D e c e m b e r 3 1 , 2 0 1 2 Y e a r - E n d N E W M U S I C RE P O R T
2012 ALBUM OF THE YEAR
EL CAMINO
BLACK KEYS Shift Into High Gear
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Year-END radio 200 no.1
Black Keys El Camino
editorial Editor-In-Chief Lisa Hresko Managing Editor Christine Werthman Art Director DAVID VELÁSQUEZ
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Assistant Editor Dan Jackson
CEO Keith garde
In Our Heads
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COO alexis d’amecourt
Senior Vice President, Artists & Events Matt McDonald Marketing Director Amy Hintz
Year-end Hip-Hop No. 1
Aesop Rock
Senior Executive Vice President Robert K. Haber Senior Executive Vice President/Executive Producer, CMJ Music Marathon Joanne Abbot Green
No. 1
Hot Chip
Data Manager Carrie Brothers
CMJ HOLDINGS CORP
Year-end RPM
Skelethon
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Sales JOHNNY CHIBA
Year-end Jazz No. 1
Esperanza Spalding Radio Music Society
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Year-end New World No. 1
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Year-end Triple A No. 1
Black Keys El Camino
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Year-end Loud Rock No. 1
Gojira L’Enfant Sauvage
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Black Keys El Camino (NONESUCH) Despite being a late 2011 release, the No. 1 album for 2012 is the seventh studio album from those retro Ohio rockers after holding strong on the charts for thirty-five weeks.
Top 200 2012 Rank PK WKS ARTIST + TITLE
LABEL
1
1 35 BLACK KEYS El Camino
2
1 24 BEACH HOUSE Bloom
3
1 18 ANDREW BIRD Break It Yourself
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2 26 METRIC Synthetica
5
1 19 SHINS Port Of Morrow
Columbia
Bloom (Sub Pop)
6
1 20 TENNIS Young And Old
Fat Possum
Standing firmly in the second position at Radio 200 is the latest from this Baltimore dream-pop duo.
7
2 27 JACK WHITE Blunderbuss
8
1 19 DR. DOG Be The Void
9
1 12 GRIZZLY BEAR Shields
Beach House
Nonesuch Sub Pop Mom And Pop MMI-Mom And Pop
Columbia Anti Warp
10 1 19 HOT CHIP In Our Heads 11 1
Domino
8 TY SEGALL Twins
Drag City
12 1 10 TAME IMPALA Lonerism
Metric Synthetica
Modular
13 1 17 DIRTY PROJECTORS Swing Lo Magellan (MMI-Mom And Pop)
The most recent release from the Canadian group may be only album in the top five to not peak at a number one position, but it still holds strong at No. 4 for the year.
Domino
14 1 15 THE XX Coexist
XL
15 2 21 CLOUD NOTHINGS Attack On Memory
Carpark
16 1 20 PASSION PIT Gossamer
Columbia
17 2 27 ALABAMA SHAKES Boys And Girls
ATO
18 1 19 JAPANDROIDS Celebration Rock
Polyvinyl
19 2 18 SLEIGH BELLS Reign Of Terror
Mom And Pop
20 1 10 DUM DUM GIRLS End Of Daze
Thee Oh Sees Carrion Crawler/The Dream [EP] (In The Red) Coming in at No. 118, this November release is the highest ranking EP on 2012’s Radio 200 chart.
21 1 24 BEST COAST The Only Place
Sub Pop Mexican Summer
22 1 14 ANIMAL COLLECTIVE Centipede Hz
Domino
23 2 15 DINOSAUR JR. I Bet On Sky
Jagjaguwar
24 5 16 CAT POWER Sun
Matador
25 4 18 FIRST AID KIT The Lion's Roar
Wichita
26 4 19 GRIMES Visions 27 3 16 BEAR IN HEAVEN I Love You, It's Cool
4AD Dead Oceans-Hometapes
28 6 16 SHARON VAN ETTEN Tramp
Guided By Voices The Bears For Lunch (GBV, Inc.) The s’80s indie rockers land solidly in the Top 200 (No. 171) despite having only spent five weeks on the charts with their third post-reformation album.
29 6 21 TALLEST MAN ON EARTH There's No Leaving Now 30 3 18 NADA SURF The Stars Are Indifferent To Astronomy
Polyvinyl
32 3 14 DEERHOOF Breakup Song
Polyvinyl
33 3 14 DELTA SPIRIT Delta Spirit
Rounder
34 3 20 PURITY RING Shrines 36 3 17 M. WARD A Wasteland Companion
Skelethon (Rhymesayers) Aesop Rock’s Skelethon sits at Radio 200’s 125th position in addition to topping 2012’s Hip Hop chart.
37 8 21 DR. JOHN Locked Down 38 3 21 KING TUFF King Tuff 39 4 17 FIONA APPLE The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than The Driver Of The… 40 3 17 LIARS WIXIW 41 2 17 WALKMEN Heaven 42 1 15 DAN DEACON America 43 2 20 M83 Hurry Up, We're Dreaming 44 6 18 OBERHOFER Time Capsules II 45 2 13 GUIDED BY VOICES Let's Go Eat The Factory 46 4 16 FATHER JOHN MISTY Fear Fun 47 1 12 JEFF THE BROTHERHOOD Hypnotic Nights 48 1
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Barsuk
31 3 14 OF MONTREAL Paralytic Stalks
35 1 14 SPIRITUALIZED Sweet Heart Sweet Light
Aesop Rock
Jagjaguwar Dead Oceans
7 BAT FOR LASHES The Haunted Man
4AD Fat Possum Merge Nonesuch Sub Pop Epic Mute Fat Possum Domino Mute Glassnote GBV Sub Pop Infinity Cat EMI
49 3 16 TY SEGALL BAND Slaughterhouse
In The Red
50 9 14 TWO DOOR CINEMA CLUB Beacon
Glassnote
HOT Chip
Top 200 2012 Rank PK
WKS
In Our Heads (Domino) RPM’s top album gets some support at Radio 200, landing at number ten.
ARTIST + TITLE
LABEL
51 5 18 SANTIGOLD Master Of My Make Believe
Atlantic
52 6 15 MAGNETIC FIELDS Love At The Bottom Of The Sea
Merge
53 4 14 ARIEL PINK'S HAUNTED GRAFFITI Mature Themes 54 9 25 FUN Some Nights
4AD Fueled By Ramen
55 4 14 HUNX Hairdresser Blues
Hardly Art
56 8 13 DAVID BYRNE AND ST. VINCENT Love This Giant
4AD
57 5 13 RAVEONETTES Observator
Vice
58 4 16 THE MEN Open Your Heart
Sacred Bones
59 6 11 MUMFORD AND SONS Babel
Glassnote
60 11 17 HEARTLESS BASTARDS Arrow
Partisan
61 5 14 DIVINE FITS A Thing Called Divine Fits 62 3 15 YEASAYER Fragrant World 63 4
Rad Cult Warp
65 4 12 LA SERA Sees The Light
Hardly Art
66 7 16 AIR Le Voyage Dans La Lune
EMI
67 11 19 YELLOW OSTRICH Strange Land
Barsuk Secretly Canadian
69 5 13 FRANKIE ROSE Interstellar
75 10 16 FLAMING LIPS The Flaming Lips And Heady Fwends 76 10 13 SHEARWATER Animal Joy 77 11 11 MENOMENA Moms 78 8 14 ANI DIFRANCO Which Side Are You On 79 9 13 BIG PINK Future This 80 4
7 ANDREW BIRD Hands Of Glory
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6 METZ Metz
82 13 11 ALT-J An Awesome Wave 83 7
8 WILD NOTHING Nocturne
84 7 13 CROCODILES Endless Flowers 85 14 14 DIAMOND RUGS Diamond Rugs
8 Ft. In The Red
Universal Republic GBV Warner Brothers Sub Pop Barsuk 4AD Mom And Pop Sub Pop Canvasback Captured Tracks Frenchkiss Vagrant Daptone
90 7
9 MOUNTAIN GOATS Transcendental Youth
91 9 13 WHITE RABBITS Milk Famous 92 10 12 MIIKE SNOW Happy To You 93 9 15 MAPS AND ATLASES Beware And Be Grateful 94 14 12 AVETT BROTHERS The Carpenter 95 19 15 CHAIRLIFT Something
Lumineers The Lumineers (Dualtone) Coming in at No. 143 is the self-titled debut from this folksy Denver group after. It spent30 weeks on the charts, second only to chart toppers the Black Keys.
Antibalas Antibalas (Daptone) This self-titled record may only be No. 2 at New World, but Radio 200 showed it some love, landing it at solid No. 87.
Partisan
87 4 12 ANTIBALAS Antibalas 89 7 11 MEMORYHOUSE The Slideshow Effect
After spending only six weeks on the charts and only peaking at No. 5, Metz’s self-titled release finished the year well within the year’s Top 100
Righteous Babe
86 9 16 EDWARD SHARPE AND THE MAGNETIC ZEROS Here 88 4 14 DIIV Oshin
Metz (Sub Pop)
Ribbon
71 6 11 AMANDA PALMER AND THE GRAND THEFT… Theatre Is Evil
74 7 15 GUIDED BY VOICES Class Clown Spots A UFO
Metz
Slumberland
70 10 13 DJANGO DJANGO Django Django
73 10 21 GOTYE Making Mirrors
The year’s most added album at Radio 200 finds a home within the top ten charted albums of the year.
Merge
7 BLACK MOTH SUPER RAINBOW Cobra Juicy
72 6 14 THEE OH SEES Putrifiers II
Shields (Warp)
Secretly Canadian
64 5 10 FLYING LOTUS Until The Quiet Comes
68 6 16 PORCELAIN RAFT Strange Weekend
Grizzly Bear
Captured Tracks Sub Pop Merge TBD Universal Republic
Ty Segall Twins (Drag City) Ty Segall appeared a rare three times in the Top 200: 2012’s No. 11 album, Twins, was the highests charter for the fuzz rocker.
Barsuk Universal Columbia
96 5 10 BLOC PARTY Four
Frenchkiss
97 9 14 SILVERSUN PICKUPS Neck Of The Woods
Dangerbird
98 3 13 TOM WAITS Bad As Me
Anti
99 12 14 TWIN SHADOW Confess
4AD
100 13 13 STARS The North
ATO
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Top 200 2012
Top 200 2012
Rank PK WKS ARTIST + TITLE
LABEL
101 10 12 HELIO SEQUENCE Negotiations
Sub Pop
102 12 12 ISLANDS A Sleep And A Forgetting
Anti
103 7 14 TORO Y MOI June 2009
Carpark
Rank PK WKS ARTIST + TITLE
152 8
9 DEAD CAN DANCE Anastasis
104 8 16 LOWER DENS Nootropics
Ribbon
154 17 11 BOB MOULD Silver Age
Vagrant
155 15 13 KATHLEEN EDWARDS Voyageur
Merge Mute
157 16 11 JOHN K. SAMSON Provincial
108 12 8 MATT AND KIM Lightning
Fader
158 15 13 JAILL Traps
Saddle Creek
110 5 11 FANG ISLAND Major
Sargent House
111 5 11 ANTLERS Undersea
Anti
112 12 13 VACATIONER Gone
Downtown
113 7
9 ECHO LAKE Wild Peace
Slumberland
114 16 12 LANA DEL REY Born To Die
Stranger
115 10 12 LAURA GIBSON La Grande
Barsuk
116 10 10 THEESATISFACTION AwE NaturalE
Sub Pop
117 11 14 HERE WE GO MAGIC A Different Ship 118 5
Secretly Canadian
9 THEE OH SEES Carrion Crawler/The Dream [EP]
In The Red
119 13 13 DINOSAUR FEATHERS Whistle Tips 120 6
Ernest Jenning
6 OF MONTREAL Daughter Of Cloud
Polyvinyl
121 4 13 REAL ESTATE Days 122 7
Domino
9 CATE LE BON Cyrk
The Control Group
123 21 15 BEN KWELLER Go Fly A Kite
Noise Company
124 10 14 BEACHWOOD SPARKS The Tarnished Gold
Sub Pop
125 11 13 AESOP ROCK Skelethon 126 9
Rhymesayers
8 TITUS ANDRONICUS Local Business
XL
127 9 12 SMASHING PUMPKINS Oceania
EMI
128 17 10 MINUS THE BEAR Infinity Overhead
Dangerbird
Luaka Bop Columbia-Brown
135 7 11 FERGUS AND GERONIMO Funky Was The State Of Affairs
Hardly Art
170 22 13 DAMIEN JURADO Maraqopa 171 4
8 NIGHT MOVES Colored Emotions
Domino Fire
142 21 13 SAID THE WHALE Little Mountain
Hidden Pony
143 39 30 LUMINEERS The Lumineers
Self-Released
144 11 10 A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS Worship
Dead Oceans
145 17 12 ASTEROIDS GALAXY TOUR Out Of Frequency
BMG
146 10 10 XIU XIU Always
Polyvinyl
147 20 13 LEE FIELDS AND THE EXPRESSIONS Faithful Man 148 24 17 POLICA Give You The Ghost 149 18 15 SAN CISCO Awkward 150 6 10 ATLAS SOUND Parallax
Truth And Soul
Totally Gross National Product
Dead Oceans Secretly Canadian
5 GUIDED BY VOICES The Bears For Lunch
GBV Inc.
172 16 8 POMEGRANATES Heaven
Modern Outsider
173 18 9 FREELANCE WHALES Diluvia
Mom And Pop-Frenchkiss
174 17 10 ALLO DARLIN' Europe 175 9
Slumberland
9 ICKY BLOSSOMS Icky Blossoms
Saddle Creek
176 27 12 BOB DYLAN Tempest
Columbia
177 22 14 PEAKING LIGHTS Lucifer
Mexican Summer
178 14 10 DENT MAY Do Things
Paw Tracks Ribbon Mom And Pop
181 23 15 CLOUD CONTROL Bliss Release
Turnout
182 22 11 HUSKY Forever So
Sub Pop
183 29 11 BLACK BELLES The Black Belles
Third Man
184 18 11 BATTLES Dross Glop
Warp
185 13 8 TRAILER TRASH TRACYS Ester 187 4
140 6
Merge
169 22 12 A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS Onwards To The Wall
186 24 8 TILLY AND THE WALL Heavy Mood
141 10 12 MISSION OF BURMA Unsound
Italians Do It Better
168 21 12 IMPERIAL TEEN Feel The Sound
Astralwerks
Hardly Art
Saddle Creek
167 13 16 CHROMATICS Kill For Love
True Panther
139 8 11 DEEP TIME Deep Time
Counter dine alone
166 21 11 CURSIVE I Am Gemini
137 19 16 TANLINES Mixed Emotions
Mute
Sub Pop Dead Oceans
164 22 11 HEAVY The Glorious Dead
136 10 7 DIAMOND RINGS Free Dimensional 138 12 9 BIG DEAL Lights Out
EMI-Blue Note
165 22 13 YUKON BLONDE Tiger Talk
180 19 9 JEZABELS Prisoner
133 17 14 DELICATE STEVE Positive Force
Mute Sub Pop
163 25 11 BOWERBIRDS The Clearing
Ghostly
134 9 11 BAND OF HORSES Mirage Rock
Sub Pop
162 29 19 NIKI AND THE DOVE Instinct
130 13 12 MATTHEW DEAR Beams
Anti
Anti-Epitaph
161 13 11 NORAH JONES Little Broken Hearts
179 28 13 BLACK DICE Mr. Impossible
Fat Possum
Good Charamel
160 14 11 POOR MOON Poor Moon
The End
132 20 14 CALEXICO Algiers
Merge Rounder
159 15 11 CAN The Lost Tapes
129 10 12 DANDY WARHOLS This Machine 131 12 10 MELODY'S ECHO CHAMBER Melody's Echo Chamber
Pias Modular
156 12 11 SHONEN KNIFE Pop Tune
107 11 12 COLD SPECKS I Predict A Graceful Expulsion 109 13 13 MYNABIRDS Generals
Barsuk
153 18 11 POND Beard, Wives, Denim
105 14 14 SCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS Ghostory 106 15 15 HOSPITALITY Hospitality
LABEL
151 17 10 BENJAMIN GIBBARD Former Lives
Domino Team Love
5 DIRTY PROJECTORS About To Die
Domino
188 23 11 BEN FOLDS FIVE The Sound Of The Life Of The Mind
Sony
189 7 11 TY SEGALL Singles 2007-2010 190 15 7 TAMARYN Tender New Signs
Goner Mexican Summer
191 21 9 SAY ANYTHING Anarchy, My Dear
Equal Vision
192 24 11 NOW, NOW Threads 193 11 7 GARY CLARK JR. Blak And Blu
Trans Warner Brothers
194 26 12 OPOSSOM Electric Hawaii
Fire
195 34 14 BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB A Different Kind Of Fix
Octone-A&M
196 19 10 GEMMA RAY Island Fire
Bronze Rat
197 19 10 SCREAMING FEMALES Ugly
Don Giovanni
198 18 8 A.C. NEWMAN Shut Down The Streets
Matador
Fat Possum
199 23 10 YOUNG MAGIC Melt
Carpark
4AD
200 11 8 DUKE SPIRIT Bruiser
Shangri-La
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RPM 2012
RPM 2012
Top Five
Rank PK WKS ARTIST + TITLE
LABEL
1
1 21 HOT CHIP In Our Heads
Domino
2
1 20 SIMIAN MOBILE DISCO UnPatterns
3
1 11 FLYING LOTUS Until The Quiet Comes
4
1 15 BONOBO Black Sands Remixed
Ninja Tune
5
1 15 BASSNECTAR Vava Voom
Amorphous
6
2 17 GRIMES Visions
7
1 13 MATTHEW DEAR Beams
8
1 14 DIGITALISM DJ-Kicks
9
1 14 VCMG Ssss
Witchita Warp
4AD Ghostly K-7 Mute
10 2 9 BOYS NOIZE Out Of The Black
Boysnoize
11 2 17 SQUAREPUSHER Ufabulum
Warp
12 1 15 PLUG Back On Time
Hot Chip
Ninja Tune
13 3 13 BALKAN BEAT BOX Give
Nat Geo
14 3 15 TRUST TRST
Arts And Crafts
15 2 13 RE:GENERATION The Re:Generation Music Project 16 2 14 YPPAH Eighty One 17 1 15 JUSTICE Audio, Video, Disco
Simian Mobile Disco
Ed Banger Records
18 4 15 AIR Le Voyage Dans La Lune
EMI
19 1 15 DJ FOOD The Search Engine
Ninja Tune
20 2 10 BATTLES Dross Glop
Warp
21 2 10 LORN Ask The Dust
Ninja Tune
22 2 11 THE ORB The Orbserver In The Star House
The End
23 3 13 KRAAK AND SMAAK Mixed Feelings
Jalapeno
24 1 8 TYCHO Dive
Flying Lotus
Ghostly
25 2 10 KID KOALA 12 Bit Blues
Ninja Tune
26 2 16 NICKODEMUS Moon People
ESL
27 5 12 JAMIE WOON Mirrorwriting
Verve
28 6 18 PASSION PIT Gossamer
Columbia
29 3 12 AFROBETA Wig Party
Bonobo
Do It
30 4 13 PURITY RING Shrines
4AD
31 5 17 SANTIGOLD Master Of My Make Believe
Atlantic
32 5 14 HUMANS Traps
Hybridity
33 2 11 DJ KENTARO Contrast
Ninja Tune
34 2 11 M83 Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
Mute
35 3 10 ELEPHANT AND CASTLE Transitions
Plug Research
36 3 12 RANDOM RAB Visurreal
Bassnectar
Self-Released
37 3 11 SHOUT OUT OUT OUT OUT Spanish Moss And… 38 3 7 BLACK MOTH SUPER RAINBOW Cobra Juicy 40 7 12 GRAHAM KNOX FRAZIER The Big Chill 41 4 13 BLOCKHEAD Interludes After Midnight 42 5 8 DAPHNI Jiaolong 43 3 13 A TRIBE CALLED RED A Tribe Called Red 44 7 10 MELLEEFRESH VS DEADMAU5 At Play 45 4 9 TWO FINGERS Stunt Rhythms 46 4 13 SLUGABED Time Team 47 4 8 POLICA Give You The Ghost 48 10 12 LIFTOFF Sunday Morning Airplay 49 3 8 SECOND SKY The Art Of Influence Remixed 50 5 11 ICKY BLOSSOMS Icky Blossoms
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Normals Welcome Rad Cult
39 6 12 PHENOMENAL HANDCLAP BAND Form And Control
8
ATO Ninja Tune
Tummy Touch Simply Deep Ninja Tune Jiaolong-Merge Self-Released Play Big Dada Ninja Tune
Totally Gross National Product Fort Knox Rhythm and Culture Saddle Creek
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HIP-HOP 2012
Hip-Hop 2012 Rank PK WKS ARTIST + TITLE 1 21 AESOP ROCK Skelethon
2
1 22 EL-P Cancer For Cure
3
1 20 DOOMTREE No Kings
4
1 21 THEESATISFACTION AwE NaturalE
5
1 20 KILLER MIKE R.A.P. Music
6
1 13 BROTHER ALI Mourning In America And Dreaming In Color
7
1 12 JJ DOOM Key To The Kuffs
8
1 18 ELIGH AND AMPLIVE Therapy At 3
Rhymesayers
9
2 19 CADENCE WEAPON Hope In Dirt City
Fat Possum Doomtree Sub Pop Williams Street Records Rhymesayers Lex Legendary Upper Class
10 1 17 GANGRENE Vodka And Ayahuasca
Decon
11 1 17 I SELF DEVINE The Sound Of Low Class Amerika
Rhymesayers
12 2 12 WILEY Evolve Or Be Extinct
Ninja Tune
13 3 16 MAYDAY Take Me To Your Leader
Strange
14 2 11 LUPE FIASCO Lupe Fiasco's Food And Liquor II: The Great…
Atlantic
15 2 17 GEORGIA ANNE MULDROW Seeds 16 4 20 FRANK OCEAN Channel Orange
Def Jam Decon
18 3 15 DARK TIME SUNSHINE Anx
Strange Famous
20 2 11 ECID Werewolf Hologram 21 1 7 P.O.S. We Don't Even Live Here 22 3 13 J. PINDER Careless
Big Dada Rhymesayers Fin RCA
24 3 18 CHILDISH GAMBINO Camp
Glassnote
25 2 12 OPEN MIKE EAGLE 4nml Hsptl
Fake Four
27 1 14 BROTHER ALI The Bite Marked Heart [EP] 28 4 13 CHIDDY BANG Breakfast
Rhymesayers Capitol Self-Released
30 2 8 HERBALISER There Were Seven
Department H
32 4 16 MALLY AND THE SUNDANCE KID The Last Great... 33 3 10 BISCO SMITH X PETER JAY Jackson P [EP] 34 3 10 COPPERWIRE Earthbound
Fat Beats Daylight Curfew Porto Franco Interscope
36 4 9 KID KOALA 12 Bit Blues
Ninja Tune Wax Poetics
38 4 12 FRACTION AND FRESH KILS Extra Science
Self-Released
39 5 11 RELIC Miles To Go
Self-Released
40 5 12 NNEKA Soul Is Heavy 41 3 8 WAX TAILOR Dusty Rainbow From The Dark 42 3 10 COOKBOOK The Smell Of Success 43 5 12 NAS Life Is Good 44 4 11 BILL ORTIZ Winter In America [EP]
KILLER MIKE
Decon Le Plan Self-Released Island Def Jam Left Angle
45 4 10 DARK MONK True Underlord
Xil-Metal Face
46 6 12 SEAN ANONYMOUS Anonymo [EP]
Self-Released
47 8 11 SCRIBES What Was Lost
Self-Released
48 6 11 M-PHAZES Phazed Out
THEESATISFACTION
Self-Released
35 2 9 KENDRICK LAMAR Good Kid In A M.A.A.d City 37 4 15 ADRIAN YOUNGE Something About April
DOOMTREE
Def Jam
29 1 13 IMMORTAL TECHNIQUE The Martyr 31 5 13 UNION Analogtronics
EL-P
Fill In The Breaks
23 6 30 A$AP ROCKY LiveLoveA$AP
26 3 13 ROOTS Undun
AESOP ROCK
Someothaship Connect
17 2 16 ALCHEMIST Russian Roulette 19 1 11 SPEECH DEBELLE Freedom Of Speech
Top Five
LABEL
1
Coalmine
49 5 11 QUAKERS Quakers
Stones Throw
50 4 9 SERENGETI C.A.R.
Anticon
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Jazz 2012
Jazz 2012
Top Five
Rank PK WKS ARTIST + TITLE
LABEL
1
1 24 ESPERANZA SPALDING Radio Music Society
Head's Up International
2
1 22 PAT METHENY Unity Band
3
1 15 VIJAY IYER TRIO Accelerando
4
1 18 ROBERT GLASPER EXPERIMENT Black Radio
5
2 22 BELA FLECK AND THE MARCUS ROBERTS TRIO Across The…
6
1 15 RAVI COLTRANE Spirit Fiction
7
3 19 AHMAD JAMAL Blue Moon
8
1 16 CHICK COREA/EDDIE GOMEZ/PAUL MOTIAN Further Explorations
9
1 16 BRAD MEHLDAU TRIO Ode
Nonesuch ACT Blue Note
Jazz Village
Esperalda Spalding
Concord Jazz
Entertainment One-Golden Beams
12 2 14 KENNY GARRETT Seeds From The Underground
Mack Ave.
13 1 13 DR. LONNIE SMITH The Healer
Pilgrimage
14 2 16 CASSANDRA WILSON Another Country
eOne
15 1 18 JAZZ PUNKS Smashups
Foam at the mouth
16 2 13 MATT WILSON'S ARTS AND CRAFTS An Attitude For Gratitude
pat Metheny
Concord
18 1 11 PRESERVATION HALL JAZZ BAND St. Peter And 57th Street
Rounder
19 3 13 HOT CLUB OF DETROIT Junction 21 5 17 WADADA LEO SMITH Ten Freedom Summers 22 2 11 BRAD MEHLDAU TRIO Where Do You Start 23 2 11 JOSH LEVINSON Chauncey Street 24 1 10 BAD PLUS Made Possible 25 1 10 CHRISTIAN MCBRIDE Conversations With Christian 26 5 11 SUGARMAN 3 What The World Needs Now 27 4 11 WES MONTGOMERY Echoes Of Indiana Avenue 28 1 8 ROBERT GLASPER Black Radio Recovered/The Remix [EP] 29 2 9 CHARLIE HADEN AND HANK JONES Come Sunday
Robert Glasper experiment
30 3 10 LIONEL LOUEKE Heritage 31 1 9 BOBBY BROOM Upper West Side Story 32 3 12 TIA FULLER Angelic Warrior 33 2 10 ANAT COHEN Claroscuro 34 5 9 JOHN ABERCROMBIE Within A Song 35 5 10 HENRY THREADGILL Tomorrow Sunny / The Revelry, Spp 36 5 10 PAUL MCCARTNEY Kisses On The Bottom
Bela Fleck and the Marcus Roberts Trio
37 10 13 DIRTY DOZEN BRASS BAND Twenty Dozen 38 5 10 MARCUS MILLER Renaissance 39 5 9 CHANO DOMINGUEZ Flamenco Sketches 40 7 12 LORRAINE FEATHER Tales Of The Unusual 41 3 9 DIANA KRALL Glad Rag Doll 42 5 10 KURT ELLING 1619 Broadway: The Brill Building Project 43 3 8 DAVE DOUGLAS QUINTET Be Still 44 5 10 JOSH RZEPKA Into The Night 45 5 7 BILLY HART All Our Reasons 46 8 9 STEVE LEHMAN TRIO Dialect Fluorescent 47 9 9 FERENC NEMETH, JOSHUA REDMAN… Triumph 48 5 9 ODD TRIO Birth Of The Minotaur 49 6 11 CORY WEEDS Up A Step 50 7 10 DR. MICHAEL WHITE Adventures In New Orleans Jazz Part 2
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Palmetto
17 3 16 CHRISTIAN SCOTT Christian ATunde Adjuah
20 2 14 ARTURO SANDOVAL Dear Diz (Every Day I Think Of You)
Vijay Iyer Trio
Concord Nonesuch
10 1 13 CHICK COREA AND GARY BURTON Hot House 11 1 15 JACK DEJOHNETTE Sound Travels
Rounder Blue Note
Mack Avenue Concord Cuneiform Nonesuch Jlevrecords Entertainment One Mack Avenue Daptone Riverside EMI Emarcy Blue Note Origin Mack Avenue Anzic ECM Pi Hear Savoy Concord Jazz Blue Note Jazzed Media Verve Concord Greenleaf Self-Released ECM Pi dreamers collective Odd Trio Cellar Live Basin Street
New World 2012
New World 2012 Rank PK WKS ARTIST + TITLE 1 24 RODRIGO Y GABRIELA Area 52
Red-ATO
2
1 18 ANTIBALAS Antibalas
Daptone
3
1 26 NOVALIMA Karimba
4
1 24 AMADOU AND MARIAM Folila
5
1 20 CEU Caravana Sereia Bloom
Six Degrees
6
2 22 CHICHA LIBRE Canibalismo
Barbes
7
2 21 JIMMY CLIFF Rebirth
8
1
9
1 14 FATOUMATA DIAWARA Fatou
ESL Nonesuch
Trojan
9 TIM MAIA World Psychedelic Classics 4: Nobody Can Live Forever…
Luaka Bop Nonesuch
10 2 12 SOULJAZZ ORCHESTRA Solidarity
Strut
11 1 20 DEBO BAND Debo Band
Sub Pop
12 2 15 BALKAN BEAT BOX Give
Nat Geo
13 3 21 SPY FROM CAIRO Arabadub
Rodrigo Y Gabriela
Wonderwheel
14 1 19 FUNKEES Dancing Time: The Best Of Eastern Nigeria's…
Soundway
15 2 19 SIERRA LEONE'S REFUGEE ALL STARS Radio Salone
Cumbancha
16 2 12 LIJADU SISTERS Mother Africa
KFR
17 2 15 JANKA NABAY AND THE BUBU GANG En Yay Sah
Luaka Bop
18 3 16 BALOJI Kinshasa Succursale
Crammed Discs
19 3 13 CHIEFTAINS Voice Of Ages
Hear-Concord
20 3 18 ONDATROPICA Ondatropica 21 3 12 RUPA AND THE APRIL FISHES Build
Top Five
LABEL
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Antibalas
Soundway Electric Gumbo Radio Music
22 3 14 BOMBAY ROYALE You Me Bullets Love
Hope Street
23 3 14 VARIOUS ARTISTS Istanbul 70: Psych, Disco, Folk Classics
Nublu
24 3 16 TRIBECASTAN New Deli
Evergreene
25 4 16 BROWNOUT Oozy
Nat Geo
26 2 15 BIBI TANGA AND THE SELENITES 40 Degrees Of Sunshine
Nat Geo
27 3 16 STAFF BENDA BILILI Bouger Le Monde!
Novalima
Crammed
28 6 14 LADYSMITH BLACK MAMBAZO AND FRIENDS Collaborations… Razor and Tie 29 2 16 NIYAZ Sumud
Six Degrees
30 1 9 LIJADU SISTERS Danger
KF
31 6 15 FUNK ARK High Noon
ESL
32 5 15 CAETANO VELOSO AND DAVID BYRNE Live At Carnegie Hall 33 1 11 CURUMIN Arrocha
Six Degrees
34 3 7 EGYPTIAN PROJECT Ya Amar
Six Degrees
35 7 14 MATI ZUNDEL Amazonico Gravitante
ZZK-Waxploitation
36 6 14 LE SUPER BORGOU DE PARAKOU The Bariba Sound 37 7 13 NNEKA Soul Is Heavy
Analog Africa Decon
38 6 13 LA CHIVA GANTIVA Pelao
Crammed Discs
39 5 13 CALIBRO 35 Any Resemblance To Real Persons Or Actual Facts… 40 9 18 BLACK SEEDS Dust And Dirt
Nublu Cristal
42 3 12 ARCHIVES The Archives
ESL
43 5 13 JOVANOTTI Italia 1988-2012
ATO
44 6 15 TOURE-RAICHEL COLLECTIVE The Tel Aviv Session 46 11 16 ZAZ Zaz 47 8 13 GALACTIC Carnivale Electricos 48 2 12 EL REGO El Rego 49 4 12 VARIOUS ARTISTS The Original Sound Of Cumbia 50 8 16 EASY STAR ALL STARS Easy Star's Thrillah
Ceu
Easy Star
41 3 12 BA CISSOKO Nimissa
45 2 16 KONKOMA KonKoma
Amadou and MAriam
Nonesuch
Cumbancha Soundway
Sin-France-Sony International Anti Daptone Soundway Easy Star
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Triple A 2012 Top Five
Triple A 2012 Rank PK WKS ARTIST + TITLE
1
1 20 BLACK KEYS El Camino
2
1 23 ALABAMA SHAKES Boys And Girls
3
1 17 SHINS Port Of Morrow
4
2 23 JACK WHITE Blunderbuss
5
1 15 DR. JOHN Locked Down
LABEL
Nonesuch ATO Columbia Columbia Nonesuch
6
1 16 ANDREW BIRD Break It Yourself
7
1 17 CAT POWER Sun
8
1 16 BEACH HOUSE Bloom
Sub Pop
9
2 17 HEARTLESS BASTARDS Arrow
Partisan
Mom And Pop Matador
10 1 12 GRIZZLY BEAR Shields
Warp
11 1 14 CALEXICO Algiers
Anti
12 2 14 DR. DOG Be The Void
BLACK KEYS
Anti
13 6 15 FATHER JOHN MISTY Fear Fun
Sub Pop
14 3 12 BOB DYLAN Tempest
Columbia
15 1 14 TALLEST MAN ON EARTH There's No Leaving Now
ALABAMA SHAKES
Dead Oceans
16 1 12 HOT CHIP In Our Heads
Domino
17 2 12 KATHLEEN EDWARDS Voyageur
Rounder
18 1 14 WALKMEN Heaven
Fat Possum
19 1 12 SHARON VAN ETTEN Tramp
Jagjaguwar
20 2 12 BEST COAST The Only Place
Mexican Summer
21 7 16 FIRST AID KIT The Lion's Roar
Wichita
22 2 11 THE XX Coexist
XL
23 1 8 TAME IMPALA Lonerism
Modular
24 5 13 DAVID BYRNE AND ST. VINCENT Love This Giant
SHINS
4AD
25 7 15 LEONARD COHEN Old Ideas 26 3 15 METRIC Synthetica
Columbia MMI-Mom And Pop
27 3 13 DELTA SPIRIT Delta Spirit
JACK WHITE
Rounder
28 1 10 DIRTY PROJECTORS Swing Lo Magellan
Domino
29 2 11 SANTIGOLD Master Of My Make Believe
Atlantic
30 5 13 M. WARD A Wasteland Companion
Merge
31 2 11 NADA SURF The Stars Are Indifferent To Astronomy
Barsuk
32 2 9 TOM WAITS Bad As Me 33 5 11 VARIOUS ARTISTS Chimes Of Freedom: The Songs…
Anti Amnesty International
34 1 10 DIVINE FITS A Thing Called Divine Fits 35 3 13 TENNIS Young And Old 36 3 11 ANI DIFRANCO Which Side Are You On
DR. JOHN
37 3 11 AVETT BROTHERS The Carpenter 38 1 11 JIMMY CLIFF Rebirth 39 8 14 BONNIE RAITT Slipstream 40 6 14 EDWARD SHARPE AND THE MAGNETIC ZEROS Here 41 6 12 JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE Nothing’s Gonna Change The Way… 42 4 10 NORAH JONES Little Broken Hearts
Universal Trojan REDWING Vagrant Bloodshot EMI-Blue Note Glassnote
44 2 7 GARY CLARK JR. Blak And Blu
Warner Brothers
45 3 10 BETH ORTON Sugaring Season
Anti
46 1 7 ANDREW BIRD Hands Of Glory
Mom And Pop
47 8 12 ALABAMA SHAKES Alabama Shakes
Self-Released
49 5 9 LITTLE WILLIES For The Good Times 50 3 11 OLD CROW MEDICINE SHOW Carry Me Back
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Righteous Babe
43 3 9 MUMFORD AND SONS Babel
48 9 10 DIAMOND RUGS Diamond Rugs
12
Merge Fat Possum
Partisan Milking Bull ATO
Loud Rock 2012
Loud Rock 2012 Rank PK WKS ARTIST + TITLE
1
1 16 GOJIRA L'Enfant Sauvage
2
1 11 LAMB OF GOD Resolution
3
1 20 HIGH ON FIRE De Vermis Mysteriis
4
1 14 OVERKILL The Electric Age
5
1 14 TESTAMENT Dark Roots Of Earth
6
1 12 ORANGE GOBLIN A Eulogy For The Damned
Candlelight
7
1 15 FEAR FACTORY The Industrialist
Candlelight
8
1 12 MESHUGGAH Koloss
9
1 10 SHADOWS FALL Fire From The Sky
Epic eOne eOne Nuclear Blast
Nuclear Blast Razor and Tie
10 1 7 THE SWORD Apocryphon
Razor And Tie
11 1 12 NIGHTWISH Imaginaerum
Roadrunner
12 1 9 FACELESS Autotheism
Sumerian
13 1 9 CONVERGE All We Love We Leave Behind
Gojira
Epitaph
14 2 10 SOULFLY Enslaved 15 1 9 METALOCALYPSE: DETHKLOK Dethalbum III
Top Five
LABEL
Roadrunner
Roadrunner Cartoon Network
16 1 9 CORROSION OF CONFORMITY Corrosion Of Conformity
Candlelight
17 1 13 CANNIBAL CORPSE Torture
Metal Blade
18 4 10 GOD FORBID Equilibrium
Victory
19 3 10 HELLYEAH Band Of Brothers
Eleven Seven
20 1 15 PRONG Carved Into Stone
Lamb of God
Long Branch
21 1 5 ALL THAT REMAINS A War You Cannot Win
Razor and Tie
22 2 10 EVERY TIME I DIE Ex Lives
Epitaph
23 2 10 MEGADETH Th1rt3en
Roadrunner
24 1 6 KATATONIA Dead End Kings
Peaceville
25 2 9 BONDED BY BLOOD Aftermath
Earache
26 3 10 PRIMAL FEAR Unbreakable
Frontiers
27 1 7 DOWN Down IV Part 1: The Purple [EP]
High on fire
ILG
28 3 10 BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME The Parallax II: Future Sequence Metal Blade 29 2 5 DEFTONES Koi No Yokan
Warner Brothers
30 2 7 VISION OF DISORDER The Cursed Remain Cursed 31 3 9 MOTORHEAD The World Is Ours Vol 1 Everywhere Further Than‌ 32 4 11 GOATWHORE Blood For The Master 33 4 16 TORCHE Harmonicraft 34 2 8 PERIPHERY Periphery II: This Time It's Personal 35 4 8 PIG DESTROYER Book Burner 36 3 7 CHARIOT One Wing 37 3 12 KREATOR Phantom Antichrist 38 5 10 IRON MAIDEN En Vivo! 39 3 8 ABIGAIL WILLIAMS Becoming 40 5 9 BARONESS Yellow And Green 41 8 19 MARES OF THRACE The Pilgrimage 42 3 8 IHSAHN Eremita 43 2 7 JUDAS PRIEST Screaming For Vengeance 44 1 3 LAMB OF GOD """Ghost Walking"" [Single]" 45 4 9 WHITECHAPEL Whitechapel 46 3 7 NEUROSIS Honor Found In Decay 47 6 11 DRAGONFORCE The Power Within 48 3 11 CANDLEMASS Psalms For The Dead 49 3 11 RAMMSTEIN Made In Germany 50 3 9 NILE At The Gate Of Sethu
Candlelight UDR
Overkill
Metal Blade Volcom Sumerian Relapse eOne Nuclear Blast UME
Testament
Candlelight Relapse Sonic Unyon Candlelight Legacy Epic Metal Blade Neurot Roadrunner Napalm Universal Nuclear Blast
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