!earshot charts - april 2012 - top 200
Asterisk (*) denotes Canadian artists. All !earshot charts in this issue reflect actual airplay on campus/community stations during the month of April 2012. Charts are weighted according to broadcast range and market size. To view older charts from as far back as 1999, go to our charts main page.
top 200 >> 51 to 100 >>101 to 150 >>151 to200 | electronic | hip hop | international | jazz | loud | folk/roots/blues | main charts page
| Rank | Artist | Title | Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grimes * | Visions | Arbutus |
| 2 | Yukon Blonde * | Tiger Talk | Dine Alone |
| 3 | Zeus * | Busting Visions | Arts & Crafts |
| 4 | Said The Whale * | Little Mountain | Hidden Pony |
| 5 | The Shins | Port Of Morrow | Columbia |
| 6 | Plants And Animals * | The End of That | Secret City |
| 7 | The Ketamines * | Spaced Out | Mammoth Cave |
| 8 | Cousins * | The Palm At The End Of The Mind | Saved By Vinyl |
| 9 | Great Lake Swimmers * | New Wild Everywhere | Nettwerk |
| 10 | The Men | Open Your Heart | Sacred Bones |
| 11 | Trust * | TRST | Arts & Crafts |
| 12 | Bear In Heaven | I Love You, Its Cool | Dead Oceans |
| 13 | The Wooden Sky * | Every Child A Daughter, Every Moon A Sun | Black Box |
| 14 | Bahamas * | Barchords | Brushfire |
| 15 | Eight And A Half * | Eight And A Half | Arts & Crafts |
| 16 | Boxer The Horse | French Residency | Self-Released |
| 17 | Islands * | A Sleep & A Forgetting | Anti- |
| 18 | The Long Distance Runners * | Tracks | Self-Released |
| 19 | The Famines * | The Complete Collected Singles | Mammoth Cave |
| 20 | B.A. Johnston * | Hi Dudes | Mammoth Cave |
| 21 | Sleigh Bells | Reign Of Terror | Mom + Pop |
| 22 | The Joel Plaskett Emergency * | Scrappy Happiness | MapleMusic |
| 23 | Eamon McGrath * | Young Canadians | White Whale |
| 24 | TOPS * | Tender Opposites | Arbutus |
| 25 | Rococode * | Guns Sex & Glory | Head In The Sand |
| 26 | Baby Eagle & The Proud Mothers * | Bone Soldiers | You've Changed |
| 27 | Andrew Bird | Break It Yourself | Mom + Pop |
| 28 | Lee Fields & The Expressions | Faithful Man | Truth and Soul |
| 29 | THEESatisfaction | awE naturalE | Sub Pop |
| 30 | Black Mountain * | Year Zero | Jagjaguwar |
| 31 | John K. Samson * | Provincial | Anti- |
| 32 | The Vibrating Beds * | Sing The Blues | Transistor 66 |
| 33 | Sharon Van Etten | Tramp | Jagjaguwar |
| 34 | Rose Cousins * | We Have Made a Spark | Self-Released |
| 35 | Hunx | Hairdresser Blues | Hardly Art |
| 36 | Half Moon Run * | Dark Eyes | Indica |
| 37 | Dr. Dog | Be The Void | Anti- |
| 38 | Various * | Nardwuar The Human Serviette & The Evaporators present... Busy Doing Nothing! | Mint |
| 39 | Cold Warps * | Cold Warps/Endless Bummer | Noyes |
| 40 | Bronx Cheerleader * | Real Punks Don't Sing About Girls | Yummy |
| 41 | Dr. John | Locked Down | Nonesuch |
| 42 | Alabama Shakes | Boys & Girls | ATO |
| 43 | Lee Ranaldo | Between The Times & The Tides | Matador |
| 44 | La Sera | Sees The Light | Hardly Art |
| 45 | Various * | Team Mint 20 | Mint |
| 46 | Now, Now | Threads | Trans |
| 47 | Elfin Saddle * | Devastates | Constellation |
| 48 | Trampled By Turtles | Stars and Satellites | Six Shooter |
| 49 | Xiu Xiu | Always | Polyvinyl |
| 50 | Chromatics | Kill For Love | Italians Do It Better |
top 200 >> 51 to 100 >>101 to 150 >>151 to200 | electronic | hip hop | international | jazz | loud | folk/roots/blues | main charts page
| Rank | Artist | Title | Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| 51 | Esperanza Spalding | Radio Music Society | Concord |
| 52 | Oberhofer | Time Capsules II | Glassnote |
| 53 | Topanga * | Oceans | Royal Mountain |
| 54 | Memoryhouse * | The Slideshow Effect | Sub Pop |
| 55 | Avec Pas D'Casque * | Astronomie | Grosse Boite |
| 56 | Various * | You Can Dig My Grave In The Mammoth Cave: A Sampler | Mammoth Cave |
| 57 | Miike Snow | Happy To You | Columbia |
| 58 | Hands & Teeth * | Hunting Season | Self-Released |
| 59 | Moonface * | With Siinai: Heartbreaking Bravery | Jagjaguwar |
| 60 | M. Ward | A Wasteland Companion | Merge |
| 61 | The Elwins * | And I Thank You | Self-Released |
| 62 | Django Django | Django Django | Because Music |
| 63 | The Hoots * | Best Wishes | I'm Trying |
| 64 | Mac DeMarco * | Rock and Roll Night Club | Captured Tracks |
| 65 | Cowboy Junkies * | The Nomad Series Volume 4: The Wilderness | Latent |
| 66 | Cloud Nothings | Attack On Memory | CarPark |
| 67 | Tennis | Young and Old | Fat Possum |
| 68 | Sonic Avenues * | Television Youth | Dirtnap |
| 69 | Woodpigeon * | For Paolo | Boompa |
| 70 | Red Moon Road * | Red Moon Road | Self-Released |
| 71 | Chains of Love * | Strange Grey Days | Dine Alone |
| 72 | Wintermitts * | Oceans | Self-Released |
| 73 | Breton | Other People's Problems | FatCat |
| 74 | BadBadNotGood * | BBNG2 | Self-Released |
| 75 | Paradise Animals | Paradise Animals | Self-Released |
| 76 | Lioness * | The Golden Killer | New Romantic |
| 77 | Caetano Veloso and David Byrne | Live at Carnegie Hall | Nonesuch |
| 78 | catl * | Soon This Will All Be Gone | Self-Released |
| 79 | Robert Glasper Experiment | Black Radio | Blue Note |
| 80 | Teenage Kicks * | Be On My Side | Self-Released |
| 81 | Real Boys * | Real Boys | Self-Released |
| 82 | AU | Both Lights | Hometapes |
| 83 | Bocce * | Future 1.0 | Dadmobile |
| 84 | Les Momies De Palerme * | Brûlez ce coeur | Constellation |
| 85 | Adam Mowery | St. Joseph's Mechanical Penthouse | Self-Released |
| 86 | Vulgar, you * | Fais-moi cuire fais-moi jouir | Self-Released |
| 87 | Deadly Hearts, The * | The Deadly Hearts | Self-Released |
| 88 | Mares of Thrace * | The Pilgrimage | Sonic Unyon |
| 89 | Dirty Ghosts * | Metal Moon | Last Gang |
| 90 | Patrick Watson * | Adventures In Your Own Backyard | Domino |
| 91 | Black Dice | Mr. Impossible | Ribbon |
| 92 | Young Prisms | In Between | Kanine |
| 93 | Phèdre * | Phèdre | Daps |
| 94 | Kathleen Edwards * | Voyageur | Rounder |
| 95 | Frankie Rose | Interstellar | Slumberland |
| 96 | Kasabian | Velociraptor! | Sony |
| 97 | Lotus Plaza | Spooky Action At A Distance | Kranky |
| 98 | Mirroring | Foreign Body | Kranky |
| 99 | Ariane Moffatt * | MA | Audiogram |
| 100 | Howler | America Wake Up | Rough Trade |
top 200 >> 51 to 100 >>101 to 150 >>151 to200 | electronic | hip hop | international | jazz | loud | folk/roots/blues | main charts page
| Rank | Artist | Title | Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| 101 | Yamantaka // Sonic Titan * | YT//ST | Psychic Handshake |
| 102 | Black Mastiff * | Pyramids | Self-Released |
| 103 | Amadou And Mariam | Folila | Because Music |
| 104 | White Hills | Frying On The Rock | Thrill Jockey |
| 105 | Odd Future | The OF Tape Vol 2 | Odd Future |
| 106 | Mark Lanegan Band | Blues Funeral | 4AD |
| 107 | The Magnetic Fields | Love At The Bottom Of The Sea | Merge |
| 108 | The Slakadeliqs * | The Other Side Of Tomorrow | Self-Released |
| 109 | Ceremony | Zoo | Matador |
| 110 | Band Of Skulls | Sweet Sour | Vagrant |
| 111 | Mike O'Neill * | Wild Lines | Zunior |
| 112 | Tindersticks | The Something Rain | Constellation |
| 113 | The Black Keys | El Camino | Nonesuch |
| 114 | Royal Canoe * | Extended Play | Self-Released |
| 115 | Daniel Rossen | Silent Hour / Golden Mile | Warp |
| 116 | Leonard Cohen * | Old Ideas | Sony |
| 117 | Eric Chenaux * | Guitar and Voice | Constellation |
| 118 | Coke Weed | Nice Dreams | Self-Released |
| 119 | Ghost House * | The Present Tense | Self-Released |
| 120 | A Tribe Called Red * | A Tribe Called Red | Self-Released |
| 121 | Mitchmatic * | It's Probably Raining | Old Ugly |
| 122 | Tona * | Reform School | Self-Released |
| 123 | Heavy Times | Jacker | HoZac |
| 124 | Whitehorse * | Whitehorse | Six Shooter |
| 125 | 3 Inches Of Blood * | Long Live Heavy Metal | Century Media |
| 126 | Say Anything | Anarchy, My Dear | Equal Vision |
| 127 | Eric Bibb | Deeper In The Well | Stony Plain |
| 128 | Safety Show * | O'burro! | Self-Released |
| 129 | Lisa Leblanc | Lisa Leblanc | Bonsound |
| 130 | Imperial Teen | Feel The Sound | Merge |
| 131 | The Counters * | This Doesn't Mean We're Friends | Self-Released |
| 132 | Bowerbirds | The Clearing | Dead Oceans |
| 133 | Ringo Deathstarr | Shadow | Sonic Unyon |
| 134 | TOPPS * | Bobby Fischer (single) | Self-Released |
| 135 | Learning * | Live in a Living Room | Self-Released |
| 136 | Fun. | Some Nights | Nettwerk |
| 137 | Strange Boys | Live Music | Rough Trade |
| 138 | Tanlines | Mixed Emotions | True Panther |
| 139 | First Aid Kit | The Lion's Roar | Wichita |
| 140 | Ocean City Defender * | The Golden Hour | Self-Released |
| 141 | The Ramblin' Ambassadors * | Ramble On | Mint |
| 142 | Honheehonhee * | Shouts | Self-Released |
| 143 | Georgia Anne Muldrow | Seeds | E1 Music (eOne) |
| 144 | Army Girls * | Close to the Bone | Blocks Recording Club |
| 145 | Chris-A-Riffic * | Bible Beats | Self-Released |
| 146 | Young Liars * | Homesick Future | Nettwerk |
| 147 | The Mars Volta | Noctourniquet | Warner (WEA) |
| 148 | Mozart's Sister * | Dear Fear | Self-Released |
| 149 | Steve Gates * | A Bee In Her Mouth | Black Guillemot |
| 150 | Carolina Chocolate Drops | Leaving Eden | Nonesuch |
top 200 >> 51 to 100 >>101 to 150 >>151 to200 | electronic | hip hop | international | jazz | loud | folk/roots/blues | main charts page
| Rank | Artist | Title | Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| 151 | Damien Jurado | Maraqopa | Secretly Canadian |
| 152 | Coeur De Pirate * | Blonde | Grosse Boite |
| 153 | Teenanger * | Frights | Self-Released |
| 154 | Michael Kiwanuka | Home Again | Polydor |
| 155 | Quantic & Alice Russell with the Combo Barbaro | Look Around The Corner | Tru Thoughts |
| 156 | Paper Beat Scissors * | Paper Beat Scissors | Forward Music Group |
| 157 | Battles | Dross Glop | Warp |
| 158 | Lost In The Trees | A Church That Fits Our Needs | Anti- |
| 159 | Dinosaur Feathers | Whistle Tips | Ernest Jenning |
| 160 | Spiritualized | Sweet Heart, Sweet Light | Fat Possum |
| 161 | Sit Down Tracy * | Twenty Something Winters | Self-Released |
| 162 | Beach Velvet * | Beach Velvet | Self-Released |
| 163 | Foxy Shazam * | The Church Of Rock & Roll | EMI |
| 164 | Brazilian Money * | Doug Nasty | Gipper Tore |
| 165 | The Bokononists * | The Dangerously Empty Lives Of Teenage Girls | Self-Released |
| 166 | Mike Goudreau and The Boppin' Blues Band* | 20 Years Of Bop And Blues | Self-Released |
| 167 | Mariachi Ghost * | Machete | Self-Released |
| 168 | Maica Mia * | Sparcity Blues | Self-Released |
| 169 | Lucero | Women and Work | ATO |
| 170 | Ken Aldcroft and William Parker* | One Sunday | Trio |
| 171 | Dale Murray * | Dream Mountain Dream | Come Undone |
| 172 | Fanfarlo | Rooms Filled With Light | Atlantic |
| 173 | Rome Romeo | Make Up Her Mind | Machette |
| 174 | Bend Sinister * | On My Mind | File Under: Music (FU:M) |
| 175 | High On Fire | De Vermis Mysteriis | E1 Music (eOne) |
| 176 | Mon Electric Bijou * | Terror At The Gates | Self-Released |
| 177 | Greg Arcade * | Creature Of The Night! | Self-Released |
| 178 | School Of Seven Bells | Ghostory | Vagrant |
| 179 | Fred | Leaving My Empire | Sparks |
| 180 | Emily Wells | Mama | Partisan |
| 181 | Long Weekends * | Don't Reach Out | Noyes |
| 182 | Various * | Bloodstains Across the Prairies | Mammoth Cave |
| 183 | Radio Radio * | Havre De Grace | Bonsound |
| 184 | Charlotte Gainsbourg | Stage Whispers | Because Music |
| 185 | Matt Foy * | Colony Collapse Disorder | Self-Released |
| 186 | Various | This May Be My Last Time Singing Raw African-American Gospel On 45RPM 1957-1982 | Tompkins Square |
| 187 | The Funk Ark | High Noon | ESL/Eighteenth Street Lounge |
| 188 | Young Empires * | Wake All My Youth | Pirate Blend |
| 189 | Lal * | Lal | Urbnet |
| 190 | Punch Brothers | Who's Feeling Young Now? | Nonesuch |
| 191 | A. David MacKinnon * | The Past Is A Foreign Country | Self-Released |
| 192 | Fungi Girls | Some Easy Magic | HoZac |
| 193 | Octoberman * | Waiting In The Well | Saved By Vinyl |
| 194 | Perfeck Strangers * | Series Premiere | Urbnet |
| 195 | Domaine Alary | I Feel Love | Self-Released |
| 196 | Lana Del Rey | Born To Die | Stranger |
| 197 | Bleating Hearts * | Bleating Hearts | Self-Released |
| 198 | Rambling Dan Frechette * | Nothing To Lose But The Blues | Self-Released |
| 199 | Each Other * | Traces To Nowhere b/w Sit Still | Crikey |
| 200 | Delta Spirit | Delta Spirit | Rounder |
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