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, June 2nd, 2020!
Community Radio WERU-FM 89.9 (Blue Hill) / weru.org
May 18th through May 24th, 2020
Top Thirty Overall Most-Played Recordings
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | GORDON THOMAS WARD | Eiderdown | Trespass |
| 2 | LUCINDA WILLIAMS | Good Souls Better Angels | Highway 20/Thirty Tigers |
| 3 | ELIZA GILKYSON | 2020 (Twenty Twenty) | Red House |
| 4 | FRAZEY FORD | U Kin B The Sun | Arts & Crafts |
| 5 | MARK ERELLI | Blindsided | Soundly |
| 6 | MARSHALL CHAPMAN | Songs I Can’t Live Without | Tall Girl |
| 7 | MASTERSONS, THE | No Time For Love Songs | Red House/Compass |
| 8 | ANDREW VANNORSTRAND | That We Could Find A Way To Be | Great Bear |
| 9 | CASEY VAN BEEK AND THE TULSA GROOVE | Heaven Forever | Little Village |
| 10 | DAVID BROMBERG BAND | Big Road | Red House |
| 11 | JASON ISBELL AND THE 400 UNIT | Reunions | Southeastern/Thirty Tigers |
| 12 | LUCKY PETERSON | Just Warming Up! | Jazz Village |
| 13 | MISS TESS | The Moon Is An Ashtray | Tone Tree |
| 14 | NORA JANE STRUTHERS | Bright Lights, Long Drives, First Words | Blue Pig |
| 15 | PATTY LARKIN | Bird In A Cage | Road Narrows |
| 16 | SIERRA HULL | 25 Trips | Rounder |
| 17 | SPECIAL CONSENSUS | Chicago Barn Dance | Red House |
| 18 | BOB DYLAN | Rough And Rowdy Ways [Advance Tracks] | Columbia |
| 19 | AMBER MARK | “Heart-Shaped Box” [Single] | PMR |
| 20 | AMERICAN AQUARIUM | Me + Mine (Lamentations) | New West |
| 21 | ANDREW MCKNIGHT | Treasures In My Chest | Catalooch |
| 22 | ANGEL FORREST | Hell Bent With Grace | Ad Litteram |
| 23 | AUBRIE SELLERS | Far From Home | Soundly |
| 24 | BALLROOM THIEVES | Unlovely | Nettwerk |
| 25 | BARBARA BERGIN | Blood Red Moon | Little White Hen |
| 26 | BASIA BULAT | Are You In Love? | Secret City |
| 27 | BETTY FOX BAND | Peace In Pieces | Self-Released |
| 28 | ALIAS WAYNE | Snafu [EP] | Self-Released |
| 29 | BROOKS WILLIAMS | Work My Claim | Red Guitar Blue |
| 30 | CHARLIE BEDFORD | Good To Go | Blue Heart |
Top “Adds”
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | JADE HAIRPINS | Harmony Avenue | Merge |
| 2 | TOM ABBOTT | Puppet Boy | Self-Released |
| 3 | COOKER JOHN | Path To Nothing | Self-Released |
| 4 | JAKE BLOUNT | Spider Tales | Free Dirt |
| 5 | SHE’S EXCITED | My Own Crazy | Teknofonic |
| 6 | BUSCABULLA | Regresa | Ribbon |
| 7 | YUMI ZOUMA | Truth Or Consequences | Polyvinyl |
| 8 | VUNDABAR | Either Light | Gawk |
| 9 | ELLI MOORE | Confections | Lyre |
| 10 | PORCHES | Ricky Music | Domino |
Top Ten World Albums
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | MARLA LEIGH | Rhythms Of Tof Miriam | Self-Released |
| 2 | SVEN WUNDER | Eastern Flowers | Light In The Attic |
| 3 | LIDO PIMIENTA | Miss Colombia | Anti- |
| 4 | BUSCABULLA | Regresa | Ribbon |
| 5 | SERGIO MENDES | In The Key Of Joy (Deluxe Edition) | Concord |
| 6 | JAH9 | Note To Self | VP |
| 7 | TONY ALLEN AND HUGH MASEKELA | Rejoice! | World Circuit |
| 8 | SOTOMAYOR | Orígenes | Wonderwheel |
| 9 | ANTIBALAS | Fu Chronicles | Daptone |
| 10 | SUNNY JAIN | Wild Wild East | Smithsonian Folkways |
Top Ten Hip Hop / R & B Recordings
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | RJD2 | The Fun Ones | RJ’s Electrical Connections |
| 2 | SHABAZZ PALACES | The Don Of Diamond Dreams | Sub Pop |
| 3 | RUN THE JEWELS | “Ooh LA LA” b/w “The Yankee And The Brave” [Single] | Jewel Runners |
| 4 | TOM MISCH AND YUSSEF DAYES | What Kinda Music | Beyond The Groove/Blue Note/Caroline |
| 5 | NAYA ALI | Godspeed: Baptism (Prelude) | Coyote |
| 6 | BISHOP NEHRU | Nehruvia: My Disregarded Thoughts | Nehruvia |
| 7 | THUNDERCAT | It Is What It Is | Brainfeeder |
| 8 | KENNY MASON | Angelic Hoodrat | Self-Released |
| 9 | DENZEL CURRY AND KENNY BEATS | Unlocked | Loma Vista |
| 10 | AESOP ROCK | Music From The Game Freedom Finger | Rhymesayers |
Top Ten Jazz Albums
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | BILL FRISELL | Harmony | Blue Note |
| 2 | SORCERERS, THE | In Search Of The Lost City Of The Monkey God | ATA |
| 3 | SVEN WUNDER | Eastern Flowers | Light In The Attic |
| 4 | KANDACE SPRINGS | The Women Who Raised Me | Blue Note |
| 5 | TROY ROBERTS | Stuff I Heard | Toy Robot |
| 6 | CORY WEEDS QUARTET | Day By Day | Cellar |
| 7 | GOGO PENGUIN | GoGo Penguin | Blue Note |
| 8 | WAYNE ESCOFFERY | The Humble Warrior | Smoke Sessions |
| 9 | SHABAKA AND THE ANCESTORS | We Are Sent Here By History | Impulse! |
| 10 | ADRIAN YOUNGE AND ALI SHAHEED MUHAMMED | Jazz Is Dead Vol. 1 | Jazz Is Dead |
Top Ten Electronic / Dance Recordings
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | CARIBOU | Suddenly | Merge |
| 2 | YVES TUMOR | Heaven To A Tortured Mind | Warp |
| 3 | EMANCIPATOR | Mountain Of Memory | Loci |
| 4 | BIICLA | No Place [EP] | Good Luck Have Fun |
| 5 | THUNDERCAT | It Is What It Is | Brainfeeder |
| 6 | ADULT | Perception Is/As/Of Deception | Dais |
| 7 | AUSTRA | HiRUDiN | Domino |
| 8 | TOKIMONSTA | Oasis Nocturno | Self-Released |
| 9 | RJD2 | The Fun Ones | RJ’s Electrical Connections |
| 10 | REZZ | “Someone Else” feat. Grabbitz [Single] | RCA |
Electronic / Dance “Add”
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | BUSCABULLA | Regresa | Ribbon |
World “Add”
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | BUSCABULLA | Regresa | Ribbon |
Jazz “Adds”
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | PAUL TUVMAN | In My Life | Sunny And 82 |
| 2 | BK TRIO | Hit it | Self-Released |
| 3 | 3D JAZZ TRIO | I Love To See You Smile | DIVA Jazz |