Category: Charts

#COMUSIC TOP 30 NOVEMBER

For the first time in a very long (and out of my memory), I did not do a TOP 30 (OCT). Here’s what was HOT in NOVEMBER around the state.

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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 following Saturday. 

The monthly survey period runs from the first week ending with a Saturday through the last week ending with 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, 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)
(*) = No longer lives in Colorado, but counted as long as they got their career started here or there is some other reason to include them. 
(**) = serviced to media in Colorado by Rocky Mountain Music Network, LLC

(D) = DEBUT IN TOP 30
(R) = REENTER TOP 30

You’re most likely to hear Colorado music on one of three stations along the Northern Front Range: Indie 102.3, 105.5 The Colorado Sound and 88.9 KRFC. Their HOT SPINS are listed below.

#COMUSIC TOP 30 NOVEMBER 2025

(2) 1. GASOLINE LOLLIPOPS – Kill the Architect LP (Mar-25)
(D) 2. BEST MAN – People Pleaser LP (May-25)
(D) 3. AUTUMNAL – the seed becomes exposed LP (Sep-25)
(D) 4. THE PHOTO ATLAS – Hello Hospital EP (Aug-25)
(16) 5. LEFTOVER SALMON – Let’s Party About It LP (Mar-25)
(D) 6. LIZ BARNEZ – Wholehearted LP (Oct-25)
(D) 7. GRAVEYARD CHOIR – The Wake LP (Sep-25)
(22) 8. GREENSKY BLUEGRASS – XXV LP (Jun-25)
(21) 9. THE LUMINEERS – Automatic LP (Jan-25)
(7) 9. MAY BE FERN – Three of Swords LP (Sep-25)
(D) 9. RO$$AY – Denver, Tokyo SP (Oct-25)
(D) 10. DARREN GARVEY – Feel For You SP (Sep-25)
(1) 11. PACKAGING – Packaging LP (Jun-25)
(D) 12. EMILY SCOTT ROBINSON – Appalachia / Dirt Bag Saloon SP (Oct-25)
(15) 12. RUSS HOPKINS BAND – Always Moving Ahead LP (Sep-25)
(D) 13. THE INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS – 20/20 LP (Aug-25)
(R) 14. A.J. FULLERTON – Magnetic Light LP (Feb-25)
(13) 15. A.J. FULLERTON, LAUREN FRIHAUF – Slow Killer / Bitter Song / Expectations / I Don’t Wanna Grow Up SP (Sep-25)
(R) 16. SUGAR BRITCHES – Terrified And Aroused SP (Jul-25)
(D) 17. 2MX2 – Excandalo SP (Sep-25)
(10) 18. ANDY FRASCO & THE U.N. – Growing Pains LP (Feb-25)
(D) 18. BLANKSLATE – Lookout Mountain Charley LP (Jun-25)
(22) 18. COVENHOVEN – The Color of the Dark LP (Apr-25)
(D) 18. SCOTT REDNOR BAND – Where You Wanna Go feat. John Popper SP (Oct-25)
(D) 18. VOLORES – the Huntress SP (Oct-25)
(D) 19. AUGUSTUS – Matchbox SP (Jun-25)
(D) 19. BIG GIGANTIC – Fluorescence LP (Jun-25)
(R) 19. CHRISTINE ALICE – Wood, Strings & Simple Things LP (Feb-25)
(21) 19. ELEKTRIC ANIMALS – Lullaby SP (Sep-25)
(R) 19. QUESO RA – Glass SP (May-25)
(D) 19. WEST OF FENNARIO – Stone Fountain Serenade SP (Jul-25)

88.9 KRFC – 53 TITLES TRACKED
(D) 1. LIZ BARNEZ – Wholehearted LP (Oct-25)
(4) 2. RUSS HOPKINS BAND – Always Moving Ahead LP (Sep-25)
(4) 3. A.J. FULLERTON, LAUREN FRIHAUF – Slow Killer / Bitter Song / Expectations / I Don’t Wanna Grow Up SP (Sep-25)
(5) 4. SUGAR BRITCHES – Terrified And Aroused SP (Jul-25)
(11) 5. GRAVEYARD CHOIR – The Wake LP (Sep-25)
(8) 6. GREENSKY BLUEGRASS – XXV LP (Jun-25)
(2) 7. MAY BE FERN – Three of Swords LP (Sep-25)
(3) 8. GASOLINE LOLLIPOPS – Kill the Architect LP (Mar-25)
(3) 9. ANDY FRASCO & THE U.N. – Growing Pains LP (Feb-25)
(10) 10. SLOW CAVES – I Wanna Bite / Periwinkle SP (Oct-25)

INDIE 102.3 – 16 TITLES TRACKED
(D) 1. BEST MAN – People Pleaser LP (May-25)
(D) 1. GASOLINE LOLLIPOPS – Kill the Architect LP (Mar-25)
(D) 2. THE PHOTO ATLAS – Hello Hospital EP (Aug-25)
(D) 3. AUTUMNAL – the seed becomes exposed LP (Sep-25)
(D) 4. RO$$AY – Denver, Tokyo SP (Oct-25)
(9) 5. THE LUMINEERS – Automatic LP (Jan-25)
(4) 6. CHEAP PERFUME – Don’t Care. Didn’t Ask LP (Aug-25)
(4) 6. PACKAGING – Packaging LP (Jun-25)
(1) 7. LOS TOMS – Tube Theory LP (Jan-25)

    105.5 THE COLORADO SOUND – 30 TITLES TRACKED
    (1) 1. MARFA – Daisy SP (Nov-24)
    (1) 1. GRAVEYARD CHOIR – The Wake LP (Sep-25)
    (3) 2. 2MX2 – Excandalo SP (Sep-25)
    (10) 3. VOLORES – the Huntress SP (Oct-25)
    (7) 4. DARREN GARVEY – Feel For You SP (Sep-25)
    (3) 4. ELEKTRIC ANIMALS – Lullaby SP (Sep-25)
    (9) 4. MAY BE FERN – Three of Swords LP (Sep-25)
    (9) 4. PACKAGING – Packaging LP (Jun-25)
    (7) 4. QUESO RA – Glass SP (May-25)
    (4) 4. WEST OF FENNARIO – Stone Fountain Serenade SP (Jul-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) – 43 TITLES TRACKED
    (4) 1. GREENSKY BLUEGRASS – XXV LP (Jun-25)
    (1) 1. LEFTOVER SALMON – Let’s Party About It LP (Mar-25)
    (3) 2. A.J. FULLERTON – Magnetic Light LP (Feb-25)
    (D) 3. EMILY SCOTT ROBINSON – Appalachia / Dirt Bag Saloon SP (Oct-25)
    (9) 3. NITTY GRITTY DIRT BAND – Night After Night SP (Sep-25)
    (9) 4. GASOLINE LOLLIPOPS – Kill the Architect LP (Mar-25)
    (9) 5. CLAY STREET UNIT – Where Have You Gone? / Let’s Get Stoned SP (Sep-25)
    (7) 6. DAVID STARR – Must Be Blue LP (Feb-25)
    (7) 6. THE INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS – 20/20 LP (Aug-25)
    (8) 7. BIG RICHARD – Girl Dinner LP (Jan-25)
    (5) 7. LETTUCE – Gold Tooth / Rising to the Top SP (Jul-25)

    CP S19 EP41 2025

    MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING NOV 24 = FIREFALL, MACKENZIE RAE & BUCKSHOT MOON, EMILY SCOTT ROBINSON, THE INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS

    The Northern Lights from the Colorado National Monument, courtesy of Clear Vistas Photography

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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 songs. Every week I have to make decisions about what to keep to play again and what to archive.

    Let me know what you think of the debuts (D) and new songs (N) I shared in the show this week.

    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.

    CP S19 EP41 2025 HR1

    Rare Silk – New York Afternoon – New Weave (1983)
    Ellyn Rucker – One Morning In May – Ellyn (1988)
    (N) Firefall – So You Want To Be A Rock and Roll Star – Friends & Family 2 (2025)

    Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats – Heartless – South of Here (2024)
    Jeff Finlin – Soul On the Line – Soul On the Line (2022)
    Heavy Diamond Ring – Don’t Go It Alone– Wildflower Lane (2025)
    Cassie Taylor – Black Coffee – Blue (2011)
    Otis Taylor – The Devil’s Gonna Lie – Otis Taylor’s Contraband (2012)
    Leftover Salmon – Good Dog (Radio Edit) – Let’s Party About It (2025)
    (N) Mackenzie Rae & Buckshot Moon – Lonesome and Free – Lonesome and Free (2025)

    Roger Green – Enter As You Leave (radio edit) – Enter As You Leave (2023)
    Jaguar Stevens – Pink Hypnotic (2024)
    Brad Goode – Tight Like This – Tight Like This (2010)

    CP S19 EP41 HR2

    Judy Collins – Both Sides Now – Both Sides Now (1966)
    John Denver – Leaving on a Jet Plane – John Denver Sings (1966)
    (D) Emily Scott Robinson – Appalachia (2025)

    Marfa – 66 (2024)
    Faith Eliza – Call the Healer (2023)
    The Galentines – Rear View Mirror – 1140 (2025)
    Big Head Todd and the Monsters – Broken Hearted Savior – Sister Sweetly (1993)
    The Motet – So High – Totem (2016)
    Big Gigantic – Free Spirits – Fluorescence (2025)
    (N) The Infamous Stringdusters – Light At The End Of the Day – 20/20 (2025)

    Megan Burtt – Drugstore Brand (Radio Edit) – Witness (2024)
    Jon Snodgrass – Bad New Lands – Tace (2020)
    Garrett Sayers Trio – Diatribe – Thinkbox (2017)

    THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE

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    HOT SPINS WEEK ENDING NOV 23, 2025

    STATIONS TRACKED: KAFM Community Radio (Grand Junction), KBUT Community Radio (Crested Butte), KDNK Carbondale Community Access Radio (Carbondale), KDUR Community Radio (Durango), KFFR 88.3 FM (Winter Park), KOTO Community Radio Telluride (Telluride), KRFC 88.9 FM (Fort Collins), KRZA Community Radio (Alamosa), KSJD Radio (Cortez), KSUT (Ignacio), KVNF Mountain Grown Public Radio (Paonia), 105.5 The Colorado Sound and 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 + THE COLORADO PLAYLIST – 68 TITLES TRACKED

    1. GASOLINE LOLLIPOPS – Kill the Architect LP Mar-25
    2. BEST MAN – People Pleaser LP May-25
    3. AUTUMNAL – the seed becomes exposed LP Sep-25
    4. THE PHOTO ATLAS – Hello Hospital EP Aug-25
    5. LIZ BARNEZ – Wholehearted LP Oct-25

    PLEASE SUPPORT

    CP S19 EP39 2025

    MONDAY OCT 27, 2025 – MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING = Kate Farmer, Kade Hoffman, Sun Jr., LatinSoul

    THE COLORADO PLAYLIST NEEDS YOUR HELP

    The Colorado Playlist is the only show showcasing Colorado music statewide. Your support is essential to keeping it on the air.

    I make this show available at no cost to public radio stations, which as you may know are facing their own revenue issues now with the loss of CPB funding. Because of those CPB issues, what little money I was making is now $0.

    Please make donations via Venmo at chrisk-2 or use the form below. 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
    __________________

    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 songs. Every week I have to make decisions about what to keep to play again and what to archive.

    Let me know what you think of the debuts (D) and new songs (N) I shared in the show this week.

    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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    MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING

    The Fogcutters – Casting My Spell (1965)
    The Fantastic Zoo – Light Show (1969)
    (D) Kate Farmer – California (2025)

    Andy Sydow – Every Little Thing About Love – Night Skin (2024)
    Little Trips – Future Nostalgia (2021)
    The Dirty Turkeys – Ooo de lade – Cowboy Caravan (2025)
    Johnny & The Mongrels – Louisiana Girl – Creole Skies (2020)
    Sherri Jackson – Liberation – Moments In Denial (1995)
    piKziL – Exit Strategy (2025)
    (D) Kade Hoffman – Million Dollar Bill (2025)

    Cary Morin – Let Me Hear The Music – When I Rise (2018)
    Clay Street Unit – Engine Trouble (2024)
    Steve Denny Trio – Gramophology – Life in New York (2020)

    Soothsayers – Please Don’t Be Mad (1969)
    The Trolls – Stupid Girl (1966) – Rolling Stones cover
    (D) Sun Jr. – Hot Red Summer – The Many Moon Hex (2025)

    Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats – Call Me (Whatever You Like) – South of Here (2024)
    The Infamous Stringdusters – I Didn’t Know – Toward the Fray (2022)
    Leftover Salmon – Let’s Party About It – Let’s Party About It (2025)
    Mojomama – Be Your Own Savior – We Are One (2022)
    Big Gigantic – The Little Things – Brighter Future (2016)
    Zoe Berman – Vitamin D (2025)
    (D) LatinSoul, Joshua Trinidad – Mama Pacha (2025)

    CITRA – Ocean (2020)
    Big Head Todd and the Monsters – Glorious Full Moon – Her Way Out (2024)
    Keith Oxman – For Darcy and Lenny – Doing All Right (2009)

    THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE

    HOT SPINS WEEK ENDING OCT 26

    STATIONS TRACKED: KAFM (Grand Junction), KBUT (Crested Butte), KDNK (Carbondale), KDUR (Durango), KFFR (Winter Park), KLZR (Westcliff), KOTO (Telluride), KRFC 88.9 FM (Fort Collins), KRZA Community Radio (Alamosa), KSJD Radio (Cortez), KSUT (Ignacio), KVNF (Paonia), 105.5 The Colorado Sound and 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 + THE COLORADO PLAYLIST
    (D) 1. PACKAGING – Packaging LP Jun-25
    (2) 2. GASOLINE LOLLIPOPS – Kill the Architect LP Mar-25
    (D) 3. SLOW CAVES – I Wanna Bite / Periwinkle SP Oct-25
    (R) 4. STILLHOUSE JUNKIES – The Ballad of Charlie Avalon LP Mar-25
    (D) 5. KYLE HOLLINGSWORTH – All We Are LP Jun-25