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Top Albums 4/3/2018

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 the first day of spring — Tuesday, April 10th, 2018!

Top Thirty Recordings (based on radio airplay)

Artist Record Label
1 DECEMBERISTS, THE I’ll Be Your Girl Capitol
2 BELLE AND SEBASTIAN How To Solve Our Human Problems Matador
3 JOHN MCCUTCHEON Ghost Light Self-Released
4 DAVID BYRNE American Utopia Nonesuch
5 DEVA MAHAL “Snakes” [Single] Self-Released
6 BRANDI CARLILE By the Way, I Forgive You Elektra
7 CHRIS SMITHER Call Me Lucky Signature Sounds
8 NOUVEAUX HONKIES Loud in Here Self-Released
9 TRACY GRAMMER Low Tide Self-Released
10 BAHAMAS Earthtones Brushfire
11 BIRDS OF CHICAGO Love In Wartime Signature
12 CALEXICO The Thread That Keeps Us Anti-
13 CASEY NEILL AND THE NORWAY RATS Subterrene Incident
14 GLEN HANSARD Between Two Shores Anti-
15 JANIVA MAGNESS Love Is an Army Blue Elan
16 JOAN BAEZ Whistle Down the Wind Razor & Tie
17 JOSH ROUSE Love In The Modern Age Yep Roc
18 JULIA KASDORF Motel Tiki Sounds
19 KIM RICHEY Edgeland Yep Roc
20 MAMMALS, THE Sunshiner Humble Abode
21 RICHIE AND ROSIE Nowhere in Time Self-Released
22 SARAH CRIPPS Sarah Cripps Self-Released
23 TERESA JAMES AND THE RHYTHM TRAMPS Here In Babylon Jesi-Lu
24 BETTYE LAVETTE Things Have Changed Verve
25 BRADFORD BOG PEOPLE People Of The Bog Self-Released
26 CABIN DOGS Mountain Sun Crippled Hound
27 ED ROMANOFF The Orphan King Self-Released
28 GRANT LEE PHILLIPS Widdershins Yep Roc
29 I’M WITH HER See You Around Rounder
30 JEFF KRAUSE Naked And Hardhearted [EP] Self-Released

 

Top “Adds”

Artist Record Label
1 IRIE TIME “Unknowable” [Single] Inherent
2 FEED YOUR HEAD Self [EP] Self-Released
3 CLOVIS Always [EP] Johnny Caron
4 WARM CHORD Haunted Dreams [EP] Self-Released
5 PETER ROWAN Carter Stanley’s Eyes Rebel
6 LAURA VEIRS The Lookout [Advance Tracks] Raven Marching Band
7 HOP ALONG Bark Your Head Off, Dog [Advance Tracks] Saddle Creek
8 NO ALARMS No Alarms [EP] Andrew Lane
9 ORQUESTA AKOKAN Orquesta Akokan Daptone
10 TURBANS, THE The Turbans Six Degrees

 

Top Ten World Albums

 

Artist Record Label
1 ROOTS OF CREATION Grateful Dub Bombshelter/Controlled Substance Lab
2 ALTAN The Gap Of Dreams Compass
3 CHARITY EKEKE She Unity Gain
4 ELDERS True PubTone
5 KARAVAN SARAI Painted Sands Electrofone
6 KAVEH KARANDISH Silent Whispers Self-Released
7 LUNASA Cas Self-Released
8 NEW KINGSTON A Kingston Story: Come From Far Easy Star
9 OLD BLIND DOGS Room With A View Self-Released
10 OPEN THE DOOR FOR THREE The Joyful Hour Self-Released

 

Top Ten Hip Hop / R & B Recordings

Artist Record Label
1 BLACK PANTHER: THE ALBUM VARIOUS ARTISTS Top Dawg/Interscope
2 YOUNG FATHERS Cocoa Sugar Ninja Tune
3 PRINCE AMINE “Fuego” [Single] Red Rebel
4 FULTON COUNTY “Inside Out” (feat. Ebony Camille) [Single] JLawson
5 RICK DUFF High Life Osean Entertainment
6 DYGGZ “4Real4Real” [Single] NuVintage
7 LORD IVAN “Chips” [Single] Self-Released
8 LORD IVAN “Looka” [Single] Self-Released
9 BLACK MILK FEVER Mass Appeal
10 CUT CHEMIST Die Cut A Stable Sound

 

Top Ten Jazz Albums

 

Artist Record Label
1 BILL FRISELL Music Is OKeh
2 CASEY ABRAMS Put A Spell On You Chesky
3 AL DI MEOLA Opus Ear
4 LAUREN HENDERSON Armame Brontosaurus
5 CALLE MAMBO PROJECT See The Light Self-Released
6 DANNY FOX TRIO The Great Nostalgist Hot Cup
7 DIVA JAZZ ORCHESTRA 25th Anniversary Project ArtistShare
8 JASON KLOBNAK QUARTET Friends & Family Self-Released
9 JEN HODGE ALL STARS All’s Fair In Love And War Self-Released
10 MONIKA HERZIG Sheroes Whaling City

 

Top Ten Electronic / Dance Albums

Artist Record Label
1 GUMBA FIRE: BUBBLEGUM SOUL AND SYNTH BOOGIE IN 1980S SOUTH AFRICA VARIOUS ARTISTS Soundway
2 BOB HOLYROYD The Cage Self-Released
3 DJANGO DJANGO Marble Skies Ribbon
4 JLIN Black Origami Planet Mu
5 LOMA Loma Sub Pop
6 TUNE-YARDS I Can Feel You Creep Into My Private Life 4AD
7 UNTIL THE RIBBON BREAKS Until The Ribbon Breaks 1405/Kobalt
8 MOBY Everything Was Beautiful And Nothing Hurt Mute
9 SUPERORGANISM Superorganism Domino
10 KHRUANGBIN Con Todo El Mundo Dead Oceans

April 3, 2018 By Denis Howard

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