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Top Albums 4/25/2023

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 23rd, 2023.  Our next weekly airplay chart will be posted on Tuesday, May 2nd.

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April 17th through April 23rd, 2023

Top Thirty Overall Most-Played Recordings

Artist Record Label
1 IRIS DEMENT Workin’ On A World Flariella
2 NICKEL CREEK Celebrants Repair/Thirty Tigers
3 ANDREW GABBARD Cedar City Sweetheart Karma Chief
4 BLUEST SKY, THE The Bluest Sky Self-Released
5 ERIC BIBB Ridin’ Repute/Stony Plain
6 MIGHTY POPLAR Mighty Poplar Free Dirt
7 SLAID CLEAVES Together Through The Dark Candy House
8 VAN MORRISON Moving On Skiffle Virgin
9 ALISON BROWN On Banjo Compass
10 BAND OF HEATHENS, THE Simple Things Orchard Ruf
11 BETH DESOMBRE The Sea Beside Us Self-Released
12 BOO BOO DAVIS Boo Boo Boogaloo Blue Lotus
13 CASUAL FANTASTIC The Big Reveal Self-Released
14 DAVID WAX MUSEUM “Luanne” [Single] Nine Mile
15 LISSA SCHNECKENBURGER Falling Forward Self-Released
16 MEREDITH MOON Constellations True North
17 MURLOCS, THE “Initiative” [Single] ATO
18 NEW PORNOGRAPHERS, THE Continue As A Guest Merge
19 ROBBIE FULKS Bluegrass Vacation Compass
20 ROUGH AND TUMBLE, THE Only This Far Self-Released
21 STEPHANIE ANNE JOHNSON Jewels Self-Released
22 SUSANNA HOFFS The Deep End Independent
23 MISS GRIT Follow The Cyborg Mute
24 WHITE OWL RED Running Blind Bourgeois Dawg
25 ZOMBIES, THE Different Game Cooking Vinyl
26 NICK WATERHOUSE The Fooler Innovative Leisure
27 MARC BROUSSARD SOS IV Blues For Your Soul KTBA
28 BETTYE LAVETTE “Plan B” [Single] Jay Vee
29 CIGARBOX MAN “I Am Not Terrified” [Single] Self-Released
30 CURSE OF KK HAMMOND Death Roll Blues Self-Released

 

Top “Adds”  

Artist Record Label
1 ALLAN CLARKE I’ll Never Forget BMG
2 DREN MCDONALD Pterous Appearing
3 OLLELLA Back Back Back Self-Released
4 RENA GUINN “Say It Straight” [Single] Self-Released
5 NICK MARECHAL American Roots Self-Released
6 STEVIE B “Lucifer’s Rain” [Single] Mia Mind
7 KRIS ANDERS Threshing Room Floor [EP] Self-Released
8 ONE ADAM ONE Where Do I Begin [EP] Die Trying
9 PATRICK AND DANIELS Good Vibes Self-Released
10 ALISON BROWN On Banjo Compass

Top Ten World Recordings

Artist Record Label
1 ALTIN GUN Ask ATO
2 ELLA AND THE BOSSA BEAT In The Moment Self-Released
3 MIGUEL ESPINOZA FLAMENCO FUSION Living In A Daydream Self-Released
4 BUZZ AMATO Muse Cafe Blue Canoe
5 REGINALD POLICARD AND RICHARD BONA “Melancolia” [Single] Encuentro
6 IFIHADAHIFI The Dryad Naked Muse
7 BAABA MAAL Being Marathon
8 ACID ARAB Trois Crammed Discs
9 JACKIE MENDOZA Galaxia De Emociones ZZK
10 DAVID WALTERS Soul Tropical Six Degrees

Top Ten Hip Hop Albums

Artist Record Label
1 RARELYALWAYS WORK Innovative Leisure
2 SOL MESSIAH GOD CMPLX Rhymesayers
3 LITTLE SIMZ NO THANK YOU Forever Living Originals/AWAL
4 WAX TAILOR Fishing For Accidents Lab’oratoire
5 B. KOOL AID Leather Blvd. Lex
6 DE LA SOUL 3 Feet High And Rising AOI/Chrysalis
7 100 GECS 10,000 gecs Dog Show/Atlantic
8 FLY ANAKIN Skinemaxxx (Side A) Lex
9 SWAMP THING Noise Machine Urbnet
10 YOUNG FATHERS Heavy Heavy Ninja Tune

Top Ten Jazz Albums

Artist Record Label
1 BILLY CHILDS The Winds Of Change Mack Avenue
2 LIA BOOTH Life Can Be Beautiful MetaJAX
3 TAJ MAHAL Savoy Linus/Stony Plain
4 MICHAEL DEASE The Other Shoe: The Music Of Gregg Hill Origin
5 MICHAEL WETHERWAX AND THE KUPKASONIC JAZZ ORCHESTRA Big Band Trax By Wax Self-Released
6 CHRIS KEEFE Opening Zugzwangbebop
7 MR CHAIR Better Days Self-Released
8 WAYNE ALPERN Saxology Henri Elkan
9 JEFF RICHMAN XYZ Blue Canoe
10 PLANET D NONET Blues To Be There, A Salute To Duke Ellington Eastlawn

Top Ten Electronic / Dance Albums

Artist Record Label
1 MISS GRIT Follow The Cyborg Mute
2 M83 Fantasy Mute
3 100 GECS 10,000 gecs Dog Show/Atlantic
4 MOON BOOTS Ride Away Anjunadeep
5 DEBBY FRIDAY GOOD LUCK Sub Pop
6 FEVER RAY Radical Romantics Mute
7 ALEX LUSTIG Fate (B-Sides) Pyur Beats
8 YVES TUMOR Praise A Lord Who Chews But Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds) Warp
9 DEPECHE MODE Memento Mori Columbia/Sony
10 KELELA Raven Warp

World “Add” 

Artist Record Label
1 SECRET SKY Opium Self-Released

 

Jazz “Adds” 

Artist Record Label
1 JOE MARCINEK BAND Dead Funk Summit Vintage League
2 CECILIA SMITH The Mary Lou Williams Resurgence Project Small Ensemble Repertoire Vol. 1 Innova
3 PAUL LITTERAL Legacy Outrageous8

 

April 25, 2023 By Denis Howard

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