ListenBrainz is excited to announce the release of your #YEARINMUSIC reports for 2024! Log in to your ListenBrainz and click here to see your report. Don’t have an LB account? See what you’re missing.
More details in the the blog post. This post is for any and all related discussion 
We are also resharing the yim and lb hashtags on the ListenBrainz Mastodon and ListenBrainz Bluesky accounts, if you want to peep more listening habits xo
Thanks for releasing another YIM! I’m curious on the genre graph, what does the numbers for each genre represent?
I would believe that is the amount of times that tag is used in the database (regardless of entity type)
When I go to ListenBrainz.org, I’m automatically redirected to my recent listens page. I actually have to browse a bit to find my Year in Music. Shouldn’t you land on that page for the first two weeks of the year or so? Or make a big banner for it? ListenBrainz.org seems to be the only place where YiM is not advertised. 
I agree on a big banner! 
(dismissable of course)
My stats page says that I discovered 93% new artists this year. Indeed, I do my best to keep up with new artists, but this seems a little steep. Is it possible that the issue of last year has recurred?
We had this last year, but it was collectively forgotten this year 
There was a colourful button at the top right of the user’s top nav, and a Year in Music direct link was also in the sidebar, for a few weeks. I’ll do what I can to remember, but a lot of it is up to the devs (though I also forgot to include it in my mockups this year!)
could it be possible to generate the YiM for previous years as well?
i have listens in 2023. its a bit annoying that i don’t have the YiM 2023 but there is a message telling me to add more songs before the end of December. (and december has just passed, it doesn’t say that it need the be submited before the end of 2023, (although it is implied))
if it can not (or will not) be generated for me (ever), then just hide it for me.
Hello, I’ve just connected my account to Last.fm, and all my scrobbles have been loaded. However, I’m unable to see the Year in Music 2024. Should it appear soon?
Welcome! We calculated YIM on the 1st of Jan, however we will be recalculating it in a week or two. We will make an announcement when we do, keep an eye on the socials (Mastodon, Bluesky) or here 
will it then also be recalculated for previous years?
That (and a few other questions in this thread) is for our lovely devs, who are hopefully taking a nice lil break right now, @mr_monkey and @lucifer.
I imagine calculating older years can happen without much trouble, but I won’t make any promises on their behalf!
Man I love the design, I don’t know if I love the stumps or the autumn leaves hanging around the speaker more 
@lucifer just let me know that we will be trying to rerun the 2023 and 2024 YIM, next week. Unfortunately earlier (2021 and 2022) can’t be recalculated, the code and design has changed too much.
I will admit, the genre exploration graph is a bit confusing to me too, in fact I just noticed the numbers don’t line up with @14Super60pa’s screenshot?
I’m guessing the sizes of the boxes are based on the listening history, collapsing some smaller subgenres (I listened to a fair bit of Trap and Hyperpop, which don’t show up on the graph), which is somewhat understandable with the sheer number of subgenres.
also, I noticed an issue when downloading my Top albums image, one album is having issues loading cover art, and doesn’t get resized in the downloaded image (the middle one, if it wasn’t clear). this is consistent through a page refresh. I can get the art to load in the carousel if I scroll to it, but that doesn’t fix the downloaded image
On a related note, in the ListenBrainz Android app, on the Explore tab, there is a tile for YiM 2023 and a tile for YiM 2022, but not 2024.
Indeed, this year we did not have the required team to make a YIM '24 in the phone app.
The LB phone apps teams are 100% volunteering based, and considering the priorities and time they had available, YIM didn’t make it this year.
We already weren’t sure the past years because it is a lot of effort for that small volunteer team and duplicates a lot of work we do on the web version, on top of coming out later relatively late in the new year.
Considering the lack of developers, wouldn’t it be better to use the ListenBrainz app mostly as a wrapper for the web version of ListenBrainz? I just tested ListenBrainz.org a bit on my phone and it mostly works just fine. Fixing the few things that don’t work may be less effort than maintaining two ListenBrainz’s.
It’s already on the design/UX roadmap for the app to turn those into links (but wrappers makes sense!) - unless the volunteers (e.g. @Jasjeet) find some way of getting predictable annual resource for YIM. But that’s really tricky with all volunteers 
Shame about the existing ones, but to be consistent they should all function the same from the App explore menu.
finally shared my Year in Music, with a few of my thoughts in the replies
the big one, I feel like a second way to handle album listens might be to count each track by percent of album, so that a 70-track album listen counts just as much as an 11-track album listen (and this doesn’t just apply to YiM, of course). this might not be expected by all users tho, so I’m thinking this could be in addition to the track listen based scheme we currently use. that and with a longer album, you do spend more time with it, so there is that too
