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SONG
ARTIST
Album
Debut
1)
1225.07
Somebody That I Used To Know
Gotye
Making Mirrors
1/8/12
2)
1205.69
Fragile Thing Called Man
Sheila Divine
The Things That Once Were
3/11/12
3)
1090.73
A Little Revolution
Firewater
International Orange
8/12/12
4)
1072.16
What Makes A Good Man?
The Heavy
The Glorious Dead
8/26/12
5)
1068.06
Rumor Has It
Adele
21
2/19/12
6)
1059.49
Equalize
Gomez
Whatever's on Your Mind
2/19/12
7)
1049.26
Somehow
Joss Stone
LP1
2/12/12
8)
1014.37
Why Don't You Know?
Mitchmatic
It's Probably Raining
1/29/12
9)
1006.8
Allies
Mute Math
Odd Soul
9/9/12
10)
996.36
Magpie
Beth Orton
Sugaring Season
9/9/12
11)
992.77
Kill Your Heroes
Awolnation
Megalithic Symphony
9/2/12
12)
991.24
Don't Carry It All
The Decemberists
The King Is Dead
2/26/12
13)
988.06
This One's Not Waiting
Le Reno Amps
Appetite
9/16/12
14)
975.6
Boxing Day
Sondre Lerche
Phantom Punch
8/19/12
15)
969.26
Babel
Mumford & Sons
Babel
9/23/12
16)
964.64
Joe's Cult
Sean Rowe
The Salesman and the Shark
7/8/12
17)
951.82
Every Single Night
Fiona Apple
The Idler Wheel
4/22/12
18)
937.98
Wet
Sean Rowe
Magic
11/20/11
19)
922.53
The King Knows How
Over The Rhine
The Long Surrender
12/18/11
20)
921.39
Don't Stop (Color on the Walls)
Foster The People
Torches
3/25/12
21)
917.57
Do It Anyway
Ben Folds Five
The Sound Of The Life Of The Mind
7/15/12
22)
907.07
Ride This Feeling
Kate Miller-Heidke
Nightflight
8/26/12
23)
906.09
Beauty Queen
Bop Skizzum
Beauty Queen EP
4/8/12
24)
904.63
Everybody's Heart's Breaking Now
Lavender Diamond
Incorruptible Heart
10/7/12
25)
902.58
Me and Mr. Wolf
The Real Tuesday Weld
The Last Werewolf
11/20/11
26)
902.58
What The Water Gave Me
Florence and the Machine
Ceremonials
11/20/11
27)
899.73
Part Man Part Myth Part Time
Jon Fratelli
Psycho Jukebox
2/26/12
28)
892.71
All The Rowboats
Regina Spektor
All The Rowboats
5/6/12
29)
892.15
Let It Live Free
He's My Brother She's My Sister
Nobody Dances in this Town
8/19/12
30)
889.05
That Wasn't Me
Brandi Carlile
Bear Creek
7/15/12
31)
887.67
Sideways
The View
Cutting Corners (EP)
5/13/12
32)
877.51
Emmylou
First Aid Kit
The Lion's Roar
1/22/12
33)
874.26
Save Me
Gotye
Making Mirrors
10/14/12
34)
867.31
1957
Milo Greene
Milo Greene
7/29/12
35)
858.96
Heavy is as Heavy Does
Menomena
Moms
9/30/12
36)
858.74
We Are Young
Fun.
We Are Young
1/15/12
37)
857.71
Which Side Are You On?
Ani DiFranco
Which Side Are You On?
2/5/12
38)
854.61
Wind and Walls
The Tallest Man on Earth
There's No Leaving Now
10/28/12
39)
850.54
Elders
MyNameIsJohnMichael
Upcoming Album
1/1/12
40)
850.22
Love/Pain
Zeus
Busting Visions
3/11/12
41)
845.48
Lucky Now
Ryan Adams
Ashes & Fire
9/16/12
42)
844.61
Blinding Light
Jethro Fox
Jethro Fox
9/2/12
43)
835.56
Bright Whites
Kishi Bashi
151a
4/15/12
44)
834.15
Under Evergreen
Shelby Earl
Burn The Boats
12/25/11
45)
830.91
Between Atoms
Krista Muir
Between Atoms
8/19/12
46)
829
Be Brave
My Brightest Diamond
All Things Will Unwind
1/15/12
47)
825.96
Velcro
Bell X1
Bloodless Coup
12/18/11
48)
824.2
Waiting
The Whigs
Enjoy The Company
10/21/12
49)
821.69
Play What You Want
Toy Horses
Toy Horses
8/26/12
50)
816.02
If I Tell You I Love You
Melody Gardot
The Absense
8/5/12
51)
807.12
Chasing It Down
Mother Mother
Eureka
4/29/12
52)
803.06
California
Delta Spirit
Delta Spirit
8/12/12
53)
802.12
Holy Moses
Washington
I Believe You Liar
12/4/11
54)
799.13
Do You Want It?
Bop Skizzum
Coloradical
10/21/12
55)
792.81
To Who Knows Where
James Iha
Look To The Sky
8/12/12
56)
789.29
Alone In This Together
Star Anna & The Laughing Dogs
Alone In This Together
12/11/11
57)
788.89
Satisfied
Tom Waits
Bad As Me
11/13/11
58)
782.84
Dancing, Though
Sakert!
Pa Engelska
12/18/11
59)
773.19
Radioactive
Imagine Dragons
Continued Silence
8/5/12
60)
745.2
All I Know
Matt The Electrician
Accidental Thief
12/11/11
61)
742.82
Travelers
Bright Moments
Natives
5/13/12
62)
742.52
Spectrum
Florence and the Machine
Ceremonials
9/2/12
63)
739.68
Damn These Vampires
The Mountain Goats
All Eternals Deck
1/1/12
64)
733.18
The Ballad Of Mona Lisa
Panic! At The Disco
Vices and Virtues
2/5/12
65)
725.95
Something's Rattling (Cowpoke)
Benjamin Gibbard
Former Lives
11/4/12
66)
725.78
Simple Girl
Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.
It's a Corporate World
11/27/11
67)
725.53
Center of the Sun
The 88
The 88
12/25/11
68)
702.96
Starlight
Rachael Yamagata
Chesapeake
11/6/11
69)
692.05
Came Out of a Lady
Rubblebucket
Omega La La
7/22/12
70)
679.66
When Will You Die
They Might Be Giants
Join Us
7/29/12
71)
671.62
I'll Still Be There
Brandi Carlile
Bear Creek
11/4/12
72)
670.85
Fine
Darrelle London
Eat A Peach
3/18/12
73)
668.4
Baby We're Refugees!
Jon Fratelli
Psycho Jukebox
11/13/11
74)
665.94
Love The Way You Walk Away
Blitzen Trapper
American Goldwing
11/27/11
75)
653.61
Cassette Tape
Katie Costello
Lamplight
11/13/11
76)
645.54
A Candle's Fire
Beirut
The Rip Tide
7/8/12
77)
634.53
Sugar
Garbage
Not Your Kind of People
6/17/12
78)
621.23
Pretty Little Head
Eliza Rickman
O, You Sinners
5/20/12
79)
598.17
The Dark Lord (of Love)
Patrick Bower
The Dark Lord (of Love) EP
1/8/12
80)
570.47
The Pit
Silversun Pickups
Neck of the Woods
10/28/12
81)
563.12
Everybody Breaks
Garrett Pierce
Everybody Breaks EP
12/4/11
82)
554.48
Simple Song
The Shins
Port of Morrow
6/10/12
83)
536.38
Cloisonne
They Might Be Giants
Join Us
11/6/11
84)
533.49
The Bad in Each Other
Feist
Metals
2/19/12
85)
531.49
The Circle in the Square
Flobots
The Circle in the Square
11/11/12
86)
521.93
Civilian
Wye Oak
Civilian
3/11/12
87)
520.86
Fire Escape
Civil Twilight
Holy Weather
11/4/12
88)
520.08
Calgary
Bon Iver
Bon Iver
2/12/12
89)
508.41
Better Than Me
Breaking Laces
Come Get Some
11/18/12
90)
493.23
Tree By the River
Iron & Wine
Kiss Each Other Clean
10/23/11
91)
468.04
Vampires
Emanuel and the Fear
Hands
6/24/12
92)
447.39
Birds
The Submarines
Love Notes/Letter Bombs
10/30/11
93)
446.1
Hell Is Other People
Pascale Picard
A Letter To No One
5/20/12
94)
436.82
Chasing After Things (We Don't Know The Names)
Fierce Bad Rabbit
Spools of Thread
6/24/12
95)
416.84
Tales That I Tell
He's My Brother She's My Sister
Nobody Dances Im This Town
11/25/12
96)
416.16
Big Wave
Jenny and Johnny
I'm Having Fun Now
2/26/12
97)
402.18
Dr Landy
I'm From Barcelona
Forever Today
6/3/12
98)
401.52
The Last Crusade
Sam Roberts
Collider
5/20/12
99)
388.65
Can't See The Stars
He's My Brother She's My Sister
Tease
5/27/12
100)
352.16
Santa Fe
Beirut
The Rip Tide
10/9/11