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, April 7th, 2020!
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Top Thirty Most-Played Recordings
Artist | Record | Label | |
1 | ANGEL FORREST | Hell Bent With Grace | Ad Litteram |
2 | BB KING BLUES BAND | The Soul Of The King | Ruf |
3 | BARE BACK RIDER | Wild East [EP] | Self-Released |
4 | BRAINSTORY | Buck | Big Crown |
5 | CHERYL CAWOOD | Love, Pearl | Self-Released |
6 | CHRIS MOYSE | Bitter Ballads & Cynical Prayers | Self-Released |
7 | CLAUDIA SCHMIDT | Slow Steady Heart | Self-Released |
8 | DAVID ALLEN | Regrets And Retribution | Self-Released |
9 | DAVID MYLES | Leave Tonight | Little Tiny |
10 | DENTALS, THE | Attention! | iGroove |
11 | DRIVE BY TRUCKERS | The Unraveling | ATO |
12 | FLOOK | Ancora | Flatfish |
13 | FRUITION | Broken At The Break Of Day | Self-Released |
14 | GEORGIA RANDALL | Help Wanted | Self-Released |
15 | GLENN JONES | Ready For The Good Times | Self-Released |
16 | GORDON THOMAS WARD | Eiderdown | Self-Released |
17 | JAMESTOWN REVIVAL | San Isabel | Thirty Tigers |
18 | JANIVA MAGNESS | Change In The Weather: Janiva Magness Sings John Fogerty | Blue Elan |
19 | JASON LEE MCKINNEY BAND | Pieces | Bonfire |
20 | JAY BROWN | Can’t Help But Wonder | Self-Released |
21 | LIZ MANDEVILLE | Playing With Fire | Self-Released |
22 | LONE BELLOW, THE | Half Moon Light | Dualtone |
23 | MINDY GLEDHILL | Rabbit Hole | Blue Morph |
24 | NATHANIEL RATELIFF | And It’s Still Alright | Stax/Concord |
25 | NEAL FRANCIS | Changes | Karma Chief |
26 | NORA JANE STRUTHERS | Bright Lights, Long Drives, First Words | Blue Pig |
27 | SHOVELS AND ROPE | By Blood | Dualtone/eOne |
28 | TAYLOR ASHTON | The Romantic | Signature Sounds |
29 | COME ON UP TO THE HOUSE: WOMEN SING WAITS | VARIOUS ARTISTS | Dualtone |
30 | 16 BARS | VARIOUS ARTISTS | Lightyear/Art: Pre-Ent |
Top “Adds
Artist | Record | Label | |
1 | CHERRY GIVENS | Mirror Mirror | Brainstorm |
2 | CLAUDETTES, THE | High Times In The Dark | Forty Below |
3 | BASIA BULAT | Are You In Love? | Secret City |
4 | TOBIN MUELLER | Wonder | Self-Released |
5 | TRISTONES, THE | Camaro | Self-Released |
6 | WAXAHATCHEE | Saint Cloud | Merge |
7 | WESTERN CENTURIES | Call The Captain | Self-Released |
8 | MOBROS, THE | Characters [EP] | Self-Released |
9 | SAM HUBER | Gravity Insanity [EP] | True Groove |
10 | SHASTA | Roaming Hearts [EP] | Dowd |
Top Ten World Recordings
Artist | Record | Label | |
1 | ALTIN GUN | Gece | ATO |
2 | FLOOK | Ancora | Flatfish |
3 | LA YEGROS | Suelta | X-Ray |
4 | KIKEE BAH | Berraca [EP] | Musique For Life |
5 | ANTIBALAS | Fu Chronicles | Daptone |
6 | SOTOMAYOR | Orígenes | Wonderwheel |
7 | SERGIO MENDES | In The Key Of Joy (Deluxe Edition) | Concord |
8 | SUNNY JAIN | Wild Wild East | Smithsonian Folkways |
9 | ACID ARAB | Jdid | Crammed |
10 | BROOKLYN FUNK ESSENTIALS | Stay Good | Dorado |
Top Ten Hip Hop / R & B Recordings
Artist | Record | Label | |
1 | DENZEL CURRY AND KENNY BEATS | Unlocked | Loma Vista |
2 | KOOL KEITH | Saks 5th Ave | Beast Van |
3 | KASSA OVERALL | I Think I’m Good | Brownswood |
4 | DJ SHADOW | Our Pathetic Age | Mass Appeal |
5 | ATMOSPHERE | Whenever | Rhymesayers |
6 | BROTHER ALI | Secrets & Escapes | Rhymesayers |
7 | STRO | Back On Saratoga | Mass Appeal |
8 | GIL SCOTT-HERON AND MAKAYA MCCRAVEN | We’re New Again: A Reimagining by Makaya McCraven | XL/Beggars Group |
9 | HALEEK MAUL | Errol | Lex |
10 | WIKI | OOFIE | Wikiset Ltd. |
Top Ten Jazz Albums
Artist | Record | Label | |
1 | ANGELA VERBRUGGE | The Night We Couldn’t Say Good Night | Gut String |
2 | MABEL KWAN | G.F. Haas:Trois Hommages | New Focus |
3 | MASSIMO BIOLCATI | Incontre | Sounderscore |
4 | FRANK COLON | Latin Lounge | Self-Released |
5 | ANSON WRIGHT | Only Love | Saphu |
6 | LARA DRISCOLL | Woven Dreams | Self-Released |
7 | JENNY DAVIS | Rearranged | Three Penny |
8 | SIMONE KOPMAJER | My Favorite Songs | Lucky Mojo |
9 | ELSA NILSSON | Hindsight | Bumblebee Collective |
10 | BLOOMERANGS | Moments And Fragments | Instru Dash Mental |
Top Ten Electronic / Dance Albums
Artist | Record | Label | |
1 | CARIBOU | Suddenly | Merge |
2 | YPPAH | Sunset In The Deep End | Future Archive |
3 | SQUAREPUSHER | Be Up A Hello | Warp |
4 | WAJATTA | Don’t Let Get You Down | Brainfeeder |
5 | GRIMES | Miss Anthropocene | 4AD/Beggars Group |
6 | DRAMA | Dance Without Me | Ghostly |
7 | DAN DEACON | Mystic Familiar | Domino |
8 | CERRONE | DNA | Because |
9 | CUBICOLOR | Hardly A Day, Hardly A Night | Anjunadeep |
10 | NICOLAS GODIN | Concrete And Glass | Because |
Hip Hop / R & B “Add”
Artist | Record | Label | |
1 | CHERRY GIVENS | Mirror Mirror | Brainstorm |
Electronic / Dance “Add”
Artist | Record | Label | |
1 | MILD MINDS | MOOD | Foreign Family Collective/Counter |
World “Add”
Artist | Record | Label | |
1 | JAH9 | Note To Self | VP |
Jazz “Adds”
Artist | Record | Label | |
1 | ADRIAN YOUNGE AND ALI SHAHEED MUHAMMAD | Jazz Is Dead | Self-Released |
2 | SIRAJ | Native Tongue | Self-Released |
3 | ENRIQUE HANEINE | Unlayered | Elegant Walk |
4 | GILFEMA | Three | souinderscore |
5 | RACHEL THERRIEN | VENA | Bonsai |
6 | ROBERT LEE | Ascension | Self-Released |