Looking back on the first 10 years of the show, we’ve compiled some totally unscientific and rather unreliable statistics. As best we can figure, these are the most played songs in the show’s 10 year history!
These are the songs that have been played 15 times or more:
| Plays | Songs | Artist | Total songs | 11792 |
| 28 | Willie’s Diamond Joe | Willie P Bennett/Blackie & The Rodeo Kings/Romi Mayes/Matt Andersen | ||
| 20 | Home soon (the cherry song) | Oh Susanna/Sarah Harmer | ||
| 18 | How to Make Gravy | Paul Kelly/Rough Shop | ||
| 17 | Light Enough To Travel | Geoff Berner/Be Good Tanyas | ||
| 16 | Huntsville Affair | NQ Arbuckle | ||
| 16 | Step inside this house | Lyle Lovett | ||
| 16 | Waiting Around to Die | Townes Van Zandt/Be Good Tanyas/Lemonheads | ||
| 14 | If I Needed You | Townes Van Zandt/Eivor/etc… | ||
| 14 | Stone | Nathan | ||
| 14 | Sunset chaser | Nathan | ||
| 13 | All My Tears | Julie Miller/Emmylou Harris/Shannon McNally | ||
| 13 | Feel Much Better | Jim Bryson | ||
| 13 | Rosie | Scott Nolan | ||
| 12 | Fleetwood | Jim Bryson | ||
| 12 | In perfect time | Jill Barber | ||
| 12 | Katie | Michael Johnston | ||
| 12 | Let him roll | Guy Clark/Johnny Cash | ||
| 12 | Merry Christmas from the Family | Robert Earl/Mike Plume | ||
| 12 | Mixkin Dancehall Blues | NQ Arbuckle | ||
| 12 | Old Man | Wailin’ Jennys (NO NEIL YOUNG!) | ||
| 12 | Somewhere Else | Jim Bryson/Kathleen Edwards | ||
| 12 | The Lucky Ones | Willie P Bennett/Stephen Fearing | ||
| 12 | The waking hour | David Francey | ||
| 12 | Wide turn | Greg Macpherson | ||
| 11 | 49 Tons | Fred Eaglesmith/Blackie & The Rodeo Kings | ||
| 11 | Clay Pigeons | Blaze Foley/Gurf Morlix/John Prine | ||
| 11 | Motel 6 | Bros Cosmoline | ||
| 11 | One Voice | Wailin’ Jennys | ||
| 11 | Tecumseh Valley | Townes Van Zandt/Steve Earle/Chris Mills | ||
| 11 | That’s How I Got to Memphis | Tom T Hall/Buddy Miller/Kelly Willis/Solomon Burke | ||
| 11 | Without Piano | Bryson | ||
| 10 | (What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace Love and Understanding? | Nick Lowe/Steve Earle/Lucy Kaplansky/Elvis Costello | ||
| 10 | 12 Bellevue | Kathleen Edwards | ||
| 10 | Anne | Darren Day | ||
| 10 | Election Day | Blaze Foley/Lyle Lovett | ||
| 10 | Giants | Paul MacLeod | ||
| 10 | Good-Bye | Mary Gauthier | ||
| 10 | Happy Birthday | NQ Arbuckle | ||
| 10 | My Favourite Chords | Weakerthans | ||
| 10 | Not a drop of rain | Robert Earl Keen/Shawn Colvin | ||
| 10 | Over | Kate Maki | ||
| 10 | Paperback fantasy | Reid Jamieson | ||
| 10 | Reconstruction site | The Weakerthans | ||
| 10 | Serena Ryder | Hiding Place | ||
| 10 | She’s High Water | Matt Epp | ||
| 10 | Simple song | Lovett | ||
| 10 | Sleeper | Greg Brown / Eliza Gilkyson | ||
| 10 | The Best Job I Ever Had | Mike Plume | ||
| 10 | The cape | Guy Clark/Eric Bibb | ||
| 10 | The country north of Peterborough | Michael Johnston | ||
| 10 | Westby | Kathleen Edwards | ||
| 10 | You Come Home | Christina Martin |