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Listed below are WFHB's most played CDs of 2010, based on the song selections of our 100+ volunteer DJs. Thanks to the musicians for making the music, thanks to the labels and promoters for sending the music, and thanks to the WFHB DJs for playing the music - not to mention all the WFHB volunteer genre directors and CD reviewers who helped get the good stuff into the studio. Happy New Year!

Data compiled by Steve Volan from WFHB's weekly airplay reports from 2010.

WFHB TOP 100
Rank / Artist / Disc / Label
1.      Carolina Chocolate Drops / Genuine Negro Jig / Nonesuch
2.      John Mellencamp / No Better Than This / Rounder
3.      Various Artists / Coal Country Music / Heartwood
4.      Tom Roznowski / This Place In Time / Blazing Stump
5.      Sharon Jones and The Dap-Kings / I Learned the Hard Way / Daptone
6.      Mavis Staples / You Are Not Alone / Anti
7.      Dave Rawlings Machine / A Friend of a Friend / Acony
8.      Richard Thompson / Dream Attic / Shout Factory
9.      The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band / The Wages / Side One Dummy
10.     Otis Taylor / Clovis People Vol. 3 / Telarc
11.     Krista Detor / Chocolate Paper Suites / Tightrope
12.     The Magnetic Fields / Realism / Nonesuch
13.     The Holmes Brothers / Feed My Soul / Alligator
14.     Dr. John / Tribal / 429
15.     Various Artists / Crazy Heart (OST) / New West
16.     Bobbie Lancaster / Bobbie Lancaster / self-released
17.     Crooked Still / Some Strange Country / Signature Sounds
18.     Tim Grimm / Farm Songs / Vault
19.     Los Lobos / Tin Can Trust / Shout Factory
20.     Various Artists  / Preservation / Preservation Hall
21.     Bob Dylan / The Witmark Demos: 1962-1964 / Columbia
22.     Rogue Wave / Permalight / Brushfire
23.     Otis Gibbs / Joe Hill's Ashes / Wanamaker
24.     John Prine / In Person & On Stage / Oh Boy
25.     Tony Allen / Secret Agent / World Circuit
26.     Yvette Landry / Should Have Known / Yvette Landry
27.     Ben Sollee & Daniel Martin Moore / Dear Companion / Sub Pop
28.     Irma Thomas / Soul Queen of New Orleans / Rounder
29.     Galactic / Ya-Ka-May / Anti
30.     Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba / I Speak Fula / Next Ambience
31.     Evie Ladin / Float Downstream / Evie Laden
32.     Mumford & Sons / Sigh No More / Glassnote
33.     Lyle Lovett / Natural Forces / Lost Highway
34.     Neil Young / Le Noise / Warner Bros.
35.     Balkan Beat Box / Blue Eyed Black Boy / Nat Geo
36.     Black Dub / Black Dub / Jive
37.     e.p. hall / Mommy Crow / IFF Transponder
38.     Eilen Jewell / Butcher Holler: A Tribute to Loretta Lynn / Signature Sounds
39.     Laurie Anderson / Homeland / Nonesuch
40.     Catherine Russell / Inside This Heart of Mine / World Village
41.     Bonobo / Black Sands / Ninja Tune
42.     Patty Griffin / Downtown Church / Credential
43.     Joanna Newsom / Have One On Me / Drag City
44.     Carrie Newcomer / Before and After / Rounder
45.     The Swell Season / Strict Joy / Anti
46.     March Fourth Marching Band / Rise Up / MFM
47.     Mose Allison / The Way of the World / Anti
48.     Bobby Bare Jr. / A Storm ~V A Tree ~V My Mother's Head / Thirty Tigers
49.     Damien Jurado / St. Bartlett / Secretly Canadian
50.     Alejandro Escovedo / Street Songs of Love / Fantasy
51.     Trombone Shorty / Backatown / Verve Forecast
52.     David Byrne & Fatboy Slim / Here Lies Love / Nonesuch
53.     Elizabeth Cook / Welder / 31 Tigers
54.     Roger Salloom /  Last Call / Florence
55.     Elvin Bishop / Red Dog Speaks / Delta Groove
56.     The Budos Band / III / Daptone
57.     Watermelon Slim / Ringers / Northern Blues
58.     Hot Club of Detroit / It's About That Time / Mack Avenue
59.     Pacifika / Supermagique / Six Degrees
60.     Charlie Musselwhite / The Well / Alligator
61.     Beach House / Teen Dream / Sub Pop
62.     Lucky Peterson / You Can Always Turn Around / Dreyfus
63.     Eli "Paperboy" Reed / Come and Get It / Capitol
64.     Chris Kupersmith & Old Flames / Lucky Epitaph / Closet Light
65.     Southern Culture on the Skids / The Kudzu Ranch / Kudzu
66.     Kaiser Cartel / Secret Transit / Daniel
67.     Junip / Fields / Mute
68.     Jesca Hoop / Hunting My Dress / Vanguard
69.     Toubab Krewe / Toubab Krewe / Nat Geo
70.     Lucy Woodward / Hooked! / Verve
71.     Mulatu Astake / The Story of Ethio Jazz / Strut/K7
72.     Elvis Costello / National Ransom / Hear
73.     Ray LaMontagne / God Willin' & The Creek Don't Rise / RCA
74.     Massive Attack / Heligoland / Virgin
75.     Peter Rowan Bluegrass Band / Legacy / Rounder
76.     The Flaming Lips / Embryonic / Warner Bros
77.     Karl Denson's Tiny Universe / Brother's Keeper / Shanachie
78.     Afrocubism / Afrocubism / World Circuit
79.     Holly Golightly & The Brokeoffs / Medicine County / Transdreamer
80.     Built to Spill / There Is No Enemy /  Warner Bros.
81.     The Watson Twins / Talking to You, Talking to Me / Vanguard
82.     Bettye LaVette / Interpretations / Anti-
83.     Anne McCue / Broken Promise Land / Anne McCue
84.     Murder By Death / Good Morning, Magpie / Vagrant
85.     Dawn Landes / Sweetheart Rodeo / Cooking Vinyl
86.     Jones / Tall Hours in the Glowstream / Suicide Squeeze
87.     Janelle Monae / The Archandroid / Bad Boy
88.     Stanton Moore / Groove Alchemy / Telarc
89.     Deer Tick / The Black Dirt Sessions / Partisan
90.     Laura Veirs / July Flame / RMB
91.     The New Pornographers  / Together  / Matador
92.     Tracey Thorn / Love And It's Opposite / Merge
93.     John Hiatt / The Open Road / New West
94.     Clothesline Revival / They Came From Somewhere / Paleo
95.     DJ Spooky / The Secret Song / Thirsty Ear
96.     Anat Cohen / Clarinetwork / Anzic
97.     Frazey Ford / Obadiah / Nettwerk
98.     Belle and Sebastian / Write About Love / Matador
99.     Shelby Lynne / Tears, Lies and Alibis / Everso
100.    The Homemade Jamz Blues Band / Got Blues For You / Northern Blues

WFHB LOCAL AREA MUSIC MOST PLAYED IN 2010
1.      John Mellencamp / No Better Than This / Rounder
2.      Various Artists / Coal Country Music / Heartwood
3.      Tom Roznowski / This Place In Time / Blazing Stump
4.      The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band / The Wages / Side One Dummy
5.      Krista Detor / Chocolate Paper Suites / Tightrope
6.      Bobbie Lancaster / Bobbie Lancaster / self-released
7.      Tim Grimm / Farm Songs / Vault
8.      Evie Ladin / Float Downstream / Evie Laden
9.      e.p. hall / Mommy Crow / IFF Transponder
10.     Carrie Newcomer / Before and After / Rounder
11.     Roger Salloom /  Last Call / Florence
12.     Chris Kupersmith & Old Flames / Lucky Epitaph / Closet Light
13.     Kaiser Cartel / Secret Transit / Daniel
14.     Murder By Death / Good Morning, Magpie / Vagrant
15.     Scott Kellogg / Silver In Their Veins / Scott Kellogg

ARTIST SPECIAL MENTION
The Two Man Gentlemen Band (2 discs)
The Two Man Gentlemen Band / Dos Amigos Una Fiesta! / Serious Business
The Two Man Gentlemen Band / Live In New York / Serious Business Pieta Brown (2 discs)
Pieta Brown / One and All / Red House
Pieta Brown / Shimmer / Red House