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Top Albums 9/16/2025

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, September 14th.   Our weekly airplay chart is posted below.  Our next chart will be posted on Tuesday, September 23rd.

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September 8th through September 14th, 2025

Top Thirty Overall Most-Played Recordings

Artist

Record

Label

1

VICTORIA CARDONA

Que Paso

Leggero

2

GROOVE DOCTORS 3

Live And Let Live

Maintain Zen

3

MOLLY TUTTLE

So Long Little Miss Sunshine

Nonesuch

4

ANNA TIVEL

Animal Poem

Fluff And Gravy

5

LONG JOURNEY HOME

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Appalsongs

6

CONNIE KALDOR

Wide Open Spaces

CEG

7

DAR WILLIAMS

Hummingbird Highway

Righteous Babe

8

MAMMALS

“The Doldrums” [Single]

Self-Released

9

WOOD BROTHERS, THE

Puff Of Smoke

Honey Jar/Thirty Tigers

10

ALISON KRAUSS AND UNION STATION

Arcadia

Down The Road

11

BETHS, THE

Straight Line Was A Lie

Anti-

12

BIG THIEF

Double Infinity

4AD/Beggars

13

BRANDI CARLILE

“Returning To Myself” [Single]

Lost Highway/Interscope

14

GWENIFER RAYMOND

Last Night I Heard the Dog Star Bark

We Are Busy Bodies

15

NEIL YOUNG

“Big Crime” [Single]

Other Shoe

16

PATTY AND CRAIG

Look To The Moon

Self-Released

17

RAGS ROSENBERG

Songs Of The Bricoleur

Coyote Gulch

18

RIFLEBIRDS OF PORTLAND, THE

Windmills On The Moon

Regional

19

WOLF ALICE

The Clearing

RCA/Sony

20

BLOOD ORANGE

Essex Honey

RCA

21

SPOON

“Chateau Blues” b/w “Guess I’m Fallin In Love” [Single]

Matador/Beggars

22

ALEXIS CUNNINGHAM

How I Became A Butterfly [EP]

Fire Sign

23

TUCKER WOODS

Sunshine Blues

Pleasantville

24

IMAGINARIES, THE

Fever

Self-Released

25

HIDE AND SHINE

The Red Core [LP]

Self-Released

26

DEVON ALLMAN

The Blues Summit

Ruf

27

ALLY VENABLE

Money & Power

Ruf

28

BEL

“Amor” [Single]

Nettwerk

29

DYLAN ZANGWILL

Running the Hell Out

Self-Released

30

POWER TAKE OFF

“Revolution” (Radio Mix) [Single]

Stryker/Virgin

Top Adds Entry for WERU 89.9/99.9 FM

Artist

Record

Label

1

GUERILLA TOSS

You’re Weird Now

Sub Pop

2

JANE FALLON

Sweet Resilience

Self-Released

3

SILVER SNAILS

Speed Of Light

Snailform

4

SLAINTE BABY

EP Two [EP]

Self-Released

5

TIM O’CONNELL

Gems [EP]

Tall Man

6

MELODY CHAMBER, THE

“Memories Of Fall” b/w “This Train” [Single]

Happy Happy Birthday To Me

7

DAN LEE

“A Long Night” [Single]

Self-Released

Top “Adds” 

Artist

Record

Label

1

GUERILLA TOSS

You’re Weird Now

Sub Pop

2

JANE FALLON

Sweet Resilience

Self-Released

3

SILVER SNAILS

Speed Of Light

Snailform

4

SLAINTE BABY

EP Two [EP]

Self-Released

5

TIM O’CONNELL

Gems [EP]

Tall Man

6

MELODY CHAMBER, THE

“Memories Of Fall” b/w “This Train” [Single]

Happy Happy Birthday To Me

7

DAN LEE

“A Long Night” [Single]

Self-Released

Top Ten World Recordings

Artist

Record

Label

1

VICTORIA CARDONA

Que Paso

Leggero

2

AFRICA EXPRESS

Africa Express Presents… Bahidorá

World Circuit

3

LA BANDA CHUSKA

Basic Bichos

Self-Released

4

PINK MARTINI

Bella Ciao [EP]

Heinz

5

BEVELED EDGES, THE

I Guess We’re Not Alone

Detrallas

6

GRUPO PAGAN

Power

Subcat

7

VALERIA STEWART

Raices | Roots

Antidotesounds

8

MAC GOLLEHON AND THE HISPANIC MECHANICS

Pistoleros

WFO

9

DAVE SHARP WORLDS QUARTET AND ELDEN KELLY

Catalyst

Cold Plunge

10

ADRIAN QUESADA

Boleros Psicodélicos II

ATO

Top Ten Hip Hop Albums

Artist

Record

Label

1

EVIDENCE

Unlearning Vol. 2

Rhymesayers

2

MURS

Love & Rockets 3:16 (The Emancipation)

Mello

3

SABA AND NO ID

From The Private Collection Of Saba & No ID

Saba Pivot/The Orchard

4

LITTLE SIMZ

Lotus

AWAL

5

POTATOHEAD PEOPLE AND SLIPPERY ELM

Emerald Tablet

Mysterybox

6

TYLER THE CREATOR

DON’T TAP THE GLASS

Columbia/Sony

7

KELLY MOONSTONE

New Moon

Self-Released

8

YAYA BEY

Do It Afraid

drink sum wtr

9

AESOP ROCK

Black Hole Superette

Rhymesayers

10

NUR-D

Chunkadelic

Self-Released

Top Ten Jazz Albums

Artist

Record

Label

1

BOB JAMES AND DAVE KOZ

Just Us

Just Koz

2

JAMES MOODY

80 Years Young (Live At The Blue Note, 2005)

Origin

3

NEAL MINER

Invisibility

Cellar

4

TROMBONE SHORTY AND THE NEW BREED BRASS BAND

Sunday Second Line

Blue Note

5

WAYNE SHORTER

Introducing Wayne Shorter (Remastered 2025)

Craft

6

RANDY NAPOLEON

Waking Dream: The Music Of Gregg Hill & Randy Napoleon

OA2

7

BRANDON SUAREZ

Introducing

Cellar

8

BIRDLAND BIG BAND

Storybook: The Music Of Mark Miller

Birdland

9

CARMEN BRADFORD

Carmen Sings Carmen

Artist Alliance

10

JENNIFER MADSEN

Reimagine

SingBaby

Electronic Entry for WERU 89.9/99.9 FM

Artist

Record

Label

1

CUT COPY

Moments

Cutters

2

ERIKA DE CASIER

Lifetime

Independent Jeep

3

EZRA COLLECTIVE

“God Gave Me Feet For Dancing” (Tasty Or Not Remix) [Single]

Partisan

4

SAY SHE SHE

“Cut & Rewind” [Single]

drink sum wtr

5

CURE, THE

Mixes Of A Lost World

Fiction/Capitol

6

BICEP

TAKKUUK (Original Soundtrack)

EarthSonic/Ninja Tune

7

SOFIA KOURTESIS

Volver [EP]

Ninja Tune

8

BARRY CAN’T SWIM

Loner

Ninja Tune

9

DEBBY FRIDAY

The Starrr Of The Queen Of Life

Sub Pop

10

KNOCKS, THE AND DRAGONETTE

Revelation

Top Ten Electronic / Dance Albums 

Artist

Record

Label

1

CUT COPY

Moments

Cutters

2

ERIKA DE CASIER

Lifetime

Independent Jeep

3

EZRA COLLECTIVE

“God Gave Me Feet For Dancing” (Tasty Or Not Remix) [Single]

Partisan

4

SAY SHE SHE

“Cut & Rewind” [Single]

drink sum wtr

5

CURE, THE

Mixes Of A Lost World

Fiction/Capitol

6

BICEP

TAKKUUK (Original Soundtrack)

EarthSonic/Ninja Tune

7

SOFIA KOURTESIS

Volver [EP]

Ninja Tune

8

BARRY CAN’T SWIM

Loner

Ninja Tune

9

DEBBY FRIDAY

The Starrr Of The Queen Of Life

Sub Pop

10

KNOCKS, THE AND DRAGONETTE

Revelation

Jazz “Adds”  

Artist

Record

Label

1

CARMEN BRADFORD

Carmen Sings Carmen

Artist Alliance

2

RICH SIEGEL

It’s Always Been You

Self-Released

3

BRANDON SUAREZ

Introducing

Cellar

4

ENRIQUE HANEINE

Conceivable Directions

Elegant Walk

5

JULIET EWING

Simply ‘S Wonderful

Honey Diva/Lexicon Classics

6

KAT ELLIS ENSEMBLE

Talking To Myself

Self-Released

7

PETE MILLS

For the Record

Self-Released

8

SHAWN PURCELL

Oblivity

Origin

9

TIM O’CONNELL

Gems [EP]

Tall Man

10

SILVER SNAILS

Speed Of Light

Snailform

Electronic “Add”

Artist

Record

Label

1

SILVER SNAILS

Speed Of Light

Snailform

September 16, 2025 By Denis Howard

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