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, December 10th, 2023. Our last weekly airplay chart of 2023 is posted below. The music industry will return from its holiday vacation early next year and our next chart will be posted on Tuesday, January 9th (2024)!
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December 4th through December 10th, 2023
Top Thirty Overall Most-Played Recordings
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | MAMMA COAL | Dance Hall Crush | Self-Released |
| 2 | CAT POWER | Cat Power Sings Dylan: The 1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert | Domino |
| 3 | DAVID ARKENSTONE | Winterlüde | QDV |
| 4 | JULIANA HATFIELD | Juliana Hatfield Sings ELO | American Laundromat |
| 5 | CHARLIE MARS | Times Have Changed | Self-Released |
| 6 | JANICE JO LEE | Ancestor Song | Self-Released |
| 7 | MOUNTAIN GOATS, THE | Jenny From Thebes | Merge |
| 8 | SARA TRUNZO | “Taking My Power Back” [Single] | Self-Released |
| 9 | MATTHEWDAVID | Mycelium Music | Leaving |
| 10 | ALICE GERRARD | Sun To Sun | Sleepy Cat |
| 11 | BAHAMAS | Bootcut | Brushfire Republic |
| 12 | BILL BOOTH | River Town | Wheeling |
| 13 | BONNIE MONTGOMERY | River | Gar Hole |
| 14 | ISRAEL NASH | Ozarker | Desert Folklore/Soundly |
| 15 | JAIME WYATT | Feel Good | New West |
| 16 | JIM LAUDERDALE AND THE PO’ RAMBLIN’ BOYS | The Long And Lonesome Letting Go | Sky Crunch |
| 17 | KATHY KALLICK BAND, THE | The Lonesome Chronicles | Live Oak |
| 18 | NICK MOSS BAND | Get Your Back Into It! | Alligator |
| 19 | PERT NEAR SANDSTONE | Waiting Days | Self-Released |
| 20 | PRETENDERS | Relentless | Parlophone |
| 21 | RAY BONNEVILLE | On The Blind Side | Stonefly |
| 22 | RHIANNON GIDDENS | You’re The One | Nonesuch |
| 23 | ROLLING STONES, THE | Hackney Diamonds | Polydor |
| 24 | SELWYN BIRCHWOOD | Exorcist | Alligator |
| 25 | TEENAGE FANCLUB | Nothing Lasts Forever | Merge |
| 26 | TURNPIKE TROUBADOURS | A Cat In The Rain | Bossier City/Thirty Tigers |
| 27 | DURAN DURAN | Danse Macabre | Tape Modern |
| 28 | MUSTANGS OF THE WEST | Down At The Palomino | KZZ |
| 29 | CARLA OLSON | Have Harmony, Will Travel 3 | Have Harmony, WiIl Travel |
| 30 | MARGOT SERGENT | Douce France Sweet France | Zoho |
Top “Adds”
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | C’MON TIGRE | Habitat | Intersuoni |
| 2 | MIRANDA JOAN | Overstimulated | Self-Released |
| 3 | ICARUS JONES | Motion | Self-Released |
| 4 | KEITH CURTIS | Made To Move [EP] | Self-Released |
| 5 | MARA SOL | From The Sol [EP] | Self-Released |
| 6 | RYAN VAN DORDRECHT | Undone | Self-Released |
| 7 | BUSELLI-WALLARAB JAZZ ORCHESTRA | Carol Of The Bells | Patois |
| 8 | SLAUGHTER BEACH DOG | Crying, Laughing, Waving, Smiling | Lame-O |
| 9 | SUPER CITY | In The Midnight Room | SofaBurn |
| 10 | WILL BUTLER AND SISTER SQUARES | Will Butler + Sister Squares | Merge |
Top Ten World Recordings
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | AUGUSTUS PABLO | Roots, Rockers, & Dub | Nature Sounds |
| 2 | DENGUE FEVER | Ting Mong | Tuk Tuk |
| 3 | GENTICORUM | Au Coeur De L’Aube | Self-Released |
| 4 | LAURA RISK | Traverse | Self-Released |
| 5 | YUSOR HAMED | حبيبة الكل | MERLIN – Levantine |
| 6 | SOFIA KOURTESIS | Madres | Ninja Tune |
| 7 | GILMAR GOMES | “Barquinho” [Single] | Encuentro |
| 8 | SANDUNES | The Ground Beneath Her Feet | Tru Thoughts |
| 9 | MIGUEL ESPINOZA FUSION | Gabriella | Self-Released |
| 10 | AGUANKO | Unidad | Self-Released |
Top Ten Hip Hop Recordings
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | ERIKA MALONE | “Sunday Love” [Single] | EYM |
| 2 | AESOP ROCK | Integrated Tech Solutions | Rhymesayers |
| 3 | DANNY BROWN | Quaranta | Warp |
| 4 | DJ SHADOW | Action Adventure | Mass Appeal/Liquid Amber |
| 5 | ATMOSPHERE | Talk Talk [EP] | Rhymesayers |
| 6 | SHABAZZ PALACES | Robed In Rareness [EP] | Sub Pop |
| 7 | BUTCHER BROWN | Solar Music | Concord Jazz/Concord |
| 8 | SEAFOOD SAM | Afros In The Wind [EP] | drink sum wtr |
| 9 | JAMILA WOODS | Water Made Us | Jagjaguwar/Secretly Group |
| 10 | H31R | HeadSpace | Big Dada |
Top Ten Jazz Albums
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | ANDRE 3000 | New Blue Sun | Epic/Sony |
| 2 | DOMINIQUE FILS-AIME | Our Roots Run Deep | Ensoul |
| 3 | HANNAH GILL | Everybody Loves A Lover | Turtle Bay |
| 4 | JON CLEARY | So Swell | Single Lock |
| 5 | MARGOT SERGENT | Douce France Sweet France | Zoho |
| 6 | VERONICA SWIFT | Veronica Swift | Mack Avenue |
| 7 | MARK BURNELL | Gospel + Piano | Spectrum & Video |
| 8 | MOORE MCCOLL JAZZ SOCIETY, THE | Up And Gone | Madison |
| 9 | BENNETT PASTER | Radiance | Self-Released |
| 10 | VIN VENEZIA | The Venetian | Innervision |
Top Ten Electronic / Dance Recordings
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | MATTHEWDAVID | Mycelium Music | Leaving |
| 2 | BJORK | “Oral” feat. Rosalia [Single] | One Little Independent |
| 3 | KING GIZZARD AND THE LIZARD WIZARD | The Silver Cord | KGLW |
| 4 | SOFIA KOURTESIS | Madres | Ninja Tune |
| 5 | DJ SHADOW | Action Adventure | Mass Appeal/Liquid Amber |
| 6 | ACTRESS | LXXXVIII | Ninja Tune |
| 7 | METRIC | Formentera II | Metric/Thirty Tigers |
| 8 | MOCEAN WORKER | Boombox | MoWo Inc. |
| 9 | BARRY CAN’T SWIM | When Will We Land | Ninja Tune |
| 10 | KEYS N KRATES | IN:TENSION | Last Gang/MNRK |
World “Add”
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | GDZILLA | Gdzilla [EP] | Jonzing World |
Electronic “Adds”
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | HAIKU HANDS | Pleasure Beast | Spinning Top |
| 2 | TIGA AND HUDSON MOHAWKE | L’Ecstasy | Love Minus |
| 3 | ANALOGUE MONSTA | BOOM | Young Art |