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, March 12th, 2019!
For Tuesday, March 5th, 2019
Top Thirty Most-Played Recordings Overall
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | KURT VILE | Bottle It In | Matador |
| 2 | OUR NATIVE DAUGHTERS | Songs Of Our Native Daughters | Smithsonian Folkways |
| 3 | MERCURY REV | Bobbie Gentry’s The Delta Sweete Revisited | Partisan |
| 4 | CITIZEN COPE | Heroin And Helicopters | Rainwater/Thirty Tigers |
| 5 | HAYES CARLL | What It Is | Dualtone |
| 6 | RYAN BINGHAM | American Love Songs | Axster Bingham |
| 7 | SHIRT TAIL KIN | Face And A Name | Self-Released |
| 8 | BEIRUT | Gallipoli | 4AD/Beggars Group |
| 9 | CHATHAM COUNTY LINE | Sharing The Covers | Yep Roc |
| 10 | DECEMBERISTS, THE | Traveling On [EP] | Capitol |
| 11 | DEER TICK | Mayonnaise | Partisan |
| 12 | ELVIS COSTELLO AND THE IMPOSTERS | Look Now | Concord |
| 13 | EVIE LADIN | Riding The Rooster | Evil Diane |
| 14 | J WAGNER | A New Story | Self-Released |
| 15 | JOE JACKSON | Fool [Advance Tracks] | earMUSIC |
| 16 | JULIANA HATFIELD | Weird | American Laundromat |
| 17 | MANDOLIN ORANGE | Tides Of A Teardrop | Yep Roc |
| 18 | MAYA DE VITRY | Adaptations | Self-Released |
| 19 | NIGHT BEATS | Myth Of A Man | Heavenly/PIAS |
| 20 | PISTOL ANNIES | Interstate Gospel | RCA |
| 21 | RHETT MILLER | The Messenger | ATO |
| 22 | SHOOK TWINS, THE | Some Good Lives [Advance Tracks] | Dutch |
| 23 | STEVE GUNN | The Unseen In Between | Matador/Beggars Group |
| 24 | TEDESCHI TRUCKS BAND | Signs | Fantasy/Concord |
| 25 | TIFFANY POLLACK AND ERIC JOHANSON | Blues In My Blood | Nola Blue |
| 26 | TOM PETTY AND THE HEARTBREAKERS | The Best Of Everything – The Definitive Career Spanning Hits Collection 1976-2016 [Advance Tracks] | Geffen/UMG |
| 27 | CAT EMPIRE, THE | Stolen Diamonds | Two Shoes |
| 28 | DEM ATLAS | Bad Actress | Rhymesayers |
| 29 | ADDI MCDANIEL | After The News | Sylvan |
| 30 | BLESSING BUSINESS | Surrender | Cemetery |
Top “Adds”
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | JOE FIEDLER | Open Sesame | Multiphonics |
| 2 | JANE KRAMER | Valley Of The Bones | Self-Released |
| 3 | NICK WATERHOUSE | Nick Waterhouse | Innovative Leisure |
| 4 | PATTY GRIFFIN | Patty Griffin [Advance Tracks] | Thirty Tigers |
| 5 | AARON DAVID GLEASON | This Is Aaron David Gleason | Brashtooth |
| 6 | AMANDA PALMER | There Will Be No Intermission | Cooking Vinyl |
| 7 | BLACK DRUMSET, THE | Charged | Self-Released |
| 8 | DIRTWIRE | Road Goes All Night | Beats Antique |
| 9 | FLYING HORSES | Reverie | Bon Sound |
| 10 | HAND HABITS | placeholder | Saddle Creek |
Top Ten World Albums
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | GENTICORUM | Avant l’orage | Self-Released |
| 2 | ANTONIO SANCHES | Buli Povo | Analog Africa |
| 3 | CALAN | Solomon | Sain |
| 4 | JOSEPHINE COUNTY | East To The West | Self-Released |
| 5 | LOS TEXMANIACS | Cruzando Borders | Smithsonian Folkways |
| 6 | MALOU BEAUVOIR | Spiritwalker | Panthera |
| 7 | GINGERMON | Baked To Perfection | Midwest Coast |
| 8 | LINETTE TOBINS PANGAEA | The New Shape Of The World | Tobin |
| 9 | SOMESH MATHUR | Time Stood Still | Sweet Beats |
| 10 | NICOLA CRUZ | Siku | ZZK |
Top Ten Hip Hop / R & B Recordings
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | DEM ATLAS | Bad Actress | Rhymesayers |
| 2 | CANTRELL | Stardust 2 Angels | Mass Appeal |
| 3 | FOUR FISTS, POS, ASTRONAUTALIS | (Six Six Six Six) 6666 | Doomtree |
| 4 | MALIBU KEN | Malibu Ken | Rhymesayers |
| 5 | MASS APPEAL STARTING 5 | VARIOUS ARTISTS [EP] | Mass Appeal |
| 6 | SHAD | A Short Story About A War | Secret City |
| 7 | SINGLE MOTHERS | Through A Wall | Dine Alone |
| 8 | DYNOMITE2LIVE | “Give Me All That” [Single] | Self-Released |
| 9 | DARRELL KELLEY | Unity | Viral |
| 10 | ROMEO MPUTU | “Rich Boy” feat. Montemba [Single] | Self-Released |
Top Ten Jazz Albums
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | HAROLD MABERN | The Iron Man Live At Smoke | Smoke Sessions |
| 2 | JOSE JAMES | Lean On Me | Blue Note |
| 3 | CECILE MCLORIN SALVANT | The Window | Mack Avenue |
| 4 | ELLEN ROWE OCTET | Momentum | Smokin’ Sleddog |
| 5 | HUMANITY QUARTET, THE | Humanity | Cellar Live |
| 6 | JOHNNY GRIFFITH QUINTET | The Lion, Camel And Child | GB |
| 7 | KAMASI WASHINGTON | Heaven And Earth | Young Turks |
| 8 | KANDACE SPRINGS | Indigo | Blue Note |
| 9 | MAKAYA MCCRAVEN | Universal Beings | International Anthem |
| 10 | ONE O’CLOCK LAB BAND | Lab 2018 | North Texas Jazz |
Top Ten Electronic / Dance Recordings
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | ROYAL CANOE | Waver | Paper Bag |
| 2 | NICOLA CRUZ | Siku | ZZK |
| 3 | TORO Y MOI | Outer Peace | Carpark |
| 4 | BRAINFEEDER X | VARIOUS ARTISTS | Brainfeeder |
| 5 | BIG WILD | Superdream | Counter |
| 6 | CHROME SPARKS | Be On Fire [EP] | Counter |
| 7 | HANS BERG | Sounds Of The Forest Forgotten | 2MR |
| 8 | LADYTRON | Ladytron | !K7 |
| 9 | SNEAKS | Highway Hypnosis | Merge |
| 10 | TENDER | Fear Of Falling Asleep | Partisan |
Hip Hop / R & B “Add”
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | LOUIS FUTON | Way Back When | Self-Released |
Jazz “Adds”
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | MICHAEL DAVIDSON AND DAN FORTIN | Clock Radio | Elastic |
| 2 | GODWIN LOUIS | Global | Blue Room |
| 3 | JENNA AND THE CHARMERS | Everyone I Love Is Here | Mamma Grace |
| 4 | CORY WEEDS QUINTET | Live At Frankie’s Jazz Club | Cellar Live |
| 5 | STEVE DAVIS | Correlations | Smoke Sessions |
| 6 | PETE COCO | Lined With A Groove | Self-Released |