Portland Loved Vodka, Blue Dream, Michelle Obama, Billie Eilish and Documentaries About Mushrooms In 2019

The most important culture stats of the year.

Billie Eilish at Moda Center. (Henry Cromett)

16,522,339

Sales, in dollars, of Tito's Handmade Vodka, Oregon's top-selling spirit of the year.

55,258

Barrels of Widmer Brothers beer sold in Oregon through the month of November, the most of any Oregon brewery.

Related: Widmer Brothers Closes Its North Portland Pub After 23 Years.

30

Estimated gallons of ranch dressing Ranch Pizza in Woodlawn went through each week.

Related: Ranch Pizza Is Bringing Its Detroit-Style Pies to Northwest Portland.

1,430

Number of roadkill salvage permit applications received by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife to allow the public to legally make use of deer and elk carcasses accidentally killed by vehicles. (Black-tailed deer accounted for the most permits, at 867.)

Related: A New Oregon Law Makes It Legal to Eat Roadkill. Before Strapping That Deer Carcass to the Top of Your Subaru, Here Are a Few Helpful Pointers.

12 million

Dollars spent on Blue Dream, Oregon's favorite cannabis strain.

15

Minutes it took for the Billie Eilish concert at Moda Center to sell out, the arena's fastest sellout of the year.

Related: Billie Eilish's Moda Center Show Was a Weird, Fun Nightmare

Post Malone at Memorial Coliseum. IMAGE: Sam Gehrke.

3,304

Number of times Z100 spun Post Malone's "Sunflower," the station's most-played song of the year.

Related: Post Malone Celebrated His New Album by Smashing a Guitar at Memorial Coliseum

10

Years since the release of "Two Weeks" by Grizzly Bear, the song Portland streamed on Spotify more than any other city in 2019.

285

Seconds in Rilo Kiley's "Portions for Foxes," the most sung song at new karaoke bar Baby Ketten Klub.

Related: After a Decade of Transience, Portland's Cult-Favorite Karaoke Night Baby Ketten Puts down Roots on Southeast Powell.

21,277

Tickets sold to see Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood in 35 mm at Hollywood Theatre, the cinema's most popular movie of the year.

Related: "Once Upon a Time  In Hollywood" Is Quentin Tarantino At His Most Meditative, Relatively Speaking

81

Length, in minutes, of Fantastic Fungi, a documentary about mushrooms narrated by Brie Larson, the most-watched movie at Cinema 21 this year, with over 10,000 attendees.

In the Heights (Michael Brosilow)

29,549

Tickets sold to see Lin-Manuel Miranda's pre-Hamilton musical In the Heights, Portland Center Stage's most popular play of the year.

Related: Portland Center Stage's In the Heights is a Theatrical Celebration of Manhattan's Washington Heights.

30,000

Approximate plays of Jurassic Park Arcade, the most popular game at QuarterWorld. (It was also the most played game at pinball bar Wedgehead.)

Related: Retro Game Bar Feels like Home—Specifically, the Home of That One Friend Who Had Every Video Game System in Existence.

512

Pages in Richard Powers' The Overstory, the top-selling book at Powell's.

3,908

Number of holds on Michelle Obama's autobiography, Becoming, at the Multnomah County Library, a new library record.

Related: In 2018, Portland Ate Nearly 2,000 Pounds of Duck, Smoked a Ton of Blue Dream, Listened to SZA and Paid a Lot of Money to Toast Storm Large.

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