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Top Albums 4/8/2025

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 6th, 2025.  Our weekly airplay chart is posted below.  Our next chart will be posted on Tuesday, April 15th!

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March 31st through April 6th, 2025

Top Thirty Overall Most-Played Recordings

Artist Record Label
1 SIERRA HULL A Tip Toe High Wire Self-Released
2 JANIVA MAGNESS Back For Me Blue Elan
3 ALISON KRAUSS AND UNION STATION Arcadia Down The Road
4 DEVIL MAKES THREE, THE Spirits New West
5 KRIS DELMHORST Ghosts In The Garden Self-Released
6 MY MORNING JACKET Is ATO
7 CHARLEY CROCKETT Lonesome Drifter Lone Star Rider/Island/UMG
8 BASIA BULAT Basia’s Palace Secret City
9 BON IVER SABLE, [EP] Jagjaguwar/Secretly Group
10 HEATHER MALONEY Exploding Star Self-Released
11 JENNIFER LYN AND THE GROOVE REVIVAL Retrograde J&R Collective
12 KATHLEEN EDWARDS “Human Touch” feat. Bahamas [Single] Dualtone
13 KINKY FRIEDMAN “See You Down The Highway” [Single] Hardcharger
14 LILLY HIATT Forever New West
15 MIKE FARRIS The Sound Of Muscle Shoals Malaco
16 PAIGE PLAISANCE Louisiana Lonely Timeless Echo
17 PATTERSON HOOD Exploding Trees & Airport Screams ATO
18 PINE TREE FLYERS Pine Tree Flyers Self-Released
19 RINGO STARR Look Up UME
20 SEAN CHAMBERS Live From Daryl’s House Club Quarto Valley
21 STELLAR CRUISE Good Rat Gone Bad 8948126 DK
22 ELA MINUS DIA Domino
23 MACKLEMORE “Hind’s Hall” [Single] Bendo
24 TUBS, THE Cotton Crown Trouble In Mind
25 SLAINTE, BABY Ep One [EP] Self-Released
26 ALLY TAYLOR Hold The Line Honey Grove
27 ALEXIS CUNNINGHAM “Nice To Know You” [Single] Self-Released
28 FOX AND BONES Long Time Honey Self-Released
29 TUCKER WOODS Sunshine Blues Pleasantville
30 JOHN FAYE The Long Game ITP

Top “Adds” 

Artist Record Label
1 DILLARDS, THE Songs That Made Charlene Cry DillardSong
2 STELLA Adagio Sub Pop
3 TY STONEHAWKER Songs Of A Ramblin’ Man Stonehouse
4 NUKE THE SOUP Dancing On The Edge Meteor
5 ANNIE STOKES Ghostwriter Self-Released
6 DOMENIC CICALA As Good As It Gets/Vamoose Self-Released
7 ERIC SCHMITT Wait For The Night Self-Released
8 JEFFERSON ROSS Backstage Balladeer Self-Released
9 LOVESEAT Our Way Self-Released
10 DESTROYER Dan’s Boogie Merge

Top Ten World Recordings

Artist Record Label
1 CHEO “Si Estuvieras Aqui” [Single] Nacional
2 HERMANOS GUTIERREZ Sonido Cósmico Easy Eye Sound/Concord
3 LOS PIRAÑAS El nuevo Prometeo Glitterbeat
4 SLAINTE, BABY Ep One [EP] Self-Released
5 TRIADA De Versiones Y Alma [EP] Verve
6 TOMAS MARTIN LOPEZ Right Here bongotoms
7 ALSARAH AND THE NUBATONES Seasons Of The Road Self-Released
8 SONGHOY BLUES Héritage Transgressive/PIAS
9 JOAO SELVA Onda Underdog
10 EBO TAYLOR, ADRIAN YOUNGE AND ALI SHAHEED MUHAMMAD Ebo Taylor JID022 Jazz Is Dead

Top Ten Hip Hop Albums

Artist Record Label
1 BROTHER ALI Satisfied Soul Mello
2 ERROL EATS EVERYTHING Errol Eats Everything Big Chune
3 ANT Collection Of Sounds: Volume 4 Rhymesayers
4 MICHI Dirty Talk Stones Throw
5 KENDRICK LAMAR GNX Interscope
6 CLIPPING Dead Channel Sky Sub Pop
7 TYLER THE CREATOR Chromakopia Columbia/Sony
8 TOKIMONSTA Eternal Reverie Young Art
9 MIGHTY THEODORE The Old Rap Language Urbnet
10 LORD SKO PIFF Stimulated

Top Ten Jazz Albums

Artist Record Label
1 BENJAMIN BOONE Confluence: The Ireland SessionsI Origin
2 JADEN EVANS Evans On Evans Shamus
3 NDUDUZO MAKHATHINI uNomkhubulwane Blue Note
4 NNENNA FREELON Beneath The Skin Origin
5 RODNEY JORDAN Memphis Blue Baxter
6 WDR BIG BAND Bluegrass MCG Jazz
7 LOS ANGELES IMPROVISATION ENSEMBLE Insubordinate Lunar Transgressions Denouement
8 RODNEY WHITAKER Mosaic: The Music Of Gregg Hill Origin
9 PAUL HECHT Pyrography Ears & Eyes
10 RUSS ANIXTER’S HIPPIE BIG BAND What Is? Self-Released

Top Ten Electronic / Dance Recordings

Artist Record Label
1 ELA MINUS DIA Domino
2 ERIC HILTON “Je Ne T’aime Plus” feat. Natalia Clavier [Single] Montserrat House
3 FRED AGAIN Ten Days Atlantic UK
4 FLOATING POINTS Cascade Ninja Tune
5 KHRUANGBIN The Universe Smiles Upon You Self-Released
6 KIASMOS II Erased Tapes
7 MAX COOPER On Being Mesh
8 PEGGY GOU I Hear You XL
9 RUFUS DU SOL Inhale/Exhale Rose Avenue/Reprise
10 TOKIMONSTA Eternal Reverie Young Art

Jazz “Adds”  

Artist Record Label
1 GEOFFREY DEAN QUARTET Conceptions Cellar
2 JEFFREY GIMBLE Brand New Key Cafe Pacific
3 CHAD LB WITH STRINGS Time In A Bottle Bandstand Presents
4 PETER SMITH Smitty Straightens Out Real Magic
5 PHIL BROWN Rule Of Three A Caldera
6 REGGIE WATKINS Rivers BYNK
7 SILVANO MONASTERIOS The River Self-Released

World “Add”

Artist Record Label
1 SILVANO MONASTERIOS The River Self-Released

 

April 8, 2025 By Denis Howard

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