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Top Albums 4/17/2018

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 Tuesday, April 24th, 2018!

Top Thirty Recordings (based on airplay)

Artist Record Label
1 JOHN PRINE Tree of Forgiveness [Advance Tracks] Oh Boy
2 STEEP CANYON RANGERS Out in the Open Ramseur
3 WILLIE NELSON Last Man Standing [Advance Tracks] Legacy
4 EELS The Deconstruction E-Works/PIAS
5 BEN HARPER AND CHARLIE MUSSELWHITE No Mercy In This Land Anti-
6 DECEMBERISTS, THE I’ll Be Your Girl Capitol
7 KACEY MUSGRAVES Golden Hour Universal
8 YO LA TENGO There’s A Riot Going On Matador
9 ANNA AND ELIZABETH The Invisible Comes To Us Smithsonian Folkways
10 I’M WITH HER See You Around Rounder
11 MIPSO Edges Run Antifragile
12 PAUL THORN Don’t Let The Devil Ride Mutual Obscurity
13 BIRDS OF CHICAGO Love In Wartime Signature
14 BRANDI CARLILE By the Way, I Forgive You Elektra
15 CHRIS SMITHER Call Me Lucky Signature Sounds
16 DAVID BYRNE American Utopia Nonesuch
17 JOE JENCKS The Forgotten Turtle Bear
18 JONATHAN WILSON Rare Birds Bella Union/PIAS
19 KID RAMOS Old School Rip Cat
20 KIM RICHEY Edgeland Yep Roc
21 LAURA VEIRS The Lookout [Advance Tracks] Raven Marching Band
22 REVEREND FREAKCHILD Dial It In Floating
23 RICHIE AND ROSIE Nowhere in Time Self-Released
24 TERESA JAMES AND THE RHYTHM TRAMPS Here In Babylon Jesi-Lu
25 ARTICHOKE Echoes Greeen
26 AMY RAASCH Girls Get Cold Self-Released
27 BACKLINE A Thousand Wishes Poor Mountain
28 BELLE AND SEBASTIAN How To Solve Our Human Problems Matador
29 CASEY NEILL AND THE NORWAY RATS Subterrene Incident
30 DURHAM COUNTY POETS Grimshaw Road Self-Released

 

Top “Adds”

Artist Record Label
1 MANNY “Everywhere I Turn Is War” [Single] Self-Released
2 NEW ENGLAND JAZZ ENSEMBLE Peter and the Wolf Self-Released
3 GREYHOUNDS, THE Cheyenne Valley Drive Bud’s Recording Service
4 KAT EDMONSON Old Fashioned Gal MRI
5 KING TUFF The Other Sub Pop
6 DONOVAN WOODS Both Ways Meant Well
7 DON GALLARDO Trains Go By Rock Ridge
8 BRAZILIAN GIRLS Let’s Make Love Six Degrees
9 CHARLEY CROCKETT Lonesome As A Shadow Sons Of Davy/ Thirty Tigers
10 SPARROW BLUE Rabbit in the Moon Self-Released

 

Top Ten World Albums

Artist Record Label
1 CELTIC THUNDER Celtic Thunder X Legacy
2 ALTAN The Gap Of Dreams Compass
3 OUMOU SANGARE Mogoya No Format!
4 ROOTS OF CREATION Grateful Dub Bombshelter/Controlled Substance Lab
5 SALT HOUSE Undersong Self-Released
6 GUMBA FIRE: BUBBLEGUM SOUL AND SYNTH BOOGIE IN 1980S SOUTH AFRICA VARIOUS ARTISTS Soundway
7 CHARITY EKEKE She Unity Gain
8 FRETLESS, THE Live from the Art Farm Self-Released
9 HIGH KINGS, THE Decade: The Best of the High Kings Celtic Collections
10 NEW KINGSTON A Kingston Story: Come From Far Easy Star

 

Top Ten Hip Hop / R & B Recordings

Artist Record Label
1 CUT CHEMIST Die Cut A Stable Sound
2 BLACK PANTHER: THE ALBUM VARIOUS ARTISTS Top Dawg/Interscope
3 CARDI B Invasion of Privacy Atlantic
4 DRAKE “Nice For What” [Single] Young Money/Cash Money
5 PRINCE AMINE “Fuego” [Single] Red Rebel
6 FULTON COUNTY “Inside Out” (feat. Ebony Camille) [Single] JLawson
7 RICK DUFF High Life Osean Entertainment
8 LADY QUEET “One Hell Of A Day” (feat. Mr. Flamboyant) [Single] Picture Perfect
9 BLACK MILK FEVER Mass Appeal
10 PRHYME PRhyme 2

 

Top Ten Jazz Albums

Artist Record Label
1 BENJAMIN BOONE AND PHILIP LEVINE The Poetry Of Jazz Origin
2 CASEY ABRAMS Put A Spell On You Chesky
3 LAO TIZER BAND, THE Songs From The Swinghouse Yse
4 PHIL DEGREG TRIO Queen City Blues Self-Released
5 POST MODERN JUKE BOX The New Classics Concord
6 RONDI MARSH The Pink Room Self-Released
7 WYNTON MARSALIS SEPTET United We Swing Blue Engine
8 AARON ARANITA Segunda Vista Sugartown
9 AL DI MEOLA Opus Ear
10 HOT CLUB SANDWICH No Pressure Self-Released

Top Ten Electronic / Dance Recordings

Artist Record Label
1 CUT CHEMIST Die Cut A Stable Sound
2 MOBY Everything Was Beautiful And Nothing Hurt Mute
3 TUNE-YARDS I Can Feel You Creep Into My Private Life 4AD
4 PRINCE AMINE “Fuego” [Single] Red Rebel
5 WHAT SO NOT Not All The Beautiful Things Counter
6 KEYS N KRATES Cura Dim Mak
7 LE GALAXIE Pleasure Red River
8 KASBO Places We Don’t Know Foreign Family Collective
9 RHYE Blood Loma Vista
10 GEORGE FITZGERALD All That Must Be Double Six/Domino

April 17, 2018 By Denis Howard

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