Here are my most listened to artists, year by year, for the past decade. These stats were collected from my digital media player and don't reflect all the physical records I also spun during this time period. I have had intermittent access to my music library since 2018 (moving between multiple countries) and have downloaded almost no new music since then.
Not very diverse. Here are the numbers of times my favorite artists have appeared in an annual top ten chart.
6 Tuxedomoon
5 Momus
4 The Associates
4 Death in June
3 Tindersticks
3 Throwing Muses
3 Rome
3 Prefab Sprout
3 Brahim Yilmaz
2 The Shadow Ring
2 Talk Talk
2 Simon Bookish
2 Rudimentary Peni
2 Mishio Ogawa
2 Jun Togawa
2 James Ferraro
2 Henry Cow
2 Haniwa-chan
2 Fred Frith
2 Faust'o
2 Especia
2 Arthur Russell
2 Art Bears
2 Akiko Yano
I thought I exposed myself to a wide variety of sounds over the past 10 years, but it looks like I've maintained clear favorites throughout.
The homogeneity of my tastes becomes even more apparent when these artists are broken down by nationality.
It's a damning graph, but it also makes sense. I speak English and I lived in Japan for half the decade. It'd be weirder if I were an expert on Bolivian folk music.
Still.