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Top Albums 8/9/2022

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 week ending on Sunday, August 7th, 2022.  Our next airplay chart will be computed on August 16th, 2022!

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August 1st through 7th, 2022

Top Thirty Most-Played Overall Recordings

 

  Artist Record Label
1 DAN TYMINSKI One More Time Before You Go: A Tribute To Tony Rice [EP] North Star
2 CAAMP Lavender Days Mom+Pop
3 TAMI NEILSON Kingmaker Outside
4 HOT SUPPERS, THE Live At The Colonial Theatre! Self-Released
5 LOCAL HONEYS, THE The Local Honeys La Honda/Thirty Tigers
6 ANGEL OLSEN Big Time Jagjaguwar/Secretly Group
7 BILL SCORZARI THE CROSSWINDS OF KANSAS Self-Released
8 JOE PUG Nation of Heat: Revisited Nation of Heat
9 MARY GAUTHIER Dark Enough To See The Stars In The Black/Thirty Tigers
10 MOLLY TUTTLE AND GOLDEN HIGHWAY Crooked Tree Nonesuch
11 SADIES, THE Colder Streams Dine Alone/Yep Roc
12 AMANDA ANNE PLATT AND THE HONEYCUTTERS The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea Organic
13 BALLROOM THIEVES, THE Clouds Nettwerk
14 BETHS, THE “Expert In A Dying Field” [Single] Carpark
15 DAVID LAMOTTE Still Dryad
16 DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS Welcome 2 Club XIII ATO
17 JEFFERSON ROSS Southern Currency Self-Released
18 KIRSTEN MANVILLE Blossom in the Sun Self-Released
19 MAVIS STAPLES AND LEVON HELM Carry Me Home Anti-
20 MICHAEL MCARTHUR Milky Stars Transoceanic
21 MICHELLE RIVERS “Gone” [Single] Self-Released
22 MIKE GULDIN Tumblin’ Blue Heart
23 NITTY GRITTY DIRT BAND Dirt Does Dylan MRI
24 PATTY GRIFFIN Tape PGM
25 PETER LEHNDORFF Don’t Be Discouraged Self-Released
26 PHARIS AND JASON ROMERO Tell ‘Em You Were Gold Smithsonian Folkways
27 TAJ MAHAL AND RY COODER Get On Board Nonesuch
28 FOLK NOW: SONGS FOR THESE TIMES VARIOUS ARTISTS Hudson Harding
29 VERO Unsoothing Interior PNKSLM
30 WILCO Cruel Country dBpm

Top “Adds”  

  Artist Record Label
1 EVER MORE NEST “My Story” [Single] Self-Released
2 PRESENT COMPANY Present Company Just Married
3 PROFESSOR PAWS Bruk Up Night Wolf
4 SINK IN Welcome To Phantomland [EP] Theoria
5 TIFFANY WILLIAMS All Those Days Of Drinking Dust Blue RedBird
6 BIG CHEESE BAND, THE Everything Self-Released
7 CUTTER ELLIOTT Heartache Waiting To Happen [EP] TCM
8 GILBERT O’SULLIVAN Driven Grand Upright
9 ROBERT DIACK Small Bridges Self-Released
10 LYNN SWISHER SPEARS IAM/SONGS Self-Released

Top Ten World Albums

 

  Artist Record Label
1 RAFAEL GRECO Dice Que Vive Blue Canoe
2 DINA OGON Dina Ogon Sing A Song Fighter
3 FANTASTIC NEGRITO White Jesus Black Problems Storefront
4 RADHA BOTOFASINA Carry On Spirituals Vol. 2 Shaila
5 ABIOLA Abiola Time Alade Enterprises
6 MINAS Beatles In Bossa Blueazul
7 HOLLIE COOK Happy Hour Merge
8 ADRIAN QUESADA Boleros Psicodélicos ATO
9 SESSA Estrela Acesa Mexican Summer
10 IBIBIO SOUND MACHINE Electricity Merge

Top Ten Hip Hop Recordings

 

  Artist Record Label
1 DEFCEE AND BOATHOUSE For All Debts Public And Private Closed Sessions
2 KING KHAZM Return Of A MAD Fresh Chopped Beats
3 J ROCC A Wonderful Letter Stones Throw
4 DANGER MOUSE AND BLACK THOUGHT “Aquamarine” feat. Michael Kiwanuka [Single] BMG
5 FEMME DEADLY VENOMS Femmenomenon Self-Released
6 YAYA BEY Remember Your North Star Big Dada
7 JESHI Universal Credit Because
8 KENDRICK LAMAR Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers pgLang/Top Dawg/Aftermath/Interscope
9 PLATO III The Devil Has Texas Polyvinyl
10 KILLER MIKE “RUN” [Single] Loma Vista/Concord

Top Ten Jazz Albums

 

  Artist Record Label
1 RAFAEL GRECO Dice Que Vive Blue Canoe
2 ELLA FITZGERALD Ella At The Holltwood Bowl Verve
3 LE VENT DU NORD 20 printemps Self-Released
4 SHABAKA Afrikan Culture Self-Released
5 COLOMA BERTRAN Principis Microscopi
6 EMILE PARISIEN Louise ACT
7 SALOME BEY Salome Bey Prestige
8 TROY ROBERTS NU-JIVE: Nations United Toy Robot
9 BILLY DRUMMOND AND FREEDOM OF IDEAS Valse Sinistre Cellar
10 CLIFF KARMAN Brazilified Self-Released

Top Ten Electronic / Dance Recordings

 

  Artist Record Label
1 SOFI TUKKER WET TENNIS Ultra
2 OLAN Contra Anjunadeep
3 BELIEF Belief Lex
4 ODESZA The Last Goodbye Foreign Family Collective/Ninja Tune
5 LIZETTE LIZETTE Miss Gendered Icons Creating Evil Art
6 HERCULES AND LOVE AFFAIR In Amber BMG
7 RANGE, THE Mercury Domino
8 TDJ TDJ123 Disques Durs
9 BRAXE AND FALCON Step By Step [EP] Smugglers Way/Domino
10 HAAI Baby, We’re Ascending Mute

Jazz “Adds”  

  Artist Record Label
1 LAUREN HENDERSON La Bruja Brontosaurus
2 ANDY ADAMSON QUINTET A Coincidence Of Cats Andros
3 CHARLTON SINGLETON Crossroads Self-Released
4 JAZZ PROFESSORS, THE Blues And Cubes Flying Horse
5 MIKE CLARK AND LEON LEE DORSEY FT. MIKE LEDONNE Blues On Top Jazz Avenue 1
6 ROBERT DIACK Small Bridges Self-Released

August 9, 2022 By Denis Howard

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