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Top Albums 5/8/2018

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 past week.  The next new airplay chart will be posted on Tuesday, May 15th, 2018!

 

Top Thirty Recordings (based on airplay)

Artist Record Label
1 JOHN PRINE The Tree of Forgiveness Oh Boy
2 MAMMALS, THE Sunshiner Humble Abode
3 CHRIS SMITHER Call Me Lucky Signature Sounds
4 RY COODER The Prodigal Son Fantasy
5 WILLIE NELSON Last Man Standing Legacy
6 KIM RICHEY Edgeland Yep Roc
7 MISS EMILY Between Self-Released
8 VAN MORRISON AND JOEY DEFRANCESCO You’re Driving Me Crazy Sony/Legacy
9 YO LA TENGO There’s A Riot Going On Matador
10 KHRUANGBIN Con Todo El Mundo Dead Oceans
11 I’M WITH HER See You Around Rounder
12 JULIANA HATFIELD Juliana Hatfield Sings Olivia Newton-John American Laundromat
13 LEAKY BOOT JUG BAND “Atlantic City” / “Paper Wings” [Single] Self-Released
14 LLOYD GREEN AND JAY DEE MANESS Journey To the Beginning Coastal Blend
15 LOW LILY 10000 Days Like This Mad River
16 OLD CROW MEDICINE SHOW Volunteer [Advance Tracks] Self-Released
17 PHARIS AND JASON ROMERO Sweet Old Religion Lula
18 ABBE MAY Fruit Luxury Cat
19 BELLE AND SEBASTIAN How To Solve Our Human Problems Matador
20 BETTYE LAVETTE Things Have Changed Verve
21 BRANDI CARLILE By the Way, I Forgive You Elektra
22 CHUCK BRODSKY Them and Us Self-Released
23 DEAD HORSES My Mother The Moon Self-Released
24 DECEMBERISTS, THE I’ll Be Your Girl Capitol
25 DOM FLEMONS Black Cowboys Smithsonian Folkways
26 ERIKA WENNERSTROM Sweet Unknown Partisan
27 GLEN HANSARD Between Two Shores Anti-
28 HIGHLAND TRAVELERS, THE Highland Travelers Mountain Fever
29 JOHNNYSWIM AND DREW HOLCOMB AND THE NEIGHBORS “Ring The Bells” [Single] Goodbye Road
30 JOYANN PARKER Hard To Love Hopeless Romantic

 

Top “Adds”

Artist Record Label
1 HOLY KNIVES, THE Ritual Bloom Self-Released
2 LA LUZ Floating Features Hardly Art
3 MATT AND KIM Almost Everyday Fader
4 SLEEPWAR When We Were [EP] Self-Released
5 TOM ESCH The Modern Devices [EP] Self-Released
6 YONOSEI Blissed/Body Melt [EP] Self-Released
7 CHRIS STILLS Don’t Be Afraid Self-Released
8 DAVID GERALD N2U Self-Released
9 DAVID MYHR Lucky Day Lojinx
10 ELEANOR FRIEDBERGER Rebound Frenchkiss

 

Top Ten World Recordings

Artist Record Label
1 KIRAN AHLUWALIA 7 Billion Self-Released
2 ALTAN The Gap Of Dreams Compass
3 COLLIE BUDDZ “Legal Now” [Single] Harper Digital
4 CONNLA The Next Chapter Self-Released
5 DJENEBA AND FOUSCO Kayeba Khasso Lusafrica
6 JAY DOUGLAS Lovers Paradise (Best Of) Slammin
7 KARAVAN SARAI Painted Sands Electrofone
8 MOIRA SMILEY Unzip The Horizon Self-Released
9 NEW KINGSTON A Kingston Story: Come From Far Easy Star
10 OLD BLIND DOGS Room With A View Self-Released

 

Top Ten Hip Hop / R & B Recordings

Artist Record Label
1 PRINCE AMINE “Fuego” [Single] Red Rebel
2 D-WAC Just Keep Drinking Alive & Free
3 MANNY “Everywhere I Turn Is War” [Single] Self-Released
4 FULTON COUNTY “Inside Out” (feat. Ebony Camille) [Single] JLawson
5 RICK DUFF High Life Osean Entertainment
6 DR OCTAGON Moosebumps Bulk/Caroline
7 CUT CHEMIST Die Cut A Stable Sound
8 PRHYME PRhyme 2 PRhyme
9 DEL AND AMP LIVE Gate 13 Plug Research
10 PROF Pookie Baby Rhymesayers

 

Top Ten Jazz Albums

Artist Record Label
1 SHIRLEY CRABBE Bridges Mail Song
2 B’S BEES Kanata Django Heart
3 BENITO GONZALEZ/ GERRY GIBBS/ ESSIET OKON ESSIET Passion Reverence Transcendence: The Music Of McCoy Tyner Whaling City Sound
4 DELVON LAMARR ORGAN TRIO Close But No Cigar Colemine
5 JEFF DENSON Outside My Window Self-Released
6 MICHELLE COLTRANE Awakening Blujazz
7 MIKE CLARK AND DELBERT BUMP Retro Report Ropeadope
8 POST MODERN JUKE BOX The New Classics Concord
9 GLENN CRYTZER ORCHESTRA Ain’t It Grand? Self-Released
10 BILLY JONES 3’s A Crowd AC49

 

Top Ten Electronic / Dance Recordings

Artist Record Label
1 KHRUANGBIN Con Todo El Mundo Dead Oceans
2 LOMA Loma Sub Pop
3 BOB HOLYROYD The Cage Self-Released
4 RHYE Blood Loma Vista
5 TRACEY THORN Record Merge
6 CUT CHEMIST Die Cut A Stable Sound
7 MOBY Everything Was Beautiful And Nothing Hurt Mute
8 WHAT SO NOT Not All The Beautiful Things Counter
9 LE GALAXIE Pleasure Red River
10 DANIEL AVERY Song For Alpha Mute

 

Electronic / Dance “Adds”

Artist Record Label
1 KEYS N KRATES Cura Dim Mak
2 WHAT SO NOT Not All The Beautiful Things Counter
3 DANIEL AVERY Song For Alpha Mute
4 CHROME SPARKS Chrome Sparks Counter
5 NICKODEMUS A Long Engagement Wonderwheel

 

World “Adds”

Artist Record Label
1 FEMI KUTI One People One World Knitting Factory
2 GISTO OMW Historical
3 YIDDISH GLORY: THE LOST SONGS OF WORLD WAR II VARIOUS ARTISTS Six Degrees
4 KARAVAN SARAI Painted Sands Electrofone
5 ROOTS OF CREATION Grateful Dub Bombshelter/Controlled Substance Lab
6 MICHAEL WILLIAM GILBERT Radio Omnibus GIBEX
7 ORQUESTA AKOKAN Orquesta Akokan Daptone
8 TURBANS, THE The Turbans Six Degrees
9 KIRAN AHLUWALIA 7 Billion Self-Released
10 JAY DOUGLAS Lovers Paradise (Best Of) Slammin

 

Hip Hop / R & B “Adds”

Artist Record Label
1 E4T “How Can I Lose” [Single] Pretty Money
2 RECIPE, THE Funerals & Purgatory Self-Released
3 SAUKRATES Season 2 Culvert
4 GISTO OMW Historical
5 DESSA Chime Doomtree/INgrooves
6 JAMEL THOMAS One On The House National Defense
7 TAIZAUTIE I’m Up Boca
8 DR OCTAGON Moosebumps Bulk/Caroline
9 MIKE BARS Desperate Measures [EP] UnBranded
10 PROF Pookie Baby Rhymesayers

 

Jazz “Adds”

Artist Record Label
1 4S’D Man Or Muffin Hobart
2 MARK MCGRAIN Lone + Time + Divination Immersion
3 UNDER THE LAKE Jazz, Groove & Attitude Mind in Overdrive
4 DAN PUGACH NONET Plus One Unit
5 CHARLIE PEACOCK When Light Flashes… Twenty Ten
6 SAZZ LEONORE Fallen [EP] Self-Released
7 KEVIN CONNOR AND SWING 3PO Doin’ The New Lowdown Self-Released
8 LESLIE PINTCHIK You Eat My Food, You Drink My Wine, You Steal My Girl! Pintch Hard
9 MICHAEL MORREALE Miles Song PepJack
10 ROBERTA DONNAY AND THE PROHIBITION MOB My Heart Belongs To Satchmo Blujazz

 

May 9, 2018 By Denis Howard

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