CFUV’s Top Played Albums of 2020

Listed below is the FULL list of CFUV’s top played albums at CFUV. They are based off actual spins by our hosts during the 3 month period they count as “Chart Releases.”

* denotes CDN                   + denotes LOCAL

1. Loving – If I Am Only My Thoughts (Last Gang)+
2. lié – You Want It Real (Mint)*
3. Hansmole – Pain Songs (Self-Released)+
4. Cindy Lee – What’s Tonight To Eternity (W.25th)*
5. Kaytranada – BUBBA (RCA)*
6. Caribou – Suddenly (Merge)*
7. Psychic Pollution – Digital Apathy (Eat Glass)+
8. The Suitesixteen – Mine Would Be The Sun (Self-Released)+
9. Orville Peck – Show Pony (Columbia)+
10. Tough Age – Which Way Am I? (Mint)*
11. Ora Cogan – Bells In The Ruins (Prism Tongue)+
12. Numbing – Make Yourself Hard To Kill (Self-Released)+
13. Non La – Not In Love (Kingfisher Bluez)*
14. Freak Heat Waves – Zap The Planet (Telephone Explosion)+
15. redress – peacebird (Self-Released)+
16. Witch Prophet – DNA Activation (Self-Released)*
17. U.S. Girls – Heavy Light (4AD)*
18. New Fries – Is The Idea Of Us (Telephone Explosion)*
19. Dog Day – Present (fundog)*
20. Beverly Glenn-Copeland – Transmissions: The Music Of Beverly Glenn-Copeland (Transgressive)*
21. *various – Ever New (Self-Released)*
22. Cartoon Lizard – Bless You, Thank You (Self-Released)+
23. Gum Country – Somewhere (Kingfisher Bluez)*
24. Destroyer – Have We Met (Merge)*
25. Zoon – Bleached Wavves (Paper Bag)*
26. Rebecca Foon – Waxing Moon (Constellation)*
27. Snotty Nose Rez Kids – Born Deadly (Self-Released)*
28. PIQSIQ – Taaqtuq Ubluriaq: Dark Star (Self-Released)*
29. Jessy Lanza – All The Time (Hyperdub)*
30. pesewa – 19999: a cephalopod Fantasy (Self-Released)+
31. Woolworm – Awe (Mint)*
32. Anachnid – Dreamweaver (Musique Nomade)*
33. Thanya Iyer – KIND (Topshelf)*
34. Grimes – Miss Anthropocene (Crystal Math)*
35. Iceberg Ferg – Let It Grow (Triple Crown Of Canada)+
36. Lido Pimienta – Miss Columbia (Anti-)*
37. Sarah Davachi – Cantus, Descant (Late)*
38. Andy Shauf – The Neon Skyline (Arts & Crafts/Anti-)*
39. Land Of Talk – Indistinct Converstation (Saddle Creek)*
40. White Poppy – Paradise Gardens (Not Not Fun)*
41. Alpen Glow – Amertape 2020 (Self-Released)*
42. Yves Jarvis – Sundry Rock Song Stock (Flemish Eye)*
43. Crying High – Victory (2010)+
44. Bluets – What Keeps You Up At Night Demo (Self-Released)+
45. shn shn – Structura EP (Self-Released)*
46. Cedric Noel – Nothing Forever, Everything (Self-Released)*
47. Nap Eyes – Snapshot Of A Beginner (Royal Mountain)*
48. Passive – No. 3 (Self-Released)*
49. Sussy – Show & Tell (Self-Released)+
50. Frazey Ford – U Kin B The Sun (Arts & Crafts)*
51. Owen Pallett – Island (Domino)*
52. Public Practice – Gentle Grip (Wharf Cat)
53. Phoebe Bridgers – Punisher (Dead Oceans)
54. Wolf Parade – Thin Mind (Royal Mountain)*
55. Braids – Shadow Offering (Secret City)*
56. Dizzy – The Sun & Her Scorch (Royal Mountain)*
57. Del Barber – Easy Keeper (Self-Released)*
58. Aidan Knight – Aidan Knight (Next Door)+
59. Wares – Survival (Mint)*
60. respectfulchildren – 家 (jia) (Self-Released)*
61. SBDC – The Feeling Of Winning (Kingfisher Bluez)*
62. Brunch Club – Another Wasted Summer (Self-Released)*
63. Elephant Stone – Hollow (Elephants On Parade)*
64. Sneaks – Happy Birthday (Merge)
65. GLUM – Lil Ripper (Self-Released)+
66. WUT – Now (Self-Released)*
67. William Prince – Reliever (Six Shooter)*
68. TOPS – I Feel Alive (Musique Tops)*
69. No Joy – Motherhood (Hand Drawn Dracula)*
70. iji – iji (Feeding Tube)
71. pooched – Tercel (Self-Released)+
72. Bad Hoo – Right As Rain (Self-Released)+
73. Johnny Zithers – Johnny Zithers Is Dead (Self-Released)+
74. Crack Cloud – Pain Olympics (Meat Machine)*
75. Red Mass – A Hopeless Noise (Indica)*
76. Outback – Outback (Self-Released)+
77. Blue Hawaii – Under 1 House (Arbutus)*
78. Luge – Luge (Self-Released)*
79. Holding Hands – ‘exile’ (Self-Released)*
80. Linaire – Linaire (Self-Released)*
81. Castle If – Beyond EP (Self-Released)*
82. Bully – SUGAREGG (Sub Pop)
83. Shady Nasty – Bad Posture (Royal Mountain)
84. Rhea George – Knick-knacks (Self-Released)+
85. Astrocolor – Hue (eOne)+
86. Pantayo – Pantayo (Telephone Explosion)*
87. Sudan Archives – Athena (Stones Throw)
88. Waxahatchee – Saint Cloud (Merge)
89. SIGSALY – Lasting Effects (Self-Released)*
90. Sarah Jane Scouten – Confessions (Light Organ)*
91. Cindy Lee – Cat O’ Nine Tails (Self-Released)*
92. Fiver – You Wanted Country? Vol. 1 (You’ve Changed)*
93. Dana Gavanski – Wind Songs (Flemish Eye)*
94. Jaded Luxuries – Feeling Down (Self-Released)*
95. Jason Molina – Eight Gates (Secretly Canadian)
96. Pink Charcoal – Quarantime To Rock Out To (Self-Released)+
97. Northcote – Let Me Roar (Black Box)+
98. OKGB – Communist Love (Russian Mother)+
99. Marie Davidson & L’œil  Nu – Renegade Breakdown (Bonsound / Ninja Tune)*
100. Shabazz Palaces – The Don Of Diamond Dreams (Sub Pop)

* denotes CDN                   + denotes LOCAL