CJLO Top 100 of 2012

January 20 2013 // Magazine // Features

Looking over this compilation of all our charts over the year, being a numbers guy, I gave a quick look at some stats:

62% of the Top 50 of 2012 are Canadian artists
Nearly 1/4 of the Top 50 of 2012 are Local artists
Close to 20% of the Top 50 of 2012 are Metal/Loud Rock artists
Nearly 1/3 of the Top 50 of 2012 are Hip Hop artists
A staggering 88% are on independent labels!

All in all, it's pretty indicative of what we're striving to do here at CJLO, and that's to provide fresh, new, diverse, and underground/independent content to the airwaves—a true alternative to the mainstream Top-40 radio stations that usually litter a metropolis' radio band. Hi fives to all our broadcasters and programmers and music directors who continue to keep the music fresh on CJLO 1690 AM's airwaves, to all the hardworking artists and labels who fuel our playlists, and more importantly to all our listeners, supporters, and volunteers who are the backbone of this station and who make what we do relevant and worthwhile. See you all around Funding Drive in April (hint hint, hehehe).

Happy New Year from CJLO and it's staff and volunteers! We're looking forward to providing your ears with more good music for the new year! Hi-fives.

–Omar Goodness / Head Music Director and host of "Hooked on Sonics" (Thursdays 6-8pm EST)

Check out our 2012 STAFF PICKS and the CJLO Ones to Watch series (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, and Part 5) for more good music!

Rank	Artist	Album
1	Japandroids	Celebration Rock
2	Saukrates	Season One
3	Kestrels	A Ghost History
4	White Lung	Sorry
5	Cousins	The Palm At The End Of The Mind
6	Yamantaka // Sonic Titan	YT//ST
7	Grimes	Visions
8	Cadence Weapon	Hope In Dirt City
9	Silver Dapple	English Girlfriend
10	The Men	Open Your Heart
11	Maximum RNR	The Black And White Years
12	Conn Shawnery	CS02-Conduction
13	A Tribe Called Red	A Tribe Called Red
14	Nas	Life Is Good
15	METZ	METZ
16	Doomtree	No Kings
17	Common	The Dreamer/The Believer
17	Roots	Undun
19	Parlovr	Kook Soul
20	Perfeck Strangers	Series Premiere
21	JJ Doom	Key To The Kuffs
22	Liars	WIXIW
23	Brother Ali	The Bite Marked Heart [EP]
24	High On Fire	De Vermis Mysteriis
25	Mares Of Thrace	The Pilgrimage
26	Cancer Bats	Dead Set On Living
27	Purity Ring	Shrines
28	Freelove Fenner	Pineapple Hair
29	Loe Pesci	GOOD X 2
30	Converge	All We Love We Leave Behind
31	PS I Love You	Death Dreams
32	Propagandhi	Failed States
33	Guided By Voices	Let's Go Eat The Factory
34	Esperanza Spalding	Radio Music Society
35	Muffler Crunch	Little Things
36	Bison B.C.	Lovelessness
37	Ty Segall	Twins
38	D-Sisive	Running With The Creeps
39	Rae Spoon	I Can't Keep All Of Our Secrets
40	Aesop Rock	Skelethon
41	Cold Warps	Cold Warps/Endless Bummer
42	Young Lungs	Blood On The Streets [7-Inch]
43	El-P	Cancer For Cure
44	A Place To Bury Strangers	Onwards To The Wall
45	Trust	TRST
46	Metric	Synthetica
47	JEFF The Brotherhood	Hypnotic Nights
48	Dinosaur Jr.	I Bet On Sky
48	Mugz	Gone One Day [EP]
50	Cloud Nothings	Attack On Memory
51	Every Time I Die	Ex Lives
51	Masia One	Bootleg Culture
53	Animal Collective	Centipede Hz
54	Yellow Ostrich	Strange Land
55	Archers Of Loaf	Vee Vee
56	Art Vs. Science	Art Vs. Science
57	Death Grips	The Money Store
58	Chainsaw Hookers	Chainsaw Hookers
59	Jai Nitai Lotus	Something You Feel
60	Moonface	With Siinai: Heartbreaking Bravery
61	Tamaryn	Tender New Signs
62	King Tuff	King Tuff
63	Helio Sequence	Negotiations
64	M83	Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
65	Barr Brothers	The Barr Brothers
66	Wintersleep	Hello Hum
67	The Weeknd	Echoes Of Silence
68	Bob Mould	Silver Age
68	More Or Les	Mastication
70	Pink Mink	Pink Mink
71	Tom Waits	Bad As Me
72	Neurosis	Honor Found In Decay
73	Twerps	Twerps
74	Brother Ali	Mourning In America And Dreaming In Color
75	Derelict	Shackles Of Indoctrination [Single]
76	Shout Out Out Out Out	Spanish Moss And Total Loss
77	Beach House	Bloom
78	Mirroring	Foreign Body
79	Eddy Current Suppression Ring	So Many Things
80	Weapon	Embers And Revelation
81	Moon Duo	Circles
81	Tindersticks	The Something Rain
83	Robert Glasper Experiment	Black Radio
84	Sleigh Bells	Reign Of Terror
85	Ty Segall	Singles 2007-2010
86	White Hills	Frying On This Rock
87	Fraction And Fresh Kils	Extra Science
88	Apollo Ghosts	Landmark
88	John Maus	A Collection Of Rarities And Previously Unreleased Material
90	Ketamines	Spaced Out
90	Passion Pit	Gossamer
90	We Need Secrets	Purple/Slow Summer [7-inch]
93	Icky Blossoms	Icky Blossoms
94	Woods	Bend Beyond
95	Sex Church	Somnabulist
96	Santigold	Master Of My Make Believe
97	Mystery Machine	Western Magnetics
98	Preach Ankobia	The Last Dragon Vol. 1
99	Dum Dum Girls	End Of Daze
100	Kathleen Edwards	Voyageur

CJLO Top 100 of 2012

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