THIS IS ROCK 'N' ROLL RADIO COUNTDOWN: Our 60 Most-Played Acts in 2020

This Sunday, December 27th, This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio with Dana & Carl will present our annual countdown show, playing back what we played a lot over the course of these past twelve months. Stats are provided for us by the mighty Fritz Van Leaven, who has been named to the Permanently Nice List by ol' Santa Claus himself. Dana and I look forward to these year-end countdowns, and we couldn't even begin to do them without Fritz.

The countdown shows are a showcase of our most-played individual tracks. Fritz also prepares stats for our most-played artists, and we occasionally include some of those artist stats in our countdown show, if there's enough time for them. Not this year! This year's countdown is a whompin' stompin' 58 tracks, which we're somehow going to program into a single three-hour radio show. Yes, it's a post-Christmas miracle. Meanwhile, we'll give the artists their due in this spot instead. Ladies and gentlemen, we are proud to present:

THIS IS ROCK 'N' ROLL RADIO's 60 Most-Played Artists In 2020

1. The Beatles

2. Pop Co-Op

3. The Monkees

4. The Muffs

5. The Kinks

6. The Ramones

7. Chuck Berry

8. Mary Lou Lord

9. The Jam

10. Les Handclaps

11. The Who

12. Holly Golightly

13. The Bevis Frond

14. Big Star

15. Dave Edmunds

16. The Flashcubes

17. The Pretenders

18. John Lennon

19. The Isley Brothers

20. The Go-Go's

21. Irene Peña

22. Bill Berry

23. Justine and the Unclean

24. The Beach Boys

25. David Bowie

26. The Zombies

27. The Bangles

28. Bash And Pop

29. The Rolling Stones

30. The Flamin' Groovies

31. Squeeze

32. Buffalo Springfield

33. Dr. Feelgood

34. Marykate O'Neil

35. Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs

36. KISS

37. The Velvet Underground

38. Fountains of Wayne

39. Sly and the Family Stone

40. Wild Kisses

41. The Dave Clark Five

42. The Bay City Rollers

43. P. P. Arnold

44. Little Richard

45. The Mynah Birds

46. Eytan Mirsky

47. The Hollies

48. Paul McCartney

49. The Grip Weeds

50. Elvis Costello

51. George Harrison

52. Shoes

53. The Nerves

54. Dean Landew

55. The Click Beetles

56. The Gold Needles

57. The Corner Laughers

58. The Weeklings

59. Kid Gulliver

60. The On And Ons

As always, our most-played artists include the classic and the current, and the same can be said of our most-played tracks. You'll hear some of the above artists again on our countdown show tomorrow night; but nearly half of them will be replaced by other artists, performers who didn't match the overall spins accrued by these top acts, but had a song--a HIT!--that pummeled its way into the countdown nonetheless. 

We play the hits. And we're countin' down our hits this Sunday, December 27th, from 9 to Midnight Eastern, on the air in Syracuse at SPARK! WSPJ 103.3 and 93.7 FM, and on the web at http://sparksyracuse.org/ Join us. We have some hit records we think you'll enjoy.

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