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Top Albums 5/2/2023

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 30th, 2023.  Our next weekly airplay chart will be posted on Tuesday, May 9th.

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April 24th through April 30th, 2023

Top Thirty Overall Most-Played Recordings

Artist Record Label
1 ALISON BROWN On Banjo Compass
2 NICKEL CREEK Celebrants Repair/Thirty Tigers
3 ROBBIE FULKS Bluegrass Vacation Compass
4 ALEX BLIZZY A Step Behind Self-Released
5 ASHBY FRANK Leaving Is Believing Mountain Home
6 BAND OF HEATHENS, THE Simple Things Orchard Ruf
7 LISSA SCHNECKENBURGER Falling Forward Self-Released
8 LOW LILY Angels In The Wreckage Self-Released
9 MIGHTY POPLAR Mighty Poplar Free Dirt
10 RIFTERS, THE The Enchanted World Howlin’ Dog
11 VAN MORRISON Moving On Skiffle Virgin
12 WOOD BROTHERS, THE Heart Is The Hero Honey Jar/Thirty Tigers
13 ALLY VENABLE Real Gone Ruf
14 BOMBADILS, THE Dear Friend Self-Released
15 HOLD STEADY, THE The Price Of Progress Positive Jams/Thirty Tigers
16 IRIS DEMENT Workin’ On A World Flariella
17 JORGENSENS Americana Soul Paramour
18 KALOS Headland Self-Released
19 MARGO PRICE Strays Loma Vista/Concord
20 MEREDITH MOON Constellations True North
21 NEW PORNOGRAPHERS, THE Continue As A Guest Merge
22 ROUGH AND TUMBLE, THE Only This Far Self-Released
23 SUSANNA HOFFS The Deep End Independent
24 WARD HAYDEN AND THE OUTLIERS South Shore Pilot Whale
25 JE’TEXAS Je’Texas Self-Released
26 BETTYE LAVETTE “Plan B” [Single] Jay Vee
27 ROVES, THE Needle Factory Discotif
28 NICK WATERHOUSE The Fooler Innovative Leisure
29 ZOMBIES, THE Different Game Cooking Vinyl
30 WHITE OWL RED Running Blind Bourgeois Dawg

Top “Adds”  

Artist Record Label
1 KEN DUNN Anthology Volume 2 Self-Released
2 MELATI ESP Hipernatural Carpark
3 ALEX BLIZZY A Step Behind Self-Released
4 BORN TO FLY Reach For The Sky Human Tribe Experience
5 ERIKA OLSON This Is How I Pray Self-Released
6 JOSIE COTTON Day Of The Gun Kitten Robot
7 RANSOM AND THE SUBSET Perfect Crimes Futureman
8 RAVEIS KOLE In the Moment Bop
9 DAVID G SMITH Witness Trees Self-Released
10 SPECIAL CONSENSUS “Alberta Bound” [Single] Compass

Top Ten World Recordings

Artist Record Label
1 EASY STAR ALL-STARS Ziggy Stardub Easy Star
2 KALOS Headland Self-Released
3 RODRIGO Y GABRIELA In Between Thoughts… A New World ATO
4 GAULWAY RAMBLERS, THE The Gaulway Ramblers Self-Released
5 MICAH SHEMAIAH Jamaica Jamaica Evidence
6 CHEMBO CORNIEL QUINTET Artistas, Musicos Y Poetas Chemboro
7 MIGUEL ESPINOZA FLAMENCO FUSION Living In A Daydream Self-Released
8 BUZZ AMATO Muse Cafe Blue Canoe
9 REGINALD POLICARD AND RICHARD BONA “Melancolia” [Single] Encuentro
10 ELLA AND THE BOSSA BEAT In The Moment Self-Released

Top Ten Hip Hop Recordings

Artist Record Label
1 WAX TAILOR Fishing For Accidents Lab’oratoire
2 FLY ANAKIN Skinemaxxx (Side A) Lex
3 YAYA BEY Exodus The North Star [EP] Big Dada
4 B. COOL-AID Leather Blvd. Lex
5 DE LA SOUL 3 Feet High And Rising AOI/Chrysalis
6 LITTLE SIMZ NO THANK YOU Forever Living Originals/AWAL
7 RARELYALWAYS WORK Innovative Leisure
8 PLANET GIZA Ready When You Are NSVG
9 BENNY REID AND HAVOC The Infamous Live Fat Beats
10 EL MICHELS AFFAIR AND BLACK THOUGHT Glorious Game Big Crown

Top Ten Jazz Albums

Artist Record Label
1 WAYNE ESCOFFERY Like Minds Smoke Sessions
2 STEVE SMITH AND VITAL INFORMATION Time Flies Wounded Bird
3 PAUL LITTERAL Legacy Outrageous8
4 CANADIAN JAZZ COLLECTIVE Septology: The Black Forest Session HGBS Blue
5 CHEMBO CORNIEL QUINTET Artistas, Musicos Y Poetas Chemboro
6 MICHAEL DEASE The Other Shoe: The Music Of Gregg Hill Origin
7 NICK GREEN Green On The Scene Cellar
8 JUAN PASTOR/CHINCHANO Cachito Brace
9 CHRIS KEEFE Opening Zugzwangbebop
10 MIKE MELITO To Swing Is The Thing Cellar

Top Ten Electronic / Dance Recordings

Artist Record Label
1 M83 Fantasy Mute
2 100 GECS 10,000 gecs Dog Show/Atlantic
3 MOON BOOTS Ride Away Anjunadeep
4 DEBBY FRIDAY GOOD LUCK Sub Pop
5 FEVER RAY Radical Romantics Mute
6 MAGDALENA BAY Mini Mix Vol. 3 [EP] Luminelle
7 DEPECHE MODE Memento Mori Columbia/Sony
8 YVES TUMOR Praise A Lord Who Chews But Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds) Warp
9 YAEJI With A Hammer XL/Beggars Group
10 KELELA Raven Warp

Hip Hop “Add” 

Artist Record Label
1 KASHE “Stranded” [Single] JP Perez

Jazz “Adds” 

Artist Record Label
1 MICHAEL WETHERWAX AND THE KUPKASONIC JAZZ ORCHESTRA Big Band Trax By Wax Self-Released
2 ALISON CROCKETT Echoes Of An Era Redux Sol Image
3 ARTIE ROTH QUARTET Resonants TPR
4 DAVID LARSEN The Peplowski Project Self-Released

 

May 2, 2023 By Denis Howard

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