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 19th, 2024. Our weekly airplay chart is posted below. Our next chart will be posted on Tuesday, May 28th, 2024!
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May 13th through May 19th, 2024
Top Thirty Overall Most-Played Recordings
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | TAJ MAHAL | Swingin’: Live At The Church In Tulsa | Lighting Rod |
| 2 | RUTH MOODY | Wanderer | Self-Released |
| 3 | SIERRA FERRELL | Trail Of Flowers | Rounder/Concord |
| 4 | CHRIS SMITHER | All About The Bones | Signature Sounds |
| 5 | IRON AND WINE | Light Verse | Sub Pop |
| 6 | LOST DOG STREET BAND | Survived | Thirty Tigers |
| 7 | LIVE ON MOUNTAIN STAGE: OUTLAWS AND OUTLIERS | VARIOUS ARTISTS | Oh Boy |
| 8 | MY BLACK COUNTRY: THE SONGS OF ALICE RANDALL | VARIOUS ARTISTS | Oh Boy!/Thirty Tigers |
| 9 | ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO | Echo Dancing | Yep Roc |
| 10 | BAIT BAG | Electric Splash | Self-Released |
| 11 | BANNED FROM EDEN | Annex ’23 (Live At The Annex, Bar Harbor, Maine, August 24, 2023) | Self-Released |
| 12 | BLACKBERRY SMOKE | Be Right Here | 3 Legged/Thirty Tigers |
| 13 | KAIA KATER | Strange Medicine | Free Dirt |
| 14 | KIRAN AHLUWALIA | Comfort Food | Self-Released |
| 15 | LISA REDFERN | The Best Part | Self-Released |
| 16 | LIZZIE NO | Halfsies | Miss Freedomland/Thirty Tigers |
| 17 | MAGGIE ROSE | No One Gets Out Alive | Big Loud |
| 18 | OLD 97S | American Primitive | ATO |
| 19 | SARAH JAROSZ | Polaroid Lovers | Concord |
| 20 | STELLA PRINCE | Dear Future Me [EP] | Self-Released |
| 21 | LONESOME JOY | “Roll With The Thunder” [Single] | Self-Released |
| 22 | SIERRA GREEN AND THE GIANTS | “Break In The Road” [Single] | Serious Bob |
| 23 | SYDNEY SLEADD AND THE SWARM | Creature Untamed | Serious Bob |
| 24 | TUCKER WOODS | Sunshine Blues | Pleasantville |
| 25 | ADEEM THE ARTIST | Anniversary | Four Quarters/Thirty Tigers |
| 26 | BROADCAST | Spell Blanket – Collected Demos 2006-2009 | Warp |
| 27 | DANIELIA COTTON | “Roll On Mississippi” [Single] | Cottontown |
| 28 | BETH GIBBONS | Lives Outgrown | Domino |
| 29 | RED PEARS, THE | Better Late Than Never | Cosmica |
| 30 | ANN SAVOY | Another Heart | Smithsonian Folkways |
Top “Adds”
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | BETH GIBBONS | Lives Outgrown | Domino |
| 2 | BLAIR GUN | “Beat Happened” [Single] | Enabler No. 6 |
| 3 | COMFORT CLUB | Fear Of Moving On | Self-Released |
| 4 | DEHD | Poetry | Fat Possum |
| 5 | EDDIE LIGHTNER | Notes Of Life | Self-Released |
| 6 | HELIA TATLA | Helia Tatla [EP] | Self-Released |
| 7 | LA LUZ | News Of The Universe | Sub Pop |
| 8 | MASON VIA | “Hey Don’t Go” [Single] | Mountain Fever |
| 9 | STEPHANIE SAMMONS | Time And Evolution | Self-Released |
| 10 | WYLY BIGGER | Broken Telephone | Madjack |
Top Ten World Recordings
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | ALTAN | Donegal | Compass |
| 2 | COSKUN KARADEMIR | “If I Must Die” [Single] | Contrapol |
| 3 | ERWILIAN | Cascadia | Self-Released |
| 4 | HIATUS KAIYOTE | “Make Friends” [Single] | Brainfeeder |
| 5 | IBIBIO SOUND MACHINE | Pull The Rope | Merge |
| 6 | KHRUANGBIN | A LA SALA | Dead Oceans/Secretly Group |
| 7 | MAC GOLLEHON AND THE HISPANIC MECHANICS | Bite Of The Street | Nefarious |
| 8 | ALF JETZER | Unfolding | Self-Released |
| 9 | GLASS BEAMS | Mahal [EP] | Ninja Tune |
| 10 | MDOU MOCTAR | Funeral For Justice | Matador |
Top Ten Hip Hop Recordings
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | DARRELL KELLEY | “Big Woman” [Single] | Viral |
| 2 | SEAFOOD SAM | Standing On Giant Shoulders | drink sum wtr |
| 3 | CHUCK STRANGERS | A Forsaken Lover’s Plea | Lex |
| 4 | RITCHIE | Triple Digits [112] | AWAL |
| 5 | SHABAZZ PALACES | Exotic Birds Of Prey [EP]/Robed In Rareness [EP] | Sub Pop |
| 6 | CAKES DA KILLA | Black Sheep | Young Art |
| 7 | SLUM VILLAGE | F.U.N. | Fun |
| 8 | CZARFACE | Czartificial Intelligence | Silver Age/Virgin |
| 9 | CADENCE WEAPON | Rollercoaster | MNRK |
| 10 | ERICK THE ARCHITECT | I’ve Never Been Here Before | IDOL |
Top Ten Jazz Albums
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | BRENDA EARLE STOKES | Motherhood | Self-Released |
| 2 | AMBER WEEKS | A Lady With A Song | Self-Released |
| 3 | AMY GADIAGA | All Black Everything | Self-Released |
| 4 | BILL FRISELL | Orchestras | Blue Note |
| 5 | CHRISTIAN MCBRIDE AND EDGAR MEYER | But Who’s Gonna Play The Melody? | Mack Avenue |
| 6 | LAUFEY | Bewitched; the Goddess Edition | AWAL |
| 7 | SPIKE WILNER TRIO | Contrafactus | Cellar |
| 8 | STUART MACK | Vibrations | Self-Released |
| 9 | LEIGH PILZER’S SEVEN POINTED STAR | Beatin’ The Odds | Strange Woman |
| 10 | TROY ROBERTS | Green Lights | Toy Robot |
Top Ten Electronic / Dance Recordings
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | COLD CAVE | “Blackberries” [Single] | Heartworm Press |
| 2 | IBIBIO SOUND MACHINE | Pull The Rope | Merge |
| 3 | NIA ARCHIVES | Silence Is Loud | HIJINXX/Island/Universal |
| 4 | JUSTICE | Hyperdrama | Ed Banger/Because |
| 5 | VEGYN | The Road To Hell Is Paved With Good Intentions | PLZ Make It Ruins |
| 6 | LOGIC1000 | Mother | Because |
| 7 | ERIC HILTON | Sound Vagabond | Montserrat House |
| 8 | BAD TUNER | look at me but through me [EP] | Foreign Family Collective/Ninja Tune |
| 9 | FOUR TET | Three + | Text |
| 10 | CARAVAN PALACE | Gangbusters Melody Club | Le Plan |
Jazz “Adds”
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | BRENDA EARLE STOKES | Motherhood | Self-Released |
| 2 | AMBER WEEKS | A Lady With A Song | Self-Released |
| 3 | ANGELA VERBRUGGE | Somewhere | OA2 |
| 4 | CECE GABLE | Love On The Tyrrhenian | CCGable |