CP S18 EP01 2024

MONDAY JAN 08, 2024 … Let’s get the new year started. HELP, please. I need help to keep this show going. Please donate below or via Venmo at chrisk-2 (6753). And don’t forget to let us know what you think of this week’s new music shares.

MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING (MMMM)

The Monday Morning Music Meeting is a way for you to let me know what you think of new music emerging from around the state. Results enter into which cuts stay in rotation, and which cuts make the final “best of” list.

The MoonrakersI’m All Right (1964)
Sugarloaf Tongue In Cheek (radio edit) – Spaceship Earth (1971)
Cary Morin Indian Hunters Return – Innocent Allies (2023)
Hunter StoneMars (2023)
Robert Shredford Queen Elizabeths Corgis – Robert Shredford (2020)
KiltroErrasuriz (radio edit) – Underbelly (2023)
Megan Burtt The Bargain – The Bargain (2015)
Railbenders Someone Take This Bottle – Segundo (2004)
Jobi RiccioSummer – Whiplash (2023)
Izcalli Waiting for Something (2024)
Alexa WildishMagic Hours – Alexa Wildish EP (2020)
Yonder Mountain String Band Into the Fire – Get Yourself Outside (2022)
Gerald AlbrightNew Beginnings – New Beginnings (2006)

The Apples In StereoSeems So – Tone Soul Evolution (1997)
Neutral Milk HotelIn the Aeroplane Over the Sea – In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (1998)
(D) Gasoline LollipopsBlood On the Bluegrass (2024)

Drunken HeartsFall From Grace – Reckless Ways of Living (2023)
Hillbilly Hellcats White Trash – Rev It Up With Taz (2003)
Big Head Todd and the Monsters Crush (2024)
piKziL Can’t Get Started – Songs From My 3rd Life (2016)
Andy Monley kites – Triplight (2006)
Last Call RomanceI’ll Give You Nothing – Double Funeral, Vol. 2 (2023)
(D) Dechen HawkFOMO (2024)

The Velveteers Charmer And The Snake – Nightmare Daydream (2021)
Sugar Nova Touch Me, I’m Going to Scream, Pt. II – Halogen (2023)
Keith Oxman Pinwheel – Doing All Right (2009)

#COMUSIC HOT SPINS WK DEC 31 – JAN 06

Spin data pulled from the Colorado Playlist105.5 The Colorado SoundIndie 102.388.9 KRFC  and ten other stations that use playlist generator Spinitron, offering search functions for artists to track airplay at more than 300 stations and programs around the country.

61 TITLES TRACKED WK 12/31-01/06

(D) Debuted in CHART
(R) Re-entered TOP 5
LP = album (5 or more songs)
EP = extended play (3-5 songs)
SP = single play (1-2 songs)
* = NOT LIVING IN COLORADO, but counted as long as they were born and/or raised here, or 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

(1) 1. GREGORY ALAN ISAKOV – Appaloosa Bones  LP (Apr-23)
(R) 2. ALYSIA KRAFTElectric Blooms EP (Jun-23)
(R) 2. BRYCE MENCHACASalt EP (Aug-23)
(R) 2. DRAGONDEER Across the Waves LP (Jun-23)**
(R) 2. KILTRO Underbelly LP (Apr-23)
(R) 2. LEFTOVER SALMONGrass Roots LP (May-23)

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#COMUSIC TOP 20 DEC 2023

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 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 2022. I stopped tracking it in NOV 2023 (twelve months).

KAFMKBUTKCSUKDNKKDURKFFRKOTOKSJDKSUTKRFCKRZA and KVNF are surveyed via Spinitron, offering search functions for artists to track airplay on over three hundred stations and programs around the country.

Your donation will VERY HONESTLY HELP to keep this going. Please. Donate via Venmo at chrisk-2 (6753).

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

117 TITLES TRACKED at least one spin on one station in December 2023.

(1) 1. GREGORY ALAN ISAKOV – Appaloosa Bones LP (May-23)
(D) 2. CALVIN LOCKLEARNo Particular Plan EP (Nov-23)
(4) 3. KILTRO – Underbelly LP (Apr-23)
(D) 4. ESME PATTERSONNotes From Nowhere LP (Jul-23)
(D) 5. IN THE TEETH You’ve Done Enough LP (Nov-23)
(D) 5. INTHEWHALEChosen At Random LP (Oct-23)
(D) 6. KISSING PARTY Graceless LP (Nov-23)
(D) 7. DETH RALI Ruby’s Castle Island SP (Sep-23)
(1) 8. HEAVY DIAMOND RING – All Out of Angels LP (Sep-23)**
(13) 9. BONNIE & TAYLOR SIMS – Bonnie & Taylor Sims LP (Jun-23)
(11) 10. DRAGONDEER – Across the Waves LP (Jun-23) **
(3) 11. ALYSIA KRAFT – Electric Blooms EP (Jun-23)
(D) 11. BRYCE MENCHACASalt EP (Aug-23)
(D) 12. COVENHOVEN Staring at the Sun SP (Nov-23)
(R) 12. NATHANIEL RATELIFF & THE NIGHT SWEATSWhat If I EP (May-23)
(D) 12. WOOD BELLY Cicada LP (Jul-23)
(R) 13. LAST CALL ROMANCE Double Funeral, VOL 2 LP (Apr-23) **
(D) 13. SERPENTINEReal SP (Oct-23)
(D) 13. SOUTH OF FRANCELeave Me Later (CRL CRRL Remix) SP (Nov-23)
(D) 14. BRūHA Ruined SP (Jun-23)
(D) 14. mon cher sweet & heady SP (Apr-23)
(D) 14. SERPENTINE Black Diamond SP (Aug-23)

CP S18 BEST OF 2023

MONDAY JAN 01, 2023 – HAPPY NEW YEAR! 

2023 BEST OF THE COLORADO PLAYLIST HIGHLIGHTS
2023 FAN/LISTENER FAVORITES OF THE YEAR
2023 TOP 50 COLORADO AIRPLAY


EuforquestraArizona to Georgia – While We Still Got Time (2022)
-#5 TOP 50
Alysia KraftHamilton Pool – First Light (2022)
-#6 TOP 50
Julian Fulco PerronAll the Lights (2023)
-#34 TOP 50
-Fan/Listener Favorite He/His/Male Vocal Performance
-Fan/Listener Favorite Single (SP) Release
Dragondeer New Dawn Get Down – Across The Waves (2023) **
-#11 TOP 50
Jesus Christ Taxi DriverDiabolical Catholic – Lick My Soul (2023)
-#22 TOP 50
-Fan/Listener Favorite Alternative (ROCK) Song

Cody Qualls, Hazel Miller and Josh Blackburn Colorado (Save A Place for Us) (2023)
-Fan/Listener Favorite Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group
Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats Buy My Round – What If I EP (2023)
-#10 TOP 50
Since JulEYE x Lightbrush On the Scene (feat. Eric Benny Bloom) (2023)
-Fan/Listener Favorite EDM
Roger GreenEnter As You Leave – Enter As You Leave (2023)
-Colorado Playlist Legacy Artist (tied)
*Vivian Fade Into You (radio edit) (2023)
-Fan/Listener Favorite Cover/Remake
iZCalli One Last Time (2023)
-#1 Single (SP) Release
Brothers Keeper He Left You (f. John Popper) (2023)
-#2 Single (SP) Release
Matt SkellengerThe Lion’s Tooth – Subspace Transmission (2023)
-#1 Colorado Airplay Jazz Release

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Julian Fulco PerronNot So Fast – In My Garden (2023)
-#12 TOP 50
-Fan/Listener Favorite Album of the Year

2MX2 Arriba y Abajo (2023)
-Fan/Listener Favorite Non-English Vocals
White Rose Motor OilAin’t No Saint – The Gift Of Poison (2023)
-#26 TOP 50
-Fan/Listener Favorite Americana / Alt-Country

Alysia KraftElectric Blooms (2023)
-#8 TOP 50
-FAN/LISTENER FAVORITE POP & ROCK

The BurroughsFound My Groove – Honey Imastar (2023)
-#7 TOP 50
VOLORES All That We Could Need – Ages (2023)
-#5t TOP 50
-Fan/Listener Favorite Debut/Emerging Artist
-Fan/Listener Favorite She/Her/Female Vocal Performance

Bryce Menchaca Flower Painted Black – Salt (2023)
-COLORADO PLAYLIST EMERGING ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Andy Monley & the High Horses Drag Me To Hell – Totem (2023)
-Colorado Playlist Legacy Artist (tied)
Leftover SalmonBlue Railroad Train (feat. Billy Strings) – Grass Roots (2023)
-#4 TOP 50
Daniel RodriguezMixtape – Vast Nothing (2023)
-#3 TOP 50
Kiltro All The Time in the World – Underbelly (2023)
-#2 TOP 50
Gregory Alan IsakovThe Fall – Appaloosa Bones (2023)
-#1 TOP 50
-Fan/Listener Favorite Folk/Singer-Songwriter Song

BTTRFLY QuintetTijuca – Coast (2023)
-Colorado Playlist Album of the Year (Jazz)