Sample CAИON | A lifetime listening archive

The defining Album, Artist and Track

One archive, three ranked lanes. This is more than an album list.

#1Defining

Defining album

Nujabes

Hip HopDowntempoCool Jazz

94.3CAИON Rating #1of 11,833 2003Release 365Lifetime plays

10 unbroken years of listening, and #1 here. Behind that, revisited in 6 separate years.

Heard in 34 separate monthsTop 10 across 4 archived editionsHighest-ranked Nujabes album

Reached #1 by 9 July and remained there in the 24 July archived point.

Defining artist

Bonobo

#1Artist 994Lifetime plays

Number one in the frozen Artist CAИON, with 994 known lifetime plays.

Defining track

With Rainy EyesEmancipator · Soon it Will Be Cold Enough

#1Track 10 yrsActive

Fourth by known plays, lifted to number one by its presence across 10 years.

Not because it was played most. Because it endured.

Endurance

A decade in the archive

first known listen in 2017

Returns

Revisited across 6 years

10 separate returns after real gaps

Ranked by real listening across the whole archive.

Rank considers plays, repeat returns and listening across time. Where a row names two positions, the second is its play-count position.

01 Metaphorical MusicNujabes · 2003 Hip HopDowntempoCool Jazz 10 unbroken years of listening, and #1 here. 94.3 365 plays24.3 AEP
02 CurrentsTame Impala · 2015 RockPsychedelic RockSynth-Pop Revisited across 3 years, which lifts it 86 places. 92.5 402 plays30.9 AEP
03 Since I Left YouThe Avalanches · 2000 ElectronicExperimentalDowntempo 5 returns carry it 154 places above #157 on plays. 86.2 308 plays17.1 AEP
04 InnerspeakerTame Impala · 2010 RockPsychedelic RockIndie Rock A second Tame Impala album this high, at #4. 85.4 208 plays18.9 AEP
05 SlowdiveSlowdive · 2017 RockShoegazeDream Pop Revisited across 3 years, which lifts it 38 places. 85.0 172 plays21.5 AEP
06 Ooh Rap I YaGeorge Clanton · 2023 ElectronicTrip HopSynth-Pop Leads every 2023 release in this archive. 84.7 183 plays20.3 AEP
07 Modal SoulNujabes · 2005 Hip HopCool JazzDowntempo Nujabes again inside the top seven, the second of 12 here. 84.7 276 plays19.7 AEP
08 Lost in the DreamThe War on Drugs · 2014 RockIndie RockAlternative Rock Down from a peak of #3, still inside the top eight. 84.4 233 plays23.3 AEP
09 This Old DogMac DeMarco · 2017 RockIndie Rock Down from a peak of #2, still inside the top nine. 83.8 213 plays16.4 AEP
10 ParcelsParcels · 2018 R&B, Soul & FunkFunkElectro Once as high as #1, holding #10 now. 83.2 318 plays26.5 AEP