Bon Iver's Justin Vernon
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Not that we like Bon Iver or anything, but "Skinny Love" just happens to be the most commonly played song on a certain mope's iPod.

Bon Iver's Justin Vernon
courtesy of the artist

Not that we like Bon Iver or anything, but "Skinny Love" just happens to be the most commonly played song on a certain mope's iPod.

A while back, I asked readers to consider the dustiest far reaches of their CD collections to name the artists they'd abandoned: musicians whose works were once purchased with painstaking loyalty, only to languish for years, owned but abandoned.

A few wisenheimers popped up to pose the question, "What's a CD?" — which is to say, "Who still bothers to maintain a music collection in any sort of physical form that doesn't involve a USB connection?" Leaving that issue aside (though I still collect CDs, as do most but not all of my NPR Music peers), I figured it'd make sense to throw the digiphiles a bone. So here goes: What song have you played on your computer more than any other?

If you're an iTunes user like me, the answer can't be fudged: There's a column marked "Plays" that'll tell you how many times a song has been played through. Naturally, it doesn't cover the times you might have streamed it online, or the times you played it on a CD in the car, or the songs you played and deleted and re-ripped. But I figured it might be a useful indication of what your obsessions have been since you started listening to music on your computer.

I've talked to plenty of folks who've seized on a given song and listened to it many hundreds of times, whether on iTunes or through a service such as Last.fm or Pandora. For me, it's trickier to build up that kind of repetition, just because of the amount of time I spend previewing new music for work (or "work," depending on your perspective).

Regardless, the result — the No. 1 song, measured by number of plays on iTunes — should come as no surprise to those who've endured our All Songs Considered roundtable shows: Bon Iver's "Skinny Love," to the tune of 98 plays since late 2007. (Throw a quarter in the Iver Jar! Sorry, folks!)

So what's your most played song — and how many times have you played it? Please leave your answers in the comments section below. I'll compile a bunch of answers in a follow-up post next week.