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Top Albums 8/17/2021

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, August 24th, 2021.

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August 9th, 2021 through August 15th, 2021

Top Thirty Overall Most-Played Recordings

 

  Artist Record Label
1 BRIAN JACKSON, ALI SHAHEED MUHAMMAD AND ADRIAN YOUNGE Brian Jackson JID008 Jazz Is Dead
2 TROY ROBERTS AND TIM JAGO Best Buddies Toy Robot
3 FLATLANDERS, THE Treasure Of Love Rack ‘Em/Thirty Tigers
4 COLIN HAY I Just Don’t Know What To Do With Myself Compass
5 HISS GOLDEN MESSENGER Quietly Blowing It Merge
6 JIM LAUDERDALE Hope Yep Roc
7 TEDESCHI TRUCKS BAND Layla Revisited Atco
8 VINCENT NEIL EMERSON Vincent Neil Emerson La Honda
9 WALLFLOWERS Exit Wounds New West
10 GENESIS OWUSU Smiling With No Teeth House Anxiety/Ourness
11 WHEELUP Good Love Tru Thoughts
12 AMYL AND THE SNIFFERS “Security” [Single] ATO
13 ANYA HINKLE Eden And Her Borderlands Organic
14 CURTIS SALGADO Damage Control Alligator
15 DEBBIE BOND Blues Without Borders Blues Root
16 DONNA HERULA Bang At The Door Self-Released
17 EARLY TIMES AND THE HIGH ROLLERS The Corner Vizztone
18 ELLEN FOLEY Fighting Words Urban Noise
19 GARY LOURIS Jump For Joy Sham
20 GOLDENOAK Room To Grow Self-Released
21 JESSE DANIEL Boyond These Walls Self-Released
22 KING GIZZARD AND THE LIZARD WIZARD Butterfly 3000 KGLW
23 MAC LEAPHART Music City Joke Self-Released
24 MICHAEL J. MILES New Century Suite Self-Released
25 MOUNTAIN GOATS, THE Dark In Here Merge
26 MURRAY MCLAUCHLAN Hourglass True North
27 ROAN YELLOWTHORN Another Life Self-Released
28 ROBIN AND LINDA WILLIAMS A Better Day A-Coming Oakenwold
29 SHOOTOUTS, THE Bullseye Soundly
30 STEVE DAWSON At The Bottom Of A Canyon In The Branches Of A Tree Pravda

 

Top “Adds” 

  Artist Record Label
1 FURIOUS SEASONS Home All Day, Home All Night Self-Released
2 CHAPELL Two Fishes Self-Released
3 ALICE BRIGHTSKY American Town Self-Released
4 HEATHER LAYNE Shine [EP] Self-Released
5 LIARS The Apple Drop Mute
6 STEPHEN JACQUES Soul Hydraulics Self-Released
7 DESIRE MAREA Desire Mute
8 SUMMER DEAN Bad Romantic Self-Released
9 TOMBSTONES IN THEIR EYES Looking For A Light Kitten Robot/Somewhere Cold
10 TRIPPY HEARTS Lacewing Self-Released

 

Top Ten World Albums

 

  Artist Record Label
1 JIMMY CLIFF Human Touch Universal Enterprises
2 MOONSHINE SMS For Location, Vol. 4 Forseen
3 ALEX MARTIN Folk Songs, Jazz Journeys Pajarito Verde
4 MAX HIGHSTEIN Tiptoes Desert Heart
5 ANGELIQUE KIDJO Mother Nature Verve
6 U-ROY Solid Gold U-Roy Trojan/BMG
7 MDOU MOCTAR Afrique Victime Matador/Beggars Group
8 COCHEMEA Vol. II Baca Sewa Daptone
9 OKUTE Okuté Chulo
10 BALKAN TAKSIM Disko Telegraf Buda Musique

 

Top Ten Hip Hop Recordings

 

  Artist Record Label
1 GENESIS OWUSU Smiling With No Teeth House Anxiety/Ourness
2 EVIDENCE Unlearning Vol. 1 Rhymesayers
3 KING KHAZM Pangea: Hip Hop Heals MADK
4 LITTLE SIMZ “Woman” feat. Cleo Sol [Single] Age 101
5 AUDIO SCIENTISTS LABORATORY, THE “Bounce That” [Single] Collective Consciousness
6 DREW LINES “Rise” [Single] Stryker
7 TYLER THE CREATOR CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST Columbia
8 GREENTEA PENG Man Made EMI
9 ATMOSPHERE WORD? – Side A [EP] Rhymesayers
10 DJ 2-TONE JONES Contraband From India Self-Released

 

Jazz Entry for WERU 89.9/99.9 FM

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  Artist Record Label
1 BRIAN JACKSON, ALI SHAHEED MUHAMMAD AND ADRIAN YOUNGE Brian Jackson JID008 Jazz Is Dead
2 TROY ROBERTS AND TIM JAGO Best Buddies Toy Robot
3 2B3 Jimi Self-Released
4 ADRIAN YOUNGE The American Negro Jazz Is Dead
5 ETHAN IVERSON AND UMBRIA JAZZ ORCHESTRA Bud Powell IN The 21st Century Sunnyside
6 LUNAR OCTET Convergence Summit
7 PROFESSOR CUNNINGHAM AND HIS OLD SCHOOL The Lockdown Blues Arbors
8 KRISTIN CALLAHAN Lost In A Dream Ivy Door
9 ALEX COLLINS, RYAN BERG, KARL LATHAM Together Drop Zone Jazz
10 ORRIN EVANS The Magic Of Now Smoke Sessions

Top Ten Electronic / Dance Recordings 

  Artist Record Label
1 WHEELUP Good Love Tru Thoughts
2 MOONSHINE SMS For Location, Vol. 4 Forseen
3 TOKIMONSTA “Say Yes” [Single] Young Art
4 UNKLE Ronin I Self-Released
5 SAN HOLO bb u ok? bitbird/Counter
6 ANUSHKA Yemaya Tru Thoughts
7 BLUEWERKS VOL. 3: HEAT WAVE VARIOUS ARTISTS Blue Note/Astralwerks
8 DANIEL AVERY Together In Static Mute
9 GASPARD AUGE Escapades Genesis/Ed Banger/Because
10 RED HOT + FREE VARIOUS ARTISTS Red Hot

 

Electronic “Adds”  

Artist Record Label
1 DESIRE MAREA Desire Mute
2 TIM REYNOLDS, MICHAEL SOKOLOWSKI Soul Pilgrimage Breezeway

 

World “Add” 

Artist Record Label
1 ELOVATERS, THE Castles Belly Full

 

Jazz “Adds”  

 

Artist Record Label
1 ALEX COLLINS, RYAN BERG, KARL LATHAM Together Drop Zone Jazz
2 ALEX LEFAIVRE Naufrages Arte Boreal
3 DAN SIEGEL Faraway Place Self-Released
4 KENNY GARRETT Sound From The Ancestors Mack Avenue
5 KENNY SHANKER Beautiful Things Wise Cat
6 LARRY MCDONOUGH QUARTET Kind Of Bill On The Palace Grounds Self-Released
7 LISA HILTON Transparent Sky Ruby Slippers Productions

 

August 17, 2021 By Denis Howard

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