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Top Albums 3/27/2018

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.  The next new airplay chart will be posted on the first day of spring — Tuesday, April 3rd, 2018!

Top Thirty Recordings (based on radio airplay)

Artist Record Label
1 MAMMALS, THE Sunshiner Humble Abode
2 DAVID BYRNE American Utopia Nonesuch
3 DECEMBERISTS, THE I’ll Be Your Girl Capitol
4 BRANDI CARLILE By the Way, I Forgive You Elektra
5 CALEXICO The Thread That Keeps Us Anti-
6 KIM RICHEY Edgeland Yep Roc
7 LINDI ORTEGA Liberty Shadowbox
8 MICHELLE MALONE Slings and Arrows SBS
9 PRICE SISTERS, THE A Heart Never Knows Rebel
10 TRACY GRAMMER Low Tide Self-Released
11 FATHER JOHN MISTY “Mr. Tillman” [Single] Sub Pop
12 GLEN HANSARD Between Two Shores Anti-
13 JOSH ROUSE Love In The Modern Age Yep Roc
14 DJANGO DJANGO Marble Skies Ribbon
15 BAHAMAS Earthtones Brushfire
16 BECKY BULLER Crepe Paper Heart Dark Shadow
17 BELLE AND SEBASTIAN How To Solve Our Human Problems Matador
18 CHRIS SMITHER Call Me Lucky Signature Sounds
19 COURTNEY BARNETT Tell Me How You Really Feel [Advance Tracks] Mom + Pop
20 CURTIS HARDING Face Your Fear Anti-
21 GHALIA AND MAMA’S BOYS Let the Demons Out Ruf
22 GRANT LEE PHILLIPS Widdershins Yep Roc
23 HEATHER MALONEY Just Enough Sun Signature
24 JANIVA MAGNESS Love Is an Army Blue Elan
25 JIM MALCOLM AND SUSIE MALCOLM Spring Will Follow On Beltane
26 JOAN BAEZ Whistle Down the Wind Razor & Tie
27 JOHN GORKA True in Time Red House
28 JOHN MCCUTCHEON Ghost Light Self-Released
29 KING GIZZARD AND THE LIZARD WIZARD Gumboot Soup Flightless
30 LANGHORNE SLIM Lost At Last Vol. 1 Dualtone

 

Top “Adds”

Artist Record Label
1 NOUVEAUX HONKIES Loud in Here Self-Released
2 BIRDS OF CHICAGO Love In Wartime Signature
3 ERIN COSTELLO Down Below the Status Quo Factor:Canada
4 ARTHUR YORIA After You Self-Released
5 FRANKIE COSMOS Vessel Sub Pop
6 JESSE TERRY Natural Jackson Beach
7 SAM MORROW Concrete and Mud Forty Below
8 SUICIDAL TENDENCIES Get Your Fight On! Ingrooves
9 SWORD, THE Used Future Razor & Tie
10 AMAZING, THE “Rewind” [Single] Partisan

 

Top Ten World Albums

Artist Record Label
1 LUNASA Cas Self-Released
2 ALTAN The Gap Of Dreams Compass
3 ROOTS OF CREATION Grateful Dub Bombshelter/Controlled Substance Lab
4 CELTIC THUNDER Celtic Thunder X Legacy
5 ELDERS True PubTone
6 GORAN BREGOVIC Three Letters From Sarajevo Tetak / Mercury / Universal
7 INNA DE YARD The Soul of Jamaica Chapter Two
8 JAH SUN Between The Lines Sugar Cane
9 JUSTIN GRAY AND SYNTHESIS New Horizons Self-Released
10 LOS ZAFIROS Bossa Cubana World Circuit

 

Top Ten Hip Hop / R & B Recordings

Artist Record Label
1 GRAND ANALOG Survival [EP] Self-Released
2 FULTON COUNTY “Inside Out” (feat. Ebony Camille) [Single] JLawson
3 PRINCE AMINE “Fuego” [Single] Red Rebel
4 RICK DUFF High Life Osean Entertainment
5 DYGGZ “4Real4Real” [Single] NuVintage
6 LORD IVAN “Chips” [Single] Self-Released
7 LORD IVAN “Looka” [Single] Self-Released
8 EVIDENCE Weather Or Not Rhymesayers
9 BLACK MILK FEVER Mass Appeal
10 CUT CHEMIST Die Cut A Stable Sound

 

Top Ten Jazz Albums

Artist Record Label
1 DELVON LAMARR ORGAN TRIO Close But No Cigar Colemine
2 MONIKA HERZIG Sheroes Whaling City
3 DAN PUGACH NONET Plus One Unit
4 DEBORAH SWINEY I Remember Rio Self-Released
5 KEVIN BALES AND KERU JOHNSRUD Beyond the Neighborhood Self-Released
6 ANDREW NEU Catwalk CGN
7 DIVA JAZZ ORCHESTRA 25th Anniversary Project ArtistShare
8 JEN HODGE ALL STARS All’s Fair In Love And War Self-Released
9 IRA B. LISS BIG BAND JAZZ MACHINE Tasty Tunes Tall Man Productions
10 PAT BATTSTONE SEXTET Elements Leo

 

Top Ten Electronic / Dance Recordings

Artist Record Label
1 DJANGO DJANGO Marble Skies Ribbon
2 LOMA Loma Sub Pop
3 TUNE-YARDS I Can Feel You Creep Into My Private Life 4AD
4 FEVER RAY Plunge Mute
5 GRAND ANALOG Survival [EP] Self-Released
6 PRINCE AMINE “Fuego” [Single] Red Rebel
7 MOBY Everything Was Beautiful And Nothing Hurt Mute
8 KEYS N KRATES Cura Dim Mak
9 NIGHTMARES ON WAX Shape The Future Warp
10 LANE 8 Little By Little This Never Happened

 

March 27, 2018 By Denis Howard

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