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#COMUSIC TOP 30 MAY 2025

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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.

TOP 30 MAY 2025
SURVEY PERIOD MAY 01-31 2025
111 titles tracked, 1699 spins

(1) 1. the LUMINEERS – Automatic LP Jan-25
(D) 2. NO DREAMS – Good Life + All Bent Out Of Shape SP Mar-25
(D) 3. TO BE ASTRONAUTS – Sense EP Apr-25
(D) 4. CLAIRE HEYWOOD – Water Is All I See LP May-25
(D) 5. GRAVEYARD CHOIR – Restorative Art LP Nov-24
(2) 6. THE VELVETEERS – A Million Knives LP Oct-24
(D) 7. BRUHA – H.E.X.D EP Mar-25
(D) 7. SALADS AND SUNBEAMS – Into the Starless Night LP Mar-25
(D) 8. THE DIRTY TURKEYS – Cowboy Caravan LP Apr-25
(D) 9. THE RIVER ARKANSAS – Tin Years LP Apr-25
(D) 10. LEFTOVER SALMON – Let’s Party About It LP Mar-25
(9) 11. THE GROCERY STORY – Situation in Aisle #3 LP Mar-25
(3) 12. THE GALENTINES – 1140 LP Dec-24
(R) 13. piKziL – Along the Dark Horizon SP Sep-24
(16) 14. DELTA SONICS – Concrete Hotel LP Jan-25
(13) 15. LOLITA – My Head f. DMD the Producer SP Feb-25
(D) 16. 2MX2 – Por Aqui Por Alla SP Apr-25
(D) 17. MR. MOTA – Hot Box SP Apr-25
(D) 18. ROOTBEER RICHIE & THE REVEILLE – Never Needed Me LP Oct-24
(10) 19 HEAVY DIAMOND RING – Don’t Go it Alone SP Mar-25
(D) 20. ZOE BERMAN – Fast Forward/ Vitamin D SP Apr-25
(11) 21. ANDY FRASCO & THE U.N. – Growing Pains LP Feb-25
(D) 21. HUNTER JAMES & THE TITANIC – Weekend Holds SP Mar-25
(R) 22. THE CROOKED RUGS – Hear & Now LP Oct-24
(15) 23. BARBARA – So This Is Living LP Mar-25
(19) 24. DANIEL RODRIGUEZ – Harboring Pearls LP Mar-25
(R) 24. THE BARLOW – High Spirits SP Feb-25
(R) 25. ISAAC MARTINEZ – Time Passes SP Jul-24
(10) 25. YONDER MOUNTAIN STRING BAND – Nowhere Next LP Sep-24
(R) 26. ANDY SYDOW – Night Skin LP Jun-24

88.9 KRFC – 42 TITLES TRACKED FOR MAY
(D) 1. THE GROCERY STORY – Situation in Aisle #3 LP Mar-25
(1) 2. the LUMINEERS – Automatic LP Jan-25
(D) 3. CHARLIE STEVENS – Tomorrow Starts Today LP Apr-25
(R) 3. GRANT SABIN – Work LP Aug-24
(2) 4. THE VELVETEERS – A Million Knives LP Oct-24

INDIE 102.3 – 16 TITLES TRACKED FOR MAY
(D) 1. NO DREAMS – Good Life + All Bent Out Of Shape SP Mar-25
(D) 1. TO BE ASTRONAUTS – Sense EP Apr-25
(D) 2. CLAIRE HEYWOOD – Water Is All I See LP May-25
(D) 3. GRAVEYARD CHOIR – Restorative Art LP Nov-24
(D) 4. BRUHA – H.E.X.D EP Mar-25

105.5 THE COLORADO SOUND – 39 TITLES TRACKED FOR MAY
(3) 1. BARBARA – So This Is Living LP Mar-25
(D) 1. ISAAC MARTINEZ – Time Passes SP Jul-24
(R) 1. piKziL – Along the Dark Horizon SP Sep-24
(D) 2. CACTUSHEADS – Inferno SP Dec-24
(D) 2. DANIEL RODRIGUEZ – Harboring Pearls LP Mar-25

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MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING

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) 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.

Cross country and in-state moving + storage. Located in Fort Collins.

Poco – What A Day – Pickin’ Up the Pieces (1969)
Firefall – Livin’ Ain’t Livin’ – Firefall (1976)
(D) Dan Hochman – Front Row – Shadow Blues (2024)
Gregory Alan Isakov – Before the Sun – Appaloosa Bones (2023)
Euforquestra – Show Me The Way – While We Still Got Time (2022)
Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats – Call Me (Whatever You Like) – South of Here (2024)
The Informants – Salvation – Crime Scene Queen (2009)
Mollie O’Brien & Rich Moore – Love Runner – Love Runner (2014)
The Motet – Something Better – Love Time (2024)
(D) Holly Lovell – Hello Chelsea – Hello Chelsea (2025)
Five Iron Frenzy – So We Sing – Until This Shakes Apart (2021)
Kiltro – All The Time in the World – Underbelly (2023)
Keith Oxman – Memphis Gene – Doing All Right (2009)

Stephen Stills – Colorado – Manassas (1971)
The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band – I Saw The Light – Will The Circle Be Unbroken (1972)
(D) Teacup Gorilla – Same Scorched Desire – Jane Eyre: No Net Ensnares Me (2025)
The High Hawks – Mother Nature’s Show – Mother Nature’s Show (2024)
Jesus Christ Taxi Driver – Diabolical Catholic – Lick My Soul (2023)
Eminence Ensemble – Moonshine – Inside Looking Out (2024)
Tennis – Ladies Don’t Play Guitar – Yours Conditionally (2017)
DeVotchKa – Curse Your Little Heart – Curse Your Little Heart (2006)
Megan Burtt – Drugstore Brand – Witness (2024)
(D) Brendan Forrest – Song for John Prine – Daydreaming Music Fiend (2024)
Dragondeer – New Dawn Get Down – Across The Waves (2023)
Boot Gun – ‘Til It Ain’t – One for the Willing (2024)
Andrew Vogt – Optimistic Infinity House – Optimistic Infinity House (2024)

THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE

HOT SPINS JAN 26-FEB 01 2025

ALL STATIONS – 70 TITLES TRACKED
*includes Colorado Playlist
(2) 1. The Lumineers – Automatic LP Jan-25
(3) 2. Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats – South of Here LP Apr-24
(4) 3. A.J. Fullerton – Closer LP Mar-24
(R) 3. Megan Burtt – Witness LP May-24
(1) 4. Yonder Mountain String Band – Nowhere Next LP Sep-24

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 and programs