CMJ's 50 Most-Played Records on Collage Radio

Bee OK · **Posted:** Wed Dec 21, 2005 7:28 pm

1. Beck - Guero
2. Spoon - Gimme Fiction
3. Decemberists - Picaresque
4. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
5. Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake...
6. Gorillaz - Demon Days
7. Sleater-Kinney - The Woods
8. New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
9. LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem
10. Low - The Great Destroyer
11. Death Cab For Cutie - Plans
12. Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
13. White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
14. M83 - Before The Dawn Heals Us
15. Hot Hot Heat - Elevator
16. Wolf Parade - Apologies...
17. Iron And Wine - Woman King [Ep]
18. Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene
19. Mars Volta - Frances The Mute
20. My Morning Jacket - Z
21. Sigur Ros - Takk
22. Fiery Furnaces - EP
23. Doves - Some Cities
24. Of Montreal - Sunlandic Twins
25. Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have It So Much Better
26. ...Trail Of Dead - Worlds Apart
27. Kings Of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak
28. Coldplay - X and Y
29. Go! Team - Thunder Lightning Strike
30. MIA - Arular
31. Nada Surf - Weight Is A Gift
33. Dandy Warhols - Odditorium Or Warlords Of Mars
34. Kills - No Wow
35. Raveonettes - Pretty In Black
36. Idlewild - Warnings/Promises
37. Caribou - Milk Of Human Kindness
38. Stephen Malkmus - Face The Truth
39. Dressy Bessy - Electrified
40. Four Tet - Everything Ecstatic
41. Sage Francis - A Healthy Distrust
42. Deerhoof - The Runner's Four
43. Stars - Set Yourself On Fire
44. Dangerdoom - The Mouse And The Mask
45. Matt Sweeney/Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Superwolf
46. Fischerspooner - Odyssey
47. Kasabian - Kasabian
48. Architecture In Helsinki - In Case We Die
49. Devendra Banhart - Cripple Crow
50. Ladytron - Witching Hour

-- Whiney G. Weingarten December 21st, 2005 12:08 PM

Bee OK · **Posted:** Wed Dec 21, 2005 7:29 pm

Yeah, this is just pure, raw chart data. (Our critic's list goes live on Friday).

I always find the CMJ chart fascinating because it seems to be a good indication of what indie types are ACTUALLY listening to. ILX-types (myself very much included) can blog about SunnO))) and Luomo and Bun B and Keith Fullerton Whitman all day long, but most people in our "circle" are probably listening to Dressy Bessy.

-- Whiney G. Weingarten (christopherw@cmj.com), December 21st, 2005

Very interesting this shit needs to go up on Obner Whiney!

-- BeeOK (deonsf@yahoo.com), December 21st, 2005 1:58 PM.

Sketch · **Posted:** Wed Dec 21, 2005 7:34 pm

Whiney Wrote:

I always find the CMJ chart fascinating because it seems to be a good indication of what indie types are ACTUALLY listening to.

Yup. Thanks for posting, Bee.

Cotton · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 6:12 pm **Posts:** 17155

so...what is ILX?

Bee OK · **Posted:** Wed Dec 21, 2005 7:43 pm

cotton Wrote:

so...what is ILX?

ILX is I Love Everything
ILM is I Love Music, you know the one I talk about way too much.

It's so big that they need two different boards...

www.ilxor.com (go to new answers to start)

Postmersh · **Posted:** Wed Dec 21, 2005 7:52 pm

BeeOK Wrote:

Yeah, this is just pure, raw chart data. (Our critic's list goes live on Friday).

I always find the CMJ chart fascinating because it seems to be a good indication of what indie types are ACTUALLY listening to.

These charts are interesting.

Is this the system that counts "spins" from stations that have signed up for the extra tracking hardware (a.k.a. not all of the college stations). If so, is this averaged out as spins per week that the album's out? If not, something like the Spoon album, having been out since Feb., would have a distinct advantage in accumilating spins over something released later in the year, like that Wolf Parade album...

Just askin'...

jewels santana · **Joined:** Thu Nov 04, 2004 2:36 pm **Posts:** 10198

question that you may or may not know the answer to:

do they count stations like WXPN in philly as a college station?

Cotton · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 6:12 pm **Posts:** 17155

jewels santana Wrote:

question that you may or may not know the answer to:

do they count stations like WXPN in philly as a college station?

i was just wondering about that. It is a Penn station, but then if it was counted that goddamned tegan and sara album they love so much would be on there.

jewels santana · **Joined:** Thu Nov 04, 2004 2:36 pm **Posts:** 10198

cotton Wrote:

jewels santana Wrote:

question that you may or may not know the answer to:

do they count stations like WXPN in philly as a college station?

i was just wondering about that. It is a Penn station, but then if it was counted that goddamned tegan and sara album they love so much would be on there.

but it's a Penn station in name only. they don't let college kids anywhere NEAR a mic or CD changer. It's a station for 40-50 year old liberal soccer mom's (and dad's)

Bee OK · **Posted:** Wed Dec 21, 2005 9:51 pm

Whiney is adding data so...

http://ilx.wh3rd.net/thread.php?msgid=6550050#

no guru · **Posted:** Wed Dec 21, 2005 10:20 pm

Helps that I like Dressy Bessy.

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