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RTRFM’s Most Played Tracks of 2020!

We’ve finally crunched the numbers and checked them twice: RTRFM’s most played tracks of 2020 are here!

The #1 song couldn’t be more ‘2020’, or more ‘WA’: Dennis Cometti’s (pictured) WAXIT.

The tune was played 52 times throughout the course of 2020, meaning listeners heard the word “WAXIT” 312 times. (Listeners also heard that “Moondyne Joe could bash Ned Kelly” a total of 104 times.)

Approximately 70,000 tracks were played on RTRFM in 2020, with more than 300 volunteer presenters curating their own playlists. Dive Wreck by gothic Perth outfit Nerve Quakes was a close #2, with 49 spins throughout 2020, followed by fellow sandgropers Grievous Bodily Calm (Sync Step) at #3 and Your Girl Pho (Surrender) at #4.

As always, local artists featured heavily on the list, with 72 per cent of the top 101 played tracks being from WA. That includes MissGenius, a Maduwongga and Noongar woman who scored two tunes in the Top 10 (Wild Things and I Don’t Wanna Be), as well as New Nausea, with Bright Bloody Blue at #9, and Carla Geneve, whose song The Right Reasons closed off the Top 10.

Female artists were once again dominant, with 54 per cent of the top 101 played coming from female artists and female-fronted bands.

Fifteen per cent of those who made the list were international, with interstate artists making up the remaining 13 per cent. 

Thundercat’s Dragonball Durag was the top played track from an international artist at #5, while Melbourne punks Cable Ties were the top placed interstate act, with their tune Sandcastles coming in at #6.

Check the full list below!

Massive thank you to Daniel Midgley for his statistical wizardry in compiling the list from a whole year of playlist data.

THE TOP 101 MOST PLAYED TRACKS OF 2020 AT RTRFM

1. Dennis Cometti – WAXIT   

2. Nerve Quakes – Dive Wreck 

3. Grievous Bodily Calm – Sync Step 

4. Your Girl Pho – Surrender 

5. Thundercat – Dragonball Durag 

6. Cable Ties – Sandcastles 

7. MissGenius – Wild Things 

8. MissGenius – I Don’t Wanna Be 

 

9. New Nausea – Bright Bloody Blue 

10. Carla Geneve – The Right Reasons 

11. Crucial Rockers – Teardrops (Charlies Flat Dub) 

11. Grievous Bodily Calm – Mosaic 

11. The Spunloves – London 

14. Big Orange – Apocketlipstick 

14. Gap Year – Bad Taste 

14. US Girls – 4 American Dollars 

17. Carla Geneve – Don’t Wanna Be Your Lover 

17. Last Quokka – Colony 

17. Supathick – Im There feat. Saskia Britain 

17. Tanaya Harper – Evan Keele 

21. Grunge Barbie – Gym Bitch 

21. Jamilla – Love Himself  

21. Material World Orchestra – Fantasy 

24. The Community Chest – In My Dreams 

24. Dianas – Going Gone 

24. Em Burrows – Radical Love (demo) 

24. Gap Year – Bon Soir 

24. HAIRCARE  – On The Side 

24. Last Quokka – Wake Up Geoff 

24. New Nausea – Swine 

24. Noah Dillon – Matthew McConaughey 

32. Grace Barbe – Fanm 

32. Khruangbin – Pelota 

32. Peter Bibby’s Dog Act – Whyalla 

32. Segue – Shooting The Breeze 

32. Supathick – 100 Miles feat. Your Girl Pho & Hyclass 

37. Grunge Barbie – St James St 

37. Noah Dillon – Sunburnt In July 

37. This Is The Kit – This Is What You Did 

40. Felicity Groom – Human 

40. Fraeya – Housewarming 

40. Gazey – Sleep 

40. HAIRCARE – Hot Topic 

40. Sarah Mary Chadwick – Let’s Fight 

40. Tanaya Harper – Emma 

40. Turtle Bay Television – Cronenburg 

47. Dallas Woods – If It Glitters, It’s Gold 

47. Demon Days – Safehouse 

47. MALi JO$E – Ladybird 

47. Memphis LK – Letters In Concrete 

47. RVG – I Used To Love You 

47. Teen Angst – Let (Pull Through) 

53. Car Seat Headrest – Can’t Cool Me Down 

53. Charlies Flat – Walk With Me 

53. Dolce Blue – TV 

53. Felicity Groom – Dance For None 

53. Ghost Care – Home Run 

53. Harvey Sutherland – Superego 

53. Indoor Fins – Energy 

53. Khruangbin – Time (You and I) 

53. Matalja – Malu Mabu Liyan 

53. Mathas – Airing Out 

53. Mt. Mountain – Tassels 

53. Sampa the Great – Final Form 

53. Siobhan Cotchin – Do You Know What I Mean 

53. Soccer Mommy – Circle The Drain 

53. Thibault – Drama 

53. Timothy Nelson – Your House 

69. Cuss – She Said 

69. Dianas – Weather Girl 

69. Grace Barbe – Afro Sega 

69. Noname – Song 33 

69. Sharon Van Etten – Seventeen 

69. Siobhan Cotchin – Just The Way It Is 

69. The Spunloves – Give It Away 

69. Supernaked – All You Ever Wanted (Needed) 

77. Angel Olsen – Whole New Mess 

77. Boox Kid – 1984 

77. Cable Ties – Self-Made Man 

77. Felicity Groom – Hey Sun 

77. No Zu – Talking To A Stranger 

77. Sharon Van Etten – Beaten Down 

77. Sweet Whirl – Sweetness 

84. Cosy – Blue 

84. Didions Bible – John Candy 

84. Flossy – Being Alone 

84. Four Tet – Baby 

84. Ginoli – I’m In Love feat. Nicholas Allbrook 

84. Jamilla – Bloom 

84. Kissinger Cruz – Cinnamon Buns 

84. Liminal Drifter – Choir On Mars 

84. Little Lord Street Band – Frankies Back In Town 

84. Mal De Mer – Smile 

84. Methyl Ethel – Majestic AF 

84. Odette Mercy & Her Soul Atomics – Baby 

84. Peter Bibby – Oceans 

84. Protomartyr – Processed By The Boys 

84. Protomartyr – Worm In Heaven 

84. Run The Jewels – Ooh La La 

84. Superego – O.B.S. (Outer Body Stranger) feat. Sampa the Great 

84. Tanaya Harper – Crashpad 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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