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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, May 1st, 2018!
Top Thirty Albums (based on airplay)
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | WILLIE NELSON | Last Man Standing [Advance Tracks] | Legacy |
| 2 | BIRDS OF CHICAGO | Love In Wartime | Signature |
| 3 | BRANDI CARLILE | By the Way, I Forgive You | Elektra |
| 4 | JOHN PRINE | The Tree of Forgiveness | Oh Boy |
| 5 | KACEY MUSGRAVES | Golden Hour | Universal |
| 6 | LOW LILY | 10000 Days Like This | Mad River |
| 7 | DECEMBERISTS, THE | I’ll Be Your Girl | Capitol |
| 8 | BEN HARPER AND CHARLIE MUSSELWHITE | No Mercy In This Land | Anti- |
| 9 | CALEXICO | The Thread That Keeps Us | Anti- |
| 10 | ERIKA WENNERSTROM | Sweet Unknown | Partisan |
| 11 | GENTICORUM | Avant l’orage | Self-Released |
| 12 | KIM RICHEY | Edgeland | Yep Roc |
| 13 | LAURA VEIRS | The Lookout [Advance Tracks] | Raven Marching Band |
| 14 | PAUL THORN | Don’t Let The Devil Ride | Mutual Obscurity |
| 15 | STEEP CANYON RANGERS | Out in the Open | Ramseur |
| 16 | WOOD AND WIRE | North of Despair | Blue Corn |
| 17 | BETTYE LAVETTE | Things Have Changed | Verve |
| 18 | CASEY NEILL AND THE NORWAY RATS | Subterrene | Incident |
| 19 | DOC WATSON | Live at Club 47 | Yep Roc |
| 20 | ELIZABETH AND THE CATAPULT | Keepsake | Compass |
| 21 | GLEN HANSARD | Between Two Shores | Anti- |
| 22 | I’M WITH HER | See You Around | Rounder |
| 23 | JONATHAN WILSON | Rare Birds | Bella Union/PIAS |
| 24 | JOYANN PARKER | Hard To Love | Hopeless Romantic |
| 25 | KID RAMOS | Old School | Rip Cat |
| 26 | LINDSAY LOU | Southland | Self-Released |
| 27 | MAMMALS, THE | Sunshiner | Humble Abode |
| 28 | MIPSO | Edges Run | Antifragile |
| 29 | RICHIE AND ROSIE | Nowhere in Time | Self-Released |
| 30 | ROD PICOTT | Out Past The Wire | Welding Rod |
Top “Adds”
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | D-WAC | Just Keep Drinking | Alive & Free |
| 2 | PHOSPHENES | Find Us Where We’re Hiding | FAYZ |
| 3 | RAFAEL VIGILANTICS | Crime Is The Only Honest Pursuit [EP] | Blank City |
| 4 | CHUCK BRODSKY | Them and Us | Self-Released |
| 5 | JACKI STONE | Like Hell It’s Yours | El Hefe |
| 6 | SURRENDER HILL | Tore Down Fences | Blue Betty Community |
| 7 | CAMAROMANCE | Chasing Clouds | Simone |
| 8 | ETHAN PARKER | Sailing To Beverly [EP] | forever97 |
| 9 | GOOD LATIMER | Go Where It Snows | Self-Released |
| 10 | JAY DOUGLAS | Lovers Paradise (Best Of) | Slammin |
Top Ten World Recordings
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | LUNASA | Cas | Self-Released |
| 2 | FRETLESS, THE | Live from the Art Farm | Self-Released |
| 3 | IMAR | Afterlight | Big Mann |
| 4 | VASEN | Brewed | North Side |
| 5 | ALTAN | The Gap Of Dreams | Compass |
| 6 | ELDERS | True | PubTone |
| 7 | JUSTIN GRAY AND SYNTHESIS | New Horizons | Self-Released |
| 8 | KARAVAN SARAI | Painted Sands | Electrofone |
| 9 | NEW KINGSTON | A Kingston Story: Come From Far | Easy Star |
| 10 | ONDENO | “Mayolye” [Single] | Rocafort |
Top Ten Hip Hop / R & B Recordings
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | CARDI B | Invasion of Privacy | Atlantic |
| 2 | DRAKE | “Nice For What” [Single] | Young Money/Cash Money |
| 3 | MANNY | “Everywhere I Turn Is War” [Single] | Self-Released |
| 4 | DUCKWRTH | An Xtra Uugly Mixtape | Republic |
| 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 | CUT CHEMIST | Die Cut | A Stable Sound |
| 10 | DR OCTAGON | Moosebumps | Bulk/Caroline |
Top Ten Jazz Albums
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | ANDREAS VARADY | The Quest | Resonance |
| 2 | DELVON LAMARR ORGAN TRIO | Close But No Cigar | Colemine |
| 3 | LISA B | I Get A Kick: Cole Porter Reimagined | Jazzed Media |
| 4 | POST MODERN JUKE BOX | The New Classics | Concord |
| 5 | SHAREL CASSITY AND ELEKTRA | Evolve | Relsha |
| 6 | NEW ENGLAND JAZZ ENSEMBLE | Peter and the Wolf | Self-Released |
| 7 | RENEE ROSNES | Beloved Of The Sky | Smoke Sessions |
| 8 | OKB TRIO | The Ing… | QueensJazz |
| 9 | AL DI MEOLA | Opus | Ear |
| 10 | FLYING HORSE BIG BAND, THE | The Bat Swings | Flying Horse |
Top Ten Electronic / Dance Recordings
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | LOMA | Loma | Sub Pop |
| 2 | BOB HOLYROYD | The Cage | Self-Released |
| 3 | TUNE-YARDS | I Can Feel You Creep Into My Private Life | 4AD |
| 4 | TRACEY THORN | Record | Merge |
| 5 | SUPERORGANISM | Superorganism | Domino |
| 6 | PRINCE AMINE | “Fuego” [Single] | Red Rebel |
| 7 | MOBY | Everything Was Beautiful And Nothing Hurt | Mute |
| 8 | CUT CHEMIST | Die Cut | A Stable Sound |
| 9 | WHAT SO NOT | Not All The Beautiful Things | Counter |
| 10 | KASBO | Places We Don’t Know | Foreign Family Collective |