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You are here: Home / Top Albums of the Week / Top Albums 10/6/2020

Top Albums 10/6/2020

October 6, 2020 By Denis Howard

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 13th, 2020!

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

September 28th through October 4th, 2020

 

Top Thirty Overall Most-Played Recordings

Artist Record Label
1 ELSIE GAWLER Sweet As Honey Self-Released
2 AVETT BROTHERS, THE The Third Gleam Loma Vista
3 JAYHAWKS, THE Xoxo Sham/Thirty Tigers
4 HURRICANE RUTH Good Life American Showplace
5 BRIDGET KELLY BAND Dark Spaces Self-Released
6 CHUCK PROPHET The Land That Time Forgot Yep Roc
7 FLEET FOXES Shore Anti-
8 JASON ISBELL AND THE 400 UNIT Reunions Southeastern/Thirty Tigers
9 JIMMY BUFFETT Life On The Flip Side Mailboat
10 JOSELYN AND DON Soar Paintbrush
11 KRISTEN GRAINGER AND TRUE NORTH Ghost Tattoo Self-Released
12 KYLE NIX Lightning On The Mountain & Other Short Stories Bossier City
13 PETER KARP Magnificent Heart Rose Cottage
14 BOB DYLAN Rough And Rowdy Ways Columbia
15 BOB MOULD Blue Hearts Merge
16 BRONWYNNE BRENT Undercover Self-Released
17 BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Letter To You [Advance Tracks] Columbia
18 DIRK POWELL When I Wait For You Compass
19 GATHERING TIME Old Friends Self-Released
20 GRACIE AND RACHEL Hello Weakness, You Make Me Strong Righteous Babe
21 GRAIN THIEF Gasoline Self-Released
22 JACOB JAMES, THE The Jacob James Self-Released
23 JULIE AND JOHN PENNELL Keep On Walkin’ JPE
24 KRIS DELMHORST Long Day In The Milky Way Self-Released
25 LORI MCKENNA The Balladeer Thirty Tigers
26 MAMMALS, THE Nonet Humble Abode
27 MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER The Dirt And The Stars Lambent Light
28 POKEY LAFARGE Rock Bottom Rhapsody New West
29 PRETENDERS Hate For Sale BMG
30 RECKLESS KELLY American Jackpot American Girls No Big Deal

 

Top “Adds”  

Artist Record Label
1 METZ Atlas Vending Sub Pop
2 PARIS Safe Space Invader Guerrilla Funk
3 RAFAEL VIGILANTICS Blue River Grey Sky Self-Released
4 ROBIN GRANT AND THE STANDARD Off Label Self-Released
5 SHARON LIA BAND Beyond Wonderland Self-Released
6 SYLVAN ESSO Free Love Loma Vista
7 THIS FRONTIER NEEDS HEROES Go With The Flow Self-Released
8 HEMISPHERE American Dreams Self-Released
9 WATERPLANET Never Far [EP] Self-Released
10 JAIME WYATT Neon Cross New West

 

Top Ten World Recordings

 

Artist Record Label
1 TOOTS AND THE MAYTALS Got To Be Tough Trojan Jamaica/BMG
2 MULATU ASTATKE AND BLACK JESUS EXPERIENCE To Know Without Knowing Agogo
3 CEU APKA! Six Degrees
4 BEBEL GILBERTO Agora PIAS
5 VUSI MAHLASELA Shebeen Queen ATO
6 LADAMA Oye Mujer Six Degrees
7 CAPTAIN PLANET No Visa Bastard Jazz
8 KELEKETLA Keleketla! Ahead Of Our Time
9 MESTIZO BEAT Canoga Madness California Soul
10 SONGHOY BLUES Optimisme [Advance Tracks] Fat Possum

 

Top Ten Hip Hop Recordings

 

Artist Record Label
1 RUN THE JEWELS RTJ4 Jewel Runners/RBC/BMG
2 070 PHI My Father’s Gun Mass Appeal
3 AESOP ROCK Music From The Game Freedom Finger Rhymesayers
4 INJURY RESERVE “Hoodwinked” [Single] Loma Vista
5 JAMO GANG Walking With Lions Fat Beats
6 STRO Back On Saratoga Mass Appeal
7 NATION BEAT The Royal Chase Self-Released
8 KIMBERLY WILLIAMS “Keeper Of My Soul” [Single] Self-Released
9 BLU AND EXILE Miles Dirty Science
10 SLY5THAVE What It Is Tru Thoughts

 

Top Ten Jazz Albums

 

Artist Record Label
1 JEN HODGE ALL STARS The Girl In The Groove Self-Released
2 TWISTED PINE Right Now Signature Sounds
3 AMBROSE AKINMUSIRE On The Tender Spot Of Every Calloused Moment Blue Note
4 CHICAGO UNDERGROUND QUARTET Good Days Astral Spirits
5 FLYING HORSE BIG BAND, THE Florida Rays Self-Released
6 LAKECIA BENJAMIN Pursuance: The Coltranes Ropeadope
7 MOORE-MCCOLL JAZZ SOCIETY, THE Electric Fantastic Self-Released
8 ORRIN EVANS AND THE CAPTAIN BLACK BIG BAND The Intangible Between Smoke Sessions
9 MATT DEMERRITT Fool’s Journey Self-Released
10 NATION BEAT The Royal Chase Self-Released

 

Top Ten Electronic / Dance Recordings

 

Artist Record Label
1 CINEMATIC ORCHESTRA, THE To Believe (Remixes) Ninja Tune
2 DIVE INDEX Waving At Airplanes Neutral
3 YPPAH Sunset In The Deep End Future Archive
4 BOB MOSES Desire Domino
5 DISCLOSURE ENERGY Capitol
6 TRICKY Fall To Pieces False Idols
7 CUT COPY Freeze, Melt Cutters
8 WASHED OUT Purple Noon Sub Pop
9 JAGA JAZZIST Pyramid Brainfeeder
10 HAAI Put Your Head Above The Parakeets [EP] Mute

 

Hip Hop “Add” 

 

Artist Record Label
1 PARIS Safe Space Invader Guerrilla Funk

 

World “Add”  

 

Artist Record Label
1 DAN COSTA Live In California Self-Released

 

Jazz “Adds”  

Artist Record Label
1 DAN COSTA Live In California Self-Released
2 ROBIN GRANT AND THE STANDARD Off Label Self-Released
3 SYSTEM 6 Bennie’s Lament Skipper
4 AMBER WEEKES The Gathering Amber Inn
5 DON PAUL The Time We Have Self-Released
6 JORGE GARCIA Crossover Self-Released
7 JOSIE FALBO You Must Believe In Spring Southport

 

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