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"480 Minutes" - BAGeL Radio Top Music of 2019

I hope that everyone is enjoying their holiday season despite the extremely miserable political climate and the frighteningly extreme actual climate.

Tomorrow night marks the Winter Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere and Sunday marks Summer Solstice in the Southern Hemisphere: happy (almost) winter and (almost) summer, respectively.

Today is the day we go all in on 2019 -- tune in to BAGeL Radio today to hear our top ~200 songs of 2019 -- today's playlist will be all 2019 music all day (with a couple of stragglers released too late in 2018 to be included in our last year-end show).

Erroneously advertised all week as beginning at 10 a.m., the top songs of the year countdown will begin with song #50 at 11 a.m. Eastern U.S. Time. We should reach the top 10 at around 1:30 p.m. and finish up around 2:00 p.m. The rest of the show will consist of our 150 or so other favorite songs of the year including our favorite cover versions, favorite songs not sung in English, and our top political songs of the year sprinkled throughout.

For the year-end best-of edition of  480 Minutes the show is extended to a 12-hour run-time. That means that the rebroadcasts will begin 2 hours later than usual and start up again every 12 hours over the weekend (9 p.m., 9 a.m., 9 p.m., and so on, and so on, and so on...). The program schedule can be found at  /bagelradio2/p/blog-page.html.

Catch up on 2019 in one day! The show is full of holiday gift ideas (hint: music!) so keep a list and check it twice (that's what reruns are for!).

The show is live-hosted from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. Eastern U.S. Time, followed by 4 hours of uninterrupted music to accommodate as many fantastic 2019 songs as we can.

Lists of our top songs and top albums will be published to  our site and to  our Facebook page after the show.  Feel free to leave your lists in the comments, or e-mail them to ted(at)somafm.com. If you are interested, our past top music lists can be viewed at  /bagelradio2/p/top-music-by-year.html.

Please consider  donating to SomaFM and or  purchasing SomaFM exclusives to help keep BAGeL Radio and the other 30+ SomaFM stations on the air and commercial free -- your generous support enables us to continue doing what we (and apparently a whole lot of you!) love!

Get in touch during the live-hosted show hours:
e-mail: ted(at)somafm.com
Twitter: @bagelradio
facebook.com/bagelradio/ (post comments, not FB Messenger, thank you)
chat with other listeners: https://internet-radio-slack.herokuapp.com

The show will be rebroadcast tonight (Friday) starting at 9:00 p.m. Eastern Time, twice on Saturday 12/21 (9 a.m. and 9 p.m.) and twice on Sunday 12/22 (9 a.m. and 9p.m.).

The past couple of weeks were spent listening to the hundreds of new songs we added to rotation this year and arranging them and the albums they came from into lists. As usual not everything expected to make their respective top 50 lists did, and the chances that a deserving song/album/artist was inadvertently and unfairly overlooked in the process is near 100%, so apologies in advance for that.

For help with remembering when the live-hosted shows and re-runs air, check out the program schedule (which you can import into your favorite calendar program!) embedded here:

Tune in at somafm.com/bagel, plus SomaFM channels are available on many  set top boxes and home audio systems as well as by voice command on many NSA snooping devices smart speakers.  Also, iOS users can also take advantage of the Shortcuts app to create a home screen button that will launch BAGeL Radio via a single touch or a simple Siri voice command. Open Shortcuts; search for SomaFM; select BAGeL Radio; unselect the "show when run" toggle to avoid the extra dialog box; give the shortcut a name; bingo!

The  BAGeL Concert Finder gig calendar is tailored to the outstanding taste of BAGeL Radio listeners. Give it a try, it's really quite handy!  http://bagelconcertfinder.com/

Contact the DJ during the live-hosted show hours:
e-mail: ted(at)somafm.com
Twitter: @bagelradio
facebook.com/bagelradio/ (comments only, no FB messenger, sorry)
chat with other listeners: https://internet-radio-slack.herokuapp.com

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