Tuesday, January 9, 2024

THIS IS ROCK 'N' ROLL RADIO's Most-Played Artists In 2023


This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio's 25th annual Countdown show is in the books, and it's available as a podcast. A million-billion-gazillion thanks to Fritz Van Leaven for keeping track of our stats, and granting us this giddy opportunity to play back what we played a lot in 2023. And congratulations to the Flashcubes, whose Pop Masters album includes our single most-played track in 2023, a Cubic cover of the Motors' "Forget About You."

The show and its playlist reveal the entire list of our 46 most-played tracks. We opened the show with a separate countdown of our 17 most-played artists; today, we'll share the complete list of our 58 most-played artists.

Given the fact that I began last year knowing that my book Gabba Gabba Hey! A Conversation With The Ramones was to be published in the spring, it was proper--and inevitable--that 2023 would be my Year of the Ramones. With 90 spins in 2023, the Ramones were untouchable and uncatchable at # 1.

Here's the complete list of our 58 most-played artists in 2023:

1. The Ramones
2. The Flashcubes
3. The Beatles
4. The Monkees
5. The Muffs
6. Juniper
7. The Kinks
8. The Pretenders
9. The Grip Weeds
10. Steve Stoeckel
11. Librarians With Hickeys
12. Eytan Mirsky
13. Badfinger
14. Blondie
15. Mike Browning
16. The Mosquitos
17. Justine and the Unclean
18. The Jam
19. Game Theory
20. The Cynz
21. Irene Peña
22. The Four Tops
23. Lou Reed
24. Josie Cotton
25. The Smithereens
26. The Bangles
27. Lulu
28. Kid Gulliver
29. The Midnight Callers
30. Perilous
31. The Isley Brothers
32. 1.4.5.
33. Amy Rigby
34. Dolph Chaney
35. The On and Ons
36. The Spongetones
37. The Raspberries
38. The English Beat
39. The Supremes
40. Ben Vaughn
41. The Chelsea Curve
42. Dwight Twilley
43. Major Lance
44. Rockaway Bitch
45. Big Star
46. KISS
47. The Bay City Rollers
48. XTC
49. Tom Petty
50. Creedence Clearwater Revival
51. sparkle*jets u.k.
52. Sweet
53. Pop Co-Op
54. Crickle
55. The Cynics
56. The Flashcubes featuring Randy Klawon
57. Laurie and the Sighs
58. Mr. Bruce Gordon

After that, it's a free-for-all! We played a lot of acts AND a lot of tracks in 2023. And now, it's time to start building next year's countdown. Stay tuned!

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Carl's new book Gabba Gabba Hey! A Conversation With The Ramones is now available, courtesy of the good folks at Rare Bird Books. Gabba Gabba YAY!! https://rarebirdlit.com/gabba-gabba-hey-a-conversation-with-the-ramones-by-carl-cafarelli/

If it's true that one book leads to another, my next book will be The Greatest Record Ever Made! (Volume 1). Stay tuned. Your turn is coming.

This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio with Dana & Carl airs Sunday nights from 9 to Midnight Eastern, on the air in Syracuse at SPARK! WSPJ 103.3 and 93.7 FM, streaming at SPARK stream and on the Radio Garden app as WESTCOTT RADIO. Recent shows are archived at Westcott Radio. You can read about our history here.

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