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I've been on the air in Colorado since 1978. The Colorado Playlist is broadcast on 30 FM frequencies in the state. I am also a musician, talent buyer and business consultant. Email me at coloradoplaylist@gmail.com

#COMUSIC TOP 30 MAY 2026

The summer is stretching her arms to welcome us back outside for live Colorado music. Check out the HOT releases at member supported radio around the state. And catch someone new at a show near you!

I sometimes get asked why a certain band or artist or genre of music isn’t represented in the COMUSIC HOT SPINS REPORT and the TOP 30…

Some genres simply don’t get much, if any, terrestrial radio airplay. What you see in the reports is what sixteen community powered radio stations in the state air enough to be counted.

I am very happy that KUVO jazz is now included, as a result of them now using SPINITRON to report their playlists daily. Jazz is an essential part of the story of music in Colorado.

 WISH I WAS KIDDING. Your SUPPORT is ESSENTIAL.

This show has been my passion for 20 years. I am retired now. I survive on social security, some pennies and dimes playing out (right?!), and limited savings (that won’t last to the end).

There are monthly costs associated with the show that honestly stretch my insanely limited retirement income, and the loss of my steadiest supporter over the past decade.

The Colorado Playlist is the only program showcasing Colorado music statewide, broadcast by 12 stations covering 30 FM/LPFM frequencies. I make this show available at NO COST to community radio stations in our state. I’d like to keep it going for another couple of years.

Your support is sincerely appreciated.

Please make donations via Venmo at chrisk-2 (preferred) or use the form below (they take a cut). Thank you, sincerely – chrisk

To learn about getting your business heard across thirty FM frequencies and on the Colorado Playlist other assets, please email chriskmusic@gmail.com
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HOW THE CHART IS PUT TOGETHER

Every week I survey sixteen Colorado community/public and college stations, plus 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 Spotify and 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, KUVO, KVCU, 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)

#COMUSIC TOP 30 MAY 2026

(D) 1. DOWNEY CHASE – A Room In Motion LP Oct-25 Spotify / YouTube
(D) 2. BONNIE PAINE – Unseen LP Mar-26 Spotify / YouTube
(D) 3. JAGUAR STEVENS – Dead Miner’s Daughter LP Mar-26 Spotify / YouTube
(D) 4. YUGS – Dancing In My Room LP Nov-25 Spotify / YouTube
(13) 5. YONDER MOUNTAIN STRING BAND – Good As True LP Jan-26 Spotify / YouTube
(D) 6. DRY MOUTH – We Meant It At the Time LP Dec-25 Spotify / YouTube
(D) 6. PINK RANGER – Halcyon LP Sep-25
(6) 7. BIG RICHARD – Pet LP Nov-25 Spotify / YouTube
(17) 7. STEVE KOVALCHECK – Buckshot Blues LP Mar-26 Spotify / YouTube
(2) 8. JESUS CHRIST TAXI DRIVER – Taxi the Rich LP Jan-26 Spotify / YouTube
(D) 9. RYAN DART – If Love Don’t Break You LP Jan-26 Spotify / YouTube
(20) 10. KING CARDINAL – Reviver LP Sep-25 Spotify / YouTube
(9) 10. MAGOO – What A Life LP Oct-25 Spotify / YouTube
(20) 11. MAY BE FERN – Three of Swords LP Sep-25 Spotify / YouTube
(7) 12. BEN MARKLEY BIG BAND – Tuesday Morning Feeling LP Mar-26 Spotify / YouTube
(D) 13. RHETT HANEY – Cold Beer & Cocaine SP May-26 Spotify / YouTube
(16) 14. THE CROOKED RUGS – The Crooked Rugs LP Jan-26  Spotify / YouTube
(D) 15. EDISON – Million Horses SP Apr-26 Spotify / YouTube
(8) 16. A.J. FULLERTON & JAKE FRIEL – Fullerton & Friel Vol. II LP Dec-25 Spotify / YouTube
(D) 16. LAUREN FRIHAUF – The Thread SP Mar-26 Spotify / YouTube
(D) 17. AUBREY DALE – Fireweed LP Oct-25 Spotify / YouTube
(1) 18. EMILY SCOTT ROBINSON – Appalachia LP Oct-25 Spotify / YouTube
(D) 18. GRACIE BASSIE – One SP Apr-26 Spotify / YouTube
(R) 18. MACKENZIE RAE & BUCKSHOT MOON – Lonesome and Free LP Jul-25 Spotify / YouTube
(D) 18. NEYLA PEKAREK – The Queen of Magic EP Apr-26 Spotify / YouTube
(3) 18. VELVET DAYDREAM – Smoke & Mirrors LP Dec-25 Spotify / YouTube
(11) 19. THE INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS – 20/20 LP Aug-25 Spotify / YouTube
(18) 20. JOBI RICCIO – Face the Feeling LP Jan-26 Spotify / YouTube
(D) 21. CARLOS & THE CREW – Keep It Together SP Feb-26 Spotify / YouTube

88.9 KRFC – 68 TITLES TRACKED
(D) 1. RYAN DART – If Love Don’t Break You LP Jan-26
(6) 2. THE CROOKED RUGS – The Crooked Rugs LP Jan-26
(R) 3. MAY BE FERN – Three of Swords LP Sep-25
(3) 4. A.J. FULLERTON & JAKE FRIEL – Fullerton & Friel Vol. II LP Dec-25
(3) 5. MAGOO – What A Life LP Oct-25
(5) 6. BIG RICHARD – Pet LP Nov-25
(7) 6. LIZ BARNEZ – Wholehearted LP Oct-25
(R) 7. AUBREY DALE – Fireweed LP Oct-25
(2) 7. LAUREN FRIHAUF – The Thread SP Mar-26

INDIE 102.3 – 13 TITLES TRACKED
(D) 1. JAGUAR STEVENS – Dead Miner’s Daughter LP Mar-26
(D) 1. YUGS – Dancing In My Room LP Nov-25
(D) 2. DRY MOUTH – We Meant It At the Time LP Dec-25
(D) 2. PINK RANGER – Halcyon LP Sep-25
(D) 3. BONNIE PAINE – Unseen LP Mar-26
(D) 4. DOWNEY CHASE – A Room In Motion LP Oct-25

105.5 THE COLORADO SOUND – 30 TITLES TRACKED
(5) 1. CARLOS & THE CREW – Keep It Together SP Feb-26
(D) 2. EDISON – Million Horses SP Apr-26
(D) 3. CHEROKEE SOCIAL – Concentration SP Apr-26
(3) 4. WAXPOOL – Pretend SP Feb-26
(2) 5. JESUS CHRIST TAXI DRIVER – Taxi the Rich LP Jan-26
(R) 6. ARCRI – Sealed Letter LP Aug-25
(D) 6. GASOLINE LOLLIPOPS – Way Back Home SP May-26
(5) 6. MICAH AND THE MIRRORS – Hungry Hungry Heart LP Jan-26

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT! SINCERELY APPRECIATED.

CP S20 EP19 + NEW MUSIC MONDAY + HOT SPINS WK ENDING MAY 24

AIR DATES: MAY 23-29 2026
MMMM: Bonnie Paine, Big Dopes, Ian Brighton, Downey Chase

Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah courtesy Clear Vistas Photography

I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but I changed up This Week On YouTube recently. It now features live performance and studio created videos culled from the weekly playlist. Check it out below.

I WISH I WAS KIDDING. BUT I’M NOT. Your SUPPORT is ESSENTIAL.

This show has been my passion for 20 years. Over the years it has been mostly self-funded, with some financial help from Starr’s Guitars and a few others here and there. It was enough to cover the cost of operations, but nothing more. Since retiring from full time work, the cost of the show has had a significant impact on my income.

The Colorado Playlist is the only program showcasing Colorado music statewide, broadcast by 12 stations covering 30 FM/LPFM frequencies. I make this show available at NO COST to community radio stations in our state. I’d like to keep it going for another couple of years.

Your support is sincerely appreciated.

Please make donations via Venmo at chrisk-2 (preferred) or use the form below (they take a cut). Thank you, sincerely – chrisk

To learn about getting your business heard across thirty FM frequencies and on the Colorado Playlist other assets, please email chriskmusic@gmail.com
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MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING

The Monday Morning Music Meeting happens courtesy of Starr’s Guitars in Cedaredge, serving the western slope music community since 1998.

Every year I debut approximately two hundred new current-year releases. Every week I have to make decisions about what to keep to play again and what to archive. This is where you come in.

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Should I KEEP IT or CUT IT?

Results enter into determining which cuts stay in the library and which cuts might eventually make it to the annual Colorado Playlist Fan & Listener Poll and the “some of the best of the year” show.
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Judy Collins – Bird On a Wire – Who Knows Where the Time Goes (1968)
Harry Tuft – You Gonna Quit Me – Across the Blue Mountains (1976)
(D) Bonnie Paine, Rising Appalachia – Lighthouse – Unseen (2026)

Firefall – So You Want To Be A Rock and Roll Star – Friends & Family 2 (2025)
Elektric Animals – Reckless (2020)
West of Fennario – Great Evade (2026)
Euforquestra – Still Got Time – While We Still Got Time (2022)
Big Head Todd and The Monsters – Happiness Is – Rocksteady (2010)
Aubrey Dale – ‘Til the Cows Come Home (2025)
(D) Big Dopes – What It Feels Like – Jerry Ever After EP (2026)

YaSi – Guilty (2021)
Eminence Ensemble – Moonshine – Inside Looking Out (2024)
Gabriel Mervine – If I Love Again – See Something (2024)

Freddi Henchi Band – Get Up Off the Funk – Freddi Henchi Band (1981)
Acoustic Junction – Penny For Your Thoughts – Love It For What It Is (1991)
(D) Ian Brighton – Hologram – Tree of Life (2026)

Five Iron Frenzy – Renegades – Until This Shakes Apart (2021)
Inside the Mind – Find a Way ft Shrub and Smoke Signals – Looking for the Sun (2024)
Musketeer Gripweed – Hard Times – Long Past Time (2022)
Megan Burtt – In A Minute – The Bargain (2015)
The Barlow – Factory or Prison (2026)
(D) Downey Chase – Where WIll I Go Now – A Room in Motion (2025)

Tennis – Need Your Love – Swimmer (2020)
Heavy Diamond Ring – Don’t Go It Alone – Wildflower Lane (2025)
Brian Claxton – Music for FM Transmitter – Here Goes Nothing (2026)

THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE

TOP 10 HOT SPINS WEEK ENDING MAY 24, 2026
(D) 1. DOWNEY CHASE – A Room In Motion LP Oct-25
(3) 2. BONNIE PAINE – Unseen LP Mar-26
(2) 3. JAGUAR STEVENS – Dead Miner’s Daughter LP Mar-26
(D) 4. BRIAN CLAXTON – Here Goes Nothing LP Jan-26
(D) 5. DRY MOUTH – We Meant It At the Time LP Dec-25
(D) 5. IAN BRIGHTON – Tree of Life LP May-26
(3) 5. PINK RANGER – Halcyon LP Sep-25
(R) 5. THE BARLOW – Factory or Prison SP Jan-26
(2) 5. YUGS – Dancing In My Room LP Nov-25
(R) 6. AUBREY DALE – Til the Cows Come Home SP Oct-25

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT. IT IS TRULY APPRECIATED.

CP S20 EP18 + NEW MUSIC & HOT SPINS FOR WEEK ENDING MAY 17

AIRDATES: MAY 16-22 2026
MMMM: Neyla Pekarek, Gracie Bassie, Dianne Reeves, Rhett Haney, Steve Kovalcheck

A look upstream from Arapahoe Creek, near Monarch Lake, Granby – courtesy Clear Vistas Photography.

And we’re back … We had our home/offices freshly painted and recarpeted, so we drove to Granby, where Claire got some amazing Milky Way pictures we’ll hopefully share soon. And, I got to visit our friends at KFFR Winter Park … so cool to finely meet those folks.

I will be appearing with my band GOATZ! this Friday, May 22 at Roots Music Project in Boulder. Hope you’ll come out.

I WISH I WAS KIDDING. BUT I’M NOT. Your SUPPORT is ESSENTIAL.

This show has been my passion for 20 years. Over the years it has been mostly self-funded, with some financial help from Starr’s Guitars and a few others here and there. It was enough to cover the cost of operations, but nothing more. Since retiring from full time work, the cost of the show has had a significant impact on my income.

The Colorado Playlist is the only program showcasing Colorado music statewide, broadcast by 12 stations covering 30 FM/LPFM frequencies. I make this show available at NO COST to community radio stations in our state. I’d like to keep it going for another couple of years.

Your support is sincerely appreciated.

Please make donations via Venmo at chrisk-2 (preferred) or use the form below (they take a cut). Thank you, sincerely – chrisk

To learn about getting your business heard across thirty FM frequencies and on the Colorado Playlist other assets, please email chriskmusic@gmail.com
__________________

MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING

The Monday Morning Music Meeting happens courtesy of Starr’s Guitars in Cedaredge, serving the western slope music community since 1998.

Every year I debut approximately two hundred new current-year releases. Every week I have to make decisions about what to keep to play again and what to archive. This is where you come in.

Advertisement

Should I KEEP IT or CUT IT?

Results enter into determining which cuts stay in the library and which cuts might eventually make it to the annual Colorado Playlist Fan & Listener Poll and the “some of the best of the year” show.
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(D) Neyla Pekarek – Fearless (2026)

Lannie Garrett – Nature Boy – Under Paris Skies (2005)
d’Lovelies – Walking By The River – d’Lovelies (2025)
Big Head Todd and The Monsters – Wipeout Turn – New World Arisin’ (2017)
Yonder Mountain String Band – Blind – Good As True (2026)
Darryl Purpose – Dreams of Life – Next Time Around (2012)
Jobi Riccio – Whiplash (2023)
Mackenzie Rae & Buckshot Moon – Mule Creek Junction – Lonesome and Free (2026)
(D) Gracie Bassie – One (2026)

Selasee & The Fafa Family – Time for Peace (2014)
Big Dopes – Draggin’ This On (2025)
Brad Goode Quintet – Who Parked the Car? – That’s Right! (2018)

(D) Dianne Reeves – Hesitation – Star Child (2026)

Ellyn Rucker – Can’t Get Out of This Mood – NOW (2003)
iies. – Graffiti Swing – Don’t Forget the Dot (2024)
Spoke In Wordz – Por Aqui Por Alla (2025)
King Cardinal – New Addiction – Reviver (2026)
Euforquestra – Arizona to Georgia – While We Still Got Time (2022)
The Still Tide – Give Me Time – Run Out (2017)
A.J. Fullerton, Lauren Frihauf – Slow Killer (2025)
(D) Rhett Haney – Cold Beer & Cocaine (2026)

Gabrielle Louise – Big Unbreakable Heart – The Unending Alteration Of The Human Heart (2020)
The Galentines – Rear View Mirror – 1140 (2025)
(N) Steve Kovalcheck – Happy Train – Buckshot Blues (2026)

THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE

HOT SPINS WEEK ENDING MAY 17, 2026

STATIONS TRACKED: KAFM (Grand Junction), KBUT (Crested Butte), KDNK (Carbondale), KDUR (Durango), KFFR (Winter Park), KLZR (Westcliff), KOTO (Telluride), KRFC (Fort Collins), KRZA (Alamosa), KSJD (Cortez), KSUT (Ignacio), KUVO (Denver), KVCU (Boulder), KVNF (Paonia), 105.5 The Colorado Sound (Greeley), Indie1023 (Denver)

Spins tracked on Spinitron (except 102.3 and 105.5), designed to benefit community and college radio, and offering search functions to track airplay on over 300 stations around the country.

ALL STATIONS + COLORADO PLAYLIST – 63 TITLES TRACKED
(1) 1. YONDER MOUNTAIN STRING BAND – Good As True LP
(3) 2. A.J. FULLERTON, LAUREN FRIHAUF – Slow Killer SP
(2) 2. JAGUAR STEVENS – Dead Miner’s Daughter LP
(3) 2. YUGS – Dancing In My Room LP
(3) 3. BIG RICHARD – Pet LP
(3) 3. BONNIE PAINE – Unseen LP
(2) 3. KING CARDINAL – Reviver LP
(D) 3. PINK RANGER – Halcyon LP

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT. IT IS GENUINELY APPRECIATED.