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Top Albums 1/16/2024

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 week ending on Sunday, January 14th, 2024.  Our weekly airplay chart is posted below.  Our next chart will be posted on Tuesday, January 23rd, 2024!

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January 8th through January 14th, 2024

Top Thirty Overall Most-Played Recordings

Artist Record Label
1 CLEMENTS BROTHERS, THE Dandelion Breeze Plow Man
2 JENNIFER PORTER Yes, I Do! Self-Released
3 CARRIE NEWCOMER A Great Wild Mercy Available Light
4 EMMA WILSON Memphis Calling Orchard
5 LUCKY STROKES WITH EDDIE ROBERTS “Whiskey Makes Me Stronger” [Single] Color Red
6 SUZY BOGGUS Prayin’ For Sunshine Royal Duchess
7 MORE THAN A WHISPER: CELEBRATING THE MUSIC OF NANCI GRIFFITH VARIOUS ARTISTS Rounder/Concord
8 ALICE DI MICELE Interpretations Vol 1 Alice Otter
9 ALISON BROWN On Banjo Compass
10 BARBARO About the Winter Self-Released
11 KENNY WAYNE SHEPHERD Dirt On My Diamonds Vol. 1 Provogue
12 MARGO CILKER Valley Of Heart’s Delight Fluff And Gravy
13 SUFJAN STEVENS Javelin Asthmatic Kitty
14 TODD SNIDER Crack It We’re Doomed Orchard
15 AESOP ROCK Integrated Tech Solutions Rhymesayers
16 EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL Fuse Buzzin Fly/Verve
17 WAX TAILOR Fishing For Accidents Lab’oratoire
18 ANTHONY ROSANO AND THE CONQUEROOS Cheat The Devil Whiskey Bayou
19 26FIX “Stone Killer” [Single] MakeOutMusic
20 BB STEVENS Not My Monkeys [EP] Stryker
21 JEFF LAKE Midnight Sun Self-Released
22 CARLA OLSON Have Harmony, Will Travel 3 Have Harmony, WiIl Travel
23 ANTON O’DONNELL Tomber Sur PRW Need To Know
24 ALLAH-LAS Zuma 85 Calico Discos/Innovative Leisure
25 TAYLOR NAUTA Weather the Storm Self-Released
26 ANTONIO ANDRADE My Reward Life Shakes
27 BLACK MILK Everybody Good? Mass Appeal
28 BEATLES, THE “Now And Then” [Single] Capitol
29 CHUCK STRANGERS “A Forsaken Lover’s Plea” [Single] Lex
30 BECKY WILES Free Kind Of Me Self-Released

Top “Adds”  

Artist Record Label
1 DIANE COLL Old Ghosts Happy Fish
2 AARON FERGUSON In The Islands Self-Released
3 JESSICA CARTER ALTMAN Aftermath [EP] Self-Released
4 LINDA MARKS A Recipe For Hope Self-Released

 

Top Ten World Recordings

Artist Record Label
1 BOMBINO Sahel Partisan
2 ZUCO 103 Telenova Six Degrees
3 GILMAR GOMES “Barquinho” [Single] Encuentro
4 MIGUEL ESPINOZA FUSION Gabriella Self-Released
5 DENGUE FEVER Ting Mong Tuk Tuk
6 OKAN Okantomi Lulaworld
7 ELISAPIE Inuktitut Bonsound
8 EL BUHO Strata Wonderwheel
9 PACHYMAN Switched-On ATO
10 SINEGO Alterego Self-Released

Top Ten Hip Hop Recordings

Artist Record Label
1 AESOP ROCK Integrated Tech Solutions Rhymesayers
2 WAX TAILOR Fishing For Accidents Lab’oratoire
3 BLACK MILK Everybody Good? Mass Appeal
4 CHUCK STRANGERS “A Forsaken Lover’s Plea” [Single] Lex
5 DANGER MOUSE AND JEMINI Born Again Lex
6 DANNY BROWN Quaranta Warp
7 KIPP STONE 66689 BLVD Closed Sessions
8 RARELYALWAYS WORK Innovative Leisure
9 ERIKA MALONE “Sunday Love” [Single] EYM
10 SHABAZZ PALACES Robed In Rareness [EP] Sub Pop

Top Ten Jazz Recordings

Artist Record Label
1 LAUFEY Bewitched AWAL
2 VINCE MENDOZA AND METROPOLE ORKEST Olympians Modern/BMG
3 AMBROSE AKINMUSIRE Owl Song Nonesuch
4 ANDRE 3000 New Blue Sun Epic/Sony
5 BUTCHER BROWN “Down With The King” [Single] Concord Jazz
6 COUNT BASIE ORCHESTRA Swings The Blues Candid
7 LIONMILK Intergalactic Warp Terminal 222 Leaving
8 JACK JONES FEATURING JOEY DEFRANCESCO Artwork Cavalry
9 DAVE STRYKER TRIO WITH BOB MINTZER Groove Street Strikezone
10 DENIN SLAGE-KOCH It Comes In Waves SK

Top Ten Electronic / Dance Recordings

Artist Record Label
1 PETITE NOIR MotherFather Roya
2 SUZANNE CIANI AND JOHNATHAN FITOUSSI Golden Apples of the Sun Obliques
3 US GIRLS Bless This Mess 4AD
4 SOFIA KOURTESIS Madres Ninja Tune
5 DJ SHADOW Action Adventure Mass Appeal/Liquid Amber
6 ACTRESS LXXXVIII Ninja Tune
7 MOCEAN WORKER Boombox MoWo Inc.
8 CHEMICAL BROTHERS, THE For That Beautiful Feeling Republic
9 QUANTIC Dancing While Falling Play It Again Sam
10 TIGA AND HUDSON MOHAWKE L’Ecstasy Love Minus

Jazz “Adds”  

Artist Record Label
1 ROB DIXON Standards Deluxe Indianapolis Jazz
2 DAVE STRYKER TRIO WITH BOB MINTZER Groove Street Strikezone
3 FRANCESCO CROSARA Circular Motion OA2
4 JUN IIDA Evergreen OA2
5 MARIUS VAN DEN BRINK New York Knock NYC Highline
6 PETER ERSKINE Bernstein in Vienna Origin

 

January 16, 2024 By Denis Howard

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