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It’s Here! KCRW’S MOST PLAYED RECORDS OF 2009

Just when you thought we were done with Top 10 lists for 2009…our music librarian Eric J Lawrence tabulated all of our DJs’ playlists and here are the results! KCRW’S…

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By Rachel Reynolds • Jan 13, 2010 • 2 min read

Just when you thought we were done with Top 10 lists for 2009…our music librarian Eric J Lawrence tabulated all of our DJs’ playlists and here are the results!

KCRW’S MOST PLAYED RECORDS OF 2009

1) Phoenix (308)

2) Zero 7 (246)

3) Little Dragon (Machine Dreams) (204)

4) Miike Snow (201)

5) Quantic (199)

6) Royksopp (198)

7) Air (187)

8) Grizzly Bear (185)

9) Mayer Hawthorne (170)

10) Animal Collective (159)

11) Dark Was the Night (v/a) (135)

12) Wilco (132)

13) Doves (131)

14) Tosca (117)

15) Buraka Som Sistema (110)

16) Bat for Lashes (109)

17) Florence & the Machine (106)

18) The BPA (105)

19) Amadou & Mariam (102)

20) Nat King Cole – Re:Generations (101)

21) Bibio (Ambivalence) (101)

22) Massive Attack (98)

23) Fat Freddy’s Drop (94)

24) The XX (94)

25) Peter Bjorn & John (93)

26) Passion Pit (93)

27) Moby (93)

28) Alice Russell (93)

29) Fink (92)

30) Zap Mama (91)

31) Mos Def (91)

32) Boozoo Bajou (91)

33) Basement Jaxx (91)

34) Monsters of Folk (89)

35) William Orbit (88)

36) Femi vs. KCRW: Soundclash (88)

37) Horrors (87)

38) Atlas Sound (86)

39) Novalima (Coba-Coba) (86)

40) Slumdog Millionaire OST (84)

41) Fever Ray (83)

42) Black Moth Super Rainbow (82)

43) Quadron (81)

44) PPP (81)

45) Little Dragon (remixes) (79)

46) Femi Kuti (79)

47) Baaba Maal (79)

48) Little Joy (78)

49) Yeah Yeah Yeahs (78)

50) Seun Kuti (78)

51) Chin Chin (78)

52) Franz Ferdinand (78)

53) Neko Case (75)

54) Band of Skulls (74)

55) War Child (v/a) (72)

56) PJ Harvey & John Parrish (71)

57) Camera Obscura (71)

58) Novalima (Coba-Coba remixed) (69)

59) Zee Avi (68)

60) Jack Penate (67)

61) Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros (67)

62) Noisettes (67)

63) M. Ward (67)

64) Flaming Lips (67)

65) Meshell Ndegeocello (66)

66) Daniel Merriweather (66)

67) Mexican Institute of Sound (65)

68) Dan Auerbach (65)

69) Pollyn (64)

70) Ocote Soul Sounds (64)

71) Sonos (64)

72) Fanfarlo (63)

73) Sonic Youth (63)

74) Kings of Convenience (62)

75) Dark Night of the Soul (v/a) (62)

76) Chris Joss (62)

77) Glasvegas (62)

78) Grace Jones (61)

79) Boxer Rebellion (61)

80) Nitin Sawhney (60)

81) Junior Boys (60)

82) Anya Marina (60)

83) Yacht (60)

84) Juliette Commagere (59)

85) The Heavy (59)

86) Pacha Massive (58)

87) Hypnotic Brass Ensemble (58)

88) Devendra Banhart (58)

89) Oliver Peoples 6 (v/a) (56)

90) James Yuill (56)

91) Generationals (55)

92) Whitest Boy Alive (54)

93) Regina Spektor (54)

94) Nouvelle Vague (53)

95) Nicola Conte (53)

96) BLK JKS (After Robots) (53)

97) Kitsune Maison 7 (v/a) (52)

98) BLK JKS (Mystery) (52)

99) Sondre Lerche (51)

100) Mocky (51)

101) Empire of the Sun (51)

102) David Gray (51)

103) Datarock (51)

104) Twilight: New Moon OST (50)

105) Forro in the Dark (50)

106) Big Pink (50)

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    Rachel Reynolds

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