Every once in a while it’s fun to tally up our playlists to see which artists, songs, and albums have been played most on the show up to that point. Previously, I’ve always done it cumulatively, adding on new plays to historic statistics to look at our all-time leaders. Those lists are always skewed toward artists that have been around for a long time, have released a lot of albums, and played in Winnipeg a lot over the nearly 20 years that we’ve been on the air.
But what about the new kids?
That’s why, this time, I thought I’d just look at what’s been played most since the last major tally, looking at our first 800 episodes.
You can hear the show dedicated to reviewing those lists here
Since I’ll probably want to do another full tally next year when we officially complete 20 full years on the air (!) (assuming I last that long…), this set of standings is just based on episodes 801-899, making for a rather interesting snapshot of the last two years. Some artists high atop the all-time list have been nearly absent over the past couple of years, and some new artists have become mainstays. I’ll let you draw your own conclusions about that if you wish, but just for fun, you’ll find lists below of our most played artists, albums, and songs, covering episodes 801-899.
Most-played songs:
Artist | Song | # of plays |
Slow Leaves | Miss You | 6 |
Joe Nolan | Maybe We Didn’t Get Our Timing Right | 5 |
Justin Townes Earle | Harlem River Blues | 5 |
NQ Arbuckle | Love Songs for the Long Game | 5 |
Blackie and the Rodeo Kings | King of This Town | 4 |
Corin Raymond | Rec Room | 4 |
Jim Bryson | Mama Tried | 4 |
Joe Nolan | Looking For Your Heart | 4 |
Kathleen Edwards | Hard On Everyone | 4 |
Katie Pruitt | Expectations | 4 |
Leaf Rapids | Dear Sister | 4 |
Sean Burns | Gasoline | 4 |
Most-played albums:
Artist | Album | # of plays |
Del Barber | Easy Keeper | 14 |
Ben de la Cour | Shadow Land | 11 |
Corin Raymond | Dirty Mansions | 11 |
Kathleen Edwards | Total Freedom | 11 |
Slow Leaves | Shelf Life | 11 |
Joe Nolan | Drifters | 10 |
Sean Burns | It Takes Luck To Get The Best Of Me | 10 |
Chuck Prophet | The Land that Time Forgot | 9 |
Melissa Payne | Darker Than Your Dark | 9 |
Scott Cook | Tangle of Souls | 9 |
Ken Yates | Quiet Talkers | 8 |
Leaf Rapids | Citizen Alien | 8 |
Lynn Miles | We’ll Look for Stars | 8 |
Sean Burns & Lost Country | A Bakersfield Half Dozen | 8 |
Stephanie Lambring | Autonomy | 8 |
American Aquarium | Lamentations | 7 |
Blackie and the Rodeo Kings | King of this Town | 7 |
Del Barber | Stray Dogs | 7 |
Mike Plume | Lonesome Stretch of Highway | 7 |
Sean Burns & Lost Country | We Gotta Lotta Truckin’ To Do | 7 |
Suzie Ungerleider | My Name Is Suzie Ungerleider | 7 |
Most played artists:
Artist | # of plays |
Del Barber | 38 |
Sean Burns | 35 |
Joe Nolan | 31 |
Keri Latimer (Leaf Rapids/Nathan) | 31 |
Jim Bryson | 27 |
Mike Plume | 25 |
Kathleen Edwards | 22 |
Matthew Ryan | 22 |
Bob Schneider | 19 |
Skydiggers | 19 |
Spirit of the West | 19 |
Steve Earle | 19 |
Corin Raymond | 18 |
Leeroy Stagger | 18 |
Slow Leaves | 17 |
Scott Nolan | 16 |
Suzie Ungerleider | 16 |
Ben de la Cour | 15 |
Brock Zeman | 15 |
Leaf Rapids | 15 |
Nathan | 15 |
David Francey | 14 |
Paul MacLeod | 14 |
Chuck Prophet | 13 |
John Blek | 13 |
John Bottomley | 13 |
Lynn Miles | 13 |
NQ Arbuckle | 13 |
Alex Dezen | 12 |
Anthony Da Costa | 12 |
Ken Yates | 12 |
Mayhemingways | 12 |
Stephen Fearing | 12 |
Drive-By Truckers | 11 |
Fred Eaglesmith | 11 |
James McMurtry | 11 |
Justin Townes Earle | 11 |
Rheostatics | 11 |
William Prince | 11 |
Willie P Bennett | 11 |
Blackie & The Rodeo Kings | 10 |
Christina Martin | 10 |
Courtney Marie Andrews | 10 |
Elliott BROOD | 10 |
Jon Dee Graham | 10 |
Lucinda Williams | 10 |
Melissa Payne | 10 |
Shannon Lyon | 10 |
The Damnwells | 10 |
The Oldest Forest | 10 |