Whether its the same songs from back then or newer songs from the same artists.

I'm finding myself having a big resurgence from around that time especially in the autumns.

(Obviously for those members who are still in that age range, this question is a little irrelevant!)

Let me think, it's a noticeable amount but not necessarily huge. My core favorite artists, the select few that I actually listen to their full albums, are almost all from that 2008-2014 range which was my late teens/early 20s. But overall I doubt they're more than 25% of my total listening, as I still spend a lot of time on more recent artists.

If talking about my "main rotation" (outside playing an act decades ago out of curiosity and (re)discovery), less than 3% I think.

I don't actually pay much attention to whether it was an act from the past I played back then or not. Music first before age. LOL

I almost don't listen the current music (from the last 10 years), but mostly moved into the past (70s, 80s, early 90s).

In summary I will say - 30-35 % for old favourites from my young years, 60 % for retro and 5-10 % for the music from last 10 years.

Edited October 14Oct 14 by Last Dreamer

It'd be a fair percentage for me. I'd say about 75% of the music I listen to is from 1997-2011. So from when I was 9years old to 23 years old. Though I suppose in relation to what the questions actually I was I'd say about 37%, so half of that. For years clarity I'd be refferreing from 2005-2011, when I was 17-23 years old.

The other 25% would be distributed amongst 19802-1996 and 2015 onwards.

My 2025 songs play list has 92 songs and of those 17 of them weren't even released in the past 18 years. They're just songs that 'impacted' me this year.

I've generally found I stay pretty loyal to the artists I've loved since my teens/twenties whilst always being on the lookout for new/other stuff.

During my late teens I was solely listen to dance music, which was mainly house in 97/98 and switched into trance by 1999. I listen to that occasionally, but did stop following that kind of stuff by end of the noughties. Nowadays, I listen mainly to Indie Rock and Pop, but became enthusiastic for all kind of music from the middle of the 60s onwards. Thus, I stepped back in time as well as following the current stuff. I would say I listen 50% to current stuff and 50% to older stuff. I like to do compilations of different years or specific weeks and listen to it in a rush. Right now I am listening to all top 10 hits from 2005 as I am attending a pub quiz with this topic tomorrow. ;)

The Beatles became my favourite band in 2013 which is funnily enough exactly when my late teen years began! However there's understandably not much 'new' music to keep up with I still love them and some artists who were actually releasing at the time like Lady Gaga, Lana Del Rey, Lorde etc. but would say my taste on the whole evolved a lot from then to when my early 20s ended, just a few years ago. Like I remain open to some pop music but Glee Cast still being my top artist on last.fm is not representative of my more alt-leaning tastes nowadays at all.

So it's a weird period for me to quantify as the start of it looks so different to the end. I'd say it still feels too soon for me to feel much nostalgia for the 2010s like I do for the 2000s.

My listening habits reflect a curiosity for both music history and new releases. I'd say having a personal chart helps to keep me on track with up-to-date music and that makes up about 60% of my consumption each week. I've shifted away from the mainstream more but am still anchored to that world by chart geekery passion and do still make some good discoveries that are in the top 40, e.g. Chappell Roan and Taylor Swift's latest singles. I'd say the other 40% is split 50/50ish between favourites from younger years and retro stuff from before I existed. Shall see if this all shifts much when I get into my 30s. But I hope I do always have this current mix of curiosity!

I suppose the biggest ones that were just starting to get big when I was in my late teens early 20s were little mix Taylor swift, ed sheeran and well they are the only albums I actually bought this year (well jade and perrie) also impressive they all been going 13 to 20 years really

Other that I go back to Rihanna and Eminem a bit and pink

And then late 90s cheese like club steps vengaboys etc etc

The rest is listen to is just whats popular at the time

I still listen to a fair bit of stuff from back in that era. We're talking late 80s to early 90s for me and my main tastes were Goth, Punk, Post Punk, Grindcore, Grebo, Indie Pop, Industrial and what was then known as College Rock or sometimes just Alternative. There was heavy rotation for bands as diverse as Sisters of Mercy, Gaye Bykers on Acid, R.E.M. Pixies, Ministry, Dead Kennedys, Sex Pistols, L7, Sonic Youth, The Clash, Echo & the Bunnymen, Siouxsie & the Banshees, Jane's Addiction, Smiths, Napalm Death, Slayer or The Primitives. John Peel was an essential week night's listening and the local independent live venue was the only place to be on a Friday night.

Much of that music has very much stayed with me and I still listen to a lot of it on a regular basis, as I also do stuff from both my younger years and later years. I do listen to a lot of modern and recent music too though. If there is a period I don't go back to quite so much it is probably the late 2000s to mid 2010s as other things like children took up much time and I was never able to indulge my music listening as deeply - I finally gave up setting pub quizzes in 2008 (but still compete) and so the 'studying' element faded away.

A little graph of my Top 100 played artists on Last Fm categorised by predominant decade -

60s - III

70s - IIIII IIIII I

80s - IIIII IIIII IIIII IIIII IIIII IIIII IIIII IIIII IIIII I

90s - IIIII IIIII IIIII II

00s - IIIII IIIII IIIII

10s - IIII

20s - III

Naturally for an account that has been active since 2007 older artists have an advantage in accumulated plays but it does suggest I return to the 80s quite often, and it's not a surprise but looking at the acts in question most were indeed on heavy rotation in my late teens and early 20s. Some like R.EM. Prince and Jesus & Mary Chain straddled the 80s and 90s but are filed under 80s as that was when I first listened to them regularly. That being said my early 20s were all in the 90s and that doesn't show a preference over music from afterwards.

At an estimate I'd suggest maybe a quarter of what I listen to these days comes from that 1989-94 period and another quarter from modern tracks covering the last 5 years. Interestingly, the next two acts outside my top 100 are Calva Louise and Taylor Swift, both more modern ,so I'd expect them soon be disposing of Nitzer Ebb and The Waterboys, two acts I listened to a lot during the period in question

I mainly listen to new music still and listen to podcasts of the Future artists/sounds shows on R1 to keep up to date and don’t necessarily listen to the era when I grew up. I was a bit strange in that I didn’t start following music ubtil around 2000 which when I was 17. But i very much became a chart geek after this.

Now I go through the chart thread on BJ weekly even if I don’t get to listen to the show itself.

I also have started listening to older decades of music as I have an interest in music history and knowing bands from earlier eras. So in this decade I listened to all the Beatles albums for the first time and loved them and I am now onto Dylan. Il keep choosing another artist and go through their discography until I understand the music of the 60 inside out.

Also love the old TOTP ok bbc4 and learned quite a bit from that about the history of the charts from 1976-98 it’s into now.

It depends how you would define an artist you listened to in your late teens/early 20s. When I was that age I had a huge list of CDs I wanted but only a limited budget to buy them with so for example Leftfield have only just become part of my music collection but would of been part of it in the 90s if I had limitless funds. I still see it as music of my youth though because it was music I was very much into at the time.

Going with the music I was into definition, most of my teens were spent listening to nothing but rave but then I opened myself up to other genres and by my early 20s I was into all sorts of music. Most of the artists that I've got into since are older music acts such as Roxy Music and ELO. I did however go through a phase in my late 20s of getting into new music because I still felt too young to be just listening to the old stuff. The last new music act I got into was Fenech Soler when I was just about still in my 20s.

Oh Christ I'd say the majority of the stuff I listen to is from that time in my life 😂 I still listen to a load of Paramore (unsurprisingly) who have been my favourite band since I was about 11/12. I absolutely love 00s and 2010s pop and emo/pop punk stuff, I always say 2005-2015 is the golden era when it comes to music (tbf that's ages 9-19 for me 😅). I listen to a lot of Blondie, Fleetwood Mac, No Doubt etc too (a bit before my time but still). If I don't know what to put on a 00s nostalgia mix is always my go-to.

My music taste in general now is basically that with the addition of queer women in music (Chappell, Renee, Muna, Pvris etc) that weren't a thing back then (at least not publicly). I don't think my taste has ever been so pop-orientated 😂