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 5th, 2024. Our weekly airplay chart is posted below. Our next chart will be posted on Tuesday, May 14th, 2024!
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April 29th through May 5th, 2024
Top Thirty Overall Most-Played Recordings
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | LIVE ON MOUNTAIN STAGE: OUTLAWS AND OUTLIERS | VARIOUS ARTISTS | Oh Boy |
| 2 | CHRISTIAN PARKER | Change Is Now: A Tribute To The Byrds | SubCat |
| 3 | SYDNEY SLEADD AND THE SWARM | Creature Untamed | Serious Bob |
| 4 | DIANE COLL | Old Ghosts | Happy Fish |
| 5 | OLD 97S | American Primitive | ATO |
| 6 | SIERRA FERRELL | Trail Of Flowers | Rounder/Concord |
| 7 | CHARLIE PARR | Little Sun | Smithsonian Folkways |
| 8 | DANIELLE NICOLE | The Love You Bleed | Forty Below |
| 9 | LISA REDFERN | The Best Part | Self-Released |
| 10 | SHERYL CROW | Evolution | Old Green Barn/Big Machine |
| 11 | STELLA PRINCE | Dear Future Me [EP] | Self-Released |
| 12 | ALEX HARRIS | Back to Us | Shanachie |
| 13 | AOIFE O’DONOVAN | All My Friends | Yep Roc |
| 14 | BROOKS WILLIAMS | Diamond Days | Red Guitar Blue |
| 15 | BROTHERS BROWN | Nowhere Left To Go | Woodward Ave. |
| 16 | JESSE DAYTON | “Talking Company Man Blues” [Single] | Blue Elan |
| 17 | JOHN ZIPPERER | Devil Rail | Self-Released |
| 18 | LITTLE FEAT | Sam’s Place | Hot Tomato |
| 19 | LORDE | “Take Me To The River” [Single] | A24 |
| 20 | LOUISA STANCIOFF | When We Were Looking | Yep Roc |
| 21 | ROBERT REID | Dreams And Dust | Self-Released |
| 22 | SARAH SHOOK AND THE DISARMERS | Revelations | Abeyance |
| 23 | SUGARCANE JANE | On A Mission | Admiral Bean |
| 24 | TYLER RAMSEY | New Lost Ages | Soundly |
| 25 | POWER OF THE HEART: A TRIBUTE TO LOU REED | VARIOUS ARTISTS | Light In The Attic |
| 26 | MY BLACK COUNTRY: THE SONGS OF ALICE RANDALL | VARIOUS ARTISTS | Oh Boy! |
| 27 | FOUR TET | Three | Text |
| 28 | ANDY MILNE | Time Will Tell | Sunnyside |
| 29 | ERWILIAN | Cascadia | Self-Released |
| 30 | DANIELIA COTTON | “Roll On Mississippi” [Single] | Cottontown |
Top Ten World Recordings
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | STEPHEN MARLEY | Old Soul | Tuff Gong Collective/UMe/Ghetto Youths |
| 2 | CONGO FUNK! SOUND MADNESS FROM THE SHORES OF THE MIGHTY CONGO RIVER | VARIOUS ARTISTS | Analog Africa |
| 3 | ALTAN | Donegal | Compass |
| 4 | DENGUE FEVER | Ting Mong | Tuk Tuk |
| 5 | ERWILIAN | Cascadia | Self-Released |
| 6 | HERMANOS GUTIERREZ | “Sonido Cósmico” [Single] | Easy Eye/Concord |
| 7 | IXTAHUELE | “Zebra Limbo” [Single] | Subliminal Sounds |
| 8 | MATT AND SHANNON HEATON | Whirring Wings | Self-Released |
| 9 | AFRO CARIBBEAN JAZZ COLLECTIVE, THE | Fiesta At Caroga | Self-Released |
| 10 | AO MUSIC | Otherness | Abbeywood |
Top Ten Hip Hop Recordings
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | CHUCK STRANGERS | A Forsaken Lover’s Plea | Lex |
| 2 | RITCHIE | Triple Digits [112] | AWAL |
| 3 | SEAFOOD SAM | Standing On Giant Shoulders | drink sum wtr |
| 4 | ERICK THE ARCHITECT | I’ve Never Been Here Before | IDOL |
| 5 | WAHID | feast, by raven | Innovative Leisure/Praises Due |
| 6 | CAKES DA KILLA | Black Sheep | Young Art |
| 7 | SHABAZZ PALACES | Exotic Birds Of Prey [EP]/Robed In Rareness [EP] | Sub Pop |
| 8 | ANA TIJOUX | Vida | Victoria Producciones |
| 9 | CZARFACE | Czartificial Intelligence | Silver Age/Virgin |
| 10 | CADENCE WEAPON | Rollercoaster | MNRK |
Top Ten Jazz Recordings
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | DAVE GOLDBERG | The Other Side | Tritone |
| 2 | TERELL STAFFORD | Between Two Worlds | Le Coq |
| 3 | ANDY MILNE | Time Will Tell | Sunnyside |
| 4 | GERRY GIBBS THRASHER PEOPLE | Family | Whaling City Sound |
| 5 | HOT CLUB OF LOS ANGELES | Nova | Self-Released |
| 6 | LORI BELL QUARTET | Recorda Me: Remembering Joe Henderson | Self-Released |
| 7 | NILS | Feelin’ Good | BAJA |
| 8 | PERIPHERAL VISION | We’ve Got Nothing | Self-Released |
| 9 | JOHN DOKES | Our Day | Swing Theory |
| 10 | TODD MOSBY | “Georgia’s World” [Single] | Self-Released |
Top Ten Electronic / Dance Recordings
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | FOUR TET | Three | Text |
| 2 | NIA ARCHIVES | Silence Is Loud | HIJINXX/Island/Universal |
| 3 | LOGIC1000 | Mother | Because |
| 4 | ERIC HILTON | Sound Vagabond | Montserrat House |
| 5 | VEGYN | The Road To Hell Is Paved With Good Intentions | PLZ Make It Ruins |
| 6 | CARAVAN PALACE | Gangbusters Melody Club | Le Plan |
| 7 | BOLIS PUPUL | Letter To Yu | DEEWEE/Because |
| 8 | BAD TUNER | look at me but through me [EP] | Foreign Family Collective/Ninja Tune |
| 9 | NIGHT CLUB | Masochist | Gato Blanco |
| 10 | JUSTICE | Hyperdrama | Ed Banger/Because |
Jazz “Adds”
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | DAVID BIXLER | BEATitude | Tiger Turn |
| 2 | JOHN DOKES | Our Day | Swing Theory |
| 3 | RICCIARDI RONSTADT | “Blue Bayou” [Single] | R&R |
| 4 | TROY ROBERTS | Green Lights | Toy Robot |
| 5 | WIN PONGSAKORN | Time Has Changed | Cellar |
Electronic “Adds”
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | CHRISTIAN LOFFLER | A Life | ki |
| 2 | AMEN DUNES | “Purple Land” [Single] | Sub Pop |