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Top Albums 10/20/2020

WERU sends weekly reports to the music industry representatives which keeps new music flowing into the station. Below are our most recent top recording reports for the past week.  Our next airplay chart will be computed and posted on Tuesday, October 27th, 2020!

Community Radio WERU-FM 89.9 (Blue Hill) / weru.org

October 12th through October 18th, 2020

Top Thirty Overall Most-Played Albums

 

Artist Record Label
1 JAYHAWKS, THE Xoxo Sham/Thirty Tigers
2 DAWES Good Luck With Whatever HUB/Rounder
3 KAT RIGGINS Cry Out Gulf Coast
4 KATHLEEN EDWARDS Total Freedom Dualtone/eOne
5 AVETT BROTHERS, THE The Third Gleam Loma Vista
6 GATHERING TIME Old Friends Self-Released
7 JOHNNY IGUANA Johnny Iguana’s Chicago Spectacular! Delmark
8 JOHNNY NICHOLAS Mistaken Identity Valcour
9 LORI MCKENNA The Balladeer Thirty Tigers
10 MAMMALS, THE Nonet Humble Abode
11 PETER PARCEK Mississippi Suitcase Self-Released
12 RECKLESS KELLY American Jackpot American Girls No Big Deal
13 RONNIE EARL AND THE BROADCASTERS Rise Up Stony Plain
14 TWISTED PINE Right Now Signature Sounds
15 VANESSA COLLIER Heart On The Line Ruf
16 DENZEL CURRY Unlocked Loma Vista
17 MINK Deconstruction Rhymesayers
18 ALLMAN BETTS BAND Bless Your Heart BMG
19 APPALACHIAN ROAD SHOW, THE Tribulation Billy Blue
20 CHRIS SMITHER More From The Levee Signature Sounds
21 CHUCK PROPHET The Land That Time Forgot Yep Roc
22 DANBERRYS, THE Shine Singular
23 ELIZA GILKYSON 2020 (Twenty Twenty) Red House
24 ELSIE GAWLER Sweet As Honey Self-Released
25 JASON ISBELL AND THE 400 UNIT Reunions Southeastern/Thirty Tigers
26 LAURA MARLING Song For Our Daughter Chrysalis/Partisan
27 MARGO PRICE That’s How Rumors Get Started Loma Vista
28 POKEY LAFARGE Rock Bottom Rhapsody New West
29 SARAH PEACOCK Burn The Witch Road Dog
30 SUZZY ROCHE AND LUCY WAINWRIGHT ROCHE I Can Still Hear You Storysound

 

Top “Adds”  

 

Artist Record Label
1 DARRELL KELLEY “Release The Transcripts” [Single] Viral
2 LOMA Don’t Shy Away Sub Pop
3 AUSTIN LUCAS Alive In The Hot Zone Cornelius Chapel
4 BARNABY BRIGHT “The Hurting Times” [Single] Self-Released
5 GITIT SHOVAL WITH RON DRUYAN AND TUTTI DRUYAN Connected The Druyan Co.
6 HELENA DELAND Someone New Luminelle
7 JEREMY IVEY Waiting Out The Storm Anti-
8 LERA LYNN On My Own Ruby Range/Ingrooves
9 MALINA MOYE Bad As I Wanna Be [EP] WCE
10 PLEASURE Now Is The Time Self-Released

 

Top Ten World Albums

 

Artist Record Label
1 BEOLACH All Hands Self-Released
2 DAIQURI QUEENS The Daiquri Queens Self-Released
3 GOLDMAN THIBODEAUX La Danse St. Anns Nouveau Electric
4 ISKWE Acakosik Self-Released
5 DAN COSTA Live In California Self-Released
6 NATION BEAT The Royal Chase Self-Released
7 TOOTS AND THE MAYTALS Got To Be Tough Trojan Jamaica/BMG
8 VUSI MAHLASELA Shebeen Queen ATO
9 MULATU ASTATKE AND BLACK JESUS EXPERIENCE To Know Without Knowing Agogo
10 BEBEL GILBERTO Agora PIAS

 

Top Ten Hip Hop Albums

 

Artist Record Label
1 MINK Deconstruction Rhymesayers
2 SAULT Untitled (Black Is) Forever Living Originals
3 NATION BEAT The Royal Chase Self-Released
4 SA-ROC The Sharecropper’s Daughter Rhymesayers
5 SLY5THAVE What It Is Tru Thoughts
6 ACTION BRONSON Only For Dolphins Loma Vista
7 PUBLIC ENEMY What You Gonna Do When The Grid Goes Down? Def Jam
8 MARQUES MARTIN Brave And Afraid Operator
9 RUN THE JEWELS RTJ4 Jewel Runners/RBC/BMG
10 BUTCHER BROWN #KingButch Concord Jazz

 

Top Ten Jazz Albums

 

Artist Record Label
1 TWISTED PINE Right Now Signature Sounds
2 THELONIOUS MONK Palo Alto Impulse
3 MOORE-MCCOLL JAZZ SOCIETY, THE Electric Fantastic Self-Released
4 DAN RADLAUER AND HIS QUARANTINED BIG BAND Jazz in the Age of Social Distancing Self-Released
5 MATT DEMERRITT Fool’s Journey Self-Released
6 CHAD LB VIRTUAL BIG BAND Quarantine Standards Sound Frame
7 FLYING HORSE BIG BAND, THE Florida Rays Self-Released
8 SIMONE KOPMAJER My Wonderland Lucky Mojo
9 ASHLEY LOCHEED AND CHRIS ROTTMAYER So In Love Timucua Arts Foundation
10 GRANT GORDY Interpreter Self-Released

 

Top Ten Electronic / Dance Albums

 

Artist Record Label
1 DIVE INDEX Waving At Airplanes Neutral
2 MACHINEDRUM A View Of U Ninja Tune
3 MOBY All Visible Objects Mute
4 SPC ECO 月ep April EP Zoey
5 TRICKY Fall To Pieces False Idols
6 BOB MOSES Desire Domino
7 HAAI Put Your Head Above The Parakeets [EP] Mute
8 DISCLOSURE ENERGY Capitol
9 ALUNA Renaissance Mad Decent
10 CUT COPY Freeze, Melt Cutters

 

Hip Hop “Add” 

Artist Record Label
1 DARRELL KELLEY “Release The Transcripts” [Single] Viral

 

World “Add”  

Artist Record Label
1 GITIT SHOVAL WITH RON DRUYAN AND TUTTI DRUYAN Connected The Druyan Co.

 

Jazz “Adds”  

 

Artist Record Label
1 DOXAS BROTHERS The Circle Justin Time
2 PLEASURE Now Is The Time Self-Released
3 YELLOWJACKETS Jackets XL Mack Avenue
4 JIM WALLER BIG BAND Bucket List Self-Released

 

October 20, 2020 By Denis Howard

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