#COMUSIC TOP 30 DECEMBER 2025

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The last look back at what happened in 2025 – DECEMBER’s TOP 30 ..

HOW THE CHART IS PUT TOGETHER

Every week I survey more than a dozen Colorado community/public and college stations, including Colorado Playlist spins on respective stations. The weekly survey period runs from midnight Sunday through the next Saturday. 

The monthly survey period starts from the first week, ending with a Saturday. It continues through the last week, which also ends on a Saturday.  Titles are linked to its respective YouTube page.

Titles are tracked from the date of release of the first single from an LP/EP, for twelve months. Example: DOR = DEC 2023. I stopped tracking it in NOV 2024 (twelve months).

KAFM, KBUT, KCSU, KDNK, KDUR, KFFR, KLZR, KOTO, KSJD, KSUT, KRFC, KRZA and KVNF are surveyed via Spinitron, offering search functions for artists to track airplay on over three hundred stations and programs around the country.

LP = album (5 or more songs)
EP = extended play (3-5 songs)
SP = single play (1-2 songs)

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#CO MUSIC TOP 30 NOV 28-DEC 28 2025

Lettuce – Cook LP jumped from (16) in September to (1) in December, based on spins from 88.9 KRFC and some of the mountain stations. Lettuce formed in Boston. Over the years three of the six members moved to Colorado. They have since become deeply ingrained in the scene. So, they get counted as a band based, at least in part, in our state. Tracks from their most recent album “Cook” started dropping in July. The final full length release dropped DEC 3, 2025. (Spotify, YouTube)

NoCO Sings the Holidays is the season’s holiday release, featuring mostly Fort Collins based artists. The album received copious spins at KRFC with a few added on the Colorado Playlist. The holiday album debuts at #2.  (Spotify, YouTube)

Debuting at #4 in the monthly TOP 30 is the upcoming album Sin & Squalor from Clay Street Unit, due out February 13th. Tracks began to appear in the spring of 2025. One track broke out in the statewide HOT SPINS in September. The band sold out Denver’s Ogden Theater (1500 cap) in December. You can catch them at Red Rocks in support of the String Cheese Incident on Friday, July 17.  (Spotify, YouTube)

The Tammy Shine Ok Shine Ok, debuting at #6 is the solo debut from Dressy Bessy founder, guitarist and lead singer, Tammy Ealom. The album release show is Feb 21 at the Hi-Dive in Denver. The single, Junk Mail, dropped in December and was debuted by 105.5 The Colorado Sound. (Spotify, YouTube)
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(R) 1. LETTUCE – Cook LP Jul-25 (Spotify, YouTube)
(D) 2. VARIOUS – NoCO Sings the Holidays LP Nov-25 (Spotify, YouTube)
(D) 3. ALEJANDRA MEZA – Too Bad, So Sad SP Jul-25 (Spotify, YouTube)
(D) 4. CLAY STREET UNIT – Sin and Squalor LP Sep-25 (Spotify, YouTube)
(6) 5. LIZ BARNEZ – Wholehearted LP Oct-25 (Spotify, YouTube)
(D) 6. THE TAMMY SHINE – Ok Shine Ok LP Dec-25 (Spotify, YouTube)
(R) 7. DOGTAGS – Roseworld LP Apr-25 (Spotify, YouTube)
(D) 8. MYSTEE – bold and bright SP Nov-25 (Spotify, YouTube)
(D) 9. EDITH – Salt SP Oct-25 (Spotify, YouTube)
(8) 9. GREENSKY BLUEGRASS – XXV LP Jun-25 (Spotify, YouTube)
(D) 10. CITRA – The Light In Your Eyes SP Oct-25 (Spotify, YouTube)
(D) 10. THE DIRTY TURKEYS – Soul Sugar SP Nov-25 (Spotify, YouTube)
(D) 11. MYSTEE – Forget Me Not EP Jul-25 (Spotify, YouTube)
(14) 12. A.J. FULLERTON – Magnetic Light LP Feb-25 (Spotify, YouTube)
(R) 12. BALLPARK –Loose Screw SP Mar-25 (Spotify, YouTube)
(D) 13. EDITH – Sounds of Scenery SP Jul-25 (Spotify, YouTube)
(D) 14. CITRA – Long Way Around SP Jun-25 (Spotify, YouTube)
(R) 14. VIVIAN OBLIVION – Animals SP Jul-25 (Spotify, YouTube)
(18) 15. ANDY FRASCO & THE U.N. – Growing Pains LP Feb-25 (Spotify, YouTube)
(1) 15. GASOLINE LOLLIPOPS – Kill the Architect LP Mar-25 (Spotify, YouTube)
(7) 15. GRAVEYARD CHOIR – The Wake LP Sep-25 (Spotify, YouTube)
(R) 15. SOUR MAGIC – The Hive LP May-25 (Spotify, YouTube)
(11) 16. PACKAGING – Packaging LP Jun-25 (Spotify, YouTube)
(R) 17. MARFA – Daisy SP Nov-24 (Spotify, YouTube)
(15) 18. A.J. FULLERTON & LAUREN FRIHAUF – Slow Killer / Bitter Song / Expectations / I Don’t Wanna Grow Up SP Sep-25 (Spotify, YouTube)
(D) 19. DRUNKEN HEARTS – The Other Side SP Nov-25 (Spotify, YouTube)
(D) 19. EMILY SCOTT ROBINSON – Dirt Bag Saloon SP Oct-25 (Spotify, YouTube)
(D) 20. KING CARDINAL – Reviver Sep-25 (Spotify, YouTube)
(D) 21. ANDY FRASCO & THE U.N. – Tumbleweed feat. JJ Grey SP Nov-25 (Spotify, YouTube)
(D) 21. DAVID LAWRENCE & THE SPOONFUL – My House is Burning SP Oct-25 (Spotify, YouTube)
(5) 21. LEFTOVER SALMON – Let’s Party About It LP Mar-25 (Spotify, YouTube)
(R) 21. TENNIS – Face Down in The Garden LP Feb-25 (Spotify, YouTube)

88.9 KRFC (Fort Collins) – 51 TITLES TRACKED
(D) 1. VARIOUS – NoCO Sings the Holidays LP Nov-25
(1) 2. LIZ BARNEZ – Wholehearted LP Oct-25
(D) 3. LETTUCE – Cook LP Jul-25
(3) 4. A.J. FULLERTON, LAUREN FRIHAUF –Slow Killer / Bitter Song / Expectations / I Don’t Wanna Grow Up SP Sep-25
(D) 5. AUBREY DALE – December SP Nov-25
(4) 5. SUGAR BRITCHES – Terrified And Aroused SP Jul-25

INDIE 102.3 (Denver) – 11 TITLES TRACKED
(D) 1. ALEJANDRA MEZA – Too Bad, So Sad SP Jul-25
(R) 2. DOGTAGS – Roseworld LP Apr-25
(D) 2. EDITH – Salt SP Oct-25
(D) 3. CITRA – The Light In Your Eyes SP Oct-25
(D) 4. BALLPARK – Loose Screw SP Mar-25
(D) 4. MYSTEE – bold and bright SP Nov-25

105.5 THE COLORADO SOUND (Greeley) – 30 TITLES TRACKED
(1) 1. GRAVEYARD CHOIR – The Wake LP Sep-25
(1) 1. MARFA – Daisy SP Nov-24
(D) 2. THE TAMMY SHINE – Junk Mail SP Dec-25
(D) 3. THE DIRTY TURKEYS –Soul Sugar SP Nov-25
(R) 4. MOONPOOL – Aim SP Jul-25
(D) 5. THE PHOTO ATLAS – Hello Hospital EP Aug-25
(R) 5. SMEAR – Champagne LP Apr-25
(3) 5. VOLORES –the Huntress SP Oct-25

KAFM (Grand Junction), KBUT (Crested Butte), KDNK (Carbondale), KDUR (Durango), KFFR (Winter Park), KLZR (Westcliff), KOTO (Telluride), KRZA (Alamosa), KSJD (Cortez), KSUT (Ignacio/Durango), KVNF (Paonia) – 55 TITLES TRACKED
(7) 1. LETTUCE – Cook LP Jul-25
(1) 2. LEFTOVER SALMON –Let’s Party About It LP Mar-25
(R) 3. REVEREND FREAKCHILD – A Bluesman of Sorts LP May-25
(1) 4. GREENSKY BLUEGRASS – XXV LP Jun-25
(2) 5. A.J. FULLERTON – Magnetic Light LP Feb-25
(R) 5. RAGGED UNION – Pyramid Stairs LP Jun-25

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