BAAMO

Tampa Bay would not have a vibrant music scene without the mighty WMNF (Community Radio 88.5FM), based in Tampa and broadcasting 70,000 watts across west central Florida. Tampa Bay musicians readily donate their time and talents to help the station and WMNF returns that love.

The list of the Most Played Albums in 2009 was released on December 15 and BAAMO is honored, humbled and a tiny bit shocked to see in black & white the level of airplay for our 2009 compilation, “Tales of Lust and Longing.” Even better, five BAAMO-promoted artists also made the list. See all the results below.

RANK/ARTIST/LABEL/Number of spins in 2009
1) Various Artists – Tales of Lust and Longing – BAAMO (136)

2) Sarah Borges and the Broken Singles – The Stars Are Out – Sugar Hill (86)

3) M. Ward – Hold Time – Merge (73)

4) Wilco – Wilco (the Album )- Nonesuch (71)

5) Cracker – Sunrise in the Land of Milk and Honey – 429 (69)

6) Avett Brothers – I And Love and You – American (67)

7) Damon Fowler – Sugar Shack – Blind Pig (62)

8) Eilen Jewell – Sea of Tears – Signature Sound (60)

9) Raphael Saadiq – The Way I See It – Columbia (60)

10) Various Artists – Dark Was the Night – 4AD (59)

11) N.A.S.A. – The Spirit of Apollo – ANTI (56)

12) Monsters of Folk – Monsters of Folk – Shangri-La (54)

13) Andrew Bird – The Noble Beast (50)

14) B.C.- Time Capsule – Peripheral (47)

15) Chuck Prophet- !Let Freedom Ring! – Yep Roc (46)

16) Jay-Z – The Blueprint 3 – Atlantic (46)

17) Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz! – Interscope (46)

18) Friendly Fires – Friendly Fires – XL (46)

19) Will Quinlan and the Diviners – Navasota – Ironweed (45)

20) Samantha Crain and the Midnight Shivers – Songs in the Night – Ramseur (45)

21) Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca – Domino (44)

22) Lady Sovereign – Jigsaw – Midget – (44)

23) Passion Pit – Manners – Frenchkiss (42)

24) Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix – Glassnote (42)

25) The Gourds – Haymaker! – Yep Roc (40)

26) Crystal Castles – Crystal Castles – Last Guy (40)

27) Bob Dylan – Together Through Life – Columbia (39)

28) MGMT – Oracular Spectacular (39)

29) Neko Case – Middle Cyclone – ANTI (38)

30) Jenny Lewis – Acid Tongue (38)

31) Metric – Fantasies – Last Gang (38)

32) Peaches – I Feel Cream – XL (38)

33) Elvis Perkins in Dreamland – EP in Dreamland – XL (37)

34) Rosanne Cash – The List – Manhattan (36)

35) Dave Alvin & the Guilty Women – Dave Alvin & the GW – Yep Roc (35)

36) Buddy and Julie Miller – In Chalk – New West (35)

37) Eels – Hombre Loco – Vagrant (35)

38) Various Artists – Soca Gold 2009 – VP (35)

39) Rebekah Pulley – Back To Boogaloo – Lucky Bird (35)

40) Grizzly Bear – Vectamist Warp (35)

41) Iron and Wine – Around the Well – Sub Pop (35)

42) Santogold – Santogold – Downtown (35)

43) Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend – Beggar’s Group (39)

44) Cyril Neville – Brand New Blues – MC (34)

45) Roppongi’s Ace – Into The Night – Self-released (34)

46) Bob Schneider – Lovely Creatures – Shockarama (33)

47) Have Gun Will Travel – Casting Shadows Tall As Giants – HGWT (33)

48) Bob Marley – B Is For Bob – Tuff Gong (33)

49) Beres Hammond – A Moment In Time – VP (32)

50) Steve Earle – Townes – New West (31)

51) Have Gun, Will Travel – Postcards From the Friendly City – HGWT (31)

52) The Soul of John Black – Black John – Electro Groove (31)

53) Animal Collective – Merriwether Post Pavillion – Domino (30)

54) Buckwheat Zydeco – Lay Your Burden Down – Alligator (30)

55) Levon Helm – Electric Dirt – Vanguard (30)

56) Os Mutantes – Haih or Amortecedor – ANTI (30)

57) The Phenomenal Handclap Band – Friendly Fire (30)

58) Rhett Miller – Rhett Miller – Shout!Factory (30)

59) Black Lips – 200 Million Thousand – V (30)

60) Okkervill River – The Stand Ins- Jagiaguwar (30)