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#COMUSIC TOP 30 APRIL 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.

SURVEY PERIOD – MARCH 30-APRIL 26 2025
109 titles tracked, 1358 spins

(1) 1. the LUMINEERS – Automatic LP Jan-25
(2) 2. THE VELVETEERS – A Million Knives LP (Oct-24)
(18) 3. THE GALENTINES – 1140 LP (Dec-24)
(D) 4. CHELLA & THE CHARM – Happy Hour EP (Mar-25)
(D) 4. ELKA – Cold Feet, Soft Landing EP (Mar-25)
(D) 5. COVENHOVEN – The Color of the Dark LP (Apr-25)
(D) 6. MACHETE MOUTH – 120k SP (Aug-24)
(D) 7. TINY TOMBOY – Psychic Scar LP Feb-25
(4) 8. NATHANIEL RATELIFF & GREGORY ALAN ISAKOV – Flowers SP (Feb-25)
(D) 9. THE GROCERY STORY – Situation in Aisle #3 LP Mar-25
(15) 10. HEAVY DIAMOND RING – Don’t Go it Alone SP (Mar-25)
(18) 10. YONDER MOUNTAIN STRING BAND – Nowhere Next LP (Sep-24)
(17) 11. ANDY FRASCO & THE U.N. – Growing Pains LP (Feb-25)
(D) 12. DAVID STARR – Hole in the Page/Lonesome Train SP (Feb-25)
(R) 12. GIANT WALKING ROBOTS – Wake Up LP (Aug-24)
(D) 13. CO-STANZA – Daykiller SP (Mar-25_
(20) 13. LOLITA – My Head f. DMD the Producer SP (Feb-25)
(9) 14. GRANT SABIN – Work LP (Aug-24)
(3) 15. BARBARA – So This Is Living LP (Mar-25)
(10) 15. The BURROUGHS – Got to Free Your Mind SP (Feb-25)
(R) 15. THE PATTI FIASCO – Ouroboros EP (May-24)
(R) 16. DELTA SONICS – Concrete Hotel LP (Jan-25)
(D) 17. ERIC LILLEY TRIO – Swing Set LP (Feb-25)
(16) 17. HUNTER JAMES & THE TITANIC – Stranger Touch SP (Dec-24)
(8) 18. BIG RICHARD – Girl Dinner LP (Sep-24)
(D) 18. BISON BONE – Lean EP (Apr-25)
(D) 19. BARBARA – For Good Measure SP (Jun-24)
(D) 19. CHARLIE STEVENS – Tomorrow Starts Today SP (Apr-25)
(D) 19. CIPRIANO BAND – Oh Cocoa LP (Mar-25)
(22) 19. DANIEL RODRIGUEZ – Harboring Pearls LP (Mar-25)

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Early early morning over Cedaredge, CO courtesy of Clear Vistas Photography

I NEED YOUR HELP. THE COLORADO PLAYLIST IS THE ONLY SHOW REPRESENTING AND PROMOTING COLORADO MUSIC STATEWIDE. YOUR SUPPORT IS NOW CRITICAL TO KEEPING IT ON THE AIR. MAKE DONATIONS VIA VENMO AT CHRISK-2 OR USE THE DONATION FORM BELOW.

We live in a state in love with the music that comes from here. Thanks for being a part of it!

Here’s this week’s Monday Morning Music Meeting, courtesy of Starr’s Guitars in Cedaredge.

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.

Firefall – Love That Got Away – Undertow (1980)
Chris Daniels and the Kings – Roadhouse Music – When You’re Cool (1987)
(D) Wild Flight – Deep Ellum Baby – Wild Flight (2025)
Sugar Nova – Touch Me, I’m Going to Scream, Pt. II – Halogen (2023)
Marfa – Daisy (2025)
Judy Collins – When I Was A Girl In Colorado (2022)
Dianne Reeves – Old Souls – Art & Survival (1994)
Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats – Call Me (Whatever You Like) – South of Here (2024)
(D) Charlie Stevens – Tomorrow Starts Today – Circles Round the Sun (2025)
The High Hawks – Mother Nature’s Show – Mother Nature’s Show (2024)
Wildermiss – Hell or High Water – In My Mind (2020)
Annie Booth – Queen Bee – Wanderlust (2014)

Philip Bailey – Walking on the Chinese Wall – Chinese Wall (1985)
Philip Bailey – Billy Jack (radio edit) – Love Will Find A Way (2019)
(D) Jeremy Garrett – Fly Away To Your Love – Storm Mountain (2025)
Zoe Berman – Edit Delete and Save – Freezing Heat EP (2021)
Moon Honey – Austin (2025)
The Still Tide – Change of Address – Between Skies (2019)
The Blue Rider – Rattlesnake – Year of the Horse (2016)
Grant Sabin – Work – Work (2024)
(D) The Seeley Brothers Band – You Got the Right to Sing the Blues – The Seeley Bros (2025)
Euforquestra – Arizona to Georgia – While We Still Got Time (2022)
Thom LaFond – Lawless (2024)
Keith Oxman – Memphis Gene – Doing All Right (2009)

THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE

HOT SPINS WEEK ENDING APRIL 27, 2025

ALL STATIONS STATEWIDE including the Colorado Playlist
76 titles tracked, 324 spins
(2) 1. THE VELVETEERS – A Million Knives LP Oct-24
(4) 2. THE LUMINEERS – Automatic LP Jan-25
(6) 3. CHELLA & THE CHARM – Happy Hour EP Mar-25
(3) 3. THE GALENTINES – 1140 LP Dec-24
(6) 4. TINY TOMBOY – Psychic Scar LP Feb-25

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