Tag: TOP 30 COLORADO MUSIC

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I don’t typically do fund raisers for the Colorado Playlist .. but it’s not free to keep going. I’m mostly retired now and the costs are really eating 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). ____________________________________________

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

Approximately 105 titles were aired at least one time on one station somewhere in Colorado in DECEMBER. 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 DEC 01-DEC 28 2024

(1) 1. NATHANIEL RATELIFF & THE NIGHT SWEATS – South of Here LP (Apr-24)
(3) 2. YONDER MOUNTAIN STRING BAND – Nowhere Next LP Sep-24
(8) 3. GRANT SABIN – Work LP Aug-24
(D) 4. BEVIN LUNA – Just Movin’ SP Dec-24
(D) 5. MARFA – Daisy/”66″ SP Nov-24
(D) 5. PLANES MISTAKEN FOR STARS – Do You Still Love Me? LP Nov-24
(D) 6. TERESA SUYDAM – Lost Bird LP Jan-24
(D) 7. MADDY O’NEAL – Vital Signs LP Oct-24
(D) 8. STRANGE AMERICANS – Done With It All SP Nov-24
(D) 9. THE CROOKED RUGS – Hear & Now LP Oct-24
(6) 10. A.J. FULLERTON – Closer LP Mar-24
(5) 10. MEGAN BURTT – Witness LP May-24
(D) 11. ANDREW VOGT – Optimistic Infinity House LP Jul-24
(D) 12. JEREMY DION – Bend in the Middle LP Oct-24
(D) 13. BIG DOPES – Draggin’ This On SP Dec-24
(R) 13. ELEKTRIC ANIMALS – A Bear and The Bull EP Mar-24
(R) 14. CLAIRE HEYWOOD – Water Is All I See LP Jul-24
(14) 14.EVA ROSE KING – After Tale SP Sep-24
(R) 15. VALDEZ – Las Animas LP Jul-24
(R) 16. CHRIS DANIELS AND THE KINGS – 40: Blues with Horns Vol. II LP Apr-24
(13) 16. THE VELVETEERS – A Million Knives LP Oct-24
(10) 17. JEFF FINLIN – Myth of the Giver LP May-24
(19) 18. JACK HADLEY – The St. Louis Sessions, Vol. II LP Mar-24
(R) 18. THE MOTET – Love Time LP Mar-24
(D) 19. CASEY RUSSELL – Patience LP Sep-24
(13) 19. DRAGONDEER – Jolee SP Sep-24
(R) 19. SAINT SOMEBODY – Saint Somebody LP Feb-24
(11) 19. SLOW CAVES – Tension EP Feb-24
(D) 19. STAY TUNED – Parts Unknown SP Nov-24
(14) 19. THE JOHN MAGNIE PROJECT – Grocery Story LP Oct-24
(11) 19. THE PATTI FIASCO – Ouroboros EP May-24

88.9 KRFC – 37 TITLES TRACKED
(D) 1. THE CROOKED RUGS – Hear & Now LP Oct-24
(2) 2. JEFF FINLIN – Myth of the Giver LP May-24
(1) 2. MEGAN BURTT – Witness LP May-24
(D) 3. GRANT SABIN – Work LP Aug-24
(R) 4. ERIK LUNDE & SWEET VIRGINIA – Gospels, Hymns & Spirituals SP Jul-24

INDIE 102.3 – 8 TITLES TRACKED
(D) 1. MARFA – Daisy/”66″ SP Nov-24
(D) 2. TERESA SUYDAM – Lost Bird LP Nov-24
(D) 3. PLANES MISTAKEN FOR STARS – Do You Still Love Me? LP Nov-24
(D) 4. MADDY O’NEAL – Vital Signs LP Oct-24
(D) 5. STRANGE AMERICANS – Done With It All SP Nov-24

105.5 THE COLORADO SOUND – 40 TITLES TRACKED
(1) 1. NATHANIEL RATELIFF & THE NIGHT SWEATS – South of Here LP Apr-24
(5) 2. THE VELVETEERS – A Million Knives LP Oct-24
(R) 3. THE DOLLHOUSE THIEVES – Coffee and Beer SP Jun-24
(R) 3. KID ASTRONAUT – Forget Me Not SP Jun-24
(R) 4. A SHORELINE DREAM – Whitelined LP Jul-24

KAFM, KBUT, KDNK, KDUR, KFFR, KOTO, KRZA, KSJD, KSUT, KVNF – 29 TITLES TRACKED
(1) 1. YONDER MOUNTAIN STRING BAND – Nowhere Next LP Sep-24
(3) 2. GRANT SABIN – Work LP Aug-24
(2) 3. NATHANIEL RATELIFF & THE NIGHT SWEATS – South of Here LP Apr-24
(R) 4. JAKE LEG – Have Mercy SP Apr-24
(R) 5. CHRIS DANIELS AND THE KINGS – 40 Blues with Horns Vol. II LP Apr-24
(R) 5. HIGH LONESOME – Old Familiar Song SP Oct-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 (NoCO) …

Spins tracked on Spinitron (except 102.3 and 105.5), designed to benefit community and college radio and offers search functions to track airplay on over 300 stations and programs around the country.

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