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. Our next airplay chart will be computed and posted on Tuesday, June 16th, 2020!
Community Radio WERU-FM 89.9 (Blue Hill) / weru.org
June 1st through 7th, 2020
Top Thirty Overall Most-Played Recordings
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | JAKE BLOUNT | Spider Tales | Free Dirt |
| 2 | STEVE EARLE AND THE DUKES | Ghosts Of West Virginia | New West |
| 3 | ELIZA GILKYSON | 2020 (Twenty Twenty) | Red House |
| 4 | GORDON THOMAS WARD | Eiderdown | Trespass |
| 5 | LUCINDA WILLIAMS | Good Souls Better Angels | Highway 20/Thirty Tigers |
| 6 | MARK ERELLI | Blindsided | Soundly |
| 7 | AMERICAN AQUARIUM | Me + Mine (Lamentations) | New West |
| 8 | CHARLIE BEDFORD | Good To Go | Blue Heart |
| 9 | DRIVE BY TRUCKERS | The Unraveling | ATO |
| 10 | JASON ISBELL AND THE 400 UNIT | Reunions | Southeastern/Thirty Tigers |
| 11 | KATIE PRUITT | Expectations | Rounder/Concord |
| 12 | PRETENDERS | Hate For Sale [Advance Tracks] | BMG |
| 13 | REVEREND FREAKCHILD | The Bodhisattva Blues | Treated And Released |
| 14 | STEVE HOWELL, DAN SUMNER AND JASON WEINHEIMER | Long Ago | Out Of The Past |
| 15 | ROBERT CRAY BAND | That’s What I Heard | Nozzle |
| 16 | PHARIS AND JASON ROMERO | Bet On Love | Lula |
| 17 | JESSE MALIN | “Backstabbers” b/w “Crawling Back To You” [Single] | Wicked Cool |
| 18 | ERIC HIRSHBERG | Spare Room | Beautiful Corner/UMG |
| 19 | BETTYE LAVETTE | “I Hold No Grudge” [Single] | Verve |
| 20 | DANIELIA COTTON | A Different War | Self-Released |
| 21 | BUTTERTONES, THE | Jazzhound | Innovative Leisure |
| 22 | ALIAS WAYNE | Snafu [EP] | Self-Released |
| 23 | ANDREW MCKNIGHT | Treasures In My Chest | Catalooch |
| 24 | ARLAN FEILES | What Kind of World | Not Pop |
| 25 | AUBRIE SELLERS | Far From Home | Soundly |
| 26 | BABE RAINBOW, THE | Today | 30th Century |
| 27 | BAIT BAG | Consider This A Warning [EP] | Self-Released |
| 28 | BALLROOM THIEVES | Unlovely | Nettwerk |
| 29 | BAND OF RUHKS | Authentic | Rebel |
| 30 | BAREFOOT MOVEMENT, THE | Rise And Fly [EP] | Bonfire |
Top “Adds”
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | HEATHCOTE HILL | “All I Remember Is You” b/w “Everything Slipping Away” [Single] | Self-Released |
| 2 | CASHFIRE SUNSET | Age Before Beauty | Self-Released |
| 3 | FORREST HILL | River Of Stars | Self-Released |
| 4 | JEFF MICHAELS BAND | Better When I’m Older | Self-Released |
| 5 | ROLLING BLACKOUTS COASTAL FEVER | Sideways To New Italy | Sub Pop |
| 6 | SWEET SPIRIT | Trinidad | Merge |
| 7 | ANDREW COLE AND THE BRAVO HOPS | Sparrow Fly [EP] | Self-Released |
| 8 | ERIC HIRSHBERG | Spare Room | Beautiful Corner/UMG |
| 9 | JOHN BAUMANN | Countryside | Self-Released |
| 10 | JONAH MUTONO | GERG | True Panther/EQT |
Top Ten World Albums
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | COMBO CHIMBITA | Ahomale | Anti- |
| 2 | LIDO PIMIENTA | Miss Colombia | Anti- |
| 3 | BUSCABULLA | Regresa | Ribbon |
| 4 | JAH9 | Note To Self | VP |
| 5 | TONY ALLEN AND HUGH MASEKELA | Rejoice! | World Circuit |
| 6 | SERGIO MENDES | In The Key Of Joy (Deluxe Edition) | Concord |
| 7 | ANTIBALAS | Fu Chronicles | Daptone |
| 8 | KARAVAN SARAI | Torn In Love | Electrofone |
| 9 | WU FEI AND ABIGAIL WASHBURN | Wu Fei & Abigail Washburn | Smithsonian Folkways |
| 10 | MOVES: CLUB CLASSICS | VARIOUS ARTISTS | Moves |
Top Ten Hip Hop / R & B Albums
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | SHABAZZ PALACES | The Don Of Diamond Dreams | Sub Pop |
| 2 | RJD2 | The Fun Ones | RJ’s Electrical Connections |
| 3 | BISHOP NEHRU | Nehruvia: My Disregarded Thoughts | Nehruvia |
| 4 | RUN THE JEWELS | RTJ4 | Jewel Runners/RBC/BMG |
| 5 | MOVES: CLUB CLASSICS | VARIOUS ARTISTS | Moves |
| 6 | TOM MISCH AND YUSSEF DAYES | What Kinda Music | Beyond The Groove/Blue Note/Caroline |
| 7 | THUNDERCAT | It Is What It Is | Brainfeeder |
| 8 | NAYA ALI | Godspeed: Baptism (Prelude) | Coyote |
| 9 | DENZEL CURRY AND KENNY BEATS | Unlocked | Loma Vista |
| 10 | JAMO GANG | Walking With Lions | Fat Beats |
Top Ten Jazz Albums
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | KANDACE SPRINGS | The Women Who Raised Me | Blue Note |
| 2 | CORY WEEDS QUARTET | Day By Day | Cellar |
| 3 | GOGO PENGUIN | GoGo Penguin | Blue Note |
| 4 | LAKECIA BENJAMIN | Pursuance: The Coltranes | Ropeadope |
| 5 | WAYNE ESCOFFERY | The Humble Warrior | Smoke Sessions |
| 6 | TROY ROBERTS | Stuff I Heard | Toy Robot |
| 7 | ENRIQUE HANEINE | Unlayered | Elegant Walk |
| 8 | NDUDUZO MAKHATHINI | Modes Of Communication: Letters From The Underworlds | Blue Note |
| 9 | HAROLD MABERN | Mabern Plays Mabern | Smoke Sessions |
| 10 | SHABAKA AND THE ANCESTORS | We Are Sent Here By History | Impulse! |
Top Ten Electronic / Dance Albums
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | CARIBOU | Suddenly | Merge |
| 2 | MOBY | All Visible Objects | Mute |
| 3 | AUSTRA | HiRUDiN | Domino |
| 4 | RONE | Room With A View | Infine |
| 5 | BIICLA | No Place [EP] | Good Luck Have Fun |
| 6 | YVES TUMOR | Heaven To A Tortured Mind | Warp |
| 7 | EMANCIPATOR | Mountain Of Memory | Loci |
| 8 | ADULT | Perception Is/As/Of Deception | Dais |
| 9 | BUSCABULLA | Regresa | Ribbon |
| 10 | THUNDERCAT | It Is What It Is | Brainfeeder |
Hip Hop / R & B “Adds”
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | SHABAZZ PALACES | The Don Of Diamond Dreams | Sub Pop |
| 2 | LOX CHATTERBOX | How To Live Forever | Illuminati Killers |
Electronic / Dance “Add”
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | HIFILO | Speak Your Name | Self-Released |
Jazz “Adds”
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | SWINGADELIC | Bluesville | ZOHO |
| 2 | HIFILO | Speak Your Name | Self-Released |
| 3 | JEFF REED | Look For The Light | Stricker Street |
| 4 | SAMOA WILSON WITH THE JIM KWESKIN BAND | I Just Want To Be Horizontal | Kingswood |