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Top Albums 8/31/2021

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, September 7th, 2021.

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August 23rd, 2021 through August 29th, 2021

Top Thirty Overall Most-Played Recordings

 

Artist Record Label
1 ANYA HINKLE Eden And Her Borderlands Organic
2 FLATLANDERS, THE Treasure Of Love Rack ‘Em/Thirty Tigers
3 JIM LAUDERDALE Hope Yep Roc
4 KATE TAYLOR Why Wait! Red House/Compass
5 TREVOR TCHIR Sun & Moon Self-Released
6 LOS LOBOS Native Sons New West
7 RODNEY CROWELL Triage RC1/Thirty Tigers
8 WATCHHOUSE Watchhouse Thirty Tigers
9 BLACKBERRY SMOKE You Hear Georgia 3 Legged
10 FELICE BROTHERS, THE “Jazz On The Autobahn” [Single] Yep Roc
11 LAURIE JONES Dark Horse Self-Released
12 PAUL THORN Never Too Late To Call Perpetual Obscurity
13 ROBIN AND LINDA WILLIAMS A Better Day A-Coming Oakenwold
14 WALLFLOWERS Exit Wounds New West
15 ALLISON RUSSELL Outside Child Fantasy/Concord
16 AMYTHYST KIAH Wary + Strange Rounder/Concord
17 DEBBIE BOND Blues Without Borders Blues Root
18 HIGH HAWKS, THE The High Hawks LoHi
19 HISS GOLDEN MESSENGER Quietly Blowing It Merge
20 JAMES MCMURTRY The Horses And The Hounds New West
21 JOAN ARMATRADING Consequences WMG
22 JOHN AND RACHEL NICHOLAS Learning How To Walk Self-Released
23 KELLY’S LOT Where And When Self-Released
24 LEAH BLEVINS First Time Feeling Crabtree
25 LORD HURON Long Lost Whispering Pines/Republic
26 MAGGIE ROSE Have A Seat Starstruck
27 MARK SCHATZ AND BRYAN MCDOWELL Grit & Polish Patuxent
28 MEGAN AND SHANE “Alone” [Single] Self-Released
29 MIKE ZITO Resurrection Gulf Coast
30 MOUNTAIN GOATS, THE Dark In Here Merge

 

Top Adds Entry for WERU 89.9/99.9 FM

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Artist Record Label
1 LAURA LOVE Uppity Octoroon Biography
2 SOURCE: THE INDEPENDENT PROJECT RECORDS COLLECTION VARIOUS ARTISTS Independent Project
3 GARRETT SHIDER Pandemic Self-Released
4 INDIGO DE SOUZA Any Shape You Take Saddle Creek
5 YANN TIERSEN Kerber Mute
6 ARIENNE HEARTS CHARLIE The Greatest Show Self-Released
7 DAVID POTTS-DUPRE Vladimir And Irene Self-Released
8 DYLAN CONNOR Infinity Days Self-Released
9 EDDIE COHN Dystopian Days Self-Released
10 SHAUN JOHNSON AND THE BIG BAND EXPERIENCE Made For Her Self-Released

Top Ten World Albums

 

Artist Record Label
1 AO MUSIC Kutumba Abbeywood
2 ALEX MARTIN Folk Songs, Jazz Journeys Pajarito Verde
3 RAY SOUL Seu Aprendiz SoulRay
4 MAX HIGHSTEIN Tiptoes Desert Heart
5 ANGELIQUE KIDJO Mother Nature Verve
6 U-ROY Solid Gold U-Roy Trojan/BMG
7 LAKOU MIZIK AND JOSEPH RAY Leave The Bones Anjunadeep
8 MDOU MOCTAR Afrique Victime Matador/Beggars Group
9 COCHEMEA Vol. II Baca Sewa Daptone
10 JUPITER AND OKWESS Na Kozonga Everloving

 

Top Ten Hip Hop Recordings

 

Artist Record Label
1 EVIDENCE Unlearning Vol. 1 Rhymesayers
2 KING KHAZM Pangea: Hip Hop Heals MADK
3 DREW LINES “Rise” [Single] Stryker
4 TYLER THE CREATOR CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST Columbia
5 DJ 2-TONE JONES Contraband From India Self-Released
6 GREENTEA PENG Man Made EMI
7 HALLUCI NATION, THE One More Saturday Night Radicalized
8 ATMOSPHERE WORD? – Side A [EP] Rhymesayers
9 SHA MONEY XL Chain On The Bike, Vol. 2 TeamWork
10 CADENCE WEAPON Parallel World eOne

 

Top Ten Jazz Albums

 

Artist Record Label
1 JOE ALTERMAN The Upside Of Down Ropeadope
2 CHARNETT MOFFETT New Love Motéma
3 DAMON LOCKS BLACK MONUMENT ENSEMBLE Now International Anthem
4 W. ALLEN TAYLOR Storyteller WAT Jazz
5 ANTONIO ADOLFO Jobim Forever Self-Released
6 BRANDEE YOUNGER Somewhere Different Impulse
7 CORY WEEDS O Sole Mio! Cellar
8 DELVON LAMARR ORGAN TRIO I Told You So Colemine
9 GARY BARTZ, ADRIAN YOUNGE AND ALI SHAHEED MUHAMMAD Gary Bartz JID006 Jazz Is Dead
10 TROY ROBERTS AND TIM JAGO Best Buddies Toy Robot

 

Top Ten Electronic / Dance Albums

 

Artist Record Label
1 JUNGLE Loving In Stereo Caiola/AWAL
2 BLUEWERKS VOL. 3: HEAT WAVE VARIOUS ARTISTS Blue Note/Astralwerks
3 ANUSHKA Yemaya Tru Thoughts
4 HALLUCI NATION, THE One More Saturday Night Radicalized
5 MOONSHINE SMS For Location, Vol. 4 Forseen
6 SAN HOLO bb u ok? bitbird/Counter
7 RED HOT + FREE VARIOUS ARTISTS Red Hot
8 ORA THE MOLECULE Human Safari Mute
9 GASPARD AUGE Escapades Genesis/Ed Banger/Because
10 DESIRE MAREA Desire Mute

 

Hip Hop “Adds”  

 

Artist Record Label
1 GREENLIGHTS MUSIC Eye In Team Self-Released
2 MANNY “Pushin Dat Work” feat. Troy Ave [Single] Sotuff

 

Electronic / Dance “Add” 

Artist Record Label
1 YANN TIERSEN Kerber Mute

 

Jazz “Adds”  

Artist Record Label
1 PAT COIL How Deep is the Ocean Burton Avenue
2 ARIENNE HEARTS CHARLIE The Greatest Show Self-Released
3 SHAUN JOHNSON AND THE BIG BAND EXPERIENCE Made For Her Self-Released
4 STEVE MILLION FEATURING SARAH MARIE YOUNG JazzWords Self-Released
5 BRENNEN SCHEDLER QUARTET Keep Steppin’ Down Self-Released
6 RACHEL ECKROTH The Garden Rainy Days
7 RENEE ROSNES Kinds Of Love Smoke Sessions
8 VICTOR GOULD In Our Time Blue Room

 

August 31, 2021 By Denis Howard

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