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Top Albums 5/24/2022

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 22nd, 2022.  Our next airplay chart will be computed on May 31st, 2022!

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May 16th, 2022 through May 22nd, 2022

Top Ten Blues Albums

 

  Artist Record Label
1 BONNIE RAITT Just Like That… Redwing
2 EDGAR WINTER Brother Johnny Quarto Valley
3 HURRICANE RUTH Live At 3rd & Lindsley Self-Released
4 BIG AL AND THE HEAVYWEIGHTS Love One Another Vizztone
5 KATIE HENRY On My Way RUF
6 JOHN MAYALL The Sun Is Shining Down Forty Below
7 KEB MO Good To Be… Rounder/Concord
8 LARRY MCCRAY Blues Without You KTBA
9 EMMA WILSON Wish Her Well Self-Released
10 GARY CAIN Next Stop Disktroid

 

Top Thirty Overall Most-Played Recordings

 

  Artist Record Label
1 BONNIE RAITT Just Like That… Redwing
2 SABERTOOTH SWING Delta Bound Slammin Media
3 KAITLIN BUTTS What Else Can She Do Soundly
4 FONTAINES DC Skinty Fia Partisan
5 WORKFORCE Set & Setting Must Make
6 EDGAR WINTER Brother Johnny Quarto Valley
7 HURRICANE RUTH Live At 3rd & Lindsley Self-Released
8 JEWEL Free Wheelin’ Woman Words Matter
9 KURT VILE (watch my moves) Verve
10 MUSKEG Say What You Want Self-Released
11 BIG AL AND THE HEAVYWEIGHTS Love One Another Vizztone
12 CARSON MCHONE Still Life Merge
13 DEER SCOUT Woodpecker Carpark
14 EDIE CAREY The Veil Hudson Harding
15 ERIN RAE Lighten Up Thirty Tigers
16 GRANT LEE PHILLIPS All That You Can Dream Yep Roc
17 JOHN MAYALL The Sun Is Shining Down Forty Below
18 KATIE HENRY On My Way RUF
19 KEB MO Good To Be… Rounder/Concord
20 KEVIN MORBY This Is A Photograph Dead Oceans/Secretly Group
21 LIED TO’S, THE The Worst Kind Of New Self-Released
22 RHYAN SINCLAIR Letters to Aliens Little Haunted Girls
23 SARAH SHOOK AND THE DISARMERS Nightroamer Abeyance/Thirty Tigers
24 STEPHEN CLAIR To The Trees Rock City
25 STEVE EARLE AND THE DUKES “Gettin’ By” [Single] New West
26 STEVE’S THEME PARK It’s A Global Rock Thing Self-Released
27 SUSAN CATTANEO All Is Quiet Self-Released
28 WILLIE NELSON A Beautiful Time Sony
29 WOOKS, THE Flyin’ High Gnar Vector
30 SUPERCHUNK Wild Loneliness Merge

 

Top “Adds”  

  Artist Record Label
1 BRIAN C TURNER “Holy Ghost Party” [Single] Self-Released
2 HILARY HAWKE WITH REED STUTZ LILYGILD Pickin’ Chicken
3 UFFIE Sunshine Factory Carpark
4 WEIRD NIGHTMARE Weird Nightmare Sub Pop
5 NADIA ACKERMAN Coconut Bunny Cake [EP] Natchie
6 BRITTANY JEAN The Collection Self-Released
7 MAMA’S BROKE Narrow Line Free Dirt
8 PALMS PSALM “Otuhaka (Dance)” b/w “The Coast” [Single] Hot Temp
9 SISTER RAY Communion Royal Mountain
10 STEPHEN JACQUES Send Them Love Self-Released

 

Top Ten World Recordings

 

  Artist Record Label
1 KABAKA PYRAMID “Make Things Work” [Single] Ghetto Youths International 2022
2 BLOODYWOOD Rakshak Bloodywood Private Limited
3 LILA IKE “True Love” [Single] In.Digg.Nation
4 MIGHTY MYSTIC Giant Self-Released
5 PROTOJE “Hills” [Single] In.Digg.Nation Collective/RCA
6 TARRUS RILEY “Love Salut” [Single] VP
7 RADHA BOTOFASINA Carry On Spirituals Vol. 2 Shaila
8 IBIBIO SOUND MACHINE Electricity Merge
9 PIERRE KWENDERS José Louis And The Paradox Of Love Arts & Crafts
10 CONGOTRONICS INTERNATIONAL Where’s The One? Crammed Discs

 

Top Ten Hip Hop Recordings

 

  Artist Record Label
1 DENZEL CURRY Melt My Eyez See Your Future Loma Vista/Concord
2 DEFCEE AND BOATHOUSE For All Debts Public And Private Closed Sessions
3 FLY ANAKIN Frank Lex
4 LINQUA FRANQA Bellringer Ernest Jenning
5 ACTION BRONSON Cocodrillo Turbo Loma Vista/Concord
6 ROBERT GLASPER Black Radio III Loma Vista/Concord
7 CARRTOONS HOMEGROWN Wichita
8 PUSHA T It’s Almost Dry Getting Out Our Dreams
9 KENDRICK LAMAR Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers pgLang/Top Dawg/Aftermath/Interscope
10 SAMPA THE GREAT “Lane” feat. Denzel Curry [Single] Loma Vista/Concord

 

Top Ten Jazz Recordings

 

  Artist Record Label
1 ART BLAKEY AND THE JAZZ MESSENGERS First Flight To Tokyo: The Lost 1961 Recordings Blue Note
2 NANCY KELLY Jazz Woman, The Reel To Real Sessions [EP] SubCat
3 MARCELLO CARELLI The Era Self-Released
4 MARCO PIGNATARO’S DREAM ALLIANCE Awakening Zoho
5 JIM SELF AND JOHN CHIODINI DUO, THE Hangin’ Out Basset Hound
6 AARON BAZZELL Aesthetic Self-Released
7 JACKIE MESSINA Necessary Arrangements Self-Released
8 DAVID LARSEN G2 And You G2
9 CHRIS TORKEWITZ NY Ensembles Goschart
10 DIVA JAZZ ORCHESTRA, THE DIVA Swings Broadway DIVA Jazz

 

Top Ten Electronic / Dance Recordings

 

  Artist Record Label
1 WORKFORCE Set & Setting Must Make
2 IBIBIO SOUND MACHINE Electricity Merge
3 ROYKSOPP Profound Mysteries Dog Triumph/PIAS
4 HARVEY SUTHERLAND Boy House Anxiety
5 HEALTH DISCO 4 :: PART II Loma Vista/Concord
6 HOT CHIP “Down” [Single] Domino
7 ISHI Sweet Gold Icons Creating Evil Art
8 ACID ARAB Remixes Crammed Discs
9 BONOBO Fragments Ninja Tune
10 TORO Y MOI MAHAL Dead Oceans

World “Add”  

 

  Artist Record Label
1 QUEEN KONG Fray Jmark

 

Hip Hop “Add” 

  Artist Record Label
1 BRIAN C TURNER “Holy Ghost Party” [Single] Self-Released

 

Jazz “Adds” 

  Artist Record Label
1 QUEEN KONG Fray Jmark
2 RANDY NAPOLEON Puppets, The Music Of Gregg Hill Origin Arts/OA2

 

May 24, 2022 By Denis Howard

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