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Top Albums 5/10/2022

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, May 8th, 2022.  Our next airplay chart will be computed on May 17th, 2022!

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May 2nd, 2022 through May 8th, 2022

Top Ten Blues Albums

 

  Artist Record Label
1 BONNIE RAITT Just Like That… Redwing
2 DANA FUCHS Borrowed Time Ruf
3 EDGAR WINTER Brother Johnny Quarto Valley
4 KEB MO Good To Be… Rounder/Concord
5 CAROLYN WONDERLAND Tempting Fate Alligator
6 DELBERT MCCLINTON Outdated Emotion Hot Shot/Thirty Tigers
7 TAJ MAHAL AND RY COODER Get On Board Nonesuch
8 VANEESE THOMAS Fight The Good Fight Blue Heart
9 SON HOUSE Forever On My Mind Easy Eye/Concord
10 LARRY MCCRAY Blues Without You KTBA

 

Top Thirty Overall Most-Played Recordings

 

  Artist Record Label
1 BONNIE RAITT Just Like That… Redwing
2 ELI PAPERBOY REED Down Every Road Yep Roc
3 COWBOY JUNKIES Songs Of The Recollection Proper
4 DANA FUCHS Borrowed Time Ruf
5 EDGAR WINTER Brother Johnny Quarto Valley
6 DANIELIA COTTON Good Day Self-Released
7 DALLAS UGLY Watch Me Learn Self-Released
8 FATHER JOHN MISTY Chloe And The Next 20th Century Sub Pop
9 IAN NOE Rivers Fools & Mountain Saints Lock13/Thirty Tigers
10 KURT VILE (watch my moves) Verve
11 LIED TO’S, THE The Worst Kind Of New Self-Released
12 RAIN PERRY A White Album Precipitous
13 RIVER WHYLESS Monoflora Soundly
14 AMY SPEACE Tucson [EP] Self-Released
15 BECKY KAPELL In It To Win It [EP] Self-Released
16 CALEXICO El Mirador Anti-
17 DEAD SOUTH, THE Easy Listening For Jerks Pt 1 And 2 Six Shooter
18 DELBERT MCCLINTON Outdated Emotion Hot Shot/Thirty Tigers
19 JOHN MAYALL The Sun Is Shining Down Forty Below
20 KAITLIN BUTTS What Else Can She Do Soundly
21 KAREN TURNER Tonight There Might Be Stars [EP] Self-Released
22 LEYLA MCCALLA Breaking The Thermometer Anti-
23 OLD CROW MEDICINE SHOW Paint This Town ATO
24 PAULA BOGGS BAND Janus Self-Released
25 RAILROAD EARTH All For The Song Self-Released
26 TAJ MAHAL AND RY COODER Get On Board Nonesuch
27 VANEESE THOMAS Fight The Good Fight Blue Heart
28 PM WARSON True Story Légère
29 HOLLIER “Reckless Love” [Single] Dash Go
30 LARRY MCCRAY Blues Without You KTBA

 

Top “Adds”  

 

  Artist Record Label
1 BUILDERS AND THE BUTCHERS Hell & High Water Badman
2 BUILT TO SPILL “Gonna Lose” [Single] Sub Pop
3 ROLLING BLACKOUTS COASTAL FEVER Endless Rooms Sub Pop
4 STILL POINT, THE Full Circle Anthro-phonic
5 TWO TRUTHS “Electric Campfire” [EP] Self-Released
6 BLUE SOUL TEN This Is Worth It Greenhouse
7 GRAIN HOPPERS, THE Driving Evil Spirits Crazy Who Are These Guys
8 GUS ENGELHORN Dungeon Master Self-Released
9 LUMBEROB Language Learner Self-Released
10 SUKI WATERHOUSE I Can’t Let Go Sub Pop

 

Top Ten World Albums

 

  Artist Record Label
1 CONGOTRONICS INTERNATIONAL Where’s The One? Crammed Discs
2 MIGUEL ESPINOZA FLAMENCO FUSION Veneta Self-Released
3 WAYNE ALPERN Secular Rituals Henri Elkan
4 IBIBIO SOUND MACHINE Electricity Merge
5 PIERRE KWENDERS José Louis And The Paradox Of Love Arts & Crafts
6 LOS BITCHOS Let The Festivities Begin! City Slang
7 YUNGCHEN LHAMO Awakening Six Degrees
8 ROSALIA MOTOMAMI Columbia
9 IMARHAN Aboogi City Slang
10 ROKIA KONE AND JACKNIFE LEE Bamanan Real World

 

Top Ten Hip Hop Recordings

 

  Artist Record Label
1 DARRELL KELLEY “Insane In The Ukraine” [Single] Viral
2 DENZEL CURRY Melt My Eyez See Your Future Loma Vista/Concord
3 FLY ANAKIN Frank Lex
4 ROBERT GLASPER Black Radio III Loma Vista/Concord
5 KING KHAZM Return Of A MAD Fresh Chopped Beats
6 CARRTOONS HOMEGROWN Wichita
7 KOJEY RADICAL Reason To Smile Asylum/Atlantic
8 DEFCEE AND BOATHOUSE For All Debts Public And Private Closed Sessions
9 LINQUA FRANQA Bellringer Ernest Jenning
10 ACTION BRONSON Cocodrillo Turbo Loma Vista/Concord

 

Top Ten Jazz Albums

 

  Artist Record Label
1 CHARLES MINGUS The Lost Album From Ronnie Scotts Resonance
2 LISA HILTON Life Is Beautiful Self-Released
3 CHRIS TORKEWITZ NY Ensembles Goschart
4 MARK FILSINGER CHAMBER BIG BAND Groovin’ High Buffalo Jazz Collective
5 DAVID LARSEN G2 And You G2
6 JACKIE MESSINA Necessary Arrangements Self-Released
7 JOHN LEE The Artist Cellar
8 DIVA JAZZ ORCHESTRA, THE DIVA Swings Broadway DIVA Jazz
9 MARCELLO CARELLI The Era Self-Released
10 TAKE 2 Take 2 Outrageous8

 

Top Ten Electronic / Dance Recordings

 

  Artist Record Label
1 BLOODMOON Disarm (Remixes) Future Classic
2 JAMIE XX “Let’s Do It Again” [Single] Young
3 IBIBIO SOUND MACHINE Electricity Merge
4 TENSNAKE L.A. Noir True Romance
5 HEALTH DISCO 4 :: PART II Loma Vista/Concord
6 ACID ARAB Remixes Crammed Discs
7 ADULT Becoming Undone Dais
8 ISHI Sweet Gold Icons Creating Evil Art
9 BONOBO Fragments Ninja Tune
10 HIATUS KAIYOTE Mood Variant (The Remixes) Brainfeeder

 

Jazz “Adds” 

  Artist Record Label
1 JOHN LEE The Artist Cellar
2 MARK FILSINGER CHAMBER BIG BAND Groovin’ High Buffalo Jazz Collective
3 CHICAGO SOUL JAZZ COLLECTIVE MEETS DEE ALEXANDER On The Way To Be Free JMarq
4 YELENA ECKEMOFF I Am A Stranger In This World L And H

 

May 10, 2022 By Denis Howard

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