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Top Albums 1/14/2020

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, January 21st, 2020!

Top Thirty Overall Most-Played Recordings

1 BETTY FOX BAND, THE Peace In Pieces Quarto Valley
2 CHERYL CAWOOD Love, Pearl Self-Released
3 DARLING WEST We’ll Never Know Unless We Try Jansen
4 FRUITION Broken At The Break Of Day Self-Released
5 QUEBE SISTERS, THE The Quebe Sisters Self-Released
6 VAN MORRISON Three Chord And The Truth Caroline/Exile
7 ALLISON MOORER Blood Thirty Tigers
8 BEAN PICKERS UNION, THE Archaeology Self-Released
9 BON IVER i,i Jagjaguwar/Secretly Group
10 BONAFIDE FABIAN New And Improved Old Fashioned Folkadelic Trait Razor
11 EARLY RISERS, THE Making Life Sweet Itchy Sabot
12 EMISUNSHINE AND THE RAIN Family Wars Little Blackbird
13 HEAD AND THE HEART, THE Living Mirage [Advance Tracks] Warner Bros.
14 HIGHWOMEN, THE The Highwomen Elektra
15 JADE BIRD Jade Bird Glassnote
16 JOHNNY AND JEANETTE WILLIAMS Thirty Years Later Grass Tank
17 LEE FIELDS AND THE EXPRESSIONS It Rains Love Big Crown
18 MAVERICKS, THE Play The Hits Mono Mundo/Thirty Tigers
19 MAVIS STAPLES We Get By Anti-
20 MILK CARTON KIDS, THE The Only Ones [EP] Thirty Tigers
21 NORTH MISSISSIPPI ALLSTARS Up And Rolling New West
22 SHERYL CROW Threads Valory/Big Machine
23 STARCROSSED LOSERS Strange Hesitations Self-Released
24 SWALLOWED SUN Swallowed Sun Self-Released
25 THORBJORN RISAGER Come On In Ruf
26 TOO LATE TO PRAY: DEFIANT CHICAGO ROOTS VARIOUS ARTISTS Bloodshot
27 WE BANJO THREE Roots To Rise (Live) Self-Released
28 HU, THE The Gereg Eleven Seven
29 MIKE ZITO AND FRIENDS Rock N Roll A Tribute To Check Berry Ruf
30 LONG RYDERS Psychedelic Country Soul Self-Released

Top Ten “Adds”

 

1 JONATHAN NG The Sphynx Self-Released
2 TAMUZ NISSIM Capturing Clouds Street Of Stars
3 BECK Hyperspace Capitol
4 DARSHAN AMBIENT A Day Like Any Other Spotted Peccary
5 MARINA ALBERO A Life Soundtrack Self-Released
6 FRANK KOHL The Crossing Self-Released
7 BENNY BENACK III A Lot of Livin’ To Do Self-Released
8 COACHELLA VALLEY TRIO Mid Century Modern DMAC
9 EMILIA DAHLIN SEXTET … Green Things To Grow Self-Released
10 LOVE ME IN THE DARK Love Me In The Dark [EP] Self-Released

 

Top Ten World Albums

Artist Record Label
1 ALTIN GUN Gece ATO
2 ROBERTO FONSECA Yesun Mack Avenue
3 PAT BATTSTONE AND GIORGIA SANTORO Dream Notes Leo
4 RAQUEL CEPEDA Passion Self-Released
5 SCOTT WILKIE Brasil Beach
6 DELINE BRISCOE Wawu Gaba Musik
7 BONGO HOP, THE Satingarona Pt. 2 Underdog
8 ALEX CUBA Sublime Caracol
9 LAKOU MIZIK HaitiaNola Cumbancha
10 GOOD ONES, THE Rwanda, You Should Be Loved Anti-

 

Top Ten Hip Hop / R & B Recordings

Artist Record Label
1 DJ SHADOW Our Pathetic Age Mass Appeal
2 BROTHER ALI Secrets & Escapes Rhymesayers
3 SAMPA THE GREAT The Return Ninja Tune
4 DANNY BROWN uknowhatimsayin¿ Warp
5 ROBERT GLASPER Fuck Yo Feelings Loma Vista
6 QUEEN AND SLIM SOUNDTRACK VARIOUS ARTISTS Motown
7 FREDDIE GIBBS AND MADLIB Bandana Keep Cool/RCA/Madlib Invazion/ESGN
8 COMMON Let Love Loma Vista/Concord
9 CARTEL MADRAS Age Of The Goonda [EP] Sub Pop
10 MAEZ301 Maez301 Strange

 

Top Ten Jazz Albums

Artist Record Label
1 ADRIAN CUNNINGHAM Adrian Cunningham & His Friends Play Lerner & Loewe Arbors
2 ANTONIO ADOLFO Samba Jazz Alley AAM
3 ALICIA OLATUJA Intuition: Songs From The Minds Of Women Resilience
4 CHAMPIAN FULTON AND CORY WEEDS Dream A Little… Cellar Live
5 CHRISTIAN JACOB TRIO, THE The Originals WilderJazz/Palmetto
6 ERIC WYATT The Golden Rule: For Sonny Whaling City Sound
7 JIMMY COBB Remembering U Jimmy Cobb World
8 JON BATISTE Chronology Of A Dream Verve
9 JONATHAN NG Dreaming On My Feet Self-Released
10 LISA MAXWELL JAZZ ORCHESTRA Shiny! Uncle Marvin

 

Top Ten Electronic / Dance Albums

Artist Record Label
1 CARAVAN PALACE Chronologic Le Plan
2 MARCONI UNION Dead Air Just
3 SIR WAS Holding On To A Dream Memphis Industries
4 DJ SHADOW Our Pathetic Age Mass Appeal
5 FLOATING POINTS Crush Ninja Tune
6 SEBASTIAN Thirst Ed Banger/Because
7 TEEBS Anicca Brainfeeder
8 LAPALUX Amnioverse Brainfeeder
9 TOURIST Wild Monday
10 SUDAN ARCHIVES Athena Stones Throw

 

World “Add”  

 

Artist Record Label
1 MANTECA Augmented Indifference Self-Released

 

Jazz “Adds”

Artist Record Label
1 ROBERTA PIKET Domestic Harmony: Picket Plays Mintz Thirteenth Note
2 SHUFFLE DEMONS Crazy Time Stubby
3 FRANK KOHL The Crossing Self-Released
4 JONATHAN NG The Sphynx Self-Released
5 KAYLE BRECHER Kayleidoscope Penchant Four
6 MANTECA Augmented Indifference Self-Released

 

 

 

January 14, 2020 By Denis Howard

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