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#COMUSIC TOP 30 JUNE 2026

The monthly TOP 30 represents what’s getting aired by independent DJs on sixteen community/public listener powered non-commercial radio stations around Colorado.

THANK YOU! You once again blew a decade long record out the door in monthly views to this website. I appreciate your visits, sincely.

I sometimes get asked why a certain band or artist or genre of music isn’t represented in the COMUSIC HOT SPINS REPORT and the TOP 30…

Some genres simply don’t get much, if any, terrestrial radio airplay, at least at non-commercial outlets. Bands like OneRepublic are vastly more popular on streaming services and commercial outlets, for example, than bands like the Lumineers and Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats. You won’t find much metal or rap on these stations either, and EDM gets a passing glance.

What you see in the reports is what sixteen community powered radio stations in the state air enough to be counted.

HOW THE CHART IS PUT TOGETHER

Every week I survey sixteen Colorado community/public and college stations, plus Colorado Playlist spins on respective stations. The weekly survey period runs from midnight Sunday through the next Saturday. 

The monthly survey period starts from the first week, ending with a Saturday. It continues through the last week, which also ends on a Saturday.  Titles are linked to its respective Spotify and 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, KLZR, KOTO, KSJD, KSUT, KRFC, KRZA, KUVO, KVCU, 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)

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#COMUSIC TOP 30 JUNE 2026

(D) 1. FANCY BITS – Fancy Bits EP Jun-26 Spotify / YouTube
(D) 1. TROUBLE’S BRAIDS – Tarantula EP Jun-26 Spotify / YouTube
(D) 2. DYLANOVUS – déjà vu / footprint SP May-26 Spotify / YouTube
(D) 3. LOOK AT FIONA. – fionafionafio LP Jan-26 Spotify / YouTube
(18) 4. EMILY SCOTT ROBINSON – Appalachia LP Oct-25 Spotify / YouTube
(D) 5. BOBBY WIENS – Focus LP Mar-26 Spotify / YouTube
(R) 6. VOLORES – Shores of Scorpio LP Oct-25 Spotify / YouTube
(9) 7. RYAN DART – If Love Don’t Break You LP Jan-26 Spotify / YouTube
(7) 8. BIG RICHARD – Pet LP Nov-25 Spotify / YouTube
(D) 8. SMEAR – Close to You SP Jun-26 Spotify / YouTube
(19) 9. THE INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS – 20/20 LP Aug-25 Spotify / YouTube
(15) 10. EDISON – Million Horses SP Apr-26 Spotify / YouTube
(8) 10. JESUS CHRIST TAXI DRIVER – Taxi the Rich LP Jan-26 Spotify / YouTube
(5) 10. YONDER MOUNTAIN STRING BAND – Good As True LP Jan-26 Spotify / YouTube
(D) 11. 2MX2 – Si Se Puede LP May-26 Spotify / YouTube
(12) 11. BEN MARKLEY BIG BAND – Tuesday Morning Feeling LP Mar-26 Spotify / YouTube
(D) 11. GASOLINE LOLLIPOPS – Way Back Home SP May-26 Spotify / YouTube
(D) 11. REVEREND FREAKCHILD – Blues & Spirituals / Hymn Hustler LP May-26 Spotify / YouTube
(R) 12. GRAVEYARD CHOIR – The Wake LP Sep-25 Spotify / YouTube
(16) 12. LAUREN FRIHAUF – The Thread SP Mar-26 Spotify / YouTube
(R) 13. LETTUCE – Cook LP Jul-25 Spotify / YouTube
(7) 13. STEVE KOVALCHECK – Buckshot Blues LP Mar-26 Spotify / YouTube
(R) 14. CLAY STREET UNIT – Sin and Squalor LP Sep-25 Spotify / YouTube
(D) 15. FINN O’SULLIVAN – The Tape LP May-26 Spotify / YouTube
(D) 15. GREGORY ALAN ISAKOV – Fade Into You (Feat. Sylvan Esso) SP Apr-26 Spotify / YouTube
(D) 15. HAYLEY HARKIN – Befriend the Beast LP Dec-25 Spotify / YouTube
(D) 15. ROAD PONY – Roll the Dice SP Mar-26 Spotify / YouTube
(D) 16. THE BURROUGHS – Make You Sweat SP May-26 Spotify / YouTube
(D) 16. MTN LION – Stealth LP May-26 Spotify / YouTube
(16) 17. A.J. FULLERTON & JAKE FRIEL – Fullerton & Friel Vol. II LP Dec-25 Spotify / YouTube

88.9 KRFC TOP 10
(D) 1. JESUS CHRIST TAXI DRIVER – Taxi the Rich LP Jan-26 Spotify / YouTube
(4) 2. A.J. FULLERTON & JAKE FRIEL – Fullerton & Friel Vol. II LP Dec-25 Spotify / YouTube
(1) 2. RYAN DART – If Love Don’t Break You LP Jan-26 Spotify / YouTube
(D) 3. D.W. DOUCET – American Dust LP
(D) 4. FANCY BITS – Fancy Bits EP Jun-26 Spotify / YouTube
(D) 4. HAYLEY HARKIN – Befriend the Beast LP Dec-25 Spotify / YouTube
(6) 4. LIZ BARNEZ – Wholehearted LP
(7) 5. AUBREY DALE – Fireweed LP
(6) 5. BIG RICHARD – Pet LP
(D) 5. LID DIXON – Postcards from Baton Rouge EP

INDIE 102.3 – HOT SPINS FOR JUNE
(D) 1. TROUBLE’S BRAIDS – Tarantula EP Jun-26 Spotify / YouTube
(D) 2. DYLANOVUS – déjà vu / footprint SP May-26 Spotify / YouTube
(D) 3. LOOK AT FIONA. – fionafionafio LP Jan-26 Spotify / YouTube

105.5 THE COLORADO SOUND TOP 10
(D) 1. FANCY BITS – Fancy Bits EP Jun-26 Spotify / YouTube
(D) 2. PEPE CETINA – Fabiola (Acustica) SP
(D) 2. REVEREND FREAKCHILD – Blues & Spirituals / Hymn Hustler LP May-26 Spotify / YouTube
(D) 3. ELEKTRIC ANIMALS – Goin Through the Motions EP
(D) 3. SMEAR – Close to You SP Jun-26 Spotify / YouTube
(1) 4. CARLOS & THE CREW – Keep It Together SP Feb-26 Spotify / YouTube
(2) 4. EDISON – Million Horses SP Apr-26 Spotify / YouTube
(3) 5. CHEROKEE SOCIAL – Concentration SP
(6) 5. GASOLINE LOLLIPOPS – Way Back Home SP May-26 Spotify / YouTube
(D) 6. DOWNEY CHASE – A Room In Motion LP Oct-25 Spotify / YouTube

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT – TRULY APPRECIATED!

CP S18 EP22 2024

Cedaredge, CO at night from Cedaredge Point on the Grand Mesa – Thanks to Clear Vistas Photography

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MONDAY MORNING MUSIC MEETING

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.

CP S18 EP22 2024 HR1
Dan Fogelberg – Longer – Phoenix (1979)
Dusty Drapes and the Dusters – Dime At A Time – The Red Album (1981)
(D) Kiltro – On a Night Like This (2024)
Gregory Alan Isakov – Before the Sun – Appaloosa Bones (2023)
Andy Sydow – Alibi – Time Stands Between EP (2021)
Liz Barnez – How Bout You (2024)
Hazel Miller – Better Off With the Blues – Live at the Fox (1995)
Big Head Todd and the Monsters – Sister Sweetly – Sister Sweetly (1993)
Bison Bone – High Road to Taos – 40 Grit EP (2023)
(D) The Desert Furs – Pieces Of Shade – Canyon Flyer (2024)
The String Cheese Incident – Can’t Wait Another Day – Song In My Head (2014)
The Sweet Lillies – Words – Equality (2023)
The Motet – Nachez – Breathe (1999)

CP S18 EP22 2024 HR2
The Beatles – All My Loving – With The Beatles (Remastered) (2009,1963)
Jethro Tull – Cross-Eyed Mary – Aqualung (1971)
(D) Thom LaFond – Lawless – Lawless (2024)
Milquetoast & Co. – Army Dreamers (2023)
Dafna – Valentine – I Love You ( 2020)
American Culture – Let It Go (feat. Midife) – Hey Brother, It’s Been A While (2024)
Slim Cessna’s Auto Club – My Last Black Scarf – Unentitled (2011)
Braddigan – Pura Vida – Watchfires (2005)
Clay Street Unit – Engine Trouble (2024)
The High Lines – Getaway Driver (2023)
YaSi – Guilty (2021)
Angie Stevens & The Beautiful Wreck – Northstar – Learn to Let the Light In (2023)
Eric Benny Bloom – Friends & Ragers (feat. Nighel Hall) (2024)

THIS WEEK ON YOUTUBE (not all titles available)

#COMUSIC WK JUNE 23-29

www.spinitron.com

Spin data pulled from the Colorado Playlist, 105.5 The Colorado Sound, Indie 102.3, 88.9 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.

ALL STATIONS STATEWIDE – 65 TITLES TRACKED
*includes Colorado Playlist spins

(1) 1. Nathaniel Rateliff & THE NIGHT SWEATS – South of Here LP Apr-24
(D) 2. Yugs – Mona SP May-24
(D) 3. DOGTAGS – Sumn Bout Roses SP Feb-24
(D) 3. Lady Gang – Brave Traveler LP May-24
(D) 3. SAM BOSCH – Skinny Dipping in the Baptismal Fountain LP Apr-24
(D) 3. Thom LaFond – Lawless LP Feb-24

THANKS FOR THE FINANCIAL SUPPORT

#COMUSIC TOP 30 MAY 2024

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 2022. I stopped tracking it in NOV 2023 (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

SURVEY PERIOD – APRIL 28-MAY 31 2024

Approximately 120 titles were aired at least one time on one station somewhere in Colorado in May. 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.

(17) 1. NATHANIEL RATELIFF & THE NIGHT SWEATS – South of Here LP (Apr-24)
(D) 2. SAINT SOMEBODY – Saint Somebody LP (Feb-24)
(D) 3. AMERICAN CULTURE – Hey Brother, It’s Been Awhile LP (Mar-24)
(D) 4. JON SNODGRASS – Barge At Will LP (Apr-24)
(D) 5. SPELLS – Past Our Prime LP (Apr-24)
(D) 6. JAIEL – Bet on Me (feat. Adiel Mitchell) SP (May-24)
(D) 6. PORCELAIN TWIN – Crickets EP (Jan-24)
(D) 7. TELLY – Para El Mundo EP (Mar-24)
(D) 8. LIQUID CHICKEN – She Says to Me SP (Apr-24)
(1) 9. A.J. FULLERTON – Closer LP (Mar-24)
(8) 10. BIG HEAD TODD AND THE MONSTERS – Her Way Out LP (Nov-23)
(9) 11. CARY MORIN – Innocent Allies LP (Oct-23)
(D) 12. JACK HADLEY – The St. Louis Sessions, Vol. II LP (Mar-24)
(21) 13. IZCALLI – Waiting for Something SP (Nov-23)
(D) 13. JACOB RUSSO – Taller Than Me LP (Jan-24)
(D) 14. MONICA THE GREAT – Mala Vida SP (Oct-23)
(D) 14. TUFF BLUFF – Tuff Bluff LP (Mar-24)
(R) 15. FAST EDDY – To The Stars LP (Nov-23)
(D) 15. PLEASURE PRINCE – Dynasty Rich SP (May-24)
(D) 16. MAMA LENNY & THE REMEDY – Everybody Wants Some SP (May-24)
(D) 16. MONICA THE GREAT – Dulce Mentira SP (Feb-24)
(D) 16. PLEASURE PRINCE – Downside SP (May-24)
(D) 16. TUFF BLUFF – Numb SP (Apr-24)
(D) 17. GASOLINE LOLLIPOPS – Blood On the Bluegrass SP (Jan-24)
(D) 18. CASS CLAYTON – Midnight In A Bottle LP (May-24)
(D) 19. *BILL FRISELL – Orchestras (Live) LP (Apr-24)
(D) 20. AIN’T NO MOUNTAIN HIGH ENOUGH – (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher SP (May-24)
(R) 21. COVENHOVEN – Staring at the Sun SP (Nov-23)
(D) 21. SLIM CESSNA’S AUTO CLUB – Kinnery Of Lupercalia: Buell Legion LP (May-24)
(7) 21. THE HIGH HAWKS – Mother Nature’s Show LP (Jan-24)

88.9 KRFC TOP TITLES – 47 TITLES TRACKED
(2) 1. A.J. FULLERTON – Closer LP (Mar-24)
(D) 2. JACK HADLEY – The St. Louis Sessions, Vol. II LP (Mar-24)
(D) 3. CASS CLAYTON – Midnight In A Bottle LP (May-24)
(4) 4. CARY MORIN – Innocent Allies LP (Oct-23)
(4) 5. WOOD BELLY – Cicada LP (Jul-23)

INDIE 102.3 TOP TITLES – 16 TITLES TRACKED
(D) 1. NATHANIEL RATELIFF & THE NIGHT SWEATS – South of Here LP (Apr-24)
(D) 2. AMERICAN CULTURE – Hey Brother, It’s Been Awhile LP (Mar-24)
(D) 3. SPELLS – Past Our Prime LP (Apr-24)
(D) 4. JAIEL – Bet on Me (feat. Adiel Mitchell) SP (May-24)
(D) 5. PORCELAIN TWIN – Crickets EP (Jan-24)
(D) 5. SAINT SOMEBODY – Saint Somebody LP (Feb-24)

105.5 THE COLORADO SOUND TOP TITLES – 33 TITLES TRACKED
(D) 1. NATHANIEL RATELIFF & THE NIGHT SWEATS – South of Here LP (Apr-24)
(R) 2.COVENHOVEN – Staring at the Sun SP (Nov-23)
(D) 3. BEAR & THE BEASTS – Bones SP (Apr-24)
(D) 3. THOM LAFOND – Lawless LP (Feb-24)
(3) 4. A.J. FULLERTON – Closer LP (Mar-24)