I have to be honest - I get so jazzed for Maple Leaf March that I write some of these posts six months in advance. I wrote this in August - and will likely rewrite some of it.
And then release it three months early. Because, well, this was my 8th most listened to song of 2024, and the highest ranked song for which no post previously existed.
However, I wanted to share that I am a Spotify user, and this song - well, it's my most listened to for the last four weeks - and Once A Tree is my 5th most listened to artist all year.
I'm now revisting this as the year-end list from Spotify comes out. You see - Once A Tree was my 5th most listened to artist all year - which, completely believable. I really dove right in on them. They had a new EP come out this year that was incredible. I'd argue that combining my Once A Tree listening with my Jayli Wolf (#2) listening - and they should ABSOLUTELY be tied together because, c'mon, don't make me say it - would make my most listened to artist by a mile.
No disrespect to my Spotify-annointed #1, Charlotte Cardin, who I ALSO listened to a ton.
Also, no disrespect to Hayden Wolf, who is absolutely the producer for both.
I have been very curious about this, and not specifically about Once A Tree - but about the algorithm in general. I have requested my Spotify data, and will let you know what I learn - probably in March. Short answer: I ran the numbers and I was right, but not by much.
Back to this song. From their 2020 EP Fool's Paradise, this song is one of my favorites of theirs (probably why it was my 8th most listened to song of 2024). But it was more than that for me. You see, I spent a lot of 2024 out of work. I was starting to get a little down on myself, and then I started getting in-person interviews. I played this song in the car on the way to a few of them. I was offered every job that followed this song's playing. Coincidence? Probably - I was qualified for the jobs - but I choose to think not.
Supposedly, this was a "stripped down" version of the same song. Maybe Jayli didn't wear socks for this version?
I couldn't resist that joke.
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