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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 computed and posted on Tuesday, August 14th, 2018!
Top Thirty Recordings (ranked by airplay)
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | SUGARBUSH | Matriarch | Self-Released |
| 2 | BEE PARKS AND THE HORNETS | Bee Yourself [EP] | Self-Released |
| 3 | BRAD COLERICK | Nine Ten Thirty | Back 9 |
| 4 | ZOE SPEAKS | Wings | Redbird |
| 5 | DAWN AND HAWKES | The Other Side | Self-Released |
| 6 | ELIZA GILKYSON | Secularia | Red House |
| 7 | SHEMEKIA COPELAND | America’s Child | Alligator |
| 8 | ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO | The Crossing | Yep Roc |
| 9 | ANTHONY GERACI | Why Did You Have To Go | Blue Duchess |
| 10 | BIG HARP GEORGE | Uptown Cool | Self-Released |
| 11 | CHARM CITY JUNCTION | Duckpin | Self-Released |
| 12 | CLAUDIA RUSSELL AND BRUCE KAPLAN | Lover’s Tree | Radio Rhythm |
| 13 | COWBOY JUNKIES | All That Reckoning | Self-Released |
| 14 | DAMIEN JURADO | The Horizon Just Laughed | Secretly Canadian |
| 15 | DAVE ALVIN AND JIMMIE DALE GILMORE | Downey To Lubbock | Yep Roc |
| 16 | FATHER JOHN MISTY | God’s Favorite Customer | Sub Pop |
| 17 | ISRAEL NASH | Lifted [Advance Tracks] | Desert Folklore/Thirty Tigers |
| 18 | JAYHAWKS, THE | Back Roads And Abandoned Motels | Legacy |
| 19 | KARA GRAINGER | Living With Your Ghost | Station House |
| 20 | LORI MCKENNA | The Tree | Warner Bros. |
| 21 | MARCIA BALL | Shine Bright | Alligator |
| 22 | MILK CARTON KIDS, THE | All The Things That I Did And All The Things That I Didn’t Do | Anti- |
| 23 | RACHAEL SAGE | Myopia | MPress |
| 24 | RAYLAND BAXTER | Wide Awake [Advance Tracks] | ATO |
| 25 | REVEREND FREAKCHILD | Dial It In | Floating |
| 26 | RICHARD THOMPSON | 13 Rivers | New West |
| 27 | ROBBIE FULKS AND LINDA GAIL LEWIS | Wild! Wild! Wild! | Bloodshot |
| 28 | RODNEY CROWELL | Acoustic Classics | RC1 |
| 29 | STEVE FORBERT | The Magic Trees | Blue Rose |
| 30 | TERESA JAMES AND THE RHYTHM TRAMPS | Here In Babylon | Jesi-Lu |
Top “Adds”
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | BILL AND THE BELLES | DreamSongs, Etc. | Jalopy |
| 2 | LIZ COOPER AND THE STAMPEDE | Window Flowers [Advance Tracks] | Thirty Tigers |
| 3 | LOVE LANGUAGE, THE | Baby Grand | Merge |
| 4 | BEN KHAN | Ben Khan | Dirty Hit |
| 5 | CAGED ANIMALS | Escape Artists | Nocturne |
| 6 | CHANTI DARLING | RnB Vol. 1 | Tender Loving Empire |
| 7 | GREGORY ACKERMAN | And Friends | V2 |
| 8 | ISLAND | Feels Like Air | Frenchkiss |
| 9 | MARK ROGERS | Qualifiers [EP] | Self-Released |
| 10 | MICHAEL NAU AND THE MIGHTY THREAD | Michael Nau And The Mighty Thread | Relearn To Boogie/Light In The Attic |
Top Ten World Albums
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | MYSTIC BOWIE | Mystic Bowie’s Talking Dreads | Red River |
| 2 | PLAYING FOR CHANGE | Listen to the Music | Motema |
| 3 | ALTAN | The Gap Of Dreams | Compass |
| 4 | AMOS HOFFMAN AND NOAM LEMISH | Pardes | Self-Released |
| 5 | BOMBINO | Deran | Partisan |
| 6 | DACTAH CHANDO | Global CityZen | Soulfire |
| 7 | ELEMENTS | The Alchemy | Earth Brother |
| 8 | JAY DOUGLAS | Lovers Paradise (Best Of) | Slammin |
| 9 | JUPITER AND OKWESS | Kin Sonic | Everloving |
| 10 | KARAVAN SARAI | Painted Sands | Electrofone |
Top Ten Hip Hop / R & B Recordings
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | GORILLAZ | The Now Now | Parlophone/Warner Bros. |
| 2 | CHILDISH GAMBINO | Summer Pack [EP] | RCA |
| 3 | MANNY | “All About This Green” [Single] | So Tuff |
| 4 | DARRELL KELLEY | “Be Great” [Single] | Self-Released |
| 5 | ST RIDAH | “Never Trust” [Single] | 24K |
| 6 | BROWNOUT | Fear Of A Brown Planet | Fat Beats |
| 7 | MIDNIGHT HOUR, THE | The Midnight Hour | Linear Labs |
| 8 | OSCILLATIONS | VARIOUS ARTISTS | Strange Neighbor |
| 9 | POTATOHEAD PEOPLE | Nick And Astro’s Guide To The Galaxy | Bastard Jazz |
| 10 | ARTSON | Brave Star | Artson |
Top Ten Jazz Albums
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | WYNTON MARSALIS SEPTET | United We Swing | Blue Engine |
| 2 | BON BON VIVANT | Live At The New Orleans Jazz Museum | Self-Released |
| 3 | CALLE MAMBO PROJECT | See The Light | Self-Released |
| 4 | CHRISTINE HITT | Magical Kite | Self-Released |
| 5 | DARRIAN FORD | New Standards | Self-Released |
| 6 | JAMIE YOUNKIN | Did It Anyway | Self-Released |
| 7 | JOHN COLTRANE | Both Directions At Once: The Lost Album | Impulse |
| 8 | ORLANDO CACHAITO LOPEZ | Cachaito | World Circuit |
| 9 | POST MODERN JUKE BOX | The New Classics | Concord |
| 10 | SHIRLEY CRABBE | Bridges | Mail Song |
Top Ten Electronic / Dance Recordings
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | ETHAN GOLD | Expanses (Teenage Synthstrumentals) | Electrik Gold |
| 2 | LOMA | Loma | Sub Pop |
| 3 | DJDS | Big Wave More Fire | Loma Vista/Concord |
| 4 | CLAPTONE | Fantast | PIAS |
| 5 | LEON VYNEHALL | Nothing Is Still | Ninja Tune |
| 6 | ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER | Age Of | Warp |
| 7 | FIT OF BODY | Black Box No Cops | 2MR |
| 8 | SIMIAN MOBILE DISCO | Murmurations | Wichita |
| 9 | NITE HAUS | Saturation | Self-Released |
| 10 | LIMINAL DRIFTER | The Dreams | Hidden Shoal |
World “Add”
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | FOR PEACE BAND | Always Love | Rootfire |
Hip Hop / R & B “Add”
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | FULTON COUNTY | “Flam Boi Ant” (Remix) [Single] | JLawson |
Jazz “Adds”
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | VIVIAN LEE | Let’s Talk About Love | Tara |
| 2 | KARRIN ALLYSON | Some Of That Sunshine | kasrecords |
| 3 | RACHEL CASWELL | We’re All In the Dance | Turtle Ridge |
| 4 | NABATé ISLES | Eclectic Excursions | NSI Universal |
| 5 | RON ENGLISH | Dance/Cry/Dance | Self-Released |
Electronic / Dance “Adds”
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | ROSS FROM FRIENDS | Family Portrait | Brainfeeder |
| 2 | SHEILA NICHOLLS | All Of Nature | Essex Girl |
| 3 | STEVE HAUSCHILDT | Dissolvi | Ghostly International |