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, April 17th, 2022.  Our next airplay chart will be computed on April 26th, 2022!

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April 11th, 2022 through April 17th, 2022

Top Ten Blues Albums

 

	Artist	Record	Label
1	KEB MO	Good To Be	Rounder
2	KENNY “BLUES BOSS” WAYNE	Blues From Chicago To Paris	Stony Plain
3	DUKE ROBILLARD	They Called It Rhythm & Blues	Stony Plain
4	POLLY O”KEARY AND THE RHYTHM METHOD	50 (Fifty)	Self-Released
5	BUFFALO NICHOLS	Buffalo Nichols	Fat Possum
6	DEBRA POWER	I’m Not From Chicago	Self-Released
7	JOHN MAYALL	The Sun Is Shining Down	Forty Below
8	PROFESSOR LOUIE AND THE CROWMATIX	Strike Up The Band	Woodstock
9	LEW JETTON AND 61 SOUTH	Deja Hoodoo	Endless Blues
10	VANEESE THOMAS	Fight The Good Fight	Blue Heart

 

Top Thirty Most-Played Overall Recordings

	Artist	Record	Label
1	PM WARSON	True Story	Légère
2	RUPERT WATES	For The People	Self-Released
3	COWBOY JUNKIES, THE	Songs of the Recollection	Latent
4	KENNY “BLUES BOSS” WAYNE	Blues From Chicago To Paris	Stony Plain
5	KEB MO	Good To Be	Rounder
6	PROFESSOR LOUIE AND THE CROWMATIX	Strike Up The Band	Woodstock
7	DUKE ROBILLARD	They Called It Rhythm & Blues	Stony Plain
8	ELI PAPERBOY REED	“Mama Tried” [Single]	Yep Roc
9	JEREMY IVEY	Invisible Pictures	Anti-
10	YONDER MOUNTAIN STRING BAND	Get Yourself Outside	Frog Pad/Thirty Tigers
11	ALDOUS HARDING	Warm Chris	4AD
12	CAT POWER	Covers	Domino
13	DEBRA POWER	I’m Not From Chicago	Self-Released
14	EELS	Extreme Witchcraft	E Works/PIAS
15	HOLLIS BROWN	In The Aftermath	Cool Green
16	HURRICANE RUTH	Live At 3rd & Lindsley	Self-Released
17	JAKE XERXES FUSSELL	Good And Green Again	Paradise Of Bachelors
18	KAREN MORAND AND THE BOSCO BOYS	Ghost Hotel	Trespass
19	LANDON LLOYD MILLER	Light Shines Through	Twin Mesa/Soundly
20	SARAH SHOOK AND THE DISARMERS	Nightroamer	Abeyance/Thirty Tigers
21	WILDER BLUE, THE	The Wilder Blue	Soundly
22	ARCADE FIRE	“The Lightning I” b/w “The Lightning II” [Single]	Self-Released
23	SALLY SHAPIRO	Sad Cities	Italians Do It Better
24	DANIELIA COTTON	Good Day	Self-Released
25	HOLLIER	“Reckless Love” [Single]	Dash Go
26	LARRY MCCRAY	Blues Without You	KTBA
27	SULLY BAND (THE)	Let’s Straighten It Out	Belly Up
28	PETER CURTIS	Pete’s Pandemic Playlist	Bella Barktalk
29	VOLEBEATS, THE	“Diamond Ring” [Single]	Mad Bunny
30	ACCIDENTALS, THE	Time Out (Session #2)	Self-Released

Top “Adds”  

	Artist	Record	Label
1	MY IDEA	CRY MFER	Hardly Art
2	BRONZE	Absolute Compliance	Castle Face
3	EDGAR WINTER	Brother Johnny	Quarto Valley
4	JASON ERIE	Tiny Fires	Wirebird/Erie St.
5	SAVAK	Human Error/Human Delight	Peculiar Works
6	BRUNETTE	Brunette [EP]	Self-Released
7	NOT LEAVING SOBER	Not Leaving Sober [EP]	Self-Released
8	WOLF AND CLOVER	Twelvemonth & A Day	Self-Released
9	JASON DAVIS BAND, THE	1 Minute To Midnight	Self-Released
10	JON FULLER	When Did You Get So Damn Scared	Self-Released

 

Top Ten World Albums

 

	Artist	Record	Label
1	WAYNE ALPERN	Secular Rituals	Henri Elkan
2	MIGUEL ESPINOZA FLAMENCO FUSION	Veneta	Self-Released
3	IBIBIO SOUND MACHINE	Electricity	Merge
4	LOS BITCHOS	Let The Festivities Begin!	City Slang
5	DOWDELIN	Lanmou Lanmou	Underdog
6	COMBO CHIMBITA	Ire	Anti-
7	ROSALIA	MOTOMAMI	Columbia
8	IMARHAN	Aboogi	City Slang
9	ROKIA KONE AND JACKNIFE LEE	Bamanan	Real World
10	CEU	Um Gosto De Sol	Urban Jungle

 

Top Ten Hip Hop Recordings

 

	Artist	Record	Label
1	DREW LINES	“15 Minutes Of Fame” feat. Scotty Austin [Single]	Stryker
2	DARRELL KELLEY	“Insane In The Ukraine” [Single]	Viral
3	FLY ANAKIN	Frank	Lex
4	ROBERT GLASPER	Black Radio III	Loma Vista/Concord
5	DENZEL CURRY	Melt My Eyez See Your Future	Loma Vista/Concord
6	KOJEY RADICAL	Reason To Smile	Asylum/Atlantic
7	SAMM HENSHAW	Untidy Soul	Dorm Seven/AWAL
8	FKA TWIGS	CAPRISONGS	Young/Atlantic
9	KING KHAZM	Return Of A MAD	Fresh Chopped Beats
10	CENTRAL CEE	23 (Extended)	Self-Released

 

Top Ten Jazz Albums

 

	Artist	Record	Label
1	LE COQ JAZZ PRESENTS	The Jazz Allstars, Vol. 2	Le Coq
2	PETER CURTIS	Pete’s Pandemic Playlist	Bella Barktalk
3	LE VENT DU NORD	20 printemps	Self-Released
4	CHRIS TORKEWITZ	NY Ensembles	Goschart
5	DIVA JAZZ ORCHESTRA, THE	DIVA Swings Broadway	DIVA Jazz
6	DOUG MACDONALD	Overtones	Dmac
7	KENNY SHANKER	Vortex	Wise Cat
8	JIM SELF AND JOHN CHIODINI DUO, THE	Hangin’ Out	Basset Hound
9	SCOTT SILBERT BIG BAND	Jump Children	Self-Released
10	MARCELLO CARELLI	The Era	Self-Released

 

 

Top Ten Electronic / Dance Recordings 

	Artist	Record	Label
1	SALLY SHAPIRO	Sad Cities	Italians Do It Better
2	LANE 8	Reviver	This Never Happened
3	THOM YORKE	“5:17” [Single]	XL
4	CHARLOTTE ADIGERY AND BOLIS PUPUL	Topical Dancer	DEEWEE/Because
5	BOB MOSES	The Silence In Between	Domino/Astralwerks/Capitol
6	BONOBO	Fragments	Ninja Tune
7	IBIBIO SOUND MACHINE	Electricity	Merge
8	MAYLEE TODD	Maloo	Stones Throw
9	TENSNAKE	L.A. Noir	True Romance
10	DRAMA	Don’t Wait Up [EP]	Self-Released

 

World “Add” 

 

	Artist	Record	Label
1	RADHA BOTOFASINA	Carry On Spirituals Vol. 2	Shaila

 

Jazz “Adds” 

 

	Artist	Record	Label
1	SUSIE BLUE AND THE LONESOME FELLAS	Blue Train	Seraphic
2	GEORGE FREEMAN	Everybody Say Yeah!	Southport
3	DAVID LARSEN	G2 And You	G2
4	DEANNE MATLEY	The Alberta Lounge	self released
5	MARCO PIGNATARO’S DREAM ALLIANCE	Awakening	Zoho
6	SOMI	Zenzile: The Reimagination Of Miriam Makeba	Salon Africana
7	WAY NORTH	New Dreams, Old Stories	Roots2Boot
8	AARON BAZZELL	Aesthetic	Self-Released
9	CHRIS MONDAK	Glass Spheres	Summit
10	HARRY SKOLER	Living In Sound: The Music Of Charles Mingus	Sunnyside