Dircashede
@dircashede.bsky.social
Exclusively thinks/posts about Furi/Whatever Video Game I'm Playing/Jeopardy!/The Simpsons/AFL/Columbo/Music Charts
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New Tetris 99 hobby: accumulating All Clears while waiting for the game to speed up. I got another one after I clipped it for a new PB
January 13, 2026 at 3:08 PM
New Tetris 99 hobby: accumulating All Clears while waiting for the game to speed up. I got another one after I clipped it for a new PB
This was a bumper year for 2024 songs breaking through. I always wonder if we might reach too high a ceiling one day, but "BIRDS OF A FEATHER" could chase for the top 5 in the near future the way it's moving up. It's not enough to stop the mean getting dragged back to 2012 though.
January 1, 2026 at 1:43 PM
This was a bumper year for 2024 songs breaking through. I always wonder if we might reach too high a ceiling one day, but "BIRDS OF A FEATHER" could chase for the top 5 in the near future the way it's moving up. It's not enough to stop the mean getting dragged back to 2012 though.
It's a new year which means a new update to the yearly Spotify top 100 most streamed songs box plot.
January 1, 2026 at 1:38 PM
It's a new year which means a new update to the yearly Spotify top 100 most streamed songs box plot.
If you start watching the 2025 Grand Final just after 10pm, you can start your year watching Bailey Smith getting de-headbanded while surrounded by a stadium of people singing 'Hey Bailey' (unrelated name coincidence)
December 31, 2025 at 10:51 AM
If you start watching the 2025 Grand Final just after 10pm, you can start your year watching Bailey Smith getting de-headbanded while surrounded by a stadium of people singing 'Hey Bailey' (unrelated name coincidence)
If you're having trouble voting in the Hottest 100, just copy my votes
December 28, 2025 at 9:13 AM
If you're having trouble voting in the Hottest 100, just copy my votes
Can now post this in Western Australia
December 24, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Can now post this in Western Australia
We run it back, just as much disoriented commentary on the hits or thereabouts of the year before, a lot more struggling to steer around corners. Same rough time, same channel etc.
December 6, 2025 at 9:12 AM
We run it back, just as much disoriented commentary on the hits or thereabouts of the year before, a lot more struggling to steer around corners. Same rough time, same channel etc.
I don't want to give anything to them, but I can't help but be fascinated. Imagine someone giving this the tick of approval to post it and be seen by tens of thousands of people (maybe more)
November 9, 2025 at 9:27 AM
I don't want to give anything to them, but I can't help but be fascinated. Imagine someone giving this the tick of approval to post it and be seen by tens of thousands of people (maybe more)
Don't know why this came to me
October 22, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Don't know why this came to me
End of an era: The 18 month recurrency rule comes for the Eagles Greatest Hits compilation that's been enjoying free advertising space on the Kiwi charts since early last year
October 17, 2025 at 2:18 PM
End of an era: The 18 month recurrency rule comes for the Eagles Greatest Hits compilation that's been enjoying free advertising space on the Kiwi charts since early last year
This is the 9th time she's done this but the 'umm, album tracks in Singles???' brigade are out in full force. Wait until they find out that Brisbane & Gold Coast are in the Victorian Football League, or AZ & IL both won Eurovision last decade
October 10, 2025 at 6:59 AM
This is the 9th time she's done this but the 'umm, album tracks in Singles???' brigade are out in full force. Wait until they find out that Brisbane & Gold Coast are in the Victorian Football League, or AZ & IL both won Eurovision last decade
How to avoid discourse: Listen to artists who achieved Platinum success 20 years ago just in Australia
Great night, though. There's a young teenage me who'd never believe the opportunity would arrive. 2006 was a life changing year.
Great night, though. There's a young teenage me who'd never believe the opportunity would arrive. 2006 was a life changing year.
September 19, 2025 at 5:54 PM
How to avoid discourse: Listen to artists who achieved Platinum success 20 years ago just in Australia
Great night, though. There's a young teenage me who'd never believe the opportunity would arrive. 2006 was a life changing year.
Great night, though. There's a young teenage me who'd never believe the opportunity would arrive. 2006 was a life changing year.
Like I'm looking at this week's ARIA Chart and the fact that sombr's singles didn't even move the needle on album release week means that very few people care about the album, and thus it'll hold the best out of this pack, might even climb next week!
August 29, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Like I'm looking at this week's ARIA Chart and the fact that sombr's singles didn't even move the needle on album release week means that very few people care about the album, and thus it'll hold the best out of this pack, might even climb next week!
Been getting these Warner pressers since the start of the decade, the GPT slop pandemic has hit them too
August 21, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Been getting these Warner pressers since the start of the decade, the GPT slop pandemic has hit them too
Hoping to manifest some magical video game/music chart trivia next week
July 18, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Hoping to manifest some magical video game/music chart trivia next week
ARIA really missed a trick by not announcing the new chart rules like this
July 9, 2025 at 5:56 PM
ARIA really missed a trick by not announcing the new chart rules like this
I ♥ Australian music
(I will not spoil my blog however)
(I will not spoil my blog however)
June 18, 2025 at 11:51 AM
I ♥ Australian music
(I will not spoil my blog however)
(I will not spoil my blog however)
Yesterday on Bandle, the music clip guessing game they used Amy Macdonald's "This Is The Life", a song that was massive in mainland Europe but nowhere else. I tracked the guess rate through the day that re-affirms this (getting it in 6 is tantamount to not knowing the song)
May 2, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Yesterday on Bandle, the music clip guessing game they used Amy Macdonald's "This Is The Life", a song that was massive in mainland Europe but nowhere else. I tracked the guess rate through the day that re-affirms this (getting it in 6 is tantamount to not knowing the song)
There's a sentiment that Christmas playlists are shifting the default order of Christmas hits (esp. Wham! vs. Mariah), so I looked at the Spotify numbers of the biggest Christmas songs and how well they do...in April. A surprise result!
April 15, 2025 at 8:26 AM
There's a sentiment that Christmas playlists are shifting the default order of Christmas hits (esp. Wham! vs. Mariah), so I looked at the Spotify numbers of the biggest Christmas songs and how well they do...in April. A surprise result!
I broke my world record again last week
March 18, 2025 at 9:06 PM
I broke my world record again last week
The last Chaeri unlocked.
March 11, 2025 at 2:54 PM
The last Chaeri unlocked.
I'm too zonked out to write much about it at present, but the finish line is here
March 5, 2025 at 6:34 PM
I'm too zonked out to write much about it at present, but the finish line is here
The numbers are all there to spell it out, but if you're just quickly looking at Spotify, you might be tricked into thinking it must be popular off the back of one song, and who's to say that won't eventually translate to more people listening to the album?
February 26, 2025 at 8:09 AM
The numbers are all there to spell it out, but if you're just quickly looking at Spotify, you might be tricked into thinking it must be popular off the back of one song, and who's to say that won't eventually translate to more people listening to the album?
The most peculiar bit of reality blurring in "Better Man" is when they're listening to the radio announcing that "Never Ever" by All Saints has debuted at #1. In an era when nearly every #1 hit debuted there, they picked the one song that took months to get there!
February 24, 2025 at 6:31 AM
The most peculiar bit of reality blurring in "Better Man" is when they're listening to the radio announcing that "Never Ever" by All Saints has debuted at #1. In an era when nearly every #1 hit debuted there, they picked the one song that took months to get there!