God of the Cold White Silence (
17 times)
=
(new) Iced Earth - Melancholy (Holy Martyr) (
17 times)
=
(new) Megadeth - 13 (
17 times)
=
(new) Iron Maiden - Isle of Avalon (
17 times)
18.
(↓) Megadeth - Sudden Death (
16 times)
=
(new) Iron Maiden - Lord of the Flies (
16 times)
=
(new) 3 Inches of Blood - Fear on the Bridge (Upon the Boiling Sea I) (
16 times)
=
(new) Iron Maiden - The Nomad (
16 times)
=
(↓) Dream Theater - Afterlife (
16 times)
=
(new) Dream Theater - Just Let Me Breathe (
16 times)
=
(new) Gojira - 5988 Trillions de Tonnes (
16 times)
=
(new) Megadeth - Whose Life (Is It Anyways?) (
16 times)
I thought it would be nice to show how the positions of the songs have changed in the last year.
One change I made to the list is that I ordered the songs on equal plays by which songs have been played least recently as they made the number of plays first. That means some of the new entries may have been on 12 plays last year but just didn't make the list.
Usually I listen to my entire library on shuffle but in the run up to shows I play that band's catalogue instead. So since I've seen Iron Maiden twice since this time last year it stands to reason that a few Iron Maiden songs have made gains and even more are new entries. I've also seen Gojira twice which explains the two songs in the top 25 from them and I also saw 3 Inches of Blood last August. I'm really surprised that there are now two Helloween songs up there as I've never seen them before, although those songs, the Megadeth songs and the As I Lay Dying songs have such high play counts because at the end of 2011 I listened to all the new albums I'd bought that year on repeat for a couple of weeks.
However, I am flabbergasted that 'Wasting Love' is the most played song in my library as I don't remember hearing it that much in the last year. I fully expected 'Children of the Damned' to take first place as it was fairly high up last year and I remember hearing it a lot.
I've also decided to have a look the most played songs of some other bands who didn't make this list:
AC/DC - What's Next to the Moon (
11 times)
Avantasia - The Wicked Symphony (
15 times)
Blind Guardian - Damned for All Time (
13 times)
In Flames - Dead God in Me (
14 times)
Judas Priest - One Shot at Glory (
14 times)
Killswitch Engage - Breathe Life (
13 times)
Limp Bizkit - No Sex (
12 times)
Linkin Park - Step Up (
12 times)
Metallica - Damage, Inc. (
12 times)
Rush - Madrigal (
11 times)
Sabaton - Panzer Battalion (
14 times)
Sepultura - From the Past Comes the Storms (
15 times)
Slayer - Crionics (
14 times) (Slayer's best song too!)
Testament - D.N.R. (Do Not Resuscitate) (
15 times) (Was joint 6th a year ago.)
Thrice - Listen Through Me (
14 times)