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, May 19th, 2020!
Community Radio WERU-FM 89.9 (Blue Hill) / weru.org
May 4th through May 10th, 2020
Top Thirty Overall Most-Played Recordings
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | BARE BACK RIDER | Wild East [EP] | Self-Released |
| 2 | KATIE PRUITT | Expectations | Rounder/Concord |
| 3 | CASEY VAN BEEK AND THE TULSA GROOVE | Heaven Forever | Little Village |
| 4 | CHARLIE BEDFORD | Good To Go | Blue Heart |
| 5 | CRYSTAL SHAWANDA | Church House Blues | True North |
| 6 | ELIZA GILKYSON | 2020 (Twenty Twenty) | Red House |
| 7 | FIONA APPLE | Fetch The Bolt Cutters | Epic |
| 8 | GORDON THOMAS WARD | Eiderdown | Trespass |
| 9 | JOHN MORELAND | LP5 | Thirty Tigers |
| 10 | LONE BELLOW, THE | Half Moon Light | Dualtone |
| 11 | MASTERSONS, THE | No Time For Love Songs | Red House/Compass |
| 12 | MAVIS STAPLES | “All In It Together” feat. Jeff Tweedy [Single] | Anti- |
| 13 | NORA JANE STRUTHERS | Bright Lights, Long Drives, First Words | Blue Pig |
| 14 | PUSS N BOOTS | Sister | Blue Note/Capitol |
| 15 | ROBERT CRAY BAND | That’s What I Heard | Nozzle |
| 16 | WOOD BROTHERS, THE | Kingdom In My Mind | Thirty Tigers |
| 17 | ALIAS WAYNE | Snafu [EP] | Self-Released |
| 18 | CARIBOU | Suddenly | Merge |
| 19 | AUBRIE SELLERS | Far From Home | Soundly |
| 20 | GHOST FUNK ORCHESTRA | A Song For Paul | Colemine |
| 21 | BETTYE LAVETTE | “I Hold No Grudge” [Single] | Verve |
| 22 | MOON DUO | Stars Are The Light | Sacred Bones |
| 23 | BOBBY BARE | Great American Saturday Night | Self-Released |
| 24 | WAX MACHINE | Earthsong Of Silence | Beyond Beyond Is Beyond |
| 25 | BRIAN FALLON | Local Honey | Lesser Known/Thirty Tigers |
| 26 | CASS CLAYTON BAND | Play Nice | Self-Released |
| 27 | CHARLEY CROCKETT | The Valley | Thirty Tigers |
| 28 | COCO MONTOYA | Comin’ In Hot | Alligator |
| 29 | COWBOY JUNKIES | Ghosts | Latent |
| 30 | DANIELIA COTTON | A Different War | Self-Released |
Top “Adds”
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | LAZER LLOYD | Tomorrow Never Comes | Lots Of Love |
| 2 | RHETT REPKO | Can Someone Help Me Now? [EP] | Self-Released |
| 3 | JOSS JAFFE | Traveller [EP] | Be Why |
| 4 | JAH9 | Note To Self | VP |
| 5 | JAVELINA | Fair All Youth [EP] | Self-Released |
| 6 | JULIA BARDO | Phase [EP] | Wichita |
| 7 | KORVEZ | Love Of Your Life (The Remixes) [EP] | Ultrascene |
| 8 | MILD MINDS | MOOD | Foreign Family Collective/Counter |
| 9 | PORRIDGE RADIO | Every Bad | Secretly Canadian/Secretly Group |
| 10 | SCOTT WATERS | Peace Signs & Dragonflies | Self-Released |
Top Ten World Albums
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | JIGJAM | Phoenix | Self-Released |
| 2 | TONY ALLEN AND HUGH MASEKELA | Rejoice! | World Circuit |
| 3 | JAH9 | Note To Self | VP |
| 4 | ANTIBALAS | Fu Chronicles | Daptone |
| 5 | SOTOMAYOR | Orígenes | Wonderwheel |
| 6 | SERGIO MENDES | In The Key Of Joy (Deluxe Edition) | Concord |
| 7 | LIDO PIMIENTA | Miss Colombia | Anti- |
| 8 | SUNNY JAIN | Wild Wild East | Smithsonian Folkways |
| 9 | HAILU MERGIA | Yene Mircha | Awesome Tapes From Africa |
| 10 | THIEVERY CORPORATION | Symphonik | ESL |
Top Ten Hip Hop / R & B Recordings
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | DARRELL KELLEY | “The Coronavirus” [Single] | Viral |
| 2 | KENNY MASON | Angelic Hoodrat | Self-Released |
| 3 | RJD2 | The Fun Ones | RJ’s Electrical Connections |
| 4 | SHABAZZ PALACES | The Don Of Diamond Dreams | Sub Pop |
| 5 | DENZEL CURRY AND KENNY BEATS | Unlocked | Loma Vista |
| 6 | KASSA OVERALL | I Think I’m Good | Brownswood |
| 7 | RUN THE JEWELS | “Ooh LA LA” b/w “The Yankee And The Brave” [Single] | Jewel Runners |
| 8 | 070 PHI | My Father’s Gun | Mass Appeal |
| 9 | NAYA ALI | Godspeed: Baptism (Prelude) | Coyote |
| 10 | THUNDERCAT | It Is What It Is | Brainfeeder |
Top Ten Jazz Albums
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | KANDACE SPRINGS | The Women Who Raised Me | Blue Note |
| 2 | NINA SIMONE | Fodder On My Wings | Verve |
| 3 | TONY ALLEN AND HUGH MASEKELA | Rejoice! | World Circuit |
| 4 | TROY ROBERTS | Stuff I Heard | Toy Robot |
| 5 | HEISENBERG UNCERTAINTY PLAYERS | Gradient | Self-Released |
| 6 | ENRIQUE HANEINE | Unlayered | Elegant Walk |
| 7 | JIM SELF JOHN CHIODINI DUO | The Light Fantastic | Basset Hound |
| 8 | WAYNE ALPERN | Standard Deviation | Henri Elkan |
| 9 | CONST | New Point Of View | I You We |
| 10 | ANSON WRIGHT | Only Love | Saphu |
Top Ten Electronic / Dance Recordings
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | CARIBOU | Suddenly | Merge |
| 2 | MOON DUO | Stars Are The Light | Sacred Bones |
| 3 | DARRELL KELLEY | “The Coronavirus” [Single] | Viral |
| 4 | BIICLA | No Place [EP] | Good Luck Have Fun |
| 5 | REZZ | “Someone Else” feat. Grabbitz [Single] | RCA |
| 6 | KID FROOPY | Silver Silver | Deadbeats |
| 7 | OTR | Lost At Midnight | Astralwerks |
| 8 | LASTLINGS | “Take My Hand” [Single] | Astralwerks |
| 9 | EMANCIPATOR | Mountain Of Memory | Loci |
| 10 | WAJATTA | Don’t Let Get You Down | Brainfeeder |
Hip Hop / R & B “Adds”
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | BISHOP NEHRU | Nehruvia: My Disregarded Thoughts | Nehruvia |
| 2 | MACCA WILES | “Outlined” [Single] | Macauley Wiles/ADA |
World “Add”
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | MAX HIGHSTEIN | Gratitunes | Desert Heart |