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Top Albums 5/3/2022

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 1st, 2022.  Our next airplay chart will be computed on May 10th, 2022!

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April 25th, 2022 through May 1st, 2022

Top Ten Blues Albums

 

Artist Record Label
1 BONNIE RAITT Just Like That… Redwing
2 VANEESE THOMAS Fight The Good Fight Blue Heart
3 HURRICANE RUTH Live At 3rd & Lindsley Self-Released
4 KEB MO Good To Be Rounder
5 GARY CAIN Next Stop Disktroid
6 ELIZA NEALS Badder to the Bone E-H
7 LEW JETTON AND 61 SOUTH Deja Hoodoo Endless Blues
8 STEVEN TROCH BAND The Call Self-Released
9 NIGHTHAWKS, THE EST 1972 Vizztone
10 WALK THAT WALK You Good Self-Released

 

Top Thirty Most-Played Overall Recordings

 

Artist Record Label
1 BONNIE RAITT Just Like That… Redwing
2 ELI PAPERBOY REED Down Every Road Yep Roc
3 KURT VILE (watch my moves) Verve
4 LIED TO’S, THE The Worst Kind Of New Self-Released
5 WEIGHT BAND, THE Shines Like Gold Self-Released
6 AMY SPEACE Tucson [EP] Self-Released
7 BEAU JENNINGS AND THE TIGERS Heavy Light Black Mesa
8 COWBOY JUNKIES Songs Of The Recollection Proper
9 HURRICANE RUTH Live At 3rd & Lindsley Self-Released
10 IAN NOE River Fools & Mountain Saints Lock13
11 JOHN ROY ZAT Where Zat Self-Released
12 MIDLAKE For The Sake Of Bethel Woods ATO
13 RAIN PERRY A White Album Precipitous
14 RIVER WHYLESS Monoflora Soundly
15 SARAH SHOOK AND THE DISARMERS Nightroamer Abeyance/Thirty Tigers
16 WEEPING WILLOWS You Reap What You Sow Self-Released
17 DESTROYER LABYRINTHITIS Merge
18 DIP, THE Sticking With It Dualtone
19 GRAND SOUTHERN Don’t Say Anything Hyphen & Dash
20 JEREMY IVEY Invisible Pictures Anti-
21 LYLE LOVETT “12th Of June” [Single] Verve
22 MATTIEL Georgia Gothic ATO
23 PAULA BOGGS BAND Janus Self-Released
24 RHYAN SINCLAIR Letters to Aliens Little Haunted Girls
25 ROXI COPLAND I Come From Crazy Self-Released
26 STAN DAVIS All They Know Self-Released
27 STEVE LUNDQUIST My Life In Song Self-Released
28 TALISK Dawn Self-Released
29 VANEESE THOMAS Fight The Good Fight Blue Heart
30 WILLIE NELSON A Beautiful Time Sony

 

Top “Adds”  

Artist Record Label
1 ANNETTE ADLER Mama Proud Self-Released
2 CHELSEA JADE Soft Spot Carpark
3 MIKE STEVENS Breathe In The World Breathe Out Music Stony Plain
4 POLYHEDREN Psychic BAMP
5 DANA GAVANSKI When It Comes Flemish Eye
6 SETH SWIRSKY Songs From The Green Couch Lollipop
7 YEAH BUDDY! BAND Hot Off The Line Self-Released
8 AMANDA STONE Love Me Like You Don’t Care [EP] Self-Released
9 CLEVER HOPES Artefact Self-Released
10 MANY VOICES SPEAK Gestures Strangers Candy

 

Top Ten World Albums

 

Artist Record Label
1 TALISK Dawn Self-Released
2 MICHOT’S MELODY MAKERS Tiny Island Nouveau Electric
3 SOUL SUGAR Excursions In Dub Gee
4 SERGIO PEREIRA Finesse Sedajazz
5 ERMELINDA CUELLAR What A Difference A Day Made Self-Released
6 MIGUEL ESPINOZA FLAMENCO FUSION Veneta Self-Released
7 WAYNE ALPERN Secular Rituals Henri Elkan
8 IBIBIO SOUND MACHINE Electricity Merge
9 LOS BITCHOS Let The Festivities Begin! City Slang
10 IMARHAN Aboogi City Slang

 

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 DEFCEE AND BOATHOUSE For All Debts Public And Private Closed Sessions
7 CENTRAL CEE 23 (Extended) Self-Released
8 KOJEY RADICAL Reason To Smile Asylum/Atlantic
9 HO99O9 Skin DTA
10 CARRTOONS HOMEGROWN Wichita

 

Top Ten Jazz Albums

 

Artist Record Label
1 JAZZ SABBATH Vol. 2 Self-Released
2 KENNY SHANKER Vortex Wise Cat
3 ANDREW BOUDREAU Neon Self-Released
4 LE COQ JAZZ PRESENTS The Jazz Allstars, Vol. 2 Le Coq
5 AARON SEEBER First Move Cellar
6 SCOTT SILBERT BIG BAND Jump Children Self-Released
7 CHRIS TORKEWITZ NY Ensembles Goschart
8 PHIL FEST Cafe Fon Fon Self-Released
9 DAVID LARSEN G2 And You G2
10 JACKIE MESSINA Necessary Arrangements Self-Released

 

Top Ten Electronic / Dance Albums

 

Artist Record Label
1 IBIBIO SOUND MACHINE Electricity Merge
2 TENSNAKE L.A. Noir True Romance
3 BOB MOSES The Silence In Between Domino/Astralwerks/Capitol
4 HEALTH DISCO 4 :: PART II Loma Vista/Concord
5 CHARLOTTE ADIGERY AND BOLIS PUPUL Topical Dancer DEEWEE/Because
6 BONOBO Fragments Ninja Tune
7 SALLY SHAPIRO Sad Cities Italians Do It Better
8 KAVINSKY Reborn Astralwerks
9 ADULT Becoming Undone Dais
10 ISHI Sweet Gold Icons Creating Evil Art

 

World “Add”

Artist Record Label
1 MIKE STEVENS Breathe In The World Breathe Out Music Stony Plain

 

Jazz “Adds”  

Artist Record Label
1 SIMONA SMIRNOVA Bird Language Self-Released
2 AARON ARANITA AND EASTBOUND Connection Sugartown
3 JOZEF NADJ Twenty Twenty One Multimedia
4 EVAN DRYBREAD Tiger Tail Self-Released
5 KIM NALLEY BAND WITH HOUSTON PERSON I Want A Little Boy KNJP
6 NANCY KELLY Jazz Woman, The Reel To Real Sessions [EP] SubCat

 

May 3, 2022 By Denis Howard

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