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Public Radio's Most Played Songs Of 2014

Published December 5, 2014 at 10:34 AM PST

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The War On Drugs, seen here performing live on KEXP, supplied several of public radio's most popular songs this year.

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NPR Music publishes a popular feature each month called Heavy Rotation, which collects 10 songs that public radio hosts across the country can't stop playing. We decided to do the series one better during our year-end festivities and create a 24/7 stream made up of the songs public radio stations couldn't stop playing.

This special Heavy Rotation mix features the most popular songs from an assortment of our favorite U.S. public radio stations. In other words, only the hits (relatively speaking).

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Our stream was curated entirely by the following NPR members:

World Cafe (Philadelphia)

The Bridge (Kansas City)

The Current (Twin Cities)

The Exit (Albany)

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FolkAlley.com (Kent, Ohio)

Iowa Public Radio's Studio One

KCRW (Santa Monica)

KEXP (Seattle)

KUNC (Northern Colorado)

KUTX (Austin)

opbmusic (Portland, Oregon)

Colorado Public Radio's OpenAir

WFPK (Louisville)

WFUV (New York City)

WNCW (North Carolina)

WYEP (Pittsburgh)