Canadians' January 2017 Airplay: Clients Dave Gunning & Kaia Kater make Top airplay list

Here are the January stats for Canadians' airplay on folkdj-l playlists. This information has been sifted, with permission, from international lists compiled by Richard Gillmann. In January, Richard's lists were based on 14,088 airplays from 137 different DJ's.

The number in brackets indicates the number of plays that album, song or artist received in the month.
January :  Top Canadian Albums
1.  Rose Cousins                "Natural Conclusion”                    (34)
2.  April Verch                 "The April Verch Anthology”             (32)
3.  Daniel Koulack              "Frailing To Succeed”                   (31)
4.  Hannah Shira Naiman         "Know The Mountain”                     (27)
``  Naming The Twins            "Turn Styles”                           (27)
5.  The Lonesome Ace Stringband "Gone For Evermore”                     (21)
6.  The Bombadils               "New Shoes”                             (20)
7.  Blackie & The Rodeo Kings   "Kings And Kings”                       (19)
8.  Blue Rodeo                  "1000 Arms”                             (17)
9.  Stephen Fearing             "Every Soul's A Sailor”                 (15)
10. Moore & McGregor            "Dream With Me”                         (14)
11. The Andrew Collins Trio     "And It Was Good”                       (13)
``  Kaia Kater                  "Nine Pin”                              (13)
12. Dave Gunning                “Lift"                                  (12)
13. David Francey               "Empty Train”                           (11)
14. Leonard Cohen               "The Essential Leonard Cohen”           (10)
``  Leonard Cohen               "You Want It Darker”                    (10)
``  Neil Young                  "Peace Trail"                           (10)

January :  Top Canadian Artists
1.  April Verch                         (52)
2.  Rose Cousins                        (41)
3.  Leonard Cohen                       (35)
4.  Daniel Koulack                      (31)
5.  Hannah Shira Naiman                 (29)
6.  Naming The Twins                    (27)
7.  The Lonesome Ace Stringband         (24)
8.  Blue Rodeo                          (22)
9.  The Bombadils                       (20)
10. Blackie & The Rodeo Kings           (19)
11. David Francey                       (17)
``  Dave Gunning                        (17)
12. Stephen Fearing                     (16)
``  Joni Mitchell                       (16)
``  Neil Young                          (16)
13. The Andrew Collins Trio             (15)
``  Moore & McGregor                    (15)
14. Kaia Kater                          (14)
15. The Bills                           (13)
16. Reid Jamieson                       (11)
``  Stan Rogers                         (11)
17. Bill Bourne                         (10)
``  Arnie Naiman                        (10)
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Richard Gillmann compiles monthly surveys of international airplay on the folkdj-l listserve. Archives of these can be
found at <http://folkradio.org>    Richard's complete lists can be found on his own website
at <http://www.nwfolk.com> and I have used this source for the information above.

Richard created a couple of programs to analyze all playlists posted to the Folkdj-l list. These programs require that playlists be submitted in a particular format to be counted. Because of this he estimates his programs pick up 60-80% of the total airplays posted. Richard tallies the most popular albums and songs as well as total play for individual performers.  As can be seen, Richard cuts off his album and artist lists at 10 plays and the songs list at 5 plays.

Once again, Richard has consented to my pulling Canadian stats from his lists for which I offer a grateful tip 'o the hat.
-Vic Bell
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