The National Top 200 of 2011
Asterisk (*) denotes Canadian artists. All !earshot charts in this issue reflect actual airplay on campus/community stations during the month of December 2011. Charts are weighted according to broadcast range and market size. To view older charts from as far back as 1999, go to our main chart 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 | Chad VanGaalen * | Diaper Island | Flemish Eye |
| 2 | Mother Mother * | Eureka | Last Gang |
| 3 | Timber Timbre * | Creep On Creepin' On | Arts & Crafts |
| 4 | Braids * | Native Speaker | Flemish Eye |
| 5 | Austra * | Feel It Break | Paper Bag |
| 6 | The Pack A.D. * | Unpersons | Mint |
| 7 | Feist * | Metals | Arts & Crafts |
| 8 | The Rural Alberta Advantage * | Departing | Paper Bag |
| 9 | Black Lips | Arabia Mountain | Vice |
| 10 | Handsome Furs * | Sound Kapital | Sub Pop |
| 11 | Miracle Fortress * | Was I The Wave? | Secret City |
| 12 | Shotgun Jimmie * | Transistor Sister | You've Changed |
| 13 | The Decemberists | The King is Dead | Capitol |
| 14 | Imaginary Cities * | Temporary Resident | Hidden Pony |
| 15 | Bon Iver | Bon Iver | Jagjaguwar |
| 16 | Fucked Up * | David Comes to Life | Matador |
| 17 | Destroyer * | Kaputt | Merge |
| 18 | Dan Mangan * | Oh Fortune | Arts & Crafts |
| 19 | Hey Rosetta! * | Seeds | Sonic |
| 20 | Fleet Foxes | Helplessness Blues | Sub Pop |
| 21 | Deep Dark Woods * | The Place I Left Behind | Six Shooter |
| 22 | Ohbijou * | Metal Meets | Last Gang |
| 23 | Dog Day * | Deformer | Fun Dog |
| 24 | Hooded Fang * | Tosta Mista | Daps Records |
| 25 | Library Voices * | Summer Of Lust | Nevado |
| 26 | Sloan * | The Double Cross | Outside |
| 27 | PJ Harvey | Let England Shake | Island |
| 28 | Elliott BROOD * | Days Into Years | Paper Bag |
| 29 | Young Galaxy * | Shapeshifting | Paper Bag |
| 30 | Wilco | The Whole Love | dBpm |
| 31 | St. Vincent | Strange Mercy | 4AD |
| 32 | Tom Waits | Bad As Me | Anti- |
| 33 | Iron And Wine | Kiss Each Other Clean | Warner (WEA) |
| 34 | Battles | Gloss Drop | Warp |
| 35 | TV On The Radio | Nine Types Of Light | Interscope |
| 36 | Various * | National Parks Project | Last Gang |
| 37 | Girls | Father, Son, Holy Ghost | True Panther |
| 38 | Beastie Boys | Hot Sauce Committee Part Two | Capitol |
| 39 | Jenn Grant * | Honeymoon Punch | Six Shooter |
| 40 | Miesha & The Spanks * | Gods Of Love | Transistor 66 |
| 41 | The Dears * | Degeneration Street | Dangerbird |
| 42 | Lykke Li | Wounded Rhymes | Atlantic |
| 43 | Joel Plaskett * | EMERGENCYs, false alarms, shipwrecks, castaways, fragile creatures, special features... | New Scotland |
| 44 | Okkervil River | I Am Very Far | Jagjaguwar |
| 45 | Whitehorse * | Whitehorse | Six Shooter |
| 46 | Kurt Vile | Smoke Ring For My Halo | Matador |
| 47 | Mogwai | Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will | Sub Pop |
| 48 | The Luyas * | Too Beautiful To Work | Id�e Fixe |
| 49 | One Hundred Dollars * | Songs of Man | Outside |
| 50 | This Hisses * | Surf Noir | Transistor 66 |
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 | M83 | Hurry Up, We're Dreaming | Mute |
| 52 | Cuff The Duke * | Morning Comes | Paper Bag |
| 53 | Cut Copy | Zonoscope | Modular |
| 54 | Stephen Malkmus and The Jicks | Mirror Traffic | Matador |
| 55 | Bruce Peninsula * | Open Flames | Hand Drawn Dracula |
| 56 | The Kills | Blood Pressures | Domino |
| 57 | Radiohead | The King of Limbs | Self-Released |
| 58 | Thurston Moore | Demolished Thoughts | Matador |
| 59 | Colin Stetson * | New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges | Constellation |
| 60 | Tasseomancy * | Ulalume | Out Of This Spark |
| 61 | Sandro Perri * | Impossible Spaces | Constellation |
| 62 | Dum Dum Girls | He Gets Me High | Sub Pop |
| 63 | tUnE-yArDs | w h o k i l l | 4AD |
| 64 | Dum Dum Girls | Only In Dreams | Sub Pop |
| 65 | Ringo Deathstarr | Colour Trip | Sonic Unyon |
| 66 | Man Man | Life Fantastic | Anti- |
| 67 | City And Colour * | Little Hell | Vagrant |
| 68 | The Weather Station * | All Of It Was Mine | You've Changed |
| 69 | Jennifer Castle * | Castlemusic | Flemish Eye |
| 70 | Washed Out | Within And Without | Sub Pop |
| 71 | Panda Bear | Tomboy | Paw Tracks |
| 72 | Wanda Jackson | The Party Ain't Over | Third Man |
| 73 | Daniel Romano * | Sleep Beneath The Willow | You've Changed |
| 74 | Arctic Monkeys | Suck It And See | Domino |
| 75 | The Horrors | Skying | XL Recordings |
| 76 | Siskiyou * | Keep Away The Dead | Constellation |
| 77 | Portugal. The Man | In The Mountain In The Cloud | Atlantic |
| 78 | The Burning Hell * | Flux Capacitor | Weewerk |
| 79 | Junior Boys * | It's All True | Domino |
| 80 | Wild Flag | Wild Flag | Merge |
| 81 | Blackie And The Rodeo Kings * | Kings and Queens | File Under: Music |
| 82 | The Vibrating Beds * | What You Do To Me | Transistor 66 |
| 83 | Deerhoof | Deerhoof vs. Evil | Polyvinyl |
| 84 | Atlas Sound | Parallax | 4AD |
| 85 | Buck 65 * | 20 Odd Years | Warner (WEA) |
| 86 | Cousins * | Secret Weapon | Noyes |
| 87 | Wye Oak | Civilian | Merge |
| 88 | Beirut | The Rip Tide | Pompeii |
| 89 | Little Scream * | The Golden Record | Outside |
| 90 | Trio Bembe * | Oh My Soul | Self-Released |
| 91 | Sufjan Stevens | The Age of Adz | Asthmatic Kitty |
| 92 | Rich Aucoin * | We're All Dying To Live | Sonic |
| 93 | My Morning Jacket | Circuital | ATO |
| 94 | C'Mon * | Beyond The Pale Horse | Self-Released |
| 95 | Real Estate | Days | Domino |
| 96 | Diamond Rings * | Special Affections | Secret City |
| 97 | Memphis * | Here Comes A City | Arts & Crafts |
| 98 | Les Breastfeeders * | Dans la gueule des jours | Blow The Fuse |
| 99 | Papermaps * | Papermaps | Sparks |
| 100 | Deerhunter | Halcyon Digest | 4AD |
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 | Grimes/d'Eon * | Darkbloom | Arbutus |
| 102 | Akron/Family | Akron/Family II: The Cosmic Birth and Journey of Shinju TNT | Dead Oceans |
| 103 | Malajube * | La Caverne | Dare To Care |
| 104 | Geoff Berner * | Victory Party | Mint |
| 105 | Various * | Everybody Dance Now: Songs From Hamilton Vol. 6 | C+C Music Festival |
| 106 | Jon McKiel * | Confidence Lodge | Youth Club |
| 107 | Myelin Sheaths * | Get on Your Nerves | Southpaw |
| 108 | Shabazz Palaces | Black Up | Sub Pop |
| 109 | Marine Dreams * | Marine Dreams | You've Changed |
| 110 | Rebekah Higgs * | Odd Fellowship | Hidden Pony |
| 111 | Duchess Says * | In A Fung Day T! | Alien8 |
| 112 | The Liptonians * | Let's All March Back Into The Sea | Head In The Sand |
| 113 | The Drums | Portamento | Frenchkiss |
| 114 | Adam & The Amethysts * | Flickering Flashlight | Kelp |
| 115 | Olenka & The Autumn Lovers * | And Now We Sing | Open House Arts Collective |
| 116 | Toro Y Moi | Underneath The Pine | CarPark |
| 117 | Hooded Fang * | Album | Self-Released |
| 118 | The Blowholes * | The Blowholes | Transistor 66 |
| 119 | The Paint Movement * | The Paint Movement | Nevado |
| 120 | The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart | Belong | Slumberland |
| 121 | Neon Indian | Era Extrana | Mom + Pop |
| 122 | Eve Hell and The Razors * | When The Lights Go Out | Hell Fi |
| 123 | Black Mountain * | Wilderness Heart | Outside |
| 124 | Yamantaka // Sonic Titan * | YT//ST | Psychic Handshake |
| 125 | Yuck | Yuck | Fat Possum |
| 126 | Ox * | Tuco | Cosmic Dave's Record Factory |
| 127 | The Go! Team | Rolling Blackouts | Memphis Industries |
| 128 | The Russian Futurists * | The Weight's on the Wheels | Upper Class |
| 129 | Various * | CiTR Pop Alliance | Mint/CiTR 101.9 FM |
| 130 | Greg MacPherson * | Disintegration Blues | Disintegration |
| 131 | Bjork | Biophilia | Nonesuch |
| 132 | Ladytron | Gravity The Seducer | Nettwerk |
| 133 | Gil Scott-Heron & Jamie xx | We're New Here | XL Recordings |
| 134 | Enjoy Your Pumas * | Commonality | Self-Released |
| 135 | Metronomy | The English Riviera | Because Music |
| 136 | Les Jupes * | Modern Myths | Head In The Sand |
| 137 | Fruit Bats | Tripper | Sub Pop |
| 138 | Austra * | Sparkle | Paper Bag |
| 139 | SBTRKT | SBTRKT | Young Turks |
| 140 | Suuns * | Zeroes QC | Secretly Canadian |
| 141 | Death Cab For Cutie | Codes & Keys | Barsuk |
| 142 | Shooting Guns * | Born To Deal In Magic 1952-1976 | Teargas Recording Tree |
| 143 | Extra Happy Ghost !!! * | Modern Horses | Saved By Radio |
| 144 | Eleanor Friedberger | Last Summer | Merge |
| 145 | Bad Vibrations * | Black Train | Self-Released |
| 146 | Dinosaur Bones * | My Divider | 4AD |
| 147 | The Thrashers * | Make A Splash | Transistor 66 |
| 148 | WU LYF | Go Tell Fire To The Mountain | LYF |
| 149 | The Barr Brothers * | The Barr Brothers | Secret City |
| 150 | Kathryn Calder * | Bright and Vivid | File Under: Music |
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 | The Details * | Lost Art | Parliament Of Trees |
| 152 | Christine Fellows * | Femme De Chez Nous | Six Shooter |
| 153 | The War On Drugs | Slave Ambient | Secretly Canadian |
| 154 | Unknown Mortal Orchestra | Unknown Mortal Orchestra | Fat Possum |
| 155 | Vivian Girls | Share The Joy | Polyvinyl |
| 156 | The Antlers | Burst Apart | Frenchkiss |
| 157 | Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi | Rome | EMI |
| 158 | Gillian Welch | The Harrow and the Harvest | Acony |
| 159 | Kidstreet * | Fuh Yeah | Nettwerk |
| 160 | The Sheepdogs * | Learn & Burn | Self-Released |
| 161 | Jon McKiel * | Tonka War Cloud | Saved By Vinyl/Youth Club |
| 162 | The Crooked Brothers * | Lawrence, Where's Your Knife? | Transistor 66 |
| 163 | Charles Bradley | No Time for Dreaming | Daptone |
| 164 | The Dodos | No Color | Frenchkiss |
| 165 | Sun Wizard * | Positively 4th Avenue | Light Organ |
| 166 | Laura Peek * | Key | Just Friends |
| 167 | Gang Gang Dance | Eye Contact | 4AD |
| 168 | Ty Segall | Goodbye Bread | Drag City |
| 169 | The Raveonettes | Raven In The Grave | Vice |
| 170 | Canadian Winter * | Just Wait Till Febuary | Self-Released |
| 171 | Deloro * | Deloro | Id�e Fixe |
| 172 | Pat Jordache * | Future Songs | Constellation |
| 173 | PS I Love You * | Meet Me At The Muster Station | Paper Bag |
| 174 | Romi Mayes * | Lucky Tonight | Self-Released |
| 175 | The Arcade Fire * | The Suburbs | Merge |
| 176 | The Good Lovelies * | Let the Rain Fall | Self-Released |
| 177 | Times New Viking | Dancer Equired | Merge |
| 178 | Chikita Violenta | Tre3s | Arts & Crafts |
| 179 | Wolf And Cub | Science And Sorcery | Last Gang |
| 180 | The Albertans * | New Age | Ernest Jenning |
| 181 | The Mountain Goats | All Eternals Deck | Merge |
| 182 | Los Campesinos! | Hello Sadness | Arts & Crafts |
| 183 | Booker T. Jones | The Road From Memphis | Anti- |
| 184 | Apollo Ghosts * | Money Has No Heart | Geographing |
| 185 | Coeur De Pirate * | Blonde | Grosse Boite |
| 186 | The Jolts * | 8% | Sudden Death |
| 187 | Arkells * | Michigan Left | Universal |
| 188 | Bill Callahan | Apocalypse | Drag City |
| 189 | Snailhouse * | Sentimental Gentleman | Forward Music Group |
| 190 | James Blake | James Blake | A&M |
| 191 | Tim Hecker * | Ravedeath, 1972 | Kranky |
| 192 | The Warped 45s * | Matador Sunset | Pheromone |
| 193 | Kidstreet * | X | Nettwerk |
| 194 | J Mascis | Several Shades of Why | Sub Pop |
| 195 | Greg Arcade * | In... Hawaii | Pipe and Hat |
| 196 | Dirty Beaches * | Badlands | Zoo Music |
| 197 | Afrocubism | Afrocubism | World Circuit |
| 198 | Jim Bryson and The Weakerthans* | The Falcon Lake Incident | MapleMusic |
| 199 | Justice | Audio, Video, Disco | Ed Banger |
| 200 | The Smith Westerns | Dye It Blonde | Fat Possum |
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