We're 10 years old

Well that soon went. 10 years ago I was a 30 something obsessed with music who had stopped liking modern music and stopped following the charts but fascinated by the history of the charts.

I wanted to explore more into the history of the charts and came up with the idea of also picking a record of the year for every year. Then I thought I should find somewhere to document this so decided on a blog. Then I thought I could write other things across the music spectrum too hence the name My Random Music Blog.

Now I'm a 40 something still obsessed with music, still fascinated by the history of the charts and have got back to vaguely following them though can't be doing with the music in them. I know that Taylor Swift is currently at number one but have never heard the song in my life and would like to keep it that way.

Over the last 10 years I've spent countless hours writing posts and doing my research. I've come up with several ideas of themes to my posts, some a series that would take a few weeks and some that would take a few years.

The longest running of these is the UK number 40s which I started back in 2019 and in theory this could go on for as long as the charts are around. By the end of the year I will reach the end of 2024 after which I will stop because there's still the possibility of newer number 40s climbing the charts.

Moving forward I'm going to take a different approach. Instead of a certain series of posts falling on a certain day I'm going to move quicker with a theme of posts and try and incorporate more "random" posts. The latter has been somewhat lacking because I come up with an idea of a one off post but am too busy with the regular posts and end up either forgetting it or going off the idea.

The next new series of posts I'm going to do is revisit the record of the year. In the last 10 years I've learned more of the music but my tastes change over time too. Singling out one record is tough. I might be in the mood for some banging techno or might want something more ambient. There will be records that have grown on me and others that I'm now sick to death of.

Then again maybe I got it right 10 years ago. I'm yet to do the revisiting so don't know how different it will be but I can guarantee some will be different. Also being as long as 10 years ago I've since forgotten what some of them are and I'm not going to look back at what I picked until I've made my pick this time.