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You are here: Home / Top Albums of the Week / Top Albums 1/12/2021

Top Albums 1/12/2021

December 15, 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, January 19th, 2021!

Community Radio WERU-FM 89.9 (Blue Hill) 

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January 4th through January 10th, 2021

 

Top Thirty Most-Played Overall Recordings

 

Artist Record Label
1 SHADES OF GRAY Friends Self-Released
2 MOUNTAIN GOATS, THE Getting Into Knives Merge
3 STURGILL SIMPSON Cuttin’ Grass Vol. 1 High Top Mountain
4 PAUL MCCARTNEY McCartney III Capitol
5 STEVE EARLE AND THE DUKES J.T. New West
6 BETTE SMITH The Good, The Bad And The Bette Ruf
7 FLAT FIVE, THE Another World Bloodshot
8 JAYHAWKS, THE Xoxo Sham/Thirty Tigers
9 PARSON RED HEADS, THE Lifetime Of Comedy Fluff & Gravy
10 SHARON JONES AND THE DAP-KINGS Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Rendition Was In) Daptone
11 SHEMEKIA COPELAND Uncivil War Alligator
12 SUSAN WERNER Flyover Country Self-Released
13 TRAVIS 10 Songs BMG
14 AVEY GROUWS BAND The Devil May Care Self-Released
15 BAND OF HEATHENS Stranger BOH
16 BRENT COBB Keep ‘Em On They Toes [Advance Tracks] Thirty Tigers
17 CHUCK PROPHET The Land That Time Forgot Yep Roc
18 COLLEEN KATTAU Besos Kisses WindLight
19 DL MARBLE One LIne At A Time Self-Released
20 DAVE ALVIN From An Old Guitar: Rare & Unreleased Recordings Yep Roc
21 EMMA DONOVAN AND THE PUTBACKS Crossover Hopestreet
22 ERIN HARPE Meet Me In The Middle feat. Jim Countryman Vizztone
23 FIONA APPLE Fetch The Bolt Cutters Epic
24 GRAHAM BRAMLETT The Great Inbetween [EP] Self-Released
25 GRANT LEE PHILLIPS Lightning, Show Us Your Stuff Self-Released
26 KACY AND CLAYTON AND MARLON WILLIAMS Plastic Bouquet New West
27 KAT RIGGINS Cry Out Gulf Coast
28 KIM WILSON Take Me Back MC
29 KIRSTEN THIEN Two Sides Screen Door
30 LAST CHANCE Summer Again Self-Released

Top “Adds”  

Artist Record Label
1 ROLAND ROBERTS All About The Timing Happy Life
2 BANDITS ON THE RUN “Now Is The TIme” [Single] Self-Released
3 LIAM PURCELL AND CANE MILL ROAD Roots Trailhead
4 EMZEE AND SILAS Through Seasons Of Sorrow Self-Released
5 GUILTY LENSES, THE Somewhat Romance, Somewhat Poetry Self-Released
6 LEFT OF THE SLASH Won Self-Released
7 ARCTIC MONKEYS Live At Royal Albert Hall Domino
8 CAVE STATES The End Is Around The Corner [EP] Self-Released
9 LIAM MOORE Visions of a Perfect Life Self-Released
10 REDTENBACHER’S FUNKESTRA The Hang RSB

Top Ten World Albums

 

Artist Record Label
1 ILE NATALIA LAFOURCADE En Cantos Sony Latin
2 NATALIA LAFOURCADE Un Canto Por Mexico, Vol. 1 Sony
3 ORQUESTA FAILDE Failed Con Tumbao EGREM
4 OUMOU SANGARE Acoustic No Format!
5 DAN COSTA Live In California Self-Released
6 SONGHOY BLUES Optimisme Fat Possum
7 AZYMUTH, ADRIAN YOUNGE AND ALI SHAHEED MUHAMMAD Azymuth JID004 Jazz Is Dead
8 VUSI MAHLASELA Shebeen Queen ATO
9 SELVA SELECTS: THUNDERCLAPS VARIOUS ARTISTS Selva
10 GARMARNA Forbundet Season Of Mist

Top Ten Hip Hop Recordings

 

Artist Record Label
1 DYNLEMITE “In Your Eyes” [Single] Self-Released
2 COMMON A Beautiful Revolution Pt. 1 Loma Vista
3 SA-ROC The Sharecropper’s Daughter Rhymesayers
4 POTATOHEAD PEOPLE Mellow Fantasy Bastard Jazz
5 OPEN MIKE EAGLE Anime, Trauma And Divorce Auto Reverse
6 AESOP ROCK Spirit World Field Guide Rhymesayers
7 ATMOSPHERE The Day Before Halloween Rhymesayers
8 KOSHA DILLZ Nobody Cares Except You Rapperfriends
9 PINK SIIFU AND FLY ANAKIN FlySiifu’s Lex
10 TOBI Elements Vol. 1 Same Plate/RCA

Top Ten Jazz Albums

 

Artist Record Label
1 CHRISTIAN MCBRIDE The Movement Revisited Mack Avenue
2 BOBBY WATSON Keepin’ It Real Smoke Sessions
3 ANTONIO ADOLFO BruMa: Celebrating Milton Nascimento AAM
4 ARTEMIS Artemis Blue Note
5 CHAD LB VIRTUAL BIG BAND Quarantine Standards Sound Frame
6 GREGORY PORTER All Rise Blue Note
7 IAN HENDRICKSON-SMITH The Lowdown Cellar
8 JIMMY GREENE While Looking Up Mac Avenue
9 JOE FARNSWORTH Time To Swing Smoke Sessions
10 KAHIL EL’ZABAR America the Beautiful Spiritmuse

Top Ten Electronic / Dance Recordings

 

Artist Record Label
1 SYLVAN ESSO Free Love Loma Vista
2 RHYE Home [Advance Tracks] Loma Vista
3 POLE Fading Mute
4 ACTRESS Karma & Desire Ninja Tune
5 CABARET VOLTAIRE Shadow Of Fear Mute
6 ERIC HILTON The Impossible Silence Montserrat House
7 MAJOR LAZER Music Is The Weapon Mad Decent
8 MACHINEDRUM A View Of U Ninja Tune
9 ROISIN MURPHY Róisín Machine Skint/BMG
10 ELA MINUS Acts Of Rebellion Domino

World “Adds”  

Artist Record Label
1 DICOSIMO/PAGAN Con Moto SubCat
2 SUE MASKALERIS Love Is The Key Jazilian

Jazz “Adds”  

 

Artist Record Label
1 JOE BOWDEN Roots – Tales of the Urban Yoda Self-Released
2 DICOSIMO/PAGAN Con Moto SubCat
3 LE COQ JAZZ PRESENTS THE JAZZ ALLSTARS VOL. 1 VARIOUS ARTISTS Le Coq
4 SUE MASKALERIS Love Is The Key Jazilian

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