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#COMUSIC TOP 30 FEB 2025

PLEASE HELP SUPPORT THE COLORADO PLAYLIST

Hi folks. I could use your help, please.

I’m mostly retired now and the costs of producing the show, tracking airplay and maintaining the site are really beginning to eat into my monthly retirement income.

Please make donations via Venmo at chrisk-2 OR use the form at the bottom of this page (I prefer Venmo).

If you represent a business that would like my listeners to know about you, email me at coloradoplaylist@gmail.com for details.
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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 JAN 26-MAR 02 2025

115 TITLES TRACKED 1438 SPINS

(3) 1. the LUMINEERS – Automatic LP Jan-25
(D) 2. DAVID STARR – Hole in the Page SP Feb-25
(2) 3. YONDER MOUNTAIN STRING BAND – Nowhere Next LP Sep-24
(D) 4. DNA Picasso & Dominique Christiana – LAWLESS: A Love Story LP Oct-24
(D) 5. iies. – Don’t Forget The Dot LP Jul-24
(1) 6. NATHANIEL RATELIFF & THE NIGHT SWEATS – South of Here LP (Apr-24)
(D) 7. Iyanla – Ain’t It (feat. Ymf) SP Mar-24
(22) 8. THE VELVETEERS – A Million Knives LP Oct-24
(D) 9. wulfsun – Let the Wolves In SP Jan-25
(20) 10. ANDY SYDOW – Night Skin LP Jun-24
(R) 10. BIG RICHARD – Girl Dinner LP Sep-24
(24) 11. piKziL – Along the Dark Horizon SP Sep-24
(D) 12. the BURROUGHS – Got to Free Your Mind SP Feb-25
(D) 12. REBECCA HART – Meant to me (feat. Tantok) SP Jun-24
(8) 12. TEACUP GORILLA – Jane Eyre: No Net Ensnares Me LP Jan-25
(25) 13. HUNTER JAMES & THE TITANIC – Stranger Touch SP Dec-24
(D) 14. STILL HOUSE STRING BAND – Still House String Band EP Feb-25
(9) 14. THE CROOKED RUGS – Hear & Now LP Oct-24
(R) 14. THE MOTET – Love Time LP Mar-24
(23) 15. DRAGONDEER – Jolee SP Sep-24
(10) 15. MEGAN BURTT – Witness LP May-24
(D) 16. DELTA SONICS – Concrete Hotel LP Jan-25
(D) 17. N3PTUNE – WMD SP Feb-25
(R) 18. EVA ROSE KING – After Tale LP Sep-24
(R) 19. AMERICAN CULTURE – Hey Brother, It’s Been Awhile LP Mar-24
(4) 20. A.J. FULLERTON – Closer LP Mar-24
(D) 20. CHRISTINE ALICE – Wood, Strings & Simple Things LP Feb-25
(D) 20. MORGAN J COX – THE LIGHT! SP Dec-24
(D) 21. 2MX2 – Dale SP Nov-24
(D) 21. BRENDAN FORREST – Daydreaming Music Fiend LP Dec-24
(D) 21. HOLLY LOVELL – Hello Chelsea LP Sep-24

HOT SPINS FEBRUARY 2025

88.9 KRFC – 42 TITLES – 155 SPINS
(D) 1. the LUMINEERS – Automatic LP Jan-25
(D) 2. DZIRAE GOLD – Right On Time LP May-24
(D) 2. GIANT WALKING ROBOTS – Wake Up LP Aug-24
(D) 3. MAX MACKEY – Eyes On the Road LP Oct-24
(2) 3. THE CROOKED RUGS – Hear & Now LP Oct-24

INDIE 102.3 – 12 TITLES – 342 SPINS
(4) 1. the LUMINEERS – Automatic LP Jan-25
(D) 2. DNA Picasso & Dominique Christina – LAWLESS: A Love Story LP Oct-24
(D) 3. iies. – Don’t Forget The Dot LP Jul-24
(D) 4. Iyanla – Ain’t It (feat. Ymf) SP Mar-24
(D) 5. wulfsun – Let the Wolves In SP Jan-25

105.5 THE COLORADO SOUND – 42 TITLES – 382 SPINS
(D) 1. the LUMINEERS – Automatic LP Jan-25
(D) 2. 2MX2 – Dale SP Nov-24
(D) 2. CACTUSHEADS – Inferno SP Dec-24
(D) 3. ANIMAL FUTURE – Cluster F#@% SP Jan-25
(D) 3. piKziL – Along the Dark Horizon SP Sep-24

KAFM, KBUT, KDNK, KDUR, KFFR, KOTO, KRZA, KSJD, KSUT, KVNF
36 TITLES TRACKED – 230 SPINS
(1) 1. YONDER MOUNTAIN STRING BAND – Nowhere Next LP Sep-24
(D) 2. DAVID STARR – Hole in the Page SP Feb-25
(3) 3. the LUMINEERS – Automatic LP Jan-25
(D) 4. BIG RICHARD – Girl Dinner LP Sep-24
(D) 4. STILL HOUSE STRING BAND – Still House String Band EP Feb-25

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CP S19 EP06 2025

“Electric-piano” exhibit Ice Castles, Eagle, CO courtesy of Clear Vistas Photography

PLEASE HELP SUPPORT THE COLORADO PLAYLIST

Hi folks. I could use your help, please.

I’m mostly retired now and the costs of producing the show, tracking airplay and maintaining the site are really starting to eat into my monthly retirement income.

Please make donations via Venmo at chrisk-2 OR use the form at the bottom of this page (I prefer Venmo).

If you represent a business that would like my listeners to know about you, email me at coloradoplaylist@gmail.com for details.
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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.
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I had three PRE-RELEASE (P) titles in this week’s show – The Burrough‘s new single, Got To Free Your Mind, piKziL‘s newest, Exit Strategy and Christine Alice’s Wood Burning Stove that she originally recorded as a video in 2019, and released on YouTube in 2022.

Colorado Playlist sponsor Starr’s Guitars is owned by David Starr, a singer-songwriter based out of Cedaredge, who typically records in Nashville and tours the country as a solo artist. Hole In the Page is his latest.

Otis Taylor – Tight Wire Blues – When Negroes Walked the Earth (1997)
Freddi Henchi Band – Things Are Getting Better – Freddi Henchi Band (1974)
(D) David Starr – Hole in the Page (2025)
The Sweet Lillies – Words – Equality (2023)
Mama Lenny and the Remedy – Party Girl (2020)
The Lumineers – Same Old Song – Automatic (2025)
Big Head Todd and The Monsters – Wipeout Turn – New World Arisin’ (2017)
The Still Tide – High Wire – Run Out (2017)
Dragondeer – Jolee (2024)
(P) The Burroughs – Got to Free Your Mind (2025)
Claire Heywood – Crushed Lemons (2021)
Jobi Riccio – Whiplash – Whiplash (2023)
BTTRFLY Quintet – Verti Marte – Coast (2023)

Zephyr – Sun’s a Risin’ – Zephyr Deluxe Edition (2014/1969)
Tommy Bolin – Savannah Woman – Teaser (1975)
(P) Christine Alice – Wood Burning Stove – Wood, Strings & Simple Things (2025)
Chris Daniels and the Kings – Fried Food/Hard Liquor – Blues, With Horns Vol. 1 (2017)
Hunter James and the Titanic – Stranger Touch – IV (2025)
Paper Bird – To the Light – Paper Bird (2016)
Izcalli – Solo Se Morir – IV (2018)
Andy Sydow – In Love and a Hard Luck Sayer – Night Skin (2025)
(P) piKziL – Exit Strategy (2025)
Mike Clark and Sugar Sounds – Warm Me Up – Moon Rock (2022)
Gregory Alan Isakov – The Fall – Appaloosa Bones (2023)
Fred Hess Band – Norman’s Gold – Single Moment (2015)

THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE (not all titles available)

HOT SPINS FEB 09-16 2025

ALL STATIONS STATEWIDE – 63 titles tracked
including Colorado Playlist
(1) 1. The Lumineers – Automatic LP Jan-25
(3) 2. Yonder Mountain String Band – Nowhere Next LP Sep-24
(4) 3. DNA Picasso & Dominique Christina – LAWLESS: A Love Story LP Oct-24
(4) 3. iies. – Don’t Forget The Dot LP Jul-24
(R) 4. American Culture – Hey Brother, It’s Been Awhile LP Mar-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