Okay, friends; happy Saturday to all of you faithful friends/visitors/listeners of these music operations. Now that things have somewhat returned to normal routine after the Christmas holiday stuff from last week and the New Year's happenings from a few days ago, I can now snag the time to do our formal "monthly greetings entry" for the first month of this year. And of course, we've got to look back at the statistics made during the course of 2019 which is now in the history books. And they are as follows regarding music arrangements that were involved and other related factors:
* 36 new Super Nintendo music style arrangements added for these operations, involving...
* 8 featured Super Mario (and branched) video game installments (covering Wii, Wii U, Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo Switch, and mobile devices)
* 12 involved Super Nintendo music instrument sets/arrangement stylings
As for which featured installments/arrangements for those statistics above dominated in 2019: on the Super Mario (and branched) videogame installment end, the winner is Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker (having 14 covers from yours truly added). On the featured Super Nintendo music instrument set/arrangement styling end, that honor goes to Inspector Gadget (because of my using this set to do the majority of SNES music style arrangement covers targeting the score of Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker). Once again, please note that this targeted activity during the course of last year; according to our "Music File Statistics" document at this time, all time statistics still have Super Paper Mario having the highest amount of music arrangements done under that title and Spider-Man and the X-Men: Arcade's Revenge still dominating instrument set/arrangement styling usage (with The Magical Quest Starring Mickey Mouse and Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster Busts Loose! instrument sets following closely behind).
In short, it has definitely been a very exciting year with my picking up the pace during the course of the latter part doing covers targeting the musical scores of Mario Golf: World Tour and Mario Kart Tour. The only question to ask now is what will be in store for us planbook wise as we officially begin the 2020 year. God only knows in regards to that. But one thing is for certain: we've still got to address some music operations related matters as we close in on the 10th anniversary for it; that's another story altogether.
Meanwhile, yours truly is currently getting ready to get back in the music arrangement groove itself during the course of this weekend. I already am starting to target new songs that have been in my planbook's backlog for months; you faithful friends/followers/listeners will definitely not want to miss out on what I've got planned to share as the months forge ahead. Until then, I have to head out for now; you all have a great rest of your weekend, and let's hope and pray for the best during this 2020 year itself. See you all later.