Playlisssst

I am obsessed with my music collection / iTunes / last.fm (the latter especially) and found this in my archives, so decided to do it again. The previous answers (Nov 2005) in brackets.

How many songs: 7623 (1433)

Sort by song title.
First Song: Adeste Fideles – Fayrouz (2Bad – Michael Jackson) – hm, apparently iTunes used to sort numbers first
Last Song: 99 Luftballons (Zuhälter – Wir sind Helden)

Sort by time.
Shortest Song: Yeah – Queen 0:04 (Tie between Paul (skit) – Eminem and Interlude: Sad – Janet Jackson (both 0:10))
Longest Song: Charpentier’s Te Deum – hasn’t changed: (MJ’s Oxford Speech (46:10). Doesn’t count? Ok. Charpentier’s Te Deum then (26:38))

Sort by album.
First Album: Abbey Road – The Beatles (3 Years, 5 Months and 2 Days in the Life of.. – Arrested Development)
Last Album: 8 Miles Soundtrack (Ziggy Stardust – David Bowie)

Top five most played songs. [NB this is pretty recent, since got new Windows not so long ago and rebuilt my library]
1. Lady Gaga – So Happy I Could Die (Des’ree – Kissing You)
2. Lady Gaga – Bad Romance (Janet Jackson – Trust a Try)
3. Beyoncé – Halo (Cyndi Lauper – The World is Stone)
4. Lady Gaga – Alejandro (Michael Jackson – Will You Be There)
5. Lady Gaga – Dance in the Dark (Wir Sind Helden – Darf ich das behalten)
For reference, my all time (last 5 yrs) most played songs according to last.fm:
1. Placebo – Song to Say Goodbye
2 Placebo – Follow the Cops Back Home
3. Pink – Runaway
4. Placebo – Post Blue
5. Imogen Heap – Hide and Seek

First song on shuffle: Am on shuffle now and listening to Cyndi Lauper – True Colors (Queen – Love of my Life (live in Cologne))

How many songs come up when you search for “sex”: 25 (2)

How many songs come up when you search for “death”: 15 but most of those are one album title (1)

How many songs come up when you search for “love”: 350 – geez! (42)

How many songs come up when you search for “you”: 773 (137)