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Your Computer Knows What You Read (And Sometimes So Do We)

Everywhere you go these days online, you’re being watched and tracked and categorized and cataloged. It’s become something of a frivolous pastime in my family to take note of and laugh about the trail of tax software ads or sheepskin slipper ads or holiday sweater ads that follow us around for a week or so after we buy such things. And while Plugged In will by no means start dogging your steps while you’re going about your other Web-based business, we do keep track of how our readers move through the site and what reviews are particularly interesting to them.

So now that we’ve tabulated all those data points for 2013’s year-end, I thought we’d share some of the information with you. It is your information, after all! These lists aren’t necessarily a true reflection of your favorite entertainment, of course, but certainly of the things you needed/wanted to know something more about. And if the things you’ve checked out aren’t on the lists, then maybe some of you will want to click a few of the links to see what your neighbors have been reading.

Among 1,100-plus articles, reviews, audio/video features and blog posts, in 2013 Plugged In published …

170 MOVIE and VIDEO reviews—bringing the total to 2,411
101 MUSIC reviews—bringing the total to 1,509
100 TV reviews—bringing the total number of series to 424
51 GAME reviews—bringing the total to 388

Here are the reviews you read:

Top Movies

1 Iron Man 3
2 Man of Steel
3 Oz the Great and Powerful
4 The Croods
5 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

Top Music

1 OneRepublic, Native
2 Relient K, Collapsible Lung
3 Miley Cyrus, “Wrecking Ball”
4 Imagine Dragons, Night Visions
5 Miley Cyrus, Bangerz

Top TV

1 Duck Dynasty
2 Game of Thrones
3 Amish Mafia
4 The Walking Dead
5 Downton Abbey

Top Games

1 Minecraft
2 Grand Theft Auto V
3 Call of Duty: Black Ops II
4 BioShock Infinite
5 The Last of Us