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Top Albums 2/24/2026

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, February 22nd.  Our weekly airplay chart is posted below.  Our next chart will be posted on Tuesday, March 3rd.

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February 16th, 2026 through February 22nd, 2026

Top Thirty Overall Most-Played Recordings

Artist

Record

Label

1

PETER GALLWAY

Hardtail Strat Redux

Self-Released

2

EMILY SCOTT ROBINSON

Appalachia

Oh Boy

3

LAURIE LEWIS AND THE RIGHT HANDS

O’ California

Spruce And Maple

4

CLAY STREET UNIT

“Drive” [Single]

Leo33

5

GOODNIGHT MOONSHINE

Business Unusual

Self-Released

6

JAY BUCHANAN

Weapons Of Beauty

Sacred Sounds

7

MELISSA CARPER AND THEO LAWRENCE

Havin’ A Talk

Bee & El

8

BLACK KEYS, THE

“You Got To Lose” [Single]

Easy Eye Sound/Warner

9

BOY GOLDEN

Best Of Our Possible Live

Six Shooter

10

BRANDI CARLILE

Returning To Myself

Lost Highway/Interscope

11

CONNIE KALDOR

Wide Open Spaces

CEG

12

CORDOVAS

Back To Life

Yep Roc

13

DAVID HAYS

American Dream [EP]

Self-Released

14

ERIK VINCENT HUEY

“Fort Defiance” [Single]

Self-Released

15

I’M WITH HER

Sing Me Alive

Self-Released

16

JAMES HUNTER SIX, THE

Off The Fence

Easy Eye

17

KASHUS CULPEPPER

Act I

Big Loud

18

KEVIN MORBY

“Javelin” [Single]

Dead Oceans

19

LANGHORNE SLIM

The Dreamin’ Kind

Dualtone

20

LUCINDA WILLIAMS

World’s Gone Wrong

Highway 20/Thirty Tigers

21

NEKO CASE

Neon Grey Midnight Green

Anti-

22

TERESA JAMES AND THE RHYTHM TRAMPS

Bad At Being Good

MoMojo

23

TOM PAXTON AND JOHN MCCUTCHEON

Together Again

Appalsongs

24

SINNERS (ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK)

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Milan

25

WAYMORES, THE

The Knot

Keystone Artist Connect

26

SOMBR

I Barely Know Her

SMB/Warner

27

ERIC BIBB

One Mississippi

Repute

28

SMASH PALACE

“Poor Man’s Paradise” [Single]

Self-Released

29

FLASHCUBES, THE

“Reminisce” [Single]

Big Stir

30

JUST DESSERTS

Curtains

Earhorn

Top “Adds”  

Artist

Record

Label

1

THEA HOPKINS

Blossoms And Ghosts

Self-Released

2

BRAD PEARSALL

Don’t Let The Dark Night… [EP]

Self-Released

3

JOHNNY SOCIETY

Hope Machine

Old Soul

4

SOUVENIR SATELLITE

“Firefly” [Single]

Self-Released

5

FASCINATION 127

Memories Of Lebanon

Self-Released

6

TONY G TURNER

Songwriter [EP]

8 Studios

7

CODY PIPER

Revealed

Self-Released

8

DUSTY EDINGER

“Welcome To Our Demise” [Single]

Self-Released

9

KIES

“You’re Golden” [Single]

Wolf Moon

10

MIKE MAIMONE

Guess What? I Love You

8eat8

Top Ten World Albums

Artist

Record

Label

1

ELOISE AND CO

Avec Elodie

Self-Released

2

WANEES ZAROUR

Silwan

Levantine

3

MAC GOLLEHON AND THE HISPANIC MECHANICS

Pistoleros

WFO

4

ROSALIA

Lux

Columbia

5

AMADOU AND MARIAM

L’amour A La Folie

Because

6

SESSA

Pequena Vertigem De Amor

Mexican Summer

7

ANTIBALAS

Hourglass

Daptone

8

SILVANA ESTRADA

Vendran Suaves Lluvias

Glassnote

9

LUCHA LUNA

BRILLA BRILLA

Self-Released

10

CAPTAIN PLANET

Dig

Bastard Jazz

Top Ten Hip Hop Recordings

Artist

Record

Label

1

DE LA SOUL

Cabin In The Sky

Mass Appeal

2

DARRELL KELLEY

“ICE Cold Killerz” [Single]

Viral

3

MAVI

The Pilot

Loma Vista/Concord

4

IDK

Even The Devil Smiles

broke

5

NIGHTMARES ON WAX

Echo45 Sound System

Warp

6

DANNY BROWN

Stardust

Warp

7

ASAP ROCKY

Don’t Be Dumb

Self-Released

8

SUDAN ARCHIVES

THE BPM

Stones Throw

9

BY STORM

My Ghosts Go Ghost

deadAir

10

CLIPSE

Let God Sort Em Out

Roc Nation

Top Ten Jazz Albums

Artist

Record

Label

1

BRANDEE YOUNGER

Gadabout Season

Impulse

2

EMMA-JEAN THACKRAY

Weirdo

Brownswood

3

JONES FACTOR, THE

Not Sure

Self-Released

4

VANCOUVER JAZZ ORCHESTRA

Vancouver Jazz Orchestra Meets Brian Charette

Cellar

5

WILLOW

petal rock black

Three Six Zero

6

FALCONAIRES, THE

Watershed

US Air Force Academy

7

RICK ROE

Wake Up Call: The Music Of Gregg Hill

Cold Plunge

8

JOHN CLAY

About Time

ClayTone

9

AFRO CARIBBEAN JAZZ COLLECTIVE, THE

Cortadito

JBG

10

OUTERNET, THE

The Light And The Fury

Self-Released

Top Ten Electronic / Dance Recordings

Artist

Record

Label

1

ACTORS

“CTRL” [Single]

Artofact

2

ASGEIR

“Against The Current” [Single]

One Little Independent

3

RIVAL CONSOLES

Landscape From Memory

Erased Tapes

4

STEREOLAB

“Cloud Land” b/w “Flashes In The Afternoon” [Single]

Duophonic

5

TONY JOE WHITE

The Real Thing

Self-Released

6

DRAMA

Platonic Romance

AWAL

7

FRED AGAIN

USB

Atlantic

8

ROCHELLE JORDAN

Through The Wall

Empire

9

MANDY INDIANA

URGH

Sacred Bones

10

ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER

Tranquilizer

Warp

Jazz “Adds” 

Artist

Record

Label

1

KIES

“You’re Golden” [Single]

Wolf Moon

2

FALCONAIRES, THE

Watershed

US Air Force Academy

3

INTERPLAY JAZZ ORCHESTRA, THE

Bite Your Tongue

Big Time

4

SAM ROBINSON

Chasin’ The Dream

Miles High

February 24, 2026 By Denis Howard

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