The Wild 10 Countdown for February 8, 2012

There’s a new number one song as Kathleen Edwards is no longer on the top spot. It’s now Plants & Animals taking over the top spot. The End of That comes out on February 28th. Whenever I hear Lightshow, I get pretty excited over the song.
The only debut for this week’s countdown is Bahamas as the 2nd album, Barchords got released.
Here’s the top 10;

1. Lightshow – Plants & Animals

2. Easy Come Easy Go – Great Lake Swimmers

3. Lines – Said The Whale

4. Chameleon/Comedian – Kathleen Edwards

5. Peg – The Darcys

6. Malibu Rum – The Wooden Sky

7. Stairway – Yukon Blonde

8. Anything You Want Dear – Zeus

9. Caught Me Thinking – Bahamas

10. Montreal – The Weeknd

Audio/Radio Show

The Wild 10 Countdown for February 1, 2012

A brand new month and still at number one for the 5th week is Kathleen Edwards. To change it up a bit for this week, I decided to play Pink Champagne instead of Change The Sheets.
Two new entries were Zeus and Yukon Blonde. February will be heating up as there will be new releases coming out.
Here’s the top 10;

1. Pink Champagne – Kathleen Edwards (5th week)

2. Lightshow – Plants and Animals

3. Lines – Said The Whale

4. Easy Come Easy Go – Great Lake Swimmers

5. Initiation – The Weeknd

6. Child of the Valley – The Wooden Sky

7. Peg – The Darcys

8. Stairway – Yukon Blonde (New)

9. Genesis – Grimes

10. Are You Gonna Waste My Time? – Zeus

Audio
The February 1st show – Press play to listen.

The Wild 10 Countdown for January 25, 2012

Still celebrating Chinese New Year, the top 10 still continued on podcast form. Change The Sheets by Kathleen Edwards still reigns at the number one spot. Two new debuts on the countdown are The Darcys and Grimes. AJA by The Darcys got released this past week and Visions by Grimes will be out soon.
Here’s the top 10;

1. Change The Sheets – Kathleen Edwards (4th week)

2. Lines – Said The Whale

3. Lightshow – Plants & Animals

4. Montreal – The Weeknd

5. Easy Come Easy Go – Great Lake Swimmers

6. Adieu – Coeur De Pirate

7. Sperry – Little City

8. Child of the Valley – The Wooden Sky

9. Josie – The Darcys

10. Genesis – Grimes

Audio

The Wild 10 Countdown for November 2, 2011

For the fifth week on top, Feist continues to stay at number one. It seems like there’s no stopping Feist and her excellent album, Metals. Also getting some airplays are Kathleen Edwards for Change The Sheets and Coeur De Pirate for Adieu. Blonde by Coeur De Pirate will be out sometime this month. There are a few new entries from The Wooden Sky and Yukon Blonde. Yukon Blonde seems to be getting some plays on various radio shows.
Dan Mangan and Ohbijou are still going strong as they’re still getting a lot of plays. A bit of unique irony for the countdown, four out of five on the top 5 are mainly filled by female artists and bands.
In case if you’re wondering which radio shows I follow in compiling the top 10, they are The Strombo Show, A Juncture, Now Playing on CHUO, Thursday Special Blend, Looking Good For Radio and Whatever’s Cool With Me. Then the occasional and random listenings on CBC Radio programs.
Here’s the top 10;

1. How Come You Never Go There – Feist (5th Week at #1)

2. Change The Sheets – Kathleen Edwards

3. Adieu – Coeur De Pirate

4. Niagara – Ohbijou

5. Rows of Houses – Dan Mangan

6. Shaking Down The Old Bones – The Darcys

7. It – Rich Aucoin (He’s November’s X3 Artist of the Month)

8. Who Are You? – Kathryn Calder

9. Take Me Out – The Wooden Sky (New Entry)

10. Fire – Yukon Blonde (New Entry)

The Wild 10 Countdown for October 26, 2011

For the 4th week on top, Feist continues to dominate the countdown. It’s still being played on a couple of CKCU shows. Since it’s funding drive time, there’s a bit of a delay writing the entry as various radio shows need help getting phone pledges and the station needs to get 1/3 of the funding from the listeners. There were a couple of new debuts from Kathryn Calder and Rich Aucoin. The top 5 spots got some changes this week. Here’s the top 10 list.

1. How Come You Never Go There – Feist (4th week at #1)

2. Change The Sheets – Kathleen Edwards

3. Adieu – Coeur De Pirate

4. Rows of Houses – Dan Mangan

5. Niagara – Ohbijou

6. Shaking Down The Old Bones – The Darcys

7. Hold You – Elliott Brood

8. Cultured Man – The Zolas

9. It – Rich Aucoin

10. Who Are You? – Kathryn Calder

The Wild 10 Countdown for October 19, 2011

If you reading side by side from my regular blog, this week’s edition was unique because the top 10 was split into parts from the podcast and the live edition for the radio show. The top 5 was aired live on CKCU-FM because of the Dan Mangan interview I got to do. For the third week on the top spot, Feist continues to reign at number one as various radio shows are continuing to play her excellent songs from Metals. Dan Mangan, Ohbijou and Kathleen Edwards continue to garner strong airplays on other radio shows as well. The new entry this week is Vancouver’s The Zolas as they announced a 7 inch EP to be released soon.
Here’s the top 10;

1. How Come You Never Go There – Feist (3rd week at #1)

2. Rows of Houses – Dan Mangan

3. Niagara / Scalpel Blade – Ohbijou (The live airing was Scalpel Blade. The podcast edition was Niagara)

4. Change The Sheets – Kathleen Edwards

5. Adieu – Coeur De Pirate

6. Hold You – Elliott Brood

7. Shaking Down The Old Bones – The Darcys

8. In Your Light – Bruce Peninsula

9. Cultured Man – The Zolas

10. Gosh, Darn, Damn – Rebekah Higgs

Extra Comment
Speaking of Feist again, I stumbled on my Facebook news feed and saw this. It’s The Undiscovered First performed on The Black Cab Sessions. It’s a nice video and Feist sounds amazing!

The Wild 10 Countdown for October 12, 2011

For the second week at the top spot, Feist continues to be played throughout various radio shows. Metals is just an excellent album to listen to. Dan Mangan and Ohbijou are still in the top three as they’re getting a lot of airplay as well. Oh Fortune and Metal Meets are getting a great reviews and both are currently on tour. Dan Mangan is in Ottawa on Friday, October 14th at The Bronson Centre. Ohbijou are embarking the eastern part of the tour as they were in Ottawa and Toronto the week before.
Without further ado, here’s the top 10 for week of October 12, 2011.

1. How Come You Never Go There – Feist (2nd week at #1)

2. Rows of Houses – Dan Mangan

3. Niagara – Ohbijou

4. Change The Sheets – Kathleen Edwards

5. If I Get Old – Elliott Brood

6. Adieu – Coeur De Pirate

7. Shaking Down The Old Bones – The Darcys

8. Count On Me – Cuff The Duke

9. Gosh, Darn, Damn – Rebekah Higgs

10. In Your Light – Bruce Peninsula (New entry)

The Wild 10 Countdown for October 5, 2011

It’s a new month and a new number one to begin October. There’s been a whole slew of great releases from Canadian artists. This week’s number one is none other than Feist. Metals was dropped on Tuesday and so far, there’s been good response to the album. A big plus was that the countdown was live again on the airwaves for this week only. Due to the fact that I need to do a live phone interview with Casey Mecija of Ohbijou.
There’s no new debuts this week and I was slightly occupied with other things happening in Ottawa.
Here’s the top 10 list.

1. How Come You Never Go There – Feist (First week at #1)

2. Rows of Houses – Dan Mangan (Forgot to mention that he’s The X3 Artist of the Month for October)

3. Niagara – Ohbijou

4. Change The Sheets – Kathleen Edwards

5. If I Get Old – Elliott Brood

6. Time Is Right – Cuff The Duke

7. Gosh, Darn, Damn – Rebekah Higgs

8. Adieu – Coeur De Pirate

9. Shaking Down The Bones – The Darcys

10. I’m On Fire – Whitehorse (It’s a Bruce Springsteen cover)

Another Comment
Since I won’t add it on my regular blog. It’s such a surprise to hear Steve Jobs pass away. Jobs was a great visionary.

The Wild 10 Countdown for September 28, 2011

It’s the final week of September and there were a lot of music releases as several were on the top 10. There were two new debuts from The Darcys and Coeur De Pirate. Fall is getting exciting as a vast of new music releases will be out. Dan Mangan still stays on the top spot as Oh Fortune finally dropped to music stores and digital download. Feist is still stuck at number two but will probably take the top spot as Metals will be released next week.
Here’s the top 10;

1. Rows of Houses – Dan Mangan (2nd week)

2. How Come You Never Go There – Feist

3. Niagara – Ohbijou

4. Gosh, Darn, Damn – Rebekah Higgs

5. Change The Sheets – Kathleen Edwards

6. If I Get Old – Elliott Brood

7. Count On Me – Cuff The Duke

8. Broken – Whitehorse

9. Aideu – Coeur De Pirate (New entry)

10. Shaking Down The Old Bones – The Darcys (New entry)