Following on from honouring Aussie artists in their annual SMAC awards, Sydney’s FBi has once again shown their support for local content by revealing their year-end results of the community radio station’s most played artists and songs for 2013.
The broadcaster’s 2013 Yearbook is broken into two separate Top 100 lists of the last 12 months (in which the station celebrated its decade-long existence with a massive 10th Birthday Bash), and Australian artists dominate in both halves of the Yearbook, as FasterLouder reports.
In fact, Aussie artists take up nine of the station’s Top 10 Most Played Artists rankings (with Philadelphia’s Kurt Vile landing at #9), with Blue Mountains four-piece Cloud Control being the #1 most played artist on FBi for 2013. Fitting given the band walked away with the station’s Record of the Year SMAC award for their second studio album Dream Cave.
Following behind Cloud Control, and rounding out the station’s Top 5 most spun artists, is a ream of Sydney-grown acts; namely raucous rockers Palms (#2), the overseas-invading Jagwar Ma (#3), sonic innovator Kirin J Callinan (#4), and Flume-approved producer Cosmo’s Midnight (#5). Coming in at #6 is Melbourne indie twosome Big Scary, followed in order by indie band Shining Bird, Perth-based producer Ta-Ku, Kurt Vile, and WA’s mighty rock exports, Pond, at #10.
On the international front, electronic acts proved to be the most popular with FBi, with the higher ranking overseas acts being UK duo Disclosure (at #15), Four Tet (#23) and recent Australian visitors Bonobo (at #27) and James Blake (#33). Overall the Top 100 Most Played Artists list breaks down to 31 internationals and 69 Aussie artists.
Meanwhile, the community broadcaster’s Top 100 Most Played Songs list, revealed at the tail-end of 2013, had similarly strong Aussie results (and offers a unique alternative to the forthcoming Triple J Hottest 100 – albeit one that’s decided on by the station’s total spins, not by the votes of its listenership). Just 18 of the Top 100 songs were from international artists, leaving the vast majority of the Most Played list to Down Under domination.
Coming out on top as the Most Played Song of 2013 is The Preatures’ ‘Is This How You Feel?’. No surprise given the Sydney five-piece – who ranked at #13 on the Most Played list, overall – won the ‘Best Song’ category at the FBi SMAC Awards last week. The second biggest song for FBi playlists was another independent release, Popfrenzy signees Unity Floors and their track ‘Nice Fit’, followed by Shining Bird’s ‘Distant Dreaming’.
Bonobo’s ‘Cirrus’, taken from the British producer’s latest album The North Borders, was the fourth most played song of the year, followed by Seekae’s ‘Another’ at #5- the first taste of the Sydney group’s new album – and Palms’ ‘This Last Year’ (at #6). Cloud Control landed in the Top 10 behind Songs (#7 ‘Boy/Girl’) and Touch Sensitive (#8 ‘Pizza Guy’) with their single, ‘Dojo Rising’, while their other Dream Cave cut ‘Scar’, landed at #78 on the Top 100.
Other high-performing Aussie songs included The Drones’ ‘How To See Through Fog’ (#12), Pond’s ‘Giant Tortoise’ (#13), Big Scary’s ‘Luck Now’ (#14), and two Top 20 cuts from Sydney trio (and Solange support act) Movement with ‘Us’ and ‘Feel Real’ sitting shoulder to shoulder at #16 and #17 respectively.
FBi’s Most Played Songs of 2013
Source: FBi
1. The Preatures – Is This How You Feel?
2. Unity Floors – Nice Fit
3. Shining Bird – Distant Dreaming
4. Bonobo – Cirrus
5. Seekae – Another
6. Palms – This Last Year
7. Songs – Boy/Girl
8. Touch Sensitive – Pizza Guy
9. Cloud Control – Dojo Rising
10. Gang Of Youths – A Sudden Light
11. Mount Kimbie – Made To Stray
12. The Drones – How To See Through Fog
13. Pond – Giant Tortoise
14. Big Scary – Luck Now
15. Making – Stay Still (SYD)
16. Movement – Us (SYD)
17. Movement – Feel Real (SYD)
18. James Blake – Retrograde
19. Tim Fitz – Hospital (SYD)
20. Kirin J Callinan – Embracism (SYD)
21. Beaches – Send Them Away
22. Black Vanilla – Call Your Husband (SYD)
23. Rainbow Chan – Skinny Dipping (SYD)
24. Elizabeth Rose – The Good Life (SYD)
25. Phosphorescent – Song for Zula
26. Zeahorse – Career (SYD)
27. Courtney Barnett – Avant Gardener
28. Harmony – Do Me A Favour
29. Day Ravies – I Don’t Mind (SYD)
30. Alex Cameron – She’s Mine (SYD)
31. Midnight Juggernauts – Ballad of the War Machine
32. Super Wild Horses – Alligator
33. Bloods – Into My Arms (SYD)
34. Straight Arrows – Make Up Your Mind (SYD)
35. Zeahorse – Pool (SYD)
36. Cosmo’s Midnight – Phantasm ft. Nicole Millar (SYD)
37. King Krule – Easy Easy
38. Bibio – A Tout A L’ Heure
39. High Highs – In A Dream (SYD)
40. Jagwar Ma – The Throw (SYD)
41. Kirin J Callinan – Victoria. M (SYD)
42. Oliver Tank – Different Speet ft Ta-Ku (SYD)
43. Wave Racer – Stoopid (SYD)
44. World’s End Press – To Send Our Love (SYD)
45. Charles Murdoch – Dekire ft. Oscar Key Sung
46. Dick Diver – Calendar Days
47. Jenny Broke The Window – Abracadabra (SYD)
48. Pusha T – Numbers On The Boards
49. Cosmo’s Midnight – The Dofflin (SYD)
50. Bonobo – Heaven For The Sinner ft. Erykah Badu
51. Four Tet – For These Times
52. Fractures – Twisted
53. Indian Summer – Foreign Formula
54. Shining Bird – Stare into the Sun (SYD)
55. The Khanz – Hope You’re Not Far (SYD)
56. Thundercat – Heartbreaks and Setbacks
57. Matt Corby – Resolution (SYD)
58. Sophie – Bipp
59. Tim & Greg – Faceless (SYD)
60. Volcano Choir – Byegone
61. Cull – World Inside Your Head (SYD)
62. Little May – Boardwalks (SYD)
63. Suburban Dark – Skeletonne ft. Jeswon (SYD)
64. Oscar Key Sung – It’s Coming
65. Hö!!y – Zither (SYD)
66. Los Tones – Buchanan Hammer (SYD)
67. Psychlops Eyepatch – Nuclear Bombora (SYD)
68. Major Napier – Sensitive Fuck
69. Ooga Boogas – Circle of Trust
70. The Ancients – Hey Now
71. Gang Of Youths – Evangelists (SYD)
72. Bed Wettin’ Bad Boys – Only Loneliness (SYD)
73. Dune Rats – Red Light/Green Light
74. Sigur Rós – Ísjaki
75. Toro Y Moi – Say That
76. Wheat Fields – Let’s Play (SYD)
77. Willow Beats – Alchemy
78. Banoffee – Ninja
79. Cloud Control – Scar (SYD)
80. Cut Copy – Free Your Mind
81. Mark Pritchard – 1234 (Feat. Ragga Twins) (SYD)
82. Multiple Man – Body Double
83. Oscar Key Sung – All I Could Do
84. Sures – Waste (SYD)
85. Whilk & Misky – Darklands
86. Danger Beach – Black Rain
87. Dustin Tebbutt – The Breach (SYD)
88. The Cactus Channel – Wooden Boy Pt. 3
89. The Walking Who – Rita (SYD)
90. Washed Out – It All Feels Right
91. Wavves – Sail To The Sun
92. Bored Nothing – No Time Like The Right Time
93. Food Court – Not Enough (SYD)
94. Lanterns – Lost in Space (SYD)
95. Sui Zhen – Midriffs
96. Jimblah – March
97. Buzz Kull – Bedroom Highs (SYD)
98. Moonbase Commander – Ekisaitobaiku (SYD)
99. Rufus – Desert Night (SYD)
100. Arcade Fire – Reflektor
FBi’s Most Played Artists of 2013
Source: FBi
1. Cloud Control
2. Palms
3. Jagwar Ma
4. Kirin J Callinan
5. Cosmo’s Midnight
6. Big Scary
7. Shining Bird
8. Ta-Ku
9. Kurt Vile
10. Pond
11. Day Ravies
12. Gang of Youths
13. The Preatures
14. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard
15. Disclosure
16. Flume
17. Super Wild Horses
18. Bloods
19. World’s End Press
20. Midnight Juggernauts
21. Summer Flake
22. Songs
23. Four Tet
24. Rainbow Chan
25. Unity Floors
26. Dick Diver
27. Bonobo
28. Movement
29. Cut Copy
30. Seekae
31. Royal Headache
32. Tame Impala
33. James Blake
34. The National
35. Mount Kimbie
36. King Krule
37. Zeahorse
38. Mark Pritchard
39. The Knife
40. Lanterns
41. Straight Arrows
42. Dappled Cities
43. Arcade Fire
44. The Drones
45. Oscar Key Sung
46. Toro y Moi
47. Golden Blonde
48. Spoonty
49. The Presets
50. Jenny Broke the Window
51. Bed Wettin’ Bad Boys
52. Bored Nothing
53. Hermitude
54. Clubfeet
55. The Stevens
56. Horrorshow
57. Alex Cameron
58. Pikelet
59. Oliver Tank
60. The Tongue
61. PVT
62. Tim Fitz
63. Cull
64. Danny Brown
65. Sigur Ros
66. Charles Murdoch
67. Atoms for Peace
68. High Highs
69. Parquet Courts
70. Young Fathers
71. Panama
72. Deerhunter
73. Moonbase Commander
74. Cassius Select
75. Suburban Dark
76. Autre Ne Veut
77. The Walking Who
78. Harmony
79. Bushwalking
80. Marnie Stern
81. Touch Sensitive
82. Vampire Weekend
83. What So Not
84. Grizzly Bear
85. Bill Callahan
86. Washed Out
87. Volcano Choir
88. Unknown Mortal Orchestra
89. Machinedrum
90. Elizabeth Rose
91. Twerps
92. Little May
93. Darkside
94. Death Grips
95. Son Lux
96. Gardland
97. My Bloody Valentine
98. RÜFÜS
99. Jon Hopkins
100. Wordlife
