genre charts for Feb 14 presents:

AAA

Rank Artist Album Label
1 SUNNY WAR Anarchist Gospel New West
2 MEG BAIRD Furling Drag City
3 KRISTEN NOBLE Lyrical Therapy Self-Released
4 ALELA DIANE Looking Glass Soundly
5 INDIGO SPARKE Hysteria Sacred Bones
6 BROOKE ANNIBALE Better By Now Nettwerk
7 NIGHTTIME Keeper Is The Heart Ba Da Bing
8 STELLA KOLA Stella Kola Self-Released
9 JOYCE STREET “With the Music Soft And The Lights Down Low” [Single] Numero Group
10 ROBERT FORSTER The Candle And The Flame Tapete

Hip-Hop

Rank Artist Album Label
1 BLACKLIQ AND OHBLIV What Will It Take [EP] Man Bites Dog
2 YOUNG SHILOH Ricochet Self-Released
3 MONDAY NIGHT AND 3WAYSLIM Good Company AllWeNeed
4 WESTSIDE GUNN 10 (Ten) Griselda
5 ETO AND FUTUREWAVE “Make It Out (Feat. Daniel Son)” [Single] WAVGODMUSIC INC. / NEW CRACK ERA
6 ODDISEE To What End Outer Note
7 FLY ANAKIN “Blicky Bop” [Single] Lex
8 NOAH-O AND BIG NO Richmond Brave Charged Up Entertainment
9 REUBEN VINCENT Love Is War Jamla
10 BEN FM False Modesty Self-Released

Loud

Rank Artist Album Label
1 DEMON KING Vesania The Artisan Era
2 SLEEP DEALER Confession Self-Released
3 KRISIUN Mortem Solis Century Media
4 OMEN STONES Omen Stones Self-Released
5 BLEEDSEASON “Soul Bird” [Single] Self-Released
6 VOSH Vessel Self-Released
7 BLACK TAPE FOR A BLUE GIRL Mesmerized By The Sirens (2023 Stereo Mix) Projekt
8 FREAKANGEL Suicidal (Break The Cycle) Alfa Matrix
9 LINEKRAFT Chaos State Total Black
10 NAHJA MORA AHFHAOTA Self-Released

RPM

Rank Artist Album Label
1 NOSAJ THING Continua LuckyMe
2 PLAID FEORM FALORX Warp
3 CONFIDENCE MAN Re-Tilt [EP] Heavenly/PIAS
4 MAYA KILLTRON Persimmon Never Dance Alone/Love Touch
5 AVALON Earth Water Air Fire Crammed Discs
6 TSHA Capricorn Sun Ninja Tune
7 BITCHIN BAJAS Bajascillators Drag City
8 MATTHEWDAVID On Mushrooms (A Primer for Mycelium Music) [EP] Leaving
9 YAEJI “For Granted” [Single] XL
10 FEVER RAY “Carbon Dioxide” b/w “What They Call Us” [Single] Mute

World

Rank Artist Album Label
1 KIMI DJABATE Dindin Cumbancha
2 BIO RITMO Salsa System [EP] Electric Cowbell
3 BOZI BOZIANA Desir Feminin Naelis
4 MERAL POLAT TRIO Ez Kî Me Self-Released
5 M.A. STUDIO Futuro Niche Discos Pacifico
6 SEU JORGE Carolina Mr Bongo
7 T.P. ORCHESTRE POLY-RYTHMO Singles & EPs Acid Jazz
8 OF TROPIQUE Buster Goes West Eelctric Cowbell
9 GOOD SAMARITANS, THE No Food Without Taste If By Hunger Analog Africa
10 OLDU O ZAMAN “Sigarasi Yaldizli” b/w “Mastika” [Single] Bongo Joe

    February 14th, 2023

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top 30 new albums for Feb 7 presents:

The weekly chart reflects the diversity of programming on WRIR. In an average week, WRIR DJs play approximately 1,200 albums (and EPs and singles).

To make it on the list, an album must be released in the past year. Local bands and albums played by more than one DJ are given priority in the rankings.

Below the chart is a list of new albums added to the music library once that information has been compiled. Check back later if it’s not there yet.

Rank Artist Album Label
1 King Tuff Smalltown Stardust Sub Pop
2 Fucked Up One Day Merge
3 Takuya Kuroda Midnight Crisp First Word
4 SPECIAL INTEREST Endure Rough Trade
5 Crosslegged Another Blue Crosslegged
6 Troy A N*gga Might’ve Cared Too Much Poverty LLC
7 BlackLiq & ohbliv What Will It Take – EP Man Bites Dog
8 Eto & Futurewave Make It Out (feat. Daniel Son) – Single WAVGODMUSIC INC. / NEW CRACK ERA
9 Big Sty Angels – Single self-released
10 Enforced War Remains Century Media
11 Hotspit Memory of a Mirror Image self-released
12 Circle Breaker PanDEMOnium self-released
13 Dazy Outofbody Lame-O
14 Omen Stones Omen Stones self-released
15 City of Caterpillar Mystic Sisters Relapse
16 Strawberry Moon Habitual Creatures Sockhead
17 Ben FM False Modesty self-released
18 Spooky Cool Existential Pie Riot Daddy
19 gnawing Rock Against Bush – EP self-released
20 Blush Face Mirage Island – EP self-released
21 Oozing Wound We Cater To Cowards Thrill Jockey
22 Meg Baird Furling Drag City
23 Elliot Szabo Brave self-released
24 Geoff Bradford The Voyage Out self-released
25 Irene Kelley Snow White Memories IRK
26 Liela Moss Internal Working Model Bella Union
27 Babitha Brighter Side of Blue Spunk
28 Steakhouse Amer Rouge self-released
29 Ladytron Time’s Arrow Cooking Vinyl
30 The Tubs Dead Meat Trouble In Mind

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    February 7th, 2023

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genre charts for Feb 7 presents:

AAA

Rank Artist Album Label
1 MEG BAIRD Furling Drag City
2 IRENE KELLEY Snow White Memories IRK
3 TOM GLYNN Skylight Intervention Self-Released
4 LAMBCHOP The Bible Merge
5 KRISTEN NOBLE Lyrical Therapy Self-Released
6 COURTNEY MARIE ANDREWS Loose Future Fat Possum
7 FIELD SCHOOL When Summer Comes Bobo Integral
8 CORNMAIZ STRINGBAND Fresh-Picked Kentucky Music Redbird
9 ERIC SELBY Dang Fool Soul Stew
10 BUDDY MONDLOCK Filament Self-Released

Hip-Hop

Rank Artist Album Label
BLACKLIQ AND OHBLIV What Will It Take [EP] Man Bites Dog
ETO AND FUTUREWAVE “Make It Out (feat. Daniel Son)” [Single] WAVGODMUSIC INC. / NEW CRACK ERA
BIG STY “Angels” [Single] Self-Released
BEN FM False Modesty Self-Released
ODDISEE To What End Outer Note
BOBBY J FROM ROCKAWAY Radio Days Pristine Original
REUBEN VINCENT Love Is War Jamla
NOAH-O TRILLipino (Mixtape Version) Charged Up
SUITE FOR MA DUKES ORCHESTRA Timeless: Suite For Ma Dukes Mochilla
CORMEGA The Realness II Viper

Loud

Rank Artist Album Label
1 ENFORCED War Remains Century Media
2 CIRCLE BREAKER PanDEMOnium Self-Released
3 OMEN STONES Omen Stones Self-Released
4 OOZING WOUND We Cater To Cowards Thrill Jockey
5 TWILIGHT FORCE At The Heart Of Wintervale Nuclear Blast
6 BODY AND OAA, THE Enemy Of Love Thrill Jockey
7 HIEROPHANT Greasy Exudate Intumescence
8 AARA Emphase der Seelenpein Debemur Morti Productions
9 FLESH MACHINE Pray to the Hive [EP] Self-Released
10 KUTA Polaroid Quantico

RPM

Rank Artist Album Label
1 LADYTRON Time’s Arrow Cooking Vinyl
2 CONFIDENCE MAN Re-Tilt [EP] Heavenly/PIAS
3 MAYA KILLTRON Persimmon Never Dance Alone/Love Touch
4 KUEDO Infinite Window Brainfeeder
5 DE LUX Do You Need A Release? Innovative Leisure
6 CHARLOTTE ADIGERY AND BOLIS PUPUL Topical Dancer DEEWEE/Because
7 PINKY ANN RIHAL Tere Liye Naya Beat
8 POLE Tempus Mute
9 YAEJI “For Granted” [Single] XL
10 ATOM TM Soft Opening NN

    February 7th, 2023

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top 30 new albums for Jan 31 presents:

The weekly chart reflects the diversity of programming on WRIR. In an average week, WRIR DJs play approximately 1,200 albums (and EPs and singles).

To make it on the list, an album must be released in the past year. Local bands and albums played by more than one DJ are given priority in the rankings.

Below the chart is a list of new albums added to the music library once that information has been compiled. Check back later if it’s not there yet.

Rank Artist Album Label
1 De La Soul 3 Feet High and Rising AOI
2 Deerhoof Miracle-Level Joyful Noise
3 BlackLiq & ohbliv What Will It Take – EP Man Bites Dog
4 Big Sty Angels – Single self-released
5 Monday Night & 3wayslim Good Company AllWeNeed
6 Nikki Lane Denim & Diamonds New West
7 Piranha Rama Omniscient Cloud Cover Brokers Tip
8 Yeah Yeah Yeahs Cool It Down Secretly Canadian
9 Beyoncé RENAISSANCE Parkwood / Columbia
10 CK Johnson Fire Under Water Sir Johnson’s
11 DJ Mordecai Sir Snackums Files self-released
12 Dub T Panopticon self-released
13 IVRY_S ⇆ lith-512 〖LABELMAKER〗 self-released
14 MUDGEE Virgo Commercial 521 Productions
15 Petrified Entity B-Sides & Rarities Infinite Mirror
16 Pyramid Mass Monolith Ossein
17 Thunderchief Dekk Meg… self-released
18 Dave Rowntree Radio Songs Cooking Vinyl
19 Ladytron Time’s Arrow Cooking Vinyl
20 We Are Scientists Lobes Masterswan
21 The Williams Brothers Memories To Burn Regional
22 Billy Nomates CACTI Invada UK
23 Circa Waves Never Going Under Lower Third
24 Oberon Rose Purple, Blue & Crimson ThouART
25 Germein Good For a Girl MGM
26 Jason Carter Lowdown Hoedown Fiddleman
27 Steve Louw Thunder and Rain BFD
28 Marlody I’m Not Sure at All Skep Wax
29 Ron Fetner Down a Gravel Road BayWater
30 Little Simz NO THANK YOU Forever Living Originals

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    January 31st, 2023

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genre charts for Jan 31 presents:

AAA

Rank Artist Album Label
1 NIKKI LANE Denim & Diamonds New West
2 WILLIAMS BROTHERS, THE Memories To Burn Regional
3 GERMEIN Good For A Girl [EP] MGM
4 JASON CARTER Lowdown Hoedown Fiddle Man
5 STEVE LOUW Thunder And Rain BFD
6 RON FETNER Down A Gravel Road BayWater
7 MEG BAIRD Furling Drag City
8 BROOKE ANNIBALE Better By Now Nettwerk
9 CHRISTIANA BENTON Better Late Than Never Self-Released
10 COURTNEY MARIE ANDREWS Loose Future Fat Possum

Hip-Hop

Rank Artist Album Label
1 DE LA SOUL “The Magic Number” [Single] Chrysalis
2 BLACKLIQ AND OHBLIV What Will It Take [EP] Man Bites Dog
3 BIG STY “Angels” [Single] Self-Released
4 MONDAY NIGHT AND 3WAYSLIM Good Company AllWeNeed
5 CK JOHNSON Fire Under Water Sir Johnson’s
6 DJ MORDECAI Sir Snackums Files Self-Released
7 DUB T Panopticon Self-Released
8 MUDGEE Virgo Commercial 521 Productions
9 LITTLE SIMZ NO THANK YOU Forever Living Originals/AWAL
10 ODDISEE To What End Outer Note

Loud

Rank Artist Album Label
1 THUNDERCHIEF Dekk Meg Self-Released
2 RUSSIAN CIRCLES Gnosis Sargent House
3 LORD OF THE VOID Consvming The Trails Ov Light Self-Released
4 PARAMORPHEUS Acquiescence Self-Released
5 ANTITHEUS The Faults Of Our Kind Self-Released
6 HAXPROCESS The Caverns of Duat Self-Released
7 SAGEN Roots Of Proctor Self-Released
8 STRIBORG The Foreboding Silence Self-Released
9 XEXYS Gamera Self-Released
10 COYOTE ALTAR Crepuscular [EP] Self-Released

RPM

Rank Artist Album Label
1 PETRIFIED ENTITY B-Sides & Rarities Infinite Mirror
2 LADYTRON Time’s Arrow Cooking Vinyl
3 DISCREPANTS Beginnings Cacophanous Revival
4 BJORK Fossora One Little Independent
5 SWEATSON KLANK Postcards Friends Of Friends
6 QUBE 2020 B Sides Part 1 Self-Released
7 BENOIT PIOULARD AND JOGGING HOUSE Communiqué Self-Released
8 DANCE WITH THE DEAD Driven to Madness Self-Released
9 DIALECT Advanced Myth RVNG Intl.
10 JASCHA HAGEN Songs For A Future Generation Oathcreations

World

Rank Artist Album Label
1 GOOD SAMARITANS, THE No Food Without Taste If By Hunger Analog Africa
2 GRUPO KUAL Konexiones Discos Rolas
3 BILL CLINTON KALONJI No Stress Self-Released
4 LOS INVASORES DE PROGRESO Selva Mia Discos Fantastico
5 BAABA MAAL “Agreement” [Single] Marathon
6 DON LETTS “Outta Sync” [Single] Cooking Vinyl
7 MIGMAFRICA Run Buffalo Run Nikamo
8 INSOLITO UNIVERSO Ese Puerte Existe [EP] Olindo
9 ORCHESTRA GOLD Medicine Self-Released
10 FALLY IPUPA Formule 7 Elektra France

    January 31st, 2023

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top 30 new albums for Jan 24 presents:

The weekly chart reflects the diversity of programming on WRIR. In an average week, WRIR DJs play approximately 1,200 albums (and EPs and singles).

To make it on the list, an album must be released in the past year. Local bands and albums played by more than one DJ are given priority in the rankings.

Below the chart is a list of new albums added to the music library once that information has been compiled. Check back later if it’s not there yet.

Rank Artist Album Label
1 Shana Cleveland Manzanita Hardly Art
2 Stereolab Pulse of the Early Brain Duophonic UHF Disks / Warp
3 Sadie Phases self-released
4 Frankie Cosmos Inner World Peace Sub Pop
5 Fievel Is Glauque Flaming Swords MATH Interactive
6 Butcher Brown Butcher Brown Presents Triple Trey Concord Jazz
7 Westside Gunn 10 EMPIRE
8 Høly River Høly River Shockoe Sessions LIVE Shockoe
9 Ryan Kent Dying Comes With Age Rare Bird
10 The Ruta Beggars Ever-Changing MLN
11 Casey Foubert EP 1 zat-samuelson
12 Ernie Vincent Original Dap King self-released
13 Marlody I’m Not Sure at All Skep Wax
14 Orchestra Gold Medicine Orchestra Gold
15 Acre Memos A Collection of Bird Songs Double Yolk
16 Richard Dawson The Ruby Cord Weird World
17 Jambinai Apparition – EP Bella Union
18 La Femme Teatro Lúcido Disque Pointu
19 Big Joanie Back Home Kill Rock Stars
20 Aoife Nessa Frances Protector Partisan
21 Dawn Richard & Spencer Zahn Pigments Merge
22 Tegan and Sara Crybaby Mom+Pop
23 Courtney Marie Andrews Loose Future CMA
24 Dungen En Är För Mycket och Tusen Aldrig Nog Mexican Summer
25 Nikki Lane Denim & Diamonds New West
26 Alvvays Blue Rev Polyvinyl
27 Melody’s Echo Chamber Unfold Weird World
28 Yeah Yeah Yeahs Cool It Down Secretly Canadian
29 Jake Blount The New Faith Smithsonian Folkways
30 Jessie Baylin Jersey Girl Missing Piece

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    January 24th, 2023

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genre charts for Jan 24 presents:

AAA

Rank Artist Album Label
1 HOLY RIVER Høly River Shockoe Sessions LIVE Shockoe
2 RUTA BEGGARS, THE Ever-Changing MLN
3 CASEY FOUBERT EP 1 Zat-Samuelson
4 ACRE MEMOS A Collection Of Bird Songs Double Yolk
5 COURTNEY MARIE ANDREWS Loose Future Fat Possum
6 NIKKI LANE Denim & Diamonds New West
7 JAKE BLOUNT The New Faith Smithsonian Folkways
8 JESSIE BAYLIN Jersey Girl Blonde Rat
9 PEACH AND QUIET Beautiful Thing Self-Released
10 CHRISTINE SWEENEY Heart In A Hurry Self-Released

Hip-Hop

Rank Artist Album Label
1 BUTCHER BROWN Butcher Brown Presents Triple Trey Concord Jazz/Concord
2 WESTSIDE GUNN 10 (Ten) Griselda
3 COAST CONTRA Apt. 505 Area51/Virgin
4 MONDAY NIGHT AND 3WAYSLIM Good Company AllWeNeed
5 CORMEGA The Realness II Viper
6 HOMEBOY SANDMAN Still Champion Mello
7 JESSE THE TREE Pigeon Man Strange Famous
8 MAASSAI Personal Year 8 Self-Released
9 SMINO Luv 4 Rent Zero Fatigue
10 JID The Forever Story Dreamville/Interscope

Loud

Rank Artist Album Label
1 EARTHLESS Night Parade Of One Hundred Demons Nuclear Blast
2 PERSEFONE Metanoia Napalm
3 WORMROT Hiss Earache
4 BIG BRAVE Nature Morte Thrill Jockey
5 STRIDER Midnight Zen Hexe
6 E L R Vexier Prophecy Productions
7 FULL OF HELL AND PRIMITIVE MAN Suffocating Hallucination Closed Casket
8 SLEEP DEALER Confession Self-Released
9 ACHERONTIA STYX Post Death [EP] Dwarrowdelf
10 OSIAH Chronos [EP] Unique Leader

RPM

Rank Artist Album Label
1 DAWN RICHARD AND SPENCER ZAHN Pigments Merge
2 ELAINE HOWLEY The Distance Between Heart And Mouth Touch Sensitive
3 LORD OF THE ISLES Subtle Thoughts Lapsus
4 MARINA HERLOP Pripyat PAN
5 ANOMALIE Galerie Nettwerk
6 MARIA CHIARA ARGIRO Forest City Innovative Leisure
7 CARLOS NINO AND FRIENDS EXTRA PRESENCE International Anthem
8 SIDEWALKS AND SKELETONS Exorcism Self-Released
9 DJ HARRISON Dungeon Sessions [EP] Stones Throw
10 ERNEST HOOD Back To The Woodlands Freedom To Spend

World

Rank Artist Album Label
1 LIRAZ Roya Glitterbeat
2 PERU SELVATICO VARIOUS ARTISTS Analog Africa
3 JUANITA EUKA Mabanzo Strut
4 BASSIDI KONE Kaira Remote
5 ORCHESTRA GOLD Medicine Self-Released
6 JOAO SELVA Passarinho Underdog
7 MASS KONPA Sans Regret Self-Released
8 FALLY IPUPA Formule 7 Elektra France
9 MAJID BEKKAS Joudour Igloo
10 ENEIDA MARTA Family Azziz

    January 24th, 2023

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top 30 new albums for Jan 17 presents:

The weekly chart reflects the diversity of programming on WRIR. In an average week, WRIR DJs play approximately 1,200 albums (and EPs and singles).

To make it on the list, an album must be released in the past year. Local bands and albums played by more than one DJ are given priority in the rankings.

Below the chart is a list of new albums added to the music library once that information has been compiled. Check back later if it’s not there yet.

Rank Artist Album Label
1 The Black Angels Wilderness of Mirrors Partisan
2 Staples Jr. Singers When Do We Get Paid Luaka Bop
3 Ditz The Great Regression Alcopop!
4 Doechii she / her / black bitch – EP Top Dawg / Capitol
5 Beyoncé RENAISSANCE Parkwood / Columbia
6 Piranha Rama Omniscient Cloud Cover Brokers Tip
7 Dot Dash Madman in the Rain Beautiful Music
8 Spooky Cool Existential Pie self-released
9 Vibro Success Intercontinental Orchestra Drunkard Dig This Way
10 Shemekia Copeland Done Come Too Far Alligator
11 Alvvays Blue Rev Polyvinyl
12 Thunderchief Dekk Meg self-released
13 Winter What Kind of Blue Are You? Bar/None
14 Rodney Stith The Soul Chronicles of Rodney Stith Shockoe
15 Strange Cut Strange As It Seems Bear Fight
16 B4NK M4CHIN3 Leisure, Recreation and Stability – EP self-released
17 Flashlight Tag Don’t Blink self-released
18 Byzantine Black Sea Codex – EP Metal Blade
19 Rozi Plain Prize Memphis Industries
20 Fixtures Hollywood Dog Bobo Integral
21 SZA SOS Top Dawg / RCA
22 The Comet Is Coming Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam Impulse!
23 Seun Kuti & Black Thought African Dreams – EP SKE80
24 Big Joanie Back Home Daydream Library
25 Lee Fields Sentimental Fool Daptone
26 Arctic Monkeys The Car Domino
27 Julianna Riolino All Blue You’ve Changed
28 The Orielles Tableau Heavenly
29 Wild Pink ILYSM Royal Mountain
30 Lucrecia Dalt ¡Ay! RVNG Intl.

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    January 17th, 2023

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genre charts for Jan 17 presents:

AAA

Rank Artist Album Label
1 ROZI PLAIN Prize Memphis Industries
2 JULIANNA RIOLINO All Blue You’ve Changed
3 MARISA ANDERSON Still, Here Thrill Jockey
4 ELIZA NIEMI Staying Mellow Blows Vain Mina
5 WILLI CARLISLE Peculiar, Missouri Free Dirt
6 JESCA HOOP Order Of Romance Memphis Industries
7 LUCY KAPLANSKY Last Days Of Summer Lucyricky
8 KENNY ROBY Kenny Roby Royal Potato Family
9 JESSIE BAYLIN Jersey Girl Blonde Rat
10 CHRISTINE SWEENEY Heart In A Hurry Self-Released

Hip-Hop

Rank Artist Album Label
1 DOECHII she/her/black b**ch [EP] Top Dawg/Capitol
2 SEUN KUTI AND BLACK THOUGHT African Dreams [EP] SKE80
3 SOL MESSIAH GOD CMPLX Rhymesayers
4 MONDAY NIGHT AND 3WAYSLIM Good Company AllWeNeed
5 MOPES Unwound Strange Famous
6 DUB SONATA Tranquilizer Dart Man Bites Dog
7 CORMEGA The Realness II Viper
8 JID The Forever Story Dreamville/Interscope
9 HOMEBOY SANDMAN Still Champion Mello
10 PUSHA T It’s Almost Dry Getting Out Our Dreams

Loud

Rank Artist Album Label
1 THUNDERCHIEF Dekk Meg Self-Released
2 BYZANTINE Black Sea Codex [EP] EMI
3 ATROCITY Okkult III Massacre
4 RUSSIAN CIRCLES Gnosis Sargent House
5 DEMON KING Vesania The Artisan Era
6 FLUB Dream Worlds The Artisan Era
7 NE OBLIVISCARIS Exul Season of Mist
8 ERIK LARSON Everything Breaks Self-Released
9 ABLAZE MY SORROW The Loss Of All Hope [EP] Black Lion
10 SPIRE OF LAZARUS Soaked In The Sands Self-Released

RPM

Rank Artist Album Label
1 COMET IS COMING, THE Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam Impulse!/Verve
2 TREES SPEAK Vertigo Of Flaws: Emancipation Of The Dissonance And Temperaments In Irrational Waveforms Soul Jazz
3 MIA MATA island
4 ARCA KiCK iiiii XL
5 GHOST POWER Ghost Power Duophonic
6 EIKE HOSENFELD Coctemalan Salon Mondial
7 ARP NOVA AND SILENCE GROOVE August Rush [EP] 31
8 FOUR TET “Mango Feedback” b/w “Watersynth” [Single] Text
9 HALOGENIX Lost Friends [EP] Gemini Gemini
10 BEBORN BETON “Dancer In The Dark” [Single] Dependent

World

Rank Artist Album Label
1 LOS BITCHOS Los Chrismos [EP] City Slang
2 STAR FEMININE BAND Star Feminine Band In Paris Born Bad
3 VIEUX FARKA TOURE AND KHRUANGBIN Ali Dead Oceans/Secretly Group
4 BIO RITMO Salsa System [EP] Electric Cowbell
5 PERU SELVATICO VARIOUS ARTISTS Analog Africa
6 CABRUERA Sol A Pino Polen
7 BALKA SOUND Balka Sound Strut
8 REDDY AMISI Bailo Canto Casa Do Canto
9 OLIVER NAYOKA Oka Mmadu Odogwu/Palenque
10 BABA COMMANDANT AND THE MANDINGO BAND Sonbonbela Sublime Frequencies

    January 17th, 2023

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top 100 albums of 2021 presents:

In the past year, WRIR DJs played 12,500+ songs from 6,500+ albums, EPs, and singles released in 2022. These included 300+ recordings from local artists and bands. Below is a chart of the top 100 albums, EPs, and singles (not included in an album or EP). Local artists are marked in bold.

Rank Artist Album Label
1 Beyoncé RENAISSANCE Parkwood / Columbia
2 Wet Leg Wet Leg Domino
3 The Smile A Light for Attracting Attention XL
4 Los Bitchos Let the Festivities Begin! City Slang
5 Danger Mouse Cheat Codes BMG
6 Automatic Excess Stones Throw
7 Yeah Yeah Yeahs Cool It Down Secretly Canadian
8 Afro-Zen Allstars The Buzz and the Bells Aza Music
9 Russian Circles Gnosis Sargent House
10 Toro y Moi MAHAL Dead Oceans
11 Nilufer Yanya PAINLESS ATO / Fontana North
12 Mitski Laurel Hell Dead Oceans
13 Angel Olsen Big Time Jagjaguwar
14 Fly Anakin Frank Lex
15 Piranha Rama Omniscient Cloud Cover Brokers Tip
16 Butcher Brown & Michael Millions BLACK MAN – Single Concord
17 Trombone Shorty Lifted Blue Note
18 Justin Golden Hard Times and a Woman self-released
19 Ibibio Sound Machine Electricity Merge
20 Vieux Farka Touré & Khruangbin Ali Dead Oceans / Night Time Stories Ltd.
21 Doechii she / her / black bitch – EP Top Dawg / Capitol
22 Quelle Chris Deathfame Mello
23 Pusha T It’s Almost Dry GOOD / Def Jam
24 Kendrick Lamar Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers pgLang / Top Dawg Entertainment / Aftermath / Interscope
25 Big Thief Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You 4AD
26 TV Priest My Other People Sub Pop
27 Dumb Waiter Gauche Gists Ossein
28 The Beths Expert in a Dying Field Carpark
29 Marlowe Marlowe 3 Mello
30 Sudan Archives Natural Brown Prom Queen Stones Throw
31 Just Mustard Heart Under Partisan / Liberator Music
32 Björk Fossora One Little Independent
33 Belle and Sebastian A Bit of Previous Matador
34 Mister Earthbound The Great Silence – Single self-released
35 Sam Bush Radio John: Songs of John Hartford Smithsonian Folkways
36 Rina Sawayama Hold The Girl Dirty Hit
37 Calexico El Mirador Anti-
38 Secret Shame Autonomy self-released
39 Ett Eko Modern Content self-released
40 Makaya McCraven In These Times International Anthem / Nonesuch
41 Panic Shack Baby Shack – EP Brace Yourself
42 Noah-O TRILLipino Charged Up Ent
43 Deau Eyes Legacies Tone Tree Music / Subflora
44 Tomberlin i don’t know who needs to hear this… Saddle Creek
45 Spooky Cool Existential Pie self-released
46 Lizzo Special Nice Life / Atlantic
47 Shilpa Ray Portrait of a Lady Northern Spy
48 The Black Angels Wilderness of Mirrors Partisan / Liberator Music
49 Rikki Rakki Quarantine Sessions – EP self-released
50 Cate Le Bon Pompeii Mexican Summer
51 Viagra Boys Cave World YEAR0001
52 Black Country, New Road Ants From Up There Ninja Tune
53 Porridge Radio Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder To the Sky Secretly Canadian
54 Tanya Tagaq Tongues Six Shooter
55 Beach House Once Twice Melody Sub Pop
56 Strawberry Moon Habitual Creatures Sockhead
57 Noori & His Dorpa Band Beja Power! Electric Soul & Brass from Sudan’s Red Sea Coast Ostinato
58 Beth Orton Weather Alive Partisan / Liberator Music
59 Kevin Morby This Is a Photograph Dead Oceans
60 Spiritualized Everything Was Beautiful Fat Possum
61 The Cool Greenhouse Sod’s Toastie Melodic
62 Sadurn Radiator Run For Cover
63 Stereolab Pulse of the Early Brain [Switched On Volume 5] Duophonic UHF Disks / Warp
64 Seratones Love & Algorhythms New West
65 Sugaray Rayford In Too Deep Forty Below
66 Spread Joy II Feel It
67 Guerilla Toss Famously Alive Sub Pop
68 Wilco Cruel Country dBpm
69 Ben Harper Bloodline Maintenance Chrysalis
70 Lee Fields Sentimental Fool Dapone
71 Courtney Marie Andrews Loose Future Fat Possum
72 The Bug Club Green Dream in F# Bingo
73 Special Interest Endure Rough Trade
74 BKO Djine Bora Bongo Joe
75 Butcher Brown Butcher Brown Presents Triple Trey Concord Jazz
76 Jake Blount The New Faith Smithsonian Folkways
77 Catherine Russell Send For Me Dot Time
78 Twain Noon Keeled Scales
79 Shemekia Copeland Done Come Too Far Alligator
80 Cola Deep in View Fire Talk
81 Cat Power Covers Domino
82 Arooj Aftab Vulture Prince (Deluxe Edition) Verve
83 NO BS! Brass Undying self-released
84 Elvis Costello & The Imposters The Boy Named If EMI
85 Panda Bear & Sonic Boom Reset Domino
86 Holy Fuck Ninety Five – Single self-released
87 Plains I Walked with You a Ways Anti-
88 The Comet Is Coming Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam Impulse!
89 Gorillaz Cracker Island (feat. Thundercat) – Single Parlophone
90 Dehd Blue Skies Fat Possum
91 Billy Mohler Anatomy Contagious Music
92 Exek Advertise Here Castle Face
93 Boris W Sacred Bones
94 Billy Drummond & Freedom of Ideas Valse Sinistre Cellar Live
95 Arctic Monkeys The Car Domino
96 Xiomara Torres La Voz Del Mar Patois
97 Josean Jacobo Trio Herencia Criolla self-released
98 Alex G God Save the Animals Domino
99 Ghost Power Ghost Power Duophonic Super 45s
100 Kurt Vile (watch my moves) Verve

    January 1st, 2023

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