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, May 29th, 2022. Our next airplay chart will be computed on June 7th, 2022!
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May 23rd, 2022 through May 29th, 2022
Top Ten Blues Records
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | BONNIE RAITT | Just Like That… | Redwing |
| 2 | KEB MO | Good To Be… | Rounder/Concord |
| 3 | MAVIS STAPLES AND LEVON HELM | Carry Me Home | Anti- |
| 4 | DANA FUCHS | Borrowed Time | Ruf |
| 5 | MISS BIX | Bring It | Blue Heart |
| 6 | PETER VETESKA AND BLUES TRAIN | So Far So Good | Blue Heart |
| 7 | LEVEE TOWN | Trying To Keep My Head Above Water | Self-Released |
| 8 | GEMINIIDRAGON | Fighting Fire With FIre | Nepotism |
| 9 | MIKE GULDIN | Tumblin’ | Blue Heart |
| 10 | PROFESSOR LOUIE AND THE CROWMATIX | Strike Up The Band | Woodstock |
Top Thirty Overall Most-Played Recordings
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | BLIND RACCOON NOLA BLUE COLLECTION VOLUME FOUR | VARIOUS ARTISTS | Blue Heart |
| 2 | SABERTOOTH SWING | Delta Bound | Slammin Media |
| 3 | BONNIE RAITT | Just Like That… | Redwing |
| 4 | BRENNEN LEIGH | Obsessed with the West | Signature Sounds |
| 5 | JEWEL | Free Wheelin’ Woman | Words Matter |
| 6 | KURT VILE | (watch my moves) | Verve |
| 7 | GRANT LEE PHILLIPS | All That You Can Dream | Yep Roc |
| 8 | KAITLIN BUTTS | What Else Can She Do | Soundly |
| 9 | KEB MO | Good To Be… | Rounder/Concord |
| 10 | LITTLE ROY LIZZIE SHOW, THE | Welcome To The Show | Mountain Home |
| 11 | MAVIS STAPLES AND LEVON HELM | Carry Me Home | Anti- |
| 12 | STEVE’S THEME PARK | It’s A Global Rock Thing | Self-Released |
| 13 | SUNSHINERS, THE | Endangered Species [EP] | Self-Released |
| 14 | WOOKS, THE | Flyin’ High | Gnar Vector |
| 15 | DANA FUCHS | Borrowed Time | Ruf |
| 16 | ERIN RAE | Lighten Up | Thirty Tigers |
| 17 | IAN NOE | River Fools & Mountain Saints | Lock13/Thirty Tigers |
| 18 | LEVEE TOWN | Trying To Keep My Head Above Water | Self-Released |
| 19 | MIKE STEVENS | Breathe In The World, Breathe Out Music | Stony Plain |
| 20 | NOEL PAUL STOOKEY | Fazz: Now And Then | Neworld |
| 21 | OCEANATOR | Nothing’s Ever Fine | Polyvinyl |
| 22 | PETER VETESKA AND BLUES TRAIN | So Far So Good | Blue Heart |
| 23 | PROFESSOR LOUIE AND THE CROWMATIX | Strike Up The Band | Woodstock |
| 24 | SARAH SHOOK AND THE DISARMERS | Nightroamer | Abeyance/Thirty Tigers |
| 25 | SOPHIE AND THE BROKEN THINGS | Delusions Of Grandeur | Petaluma |
| 26 | TRAY WELLINGTON | Black Banjo | Crossroads |
| 27 | YOUNGERS, THE | Nashville Again | Self-Released |
| 28 | DANIELIA COTTON | Good Day | Self-Released |
| 29 | JESSE MALIN AND EUGENE HUTZ | “If I Should Fall From Grace With God” [Single] | Velvet Elk |
| 30 | MAPACHE | Roscoe’s Dream | Innovative Leisure |
Top “Adds”
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | BART MOORE | Graveyards, Wind And War | Blin Acres |
| 2 | NICKI BLUHM | Avondale Drive | Compass |
| 3 | HAAI | Baby, We’re Ascending | Mute |
| 4 | SECRET CITY BAND | Touch The Sky | Self-Released |
| 5 | ABANDONING SUNDAY | Hurt [EP] | Self-Released |
| 6 | BLYND BIRDS | Songs To Sink Yachts To | Self-Released |
| 7 | DON CHE | CHAZ’N PHANTOM FORTUNES | Chapta1 |
| 8 | LES AILES | But I Love You [EP] | Self-Released |
| 9 | ESSENTIAL MACHINE | Exponential Crisis [EP] | Lemon Tree |
| 10 | PI JA MA | Seule Sous Ma Frange | Bleepmachine |
Top Ten World Records
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | BIG MOUNTAIN | Best Of Big Mountain 2000-2020 | Euro Tec |
| 2 | GROUNDATION | One Rock | Easy Star/Baco |
| 3 | LOS LOBOS | Native Sons | New West |
| 4 | PIERRE KWENDERS | José Louis And The Paradox Of Love | Arts & Crafts |
| 5 | CONGOTRONICS INTERNATIONAL | Where’s The One? | Crammed Discs |
| 6 | IBIBIO SOUND MACHINE | Electricity | Merge |
| 7 | YUNGCHEN LHAMO | Awakening | Six Degrees |
| 8 | PARIS COMBO | Quesaco? | Six Degrees |
| 9 | GOOD ONES, THE | Rwanda… You See Ghosts, I See Sky | Six Degrees |
| 10 | IBEYI | Spell 31 | XL |
Top Ten Hip Hop Recordings
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | CARRTOONS | HOMEGROWN | Wichita |
| 2 | KENDRICK LAMAR | Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers | pgLang/Top Dawg/Aftermath/Interscope |
| 3 | DENZEL CURRY | Melt My Eyez See Your Future | Loma Vista/Concord |
| 4 | ACTION BRONSON | Cocodrillo Turbo | Loma Vista/Concord |
| 5 | LINQUA FRANQA | Bellringer | Ernest Jenning |
| 6 | DEFCEE AND BOATHOUSE | For All Debts Public And Private | Closed Sessions |
| 7 | SAMPA THE GREAT | “Lane” feat. Denzel Curry [Single] | Loma Vista/Concord |
| 8 | PUSHA T | It’s Almost Dry | Getting Out Our Dreams |
| 9 | ROBERT GLASPER | Black Radio III | Loma Vista/Concord |
| 10 | FLY ANAKIN | Frank | Lex |
Top Ten Jazz Recordings
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | MELISSA ALDANA | 12 Stars | Blue Note/UMG |
| 2 | JULIUS RODRIGUEZ | Let Sound Tell All | Verve |
| 3 | LE VENT DU NORD | 20 printemps | Self-Released |
| 4 | NANCY KELLY | Jazz Woman, The Reel To Real Sessions [EP] | SubCat |
| 5 | TROMBONE SHORTY | Lifted | Blue Note/UMG |
| 6 | GEORGE FREEMAN | Everybody Say Yeah! | Southport |
| 7 | CATHERINE RUSSELL | Send For Me | Dot Time |
| 8 | JOEY ALEXANDER | Origin | Mack Avenue |
| 9 | GOLDINGS BERNSTEIN STEWART | Perpetual Pendulum | Smoke Sessions |
| 10 | ROBERT GLASPER | Black Radio III | Loma Vista/Concord |
Top Ten Electronic / Dance Recordings
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | WORKFORCE | Set & Setting | Must Make |
| 2 | IBIBIO SOUND MACHINE | Electricity | Merge |
| 3 | ROYKSOPP | Profound Mysteries | Dog Triumph/PIAS |
| 4 | HARVEY SUTHERLAND | Boy | House Anxiety |
| 5 | TORO Y MOI | MAHAL | Dead Oceans |
| 6 | SOFI TUKKER | WET TENNIS | Ultra |
| 7 | HOT CHIP | “Down” [Single] | Domino |
| 8 | HEALTH | DISCO 4 :: PART II | Loma Vista/Concord |
| 9 | LET’S EAT GRANDMA | Two Ribbons | Transgressive/PIAS |
| 10 | !!! (CHK CHK CHK) | Let It Be Blue | Warp |
World “Add”
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | MINAS | Beatles in Bossa | BlueAzul |
Electronic / Dance “Add”
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | HAAI | Baby, We’re Ascending | Mute |
Jazz “Adds”
| Artist | Record | Label | |
| 1 | RADHA BOTOFASINA | Carry On Spirituals Vol. 2 | Shaila |
| 2 | ORI DAGAN | Click Right Here | Scat Cat |
| 3 | HENDRIK MEURKENS | Samba Jazz Odyssey | ZoHo |
| 4 | ALAN PASQUA, PETER ERSKINE. DAREK OLES | Live In Italy | Fuzzy |
| 5 | LANCE CONRAD | Home | Self-Released |
| 6 | DANA FITZSIMONS WITH BILL GRAHAM AND BRANDON BOONE | Fault Lines | Self-Released |
| 7 | GEORGE BURTON | Reciprocity | Inner Circle |
| 8 | MINAS | Beatles in Bossa | BlueAzul |
| 9 | SHIRI ZORN GEORGE MUSCATELLO MAURICIO ZOTTAERELLI | Into Another Land | Self-Released |