top 30 new albums for Apr 25 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 Dom Flemons Traveling Wildfire Smithsonian Folkways
2 A Certain Ratio 1982 Mute
3 Fly Anakin Skinemaxxx (Side A) Lex
4 Magdalena Bay mini mix vol. 3 Luminelle
5 Rose City Band Garden Party Thrill Jockey
6 Fenne Lily Big Picture Dead Oceans
7 Lobby Boy Pure P.O.P. self-released
8 Severed Skies Dreamscapes self released
9 Dorthia Cottrell Death Folk Country Relapse
10 Blush Face Mirage Island – EP self-released
11 Spooky Cool Existential Pie Riot Daddy
12 The Hold Steady The Price of Progress Positive Jams
13 Deerhoof Miracle-Level Joyful Noise
14 Nickel Creek Celebrants Repair
15 Andrew Gabbard Cedar City Sweetheart Karma Chief
16 Death And Vanilla Flicker Fire
17 M83 Fantasy Mute
18 Robbie Fulks Bluegrass Vacation Compass
19 Professor Louie & The Crowmatix Rockin’ Legacy Vol. 1 Woodstock
20 Shana Cleveland Manzanita Hardly Art
21 David Haerle El Camino Sierra Edendale
22 Darling West Cosmos Jansen
23 Natalie MacMaster and Donnell Leahy Canvas Linus Entertainment
24 Various Artists Penrose Flurry of 45s Penrose
25 Young Fathers Heavy Heavy Ninja Tune
26 Ibex Clone All Channels Clear Goner
27 Jonah Yano Portrait of a Dog Innovative Leisure
28 Piranha Rama Omniscient Cloud Cover Brokers Tip
29 Parricide Sentence Parricide Sentence – EP Death Eternal
30 Strawberry Moon Habitual Creatures Sockhead

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    April 25th, 2023

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genre charts for Apr 25 presents:

AAA

Rank Artist Album Label
1 DOM FLEMONS Traveling Wildfire Smithsonian Folkways
2 DORTHIA COTTRELL Death Folk Country Relapse
3 NICKEL CREEK Celebrants Repair/Thirty Tigers
4 ROBBIE FULKS Bluegrass Vacation Compass
5 PROFESSOR LOUIE AND THE CROWMATIX Rockin’ Legacy Vol. 1 Woodstock
6 DARLING WEST Cosmos Jansen
7 NATALIE MACMASTER AND DONNELL LEAHY Canvas Self-Released
8 RENEE MASKIN AND THE MYSTERIOUS WILDS Renee Maskin & The Mysterious Wilds Mint 400
9 JOSEPH DECOSIMO While You Were Slumbering Sleepy Cat
10 CALEB ELLIOTT Weed, Wine & Time Single Lock

Hip-Hop

Rank Artist Album Label
1 FLY ANAKIN Skinemaxxx (Side A) Lex
2 SKYZOO AND THE OTHER GUYS The Mind Of A Saint First Generation Rich
3 KOOL KEITH X REAL BAD MAN Serpent Badman
4 REUBEN VINCENT Love Is War Jamla
5 PROF Horse Stophouse
6 BLACKLIQ AND MOPES Choice Is A Chance Strange Famous
7 CORMEGA The Realness II Viper
8 JESSE THE TREE Pigeon Man Strange Famous
9 BOLDY JAMES AND REAL BAD MAN Killing Nothing Real Bad Man
10 BILLY WOODS AND KENNY SEGAL “Facetime” feat. Sam Herring [Single] Backwoodz Studioz/Fat Possum

Loud

Rank Artist Album Label
1 ENTHEOS Time Will Take Us All Metal Blade
2 GOROD The Orb Self-Released
3 MESSA Live At Roadburn Svart
4 TWILIGHT FORCE At The Heart Of Wintervale Nuclear Blast
5 AARA Triade II-Hemera Debemur Morti
6 CIRCLE BREAKER PanDEMOnium Self-Released
7 PYRAMID MASS Monolith Ossein
8 CLOAK “Seven Thunders” [Single] Season Of Mist
9 BABYMETAL THE OTHER ONE Cooking Vinyl
10 MELISSA II Urge

RPM

Rank Artist Album Label
1 SEVERED SKIES Dreamscapes Self-Released
2 TZUSING Green Hat PAN
3 TREES SPEAK Mind Maze Soul Jazz
4 SAINT ABDULLAH AND JASON NAZARY Evicted In The Morning Disciples
5 PEARLY DROPS A Little Disaster Cascine
6 GALCHER LUSTWERK 100% Galcher Ghostly International
7 FIRST AID 4 SOULS This Present Darkness Alfa Matrix
8 ADAM RAHMAN Theta KitchenSync
9 GUTEVOLK Mezameru Wakusei Self-Released
10 KAKUHAN Metal Zone NAKID

World

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    April 25th, 2023

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Genre charts for week ending Jan 18 presents:

AAA

Rank Artist Album Label
1 DOM FLEMONS Black Cowboys Smithsonian Folkways
2 CARY MORIN When I Rise Self-Released
3 ADRIANNE LENKER abysskiss Saddle Creek
4 ANNA ST LOUIS If Only There Was A River Woodsist
5 CONNER YOUNGBLOOD Cheyenne Counter
6 HAZEL DICKENS AND ALICE GERRARD Sing Me Back Home: The DC Tapes, 1965-1969 Free Dirt
7 MICHIGAN RATTLERS Evergreen Self-Released
8 MOUNTAIN MAN Magic Ship Nonesuch
9 TEILHARD FROST As the Crow Flies Sepiaphone
10 TWAIN New Miami Sound Keeled Scales

Hip-Hop

Rank Artist Album Label
1 ANDERSON PAAK Oxnard Aftermath/12 Tone
2 GRIME LORDS Wimbledon Dons Boiler Room
3 GEORGIA ANNE MULDROW Overload Brainfeeder
4 CONWAY THE MACHINE Eif 2: Eat What U Kill Grizelda
5 BENNY THE BUTCHER Tana Talk 3 Griselda
6 INTERNET, THE Hive Mind Columbia
7 OHBLIV Retrospective Paxico
8 PUSHA T Daytona Def Jam
9 SANGO In The Comfort Of Last Gang
10 MICHAEL MILLIONS Hard To Be King Self-Released

Loud

Rank Artist Album Label
1 ANGEL METRO Dark Days Bright Lights Self-Released
2 BIG JOANIE Sistahs Cargo
3 PRESSOR Weird Things [EP] Addicted Label
4 CONSTANT MONGREL Living In Excellence La Vide Es Un Mus Discos
5 ORANGE GOBLIN The Wolf Bites Back Candlelight/Spinefarm
6 LUST FOR NOTHING Lust For Nothing [EP] Self-Released
7 DAWN OF ASHES The Crypt Injection II (Non Serviam) Metropolis
8 WAXEN Terror Decree + Bonus Moribund
9 PARIUS The Eldritch Realm Self-Released
10 MONSTROSITY The Passage of Existence Metal Blade

RPM

Rank Artist Album Label
1 IBIBIO SOUND MACHINE “Tell Me (Doko Mien)” [Single] Merge
2 STEPHANIE tangerine nightmare Self-Released
3 DEAD CAN DANCE Dionysus PIAS
4 SRSQ Unreality Dais
5 MATTHEW DEAR Bunny Ghostly
6 GASPING, THE Cultural Artifact Self-Released
7 NUMINA The Chroma Plateau Spotted Peccary
8 AUTECHRE NTS Sessions 1-4 Warp
9 I YA TOYAH Code Blue Self-Released
10 ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER Age Of Warp

World

Rank Artist Album Label
1 BASSEKOU KOUYATE AND NGONI BA Miri Out Here
2 MDOU MOCTAR “Kamane Tarhanin” [Single] Sahel Sounds
3 TARTIT Amankor / The Exile Riverboat
4 JUANECO Y SU COMBO El Gran Cacique Infopesa
5 VAUDOU GAME Otodi Hot Casa
6 BARRO Somos Self-Released
7 DANIEL KAHN AND THE PAINTED BIRD The Butcher’s Share Oriente Musik
8 SUPERFONICOS Suelta [EP] Discos Fonicos
9 COMPLETE CUBAN JAM SESSIONS, THE VARIOUS ARTISTS Craft/Concord
10 IVAN “MAMAO” CONTI Poison Fruit Far Out Recordings

    January 19th, 2019

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Genre charts for week ending Jan 4 presents:

AAA

Rank Artist Album Label
1 DOM FLEMONS Black Cowboys Smithsonian Folkways
2 DAVID BENEDICT The Golden Angle Shelton
3 EPILOGUE: A TRIBUTE TO JOHN DUFFEY VARIOUS ARTISTS Smithsonian Folkways
4 AMY RAY Holler Compass
5 HAZEL DICKENS AND ALICE GERRARD Sing Me Back Home: The DC Tapes, 1965-1969 Free Dirt
6 WOOKS, THE Glory Bound Self-Released
7 SAW BLACK Water Tower Crystal Pistol
8 I’M WITH HER See You Around Rounder/Concord
9 KIM RICHEY Edgeland Yep Roc
10 MARTHA SPENCER Martha Spencer Free Dirt

Hip-Hop

Rank Artist Album Label
1 BLOOD ORANGE Negro Swan Domino
2 GEORGIA ANNE MULDROW Overload Brainfeeder
3 MAYA JUPITER Never Said Yes Artivist
4 STIMULATOR JONES Exotic Outtakes Stonesthrow
5 FLY ANAKIN AND OHBLIV Backyard Boogie Mutant Academy
6 KONCEPT JACKSON The Tale of the Mutant Root Mutant Academy
7 LOMEPAL Jeannine Pineale Prod / Grand Musique Management
8 TUAMIE Emergency Raps, Vol. 2 Mutant Academy
9 BAS Milky Way Dreamville
10 NICKELUS F Stuck AGM

Loud

Rank Artist Album Label
1 UNMAKER Firmament Self-Released
2 ALIEN SEX FIEND Possessed Cherry Red
3 LAURA JANE GRACE AND THE DEVOURING MOTHERS Bought To Rot Bloodshot
4 NINE INCH NAILS Bad Witch The Null Corporation/Capitol
5 VNV NATION Noire Metropolis
6 MONSTROSITY The Passage of Existence Conquest
7 ROY BATTY Roy Batty Self-Released
8 POWERWOLF The Sacrament Of Sin [EP] Napalm
9 PETRICHOR “Charon’s Obol” [Single] Self-Released
10 RISING REVOLUTION “Power Forever” [Single] Self-Released

RPM

Rank Artist Album Label
1 MARIE DAVIDSON So Right [EP] Ninja Tune
2 DEAD CAN DANCE Dionysus PIAS
3 BEAK >>> Temporary Residence/Invada
4 AISHA DEVI DNA Feelings Houndstooth
5 ARP Zebra Mexican Summer
6 MACHINEFABRIEK Engel Self-Released
7 MARK PRICHARD The Four Worlds Warp
8 POLO AND PAN Caravelle Hamburger
9 RIVAL CONSOLES Persona Erased Tapes
10 EYE OF TIME, THE Myth II: A Need to Survive Denovali

World

Rank Artist Album Label
1 BARRO Somos Self-Released
2 MICHI SARMIENTO Y SU COMBO BRAVO Salsa Con Monte Vampisoul
3 ANGELIQUE KIDJO Remain In Light Kraven Works
4 CAMARAO The Imaginary Soundtrack To A Brazilian Western Movie, 1964-1974 Analog Africa
5 SALIF KEITA Un Autre Blanc Naive
6 VAUDOU GAME Otodi Hot Casa
7 BABA COMMANDANT AND THE MANDINGO BAND Siri Ba Kele Sublime Frequencies
8 DUR DUR BAND Dur Dur Band Of Somalia, Volume 1, Volume 2 Analog Africa
9 STEP FORWARD YOUTH VARIOUS ARTISTS Greensleeves
10 DEAD CAN DANCE Dionysus PIAS

    January 5th, 2019

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Genre charts for week ending Apr 6 presents:

AAA

Rank Artist Album Label
1 DOM FLEMONS Black Cowboys Smithsonian Folkways
2 ENTOURAGE Ceremony of Dreams: Studio Sessions & Outtakes, 1972-1977 Tompkins Square
3 ANDREW COLLINS TRIO, THE Tongue Self-Released
4 BRENNEN ERNST Had a Big Time Today Patuxent
5 6 STRING DRAG Top of the World Schoolkids
6 ANNA AND ELIZABETH The Invisible Comes To Us Smithsonian Folkways
7 BLIND WILLIE MCTELL The Rough Guide to Blind Willie McTell World Music Network
8 DARLING WEST While I Was Asleep Jansen
9 SARAH SHOOK AND THE DISARMERS Years Bloodshot
10 MARLON WILLIAMS Make Way For Love Dead Oceans

Hip-Hop

Rank Artist Album Label
1 KALI UCHIS Isolation Virgin EMI
2 YOUNG FATHERS Cocoa Sugar Ninja Tune
3 CRIMEAPPLE AND BIG GHOST LTD Aguardiente Manteca
4 JERICHO JACKSON Khrysis & Elzhi Are Jericho Jackson Jamla
5 MED AND GUILTY SIMPSON Loyalty [EP] Fat Beats
6 KONCEPT JACK$ON Tales from the Mutant Root Mutant Academy
7 DR OCTAGON Moosebumps Bulk/Caroline
8 RADIO B Jesus Never Wore A Suit The Association Of Great Minds
9 PRHYME PRhyme 2 PRhyme
10 BLACK MILK FEVER Mass Appeal

Loud

Rank Artist Album Label
1 DØD BEVERTE Polarination Dod Incarnate
2 BLACK LABEL SOCIETY Grimmest Hits Entertainment One
3 EARTHLESS Black Heaven Nuclear Blast
4 EMPATH Liberating Guilt and Fear Get Better
5 GUMMING Human Values Self-Released
6 JUDAS PRIEST Firepower Epic
7 RIVER CULT Halcyon Daze Cats on Amps
8 WARM BODIES Warm Bodies Erste Theke Tontraeger
9 FRAYLE The White Witch [EP] Self-Released
10 VARIOUS ARTISTS Dr. Demento Covered In Punk Demented Punk

RPM

Rank Artist Album Label
1 TRACEY THORN Record Merge
2 MARK PRICHARD The Four Worlds Warp
3 EMEL Ensenity Partisan
4 KOAN Leap of Faith Blue Tunes
5 SOLAR FIELDS Ourdom Self-Released
6 WAJATTA Casual High Technology Comedy Dynamics
7 MINNESOTA Curio [EP] Wakaan
8 NNOAH The Golden Glow [EP] Self-Released
9 MOSCOMAN “I Ran” [Single] Disco Halal
10 VARIOUS ARTISTS London on Key Waella’s Choice

World

Rank Artist Album Label
1 VARIOUS ARTISTS Listen All Around: The Golden Age of Central and East African Music Dust To Digital
2 ORQUESTA AKOKAN Orquesta Akokan Daptone
3 CAMARAO The Imaginary Soundtrack to a Brazilian Western Movie (1964-1974) Analog Africa
4 BALOJI 137 Avenue Kaniama Bella Union
5 SONIDO GALLO NEGRO Mambo Cosmico Glitterbeat
6 LITTLE AXE London Blues Echo Beach
7 ROBERTO LOPEZ Criollo Electrik Stonetree
8 RAS FRASER JR. Journey To Greatness Rebel Sound
9 EMEL MATHLOUTHI Ensenity Partisan
10 MELISSA LAVEAUX Radyo Siwél No Format

    April 7th, 2018

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Top 30 new albums for week ending April 6 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

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    April 7th, 2018

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