ITunes play count

I'm wondering if there is a way to get the play-count of songs in iTunes just for a specific week? I don't want to reset my total play counts every week, but I also keep statistics about which songs I listen to every week. Hence, it would be highly useful to be able to see what I played in my iTunes, without having to write it down on paper every time I played a new song.
Is there a way to do this?

First - thanks for the confirmation. At least now I know that this can't be done, at least not at the present time. Perhaps I could hope that a "reset-able" play-counter, separate from the total play count, is something that might show up in later versions.
As for taking things too seriously...yes, maybe I am, but this is my idea of fun. I've done this for more than 10 years now, and being able to go back and see what I listened to at certain points in time is more fun than it is work. That, of course, doesn't stop me from wanting to simplify the task of counting songs

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