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Top Albums 1/28/2020

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, February 4th, 2020!

Top Thirty Overall Most-Played Recordings

Artist Record Label
1 AWKWARD I Impossible Junction AntiFragile
2 BALLROOM THIEVES Unlovely Nettwerk
3 DEVENDRA BANHART Ma Nonesuch
4 LETITIA VANSANT Circadian Self-Released
5 VETIVER Up On High Mama Bird
6 AMINAH HUGHES Blue Wooden Boat Blue Wolf
7 BEN WINSHIP Acorns Snake River
8 BLUE HIGHWAY Somewhere Far Away Rounder
9 BOMBADIL Beautiful Country Ramseur
10 CEJ Adobe Road Gnosong
11 EMISUNSHINE AND THE RAIN Family Wars Little Blackbird
12 FRANK AND ALLIE LEE Treat A Stranger Right Bake Tone
13 FRUITION Broken At The Break Of Day Self-Released
14 GATHERING SPARKS All That’s Real Borealis
15 GRACE POTTER Daylight Fantasy
16 HEATHER PIERSON Lines And Spaces Vessel
17 JESSIE BUCKLEY Wild Rose Soundtrack Universal Island
18 JUDY COLLINS AND JONAS FIELD Winter Stories Cleopatra
19 LOUISA BRANSCOMB Gonna Love Anyway Compass
20 RISING APPALACHIA Leylines Self-Released
21 TIM O’BRIEN BAND Tim O’Brien Band Howdy Skies
22 VANCE GILBERT Good Good Man Self-Released
23 JUST AROUND THE BEND: SURVIVAL AND REVIVAL IN SOUTHERN BANJO STYLES – MIKE SEEGER’S LAST DOCUMENTARY VARIOUS ARTISTS Smithsonian Folkways
24 ALLAH LAS LAHS Mexican Summer
25 DARSHAN AMBIENT A Day Like Any Other Spotted Peccary
26 MIKE ZITO AND FRIENDS Rock N Roll A Tribute To Check Berry Ruf
27 LONG RYDERS Psychedelic Country Soul Self-Released
28 LOLA MARSH “Echoes” [Single] Anova
29 JESSE MALIN Sunset Kids Wicked Cool
30 HOLLIS BROWN Ozone Park Mascot/Cool Green

Top “Adds”  

Artist Record Label
1 CARLY RHOADES “Blind” [Single] Kick-A-Beat
2 BAMBARA Stray Wharf Cat
3 CALIBRO 35 Momentum Record Kicks
4 WOLF PARADE Thin Mind Sub Pop
5 DAVE LIEBMAN On The Corner Ear Up
6 KAT EDMONSON Dreamers Do Spinerette
7 MASSIMO BIOLCATI Incontre Sounderscore
8 BALLROOM THIEVES Unlovely Nettwerk
9 BONNY LIGHT HORSEMAN Bonny Light Horseman 37d03d
10 DUBIOZA KOLEKTIV #fakenews Menart

Top Ten World Recordings

Artist Record Label
1 HANZ ARAKI At Our Next Meeting Little Sea
2 EAST POINTERS, THE Yours To Break Self-Released
3 FLOOK Ancora Flatfish
4 GATEHOUSE Heather Down the Moor Gael Linn
5 JIGJAM Phoenix Self-Released
6 LAS CAFETERAS “Angel Baby” [Single] Self-Released
7 NATALIE MACMASTER Sketches Linus
8 DELINE BRISCOE Wawu Gaba
9 RAQUEL CEPEDA Passion Self-Released
10 BONGO HOP, THE Satingarona Pt. 2 Underdog

Top Ten Hip Hop / Dance Recordings

Artist Record Label
1 DANNY BROWN uknowhatimsayin¿ Warp
2 AVA CHERRY “Let’s Dance” [Single] Wake Up!
3 DJ SHADOW Our Pathetic Age Mass Appeal
4 BROTHER ALI Secrets & Escapes Rhymesayers
5 ATMOSPHERE Whenever Rhymesayers
6 SAMPA THE GREAT The Return Ninja Tune
7 ROBERT GLASPER Fuck Yo Feelings Loma Vista
8 STORMZY Heavy Is The Head Atlantic
9 FREDDIE GIBBS AND MADLIB Bandana Keep Cool/RCA/Madlib Invazion/ESGN
10 QUEEN AND SLIM SOUNDTRACK VARIOUS ARTISTS Motown

Top Ten Jazz Albums

Artist Record Label
1 JON BATISTE Chronology Of A Dream Verve
2 LOUIS ARMSTRONG Live In Europe Dot Time
3 HANK MOBLEY The Complete Hank Mobley Blue Note Sessions Mosaic
4 COACHELLA VALLEY TRIO Mid Century Modern DMAC
5 LIZZIE THOMAS New Sounds From The Jazz Age Self-Released
6 BILL CUNLIFFE TRIO Sunrise Over Molokai Metre
7 JONATHAN NG The Sphynx Self-Released
8 KENNY PORE A Place Across Town Self-Released
9 FRANK KOHL The Crossing Self-Released
10 DAN ROSENBOOM Absurd In The Anthropocene orenda

Top Ten Electronic / Dance Recordings

Artist Record Label
1 BATUK “Dahomey Warrior” [Single] Teka
2 MATEO KINGMAN Astro AYA
3 MEXICO CITY BLONDES Blush Burger
4 MUZI Album Zeno WE.THE.BUNDU
5 FRAMEWORKS Imagine Gold LOCI
6 AVA CHERRY “Let’s Dance” [Single] Wake Up!
7 DJ SHADOW Our Pathetic Age Mass Appeal
8 TEEBS Anicca Brainfeeder
9 TOURIST Wild Monday
10 LAPALUX Amnioverse Brainfeeder

Electronic “Adds”  

Artist Record Label
1 LANE 8 Brightest Lights This Never Happened
2 NICOLAS GODIN Concrete And Glass Because
3 MY BABY My Baby Live! PIAS
4 CERRONE DNA Because

Jazz “Adds”

Artist Record Label
1 JUSTIN VARNES Survival Instinct: The Evilution Of The Pack Self-Released
2 JEFF RUPERT WITH GEORGE GARZONE The Ripple Rupe
3 ERROLL GARNER Octave Remastered Series Sampler Volume 02 Mack Avenue
4 MARK SEGGER SEXTET Lift Off 18th Note
5 MASSIMO BIOLCATI Incontre Sounderscore

 

 

January 28, 2020 By Denis Howard

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