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David\'s Last.FM Milestones1000th track: (26 Apr 2006)
Brad Paisley - I'll Take You Back2000th track: (11 May 2006)
Garth Brooks - Cowgirl's Saddle3000th track: (28 May 2006)
LeAnn Rimes - And It Feels Like4000th track: (08 Jun 2006)
Gretchen Wilson - Salt on Your Glass5000th track: (20 Jun 2006)
Kenny Rogers - If I Knew Then (What I Know Now) (with Gladys Knight)6000th track: (04 Jul 2006)
Mark Chesnutt - As The Honky Tonk Turns7000th track: (20 Jul 2006)
Christina Aguilera - Welcome8000th track: (30 Jul 2006)
Catherine Britt - The Upside Of Being Down9000th track: (14 Aug 2006)
Jewel - Good Day10000th track: (31 Aug 2006)
George Strait - My Infinite Love11000th track: (15 Sep 2006)
Jimmy Buffett - Bama Breeze12000th track: (28 Sep 2006)
Garth Brooks - Come Monday13000th track: (15 Oct 2006)
Dixie Chicks - Landslide (Urban Mix)14000th track: (03 Nov 2006)
George Strait - Amarillo By Morning15000th track: (20 Nov 2006)
Garth Brooks - The Red Strokes16000th track: (23 Dec 2006)
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TRACKS
1. Lifehouse - Lifehouse - Where I want to be (164 plays)
2. Nickelback - Savin' Me (33 plays)
3. Casting Crowns - While You Were Sleeping (21 plays)
4. Rich Mullins - My Deliverer Is Coming (19 plays)
5. Randy Travis - Three Wooden Crosses (15 plays)
6. Third Day - Call My Name (13 plays)
7. Todd Agnew - Unchanging One (12 plays)
7. The Fray - Without Reason (12 plays)
7. Tenth Avenue North - By Your Side (12 plays)
10. John Michael Montgomery - The Little Girl (11 plays)
11. Bebo Norman - Into The Day (9 plays)
11. Bing Crosby - Its beginning to look a lot like x-mas (9 plays)
11. Tenth Avenue North - U are (9 plays)
14. Alan Jackson - Let It Be Christmas (8 plays)
14. Emerson Drive - Fall Into Me (8 plays)
14. Thousand Foot Krutch - This Is A Call (8 plays)
14. The Fray - Where the Story Ends (8 plays)
14. Hollywood Studio Symphony • Aaron Zigman - Finale (8 plays)
14. The Fray - Absolute (8 plays)
20. FM Static - Take Me As I Am (7 plays)
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It's been a pretty eventful year for me as far as music is concerned. I've gone to more concerts in a single year (seven) than I ever had before, I had a four month stint writing for The 9513, I visited the Eli Young Band on their tour bus and my iTunes library continued to expand and became significantly less mainstream.

Once again, I've put together a list of my favorites from the past year. For this year's list I've added a category, which is a bit of a power ranking of how good the concerts I went to were.

Concerts I went to
7. Newsboys with No Better Cause - Nebraska State Fair - Lincoln, NE
6. Eli Young Band - UNL East Campus Mall - Lincoln, NE
5. Zac Brown Band - Pershing Auditorium - Lincoln, NE
4. Terri Clark and James Otto - Five Rocks Amphitheater - Gering, NE (review)
3. Brad Paisley, Dierks Bentley and Darius Rucker - Qwest Center - Omaha, NE
2. Randy Travis - Nebraska State Fair - Lincoln, NE
1. Gary Allan and Jamey Johnson - Heartland Events Center - Grand Island, NE (review)
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It's late and I'm feeling so tired
Having trouble sleeping.
This constant compromise
Between thinking and breathing.

Could it be I'm suffering
Because I'm never give in?
Won't say that I'm falling in love
Tell me I don't seem myself
Couldn't I blame something else?

Just don't say I'm falling in love

Some kind of therapy
Is all I need
Please believe me
Some instant remedy
That can cure me completely

Could it be that I'm suffering
Because I'll never give in?
Won't say that I'm falling in love
Tell me I don't seem myself
Couldn't I blame something else?

Just don't say I'm falling in love
'cause I've been there before and it's not enough
So nobody say it

Don't even say it
I ve got my eyes shut
Won't look, oh
No, I'm not in love

Could it be I'm suffering
Because I'll never give in?
I'm falling love
Tell me I don't seem myself good enough for something else

Just don't say I'm falling in love
Falling in love
Just don't say I'm falling in love
Oh, yeah
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That 1 Guy*3
27
3 Inches of Blood*6
36 Crazyfists*2
40 Watt Sun
The 69 Eyes

A
Abigail Williams
Abraham
The Absence
Abysmal Dawn
The Acacia Strain
Acid King*2
Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell
A Dozen Furies
A Bloodshed Nightmare
A Life Once Lost
A Perfect Circle
A Static Lullaby
AC/DC
Acid Mothers Guru
Aerosmith
AFI*3
Against Me
Agalloch*2
Agnes Vein
Ahab
Akakor
Alcest*2
Alice Cooper
Alice in Chains*3
Alien Ant Farm
All State Champion
All That Remains*3
ALO
Altar of Plagues
Amenra
American Steel
Amon Amarth*3
AMON DÜÜL II
Anberlin
Ancestors
Ancient VVisdom*2
Ancients*2
And So I Watch You From Afar
Angel Witch
Ankla
Anthrax*2
The Aquabats*2
Arch Enemy*5
Archspire
Ares Kingdom
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti
As I Lay Dying*4
Asesino
ASG
Assemble Head In Sunburst Sound
Assjack
Atari Teenage Riot
Atlantis
Atomis*3
Atreyu*4
Nicole Atkins
Attack In Black
Auf Der Maur
August Burns Red
Aura Noir
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Considering that The 9513 Group jumped up to 65 members this week, I was interested to see how that would affect the charts. Would we start to turn into every other group on Last.fm and have Radiohead among the top artists? Thankfully, no. Instead, the infusion of new blood created one of the best Top 10 charts we’ve ever had.

Sure, we’ve got our share of chart-toppers, with George Strait (22 listeners), Alan Jackson (19), Sugarland (18) and Martina McBride (17) all being well-represented. But right at the top, with 23 listeners, is Dwight Yoakam, who hasn’t had a Top 10 single on the Billboard charts since 1993 (sad, I know). I’ll always have a soft spot in my heart for Dwight, as “Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc.” was the first cassette tape I ever bought with my own money, and he and Randy Travis introduced me to country music.

Speaking of, Travis is also in our Top 10 with 15 listeners, and he’s had exactly one Billboard Top 10 song in the 21st century. …

Recommended Songs (sorted by most recommended songs)

Night and Day : John Barrowman & Kevin Kline (Score = 49.14)
Available from itunes on album only basis. Comes with a Robbie Williams track, though...
Love Don't Roam : Neil Hannon (Score = 31.27)
Where the Green Grass Grows : Tim McGraw (Score = 30.05)
Are You Out There : Dar Williams (Score = 29.95)
Solar Dip (demo) : Kristin Hersh (Score = 29.58)
Song for Ten : Neil Hannon (Score = 29.34)
Leap Year : Maria Taylor (Score = 28.25)
Somewhat boring. Nice but dull.
Gone To The Dogs : KT Tunstall (Score = 28.12)
Meh
Waterfall : The Stone Roses (Score = 28.12)
Annoyingly enjoyable.
Glass : Erin McKeown (Score = 24.68)
Bonkers but beautiful.
Xanax (Album Version) : Maria Taylor (Score = 24.5)
Again, nice but nowt special
Train : Sonya Kitchell (Score = 24.36)
Ooh now this is nice.
Play Untill The Bottle's Gone : Thea Gilmore (Score = 24.27)
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The American Idolization of The 9513 is beginning. While Brad Paisley managed to snag the top spot on the artists' chart this week with 18 listeners, Carrie Underwood was right behind him with 17 listeners. How did she do it? Well, her duet with Randy Travis, I Told You So was premiered on American Idol and became the second-most popular track with 8 plays, and her take on the country standard Home Sweet Home, the new Am-Idol farewell song, had 6 listeners. Among the top tracks for the week were Blame It On Your Heart and Wild Angels, which were featured on Idol's country night last week. Were our members looking for the better versions of those songs after hearing them Idolized? Maybe. Actually, Allison Iraheta's version of Patty's song was pretty good. Oddly, two people listened to Ring of Fire by Adam Lambert, and no one listened to Johnny Cash's version.

Elsewhere on the charts, the Top 20 doesn't have a ton of surprises. A couple days with my fiancee's copy of Alan Jackson's Greatest…