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, January 16th, 2022. Our next airplay chart will be computed on February 15th, 2022!
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January 31st, 2022 through February 6th, 2022
Top Thirty Overall Most-Played Recordings
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | MAYA DE VITRY | Violet Light | Self-Released |
| 2 | CAROLE SYLVAN | Love | The Orchard |
| 3 | EELS | Extreme Witchcraft | E Works/PIAS |
| 4 | GREGG HILL | Born Liar | Self-Released |
| 5 | KEB MO | Good To Be | Rounder |
| 6 | CAT POWER | Covers | Domino |
| 7 | CURTIS HARDING | If Words Were Flowers | Anti- |
| 8 | ETHAN STOKES TISCHLER | Across the Waking Skies | Self-Released |
| 9 | HITMAN BLUES BAND, THE | Not My Circus, Not My Monkey | Nerus |
| 10 | HUMBIRD | Still Life | Green Thumb |
| 11 | JACK INGRAM, MIRANDA LAMBERT, AND JON RANDALL | The Marfa Tapes | Vanner/RCA |
| 12 | KEVIN DANIEL | Been Here Before | Self-Released |
| 13 | PETER KEANE | Blues Ballads Cowboy Songs | Self-Released |
| 14 | PETER VETESKA AND BLUES TRAIN | So Far So Good | Blue Heart |
| 15 | RADIOHEAD | KID A MNESIA | XL |
| 16 | SAD DADDY | Way Up In The Hills | Self-Released |
| 17 | TAYLOR MCCALL | Black Powder Soul | Black Powder Soul/Thirty Tigers |
| 18 | TWANGTOWN PARAMOURS, THE | Double Down on a Bad Thing | Inside Edge |
| 19 | JESSE MALIN | Sad And Beautiful World | Wicked Cool |
| 20 | DANIELIA COTTON | “Good Day” [Single] | Cottontown |
| 21 | ADAM MASTERSON | Delayed Fuse | Self-Released |
| 22 | SULLY BAND (THE) | Let’s Straighten It Out | Belly Up |
| 23 | HOLLIS BROWN | In The Aftermath | Cool Green |
| 24 | MIKE ANDERSEN | “Slamming The Door” [Single] | Self-Released |
| 25 | CHRIS BERGSON | All I Got Left | 2 Shirts |
| 26 | BIG THIEF | Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You | 4AD |
| 27 | SPOON | “The Hardest Cut” [Single] | Matador |
| 28 | JUDY NAZEMETZ | Meat Bird In Beigeville | Self-Released |
| 29 | NICO PADDEN | Pirate Queen | Self-Released |
| 30 | ERIC GALES | Crown | Provogue Mascot |
Top “Adds”
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | SHAMANIC, THE | “FK Always” [Single] | Wake Up! |
| 2 | WEBSTIRS, THE | The Webstirs | Presmark |
| 3 | RUPERT WATES | For The People | Self-Released |
| 4 | APPLESAUCE TEARS, THE | Scores | Black Cottage |
| 5 | 450S, THE | The 450s | Louder Than Loud |
| 6 | PINE HEARTS, THE | Lost Love Songs | Hearth |
| 7 | SLAMBOVIAN CIRCUS OF DREAMS | A Very Unusual Head | Self-Released |
| 8 | DANA COOPER | I Can Face The Truth | Self-Released |
| 9 | DICK AVEN BAND, THE | Spin So Long | Self-Released |
| 10 | HARPER STARLING | No More What If [EP] | Star Groomer |
Top Ten World Recordings
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | HAILU MERGIA AND THE WALIAS BAND | Tezeta | Awesome Tapes From Africa |
| 2 | MIGUEL ESPINOZA FLAMENCO FUSION | Veneta | Self-Released |
| 3 | WAYNE ALPERN | Secular Rituals | Henri Elkan |
| 4 | CEU | Um Gosto De Sol | Urban Jungle |
| 5 | VELCRO | Te La Buscaste | Self-Released |
| 6 | NILOTIKA CULTURAL ENSEMBLE | Nyabingi Resurrection | Switchstance |
| 7 | ORQUESTA AKOKAN | 16 Rayos | Daptone |
| 8 | BOMBA ESTEREO | Deja | Sony Latin |
| 9 | KASAI ALLSTARS | BLACK ANTS REMIXES [EP] | Crammed |
| 10 | CIMAFUNK | El Alimento | Thirty Tigers |
Top Ten Hip Hop Recordings
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | SHAMANIC, THE | “FK Always” [Single] | Wake Up! |
| 2 | HAVIAH MIGHTY | Stock Exchange | Self-Released |
| 3 | DJ HARRISON | Tales From The Old Dominion | Stones Throw |
| 4 | AESOP ROCK AND BLOCKHEAD | Garbology | Rhymesayers |
| 5 | ROBERT GLASPER | “Black Superhero” feat. Killer Mike, BJ The Chicago Kid & Big K.R.I.T.” [Single] | Loma Vista/Concord |
| 6 | LITTLE SIMZ | Sometimes I Might Be Introvert | AGE 101 |
| 7 | FKA TWIGS | CAPRISONGS | Young/Atlantic |
| 8 | ALLERGIES, THE | Promised Land | Jalapeno |
| 9 | NATAANII MEANS AND ANTOINE | Landback | NDN |
| 10 | KEYS N KRATES | Original Classic | Last Gang |
Top Ten Jazz Albums
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | HEMAI | Strange Beauty | Tru Thoughts |
| 2 | SUN RA | Lanquidity | Strut |
| 3 | BRUCE FORMAN | Reunion | B4MAN |
| 4 | CORTEZ/WILLIAMS PROJECT | Hermanos | Blue Bamboo |
| 5 | GORDON GOODWIN’S BIG PHAT BAND | The Reset | MOC |
| 6 | KRISTEN R BROMLEY QUINTET | Bluish Tide | KRBM |
| 7 | SAM PILNICK | Squawk Box | Self-Released |
| 8 | THOMAS HEFLIN | Morning Star | Blue Canoe |
| 9 | DAVID JANEWAY | Distant Voices | Steeplechase Lookout |
| 10 | MICAH GRAVES | Pawns | Self-Released |
Top Ten Electronic / Dance Recordings
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | BONOBO | Fragments | Ninja Tune |
| 2 | GRID, THE AND ROBERT FRIPP | Leviathan | Discipline Global Mobile |
| 3 | TYCHO AND BENJAMIN GIBBARD | “Only Love” with Brijean [Single] | Mom + Pop |
| 4 | SHAMANIC, THE | “FK Always” [Single] | Wake Up! |
| 5 | LANE 8 | Reviver | This Never Happened |
| 6 | KEYS N KRATES | Original Classic | Last Gang |
| 7 | 20 YEARS OF BASTARD JAZZ | VARIOUS ARTISTS | Bastard Jazz |
| 8 | DJ HARRISON | Tales From The Old Dominion | Stones Throw |
| 9 | LOGIC1000 | In The Sweetness Of You [EP] | Therapy/Because |
| 10 | BEVERLY GLENN-COPELAND | Keyboard Fantasies Reimagined | Transgressive/PIAS |
Hip Hop “Add”
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | SHAMANIC, THE | “FK Always” [Single] | Wake Up! |
Electronic / Dance “Add”
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | SHAMANIC, THE | “FK Always” [Single] | Wake Up! |
World “Adds”
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | AZAR LAWRENCE | New Sky | Trazar |
| 2 | SERGIO PEREIRA | Finesse | Sedajazz |
Jazz “Adds”
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | AZAR LAWRENCE | New Sky | Trazar |
| 2 | IRENE JALENTI | Dawn | Antdote |
| 3 | ADDISON FREI | Time and Again | New Paradigm |
| 4 | STEVE SLAGLE | Ballads: Into The Heart Of It | Panorama 1011 |
| 5 | JOE ALTERMAN | The Upside Of Down | Ropeadope |
| 6 | SERGIO PEREIRA | Finesse | Sedajazz |
| 7 | SAMUEL MOSCHING | Ethereal Kinks | Bronzeville |
| 8 | AMOS GILLESPIE | Unstructured Time For Jazz Septet | Self-Released |
| 9 | DOUG MACDONALD | Live In Hawaii | Dmac |