Genre charts for week ending Apr 12 presents:

AAA

Rank Artist Album Label
1 LOBO MARINO At Appalachian South Folklife Center Self-Released
2 SCOTT SLAY The Rail Bonfire
3 JIM AND LYNNA WOOLSEY Long Ago Bonfire
4 LAURA STEVENSON The Big Freeze Don Giovanni
5 YVES JARVIS The Same But By Different Means Anti-
6 OUR NATIVE DAUGHTERS Songs Of Our Native Daughters Smithsonian Folkways
7 UPSTATE Healing Royal Potato Family
8 BENJAMIN SHEPHERD “’96 Corolla” [Single] Self-Released
9 OZARK HIGHBALLERS, THE Going Down to ‘Leven Point Jalopy
10 ADAM BRICKS Relations The What of Whom

Hip-Hop

Rank Artist Album Label
1 JAY ROCK Redemption Top Dawg/Interscope
2 YHUNG T.O. On My Momma 2 SOB X RBE/Rule #1/Interscope
3 BOOGIE Everythings For Sale Shady
4 PAN AMSTERDAM Elevator Music, Vol. 1 [EP] Def Pressé
5 KENZA FARAH Au clair de ma plume BackUp
6 BLU A Long Red Hot Los Angeles Summer Night Nature Sounds
7 SEGGA SPICCOLI “Lost In Translation” [Single] Green And Gold
8 STREET LIFE AND METHOD MAN “Squad Life” [Single] Self-Released
9 SMOKE DZA “The Mood” (feat. Joey Badass) [Single] Babygrande
10 IDK “Trigger Happy” [Single] Self-Released

Loud

Rank Artist Album Label
1 BOOK OF WYRMS Remythologizer Twin Earth
2 INTER ARMA Sulphur English Relapse
3 APPALLING Inverted Realm Self-Released
4 PLVGUES Adoration For The Ancients Hex 9
5 TEL Lowlife Self-Released
6 AENIMUS Dreamcatcher Nuclear Blast
7 ROY BATTY Roy Batty Self-Released
8 YOB Our Raw Heart Relapse
9 AMON AMARTH Berserker Metalblade
10 CURSIVE Vitriola 15 Passenger

RPM

Rank Artist Album Label
1 SHLOHMO The End Friends Of Friends
2 CHAI Punk Burger
3 MATMOS Plastic Anniversary Thrill Jockey
4 UNKLE The Road: Part II/Lost Highway Song For The Def
5 SNAPPED ANKLES Stunning Luxury The Leaf
6 INTERNATIONAL TEACHERS OF POP International Teachers Of Pop Desolute Spools
7 BAYONNE Drastic Measures Mom + Pop
8 COMET IS COMING, THE Trust In The Lifeforce Of The Deep Mystery Impulse!
9 LIFE EDUCATION Ancient Machines Æscape Sounds
10 ALFA MATRIX RECOVERED A TRIBUTE TO DEPECHE MODE VARIOUS ARTISTS Alfa Matrix

World

Rank Artist Album Label
1 MIRAMAR “Salida/Urgencia” [Single] Daptone
2 COCHEMEA All My Relations Daptone
3 MDOU MOCTAR Ilana: The Creator Sahel Sounds
4 BONGO HOP, THE Satingarona Pt 2 Underdog
5 GLOAMING, THE The Gloaming 3 Real World
6 IBIBIO SOUND MACHINE Doko Mien Merge
7 AHMED AG KAEDY Alkaline Kidal Sahel Sounds
8 DEXTER STORY Bahir Soundway
9 LOBO MARINO At Appalachian South Folklife Center Self-Released
10 DAKTARIS, THE Soul Explosion [Remastered] Desco/Daptone

    April 13th, 2019

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Top 30 new albums for week ending Jun 22 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 Bad Magic What’s Wrong With My Eyes? self-released
2 Nickelus F Stuck AGM
3 McKinley Dixon The Importance of Self Belief Wadada
4 Ana Egge White Tiger StorySound
5 Jay Rock Redemption Top Dawg Entertainment / Interscope
6 Half Waif Lavender Cascine
7 DOTT Heart Swell Graveface
8 La Luz Floating Features Hardly Art
9 Brownout Fear of a Brown Planet Fat Beats
10 Low Double Negative Sub Pop
11 Beach House 7 Sub Pop
12 Andy Jenkins Sweet Bunch Liberator Music / Spacebomb
13 Neat Sweep Space is for Dogs self-released
14 The Concussion Theory Lament self-released
15 Dumb Waiter Heck JUJU
16 Steve Tilston Distant Days Riverboat
17 gobbinjr ocala wick Topshelf
18 Tangents New Bodies Temporary Residence Limited
19 We Are Scientists Megaplex 1
20 Snail Mail Lush Matador
21 Flasher Constant Image Domino
22 Melody’s Echo Chamber Bon Voyage Fat Possum
23 Gruff Rhys Babelsberg Rough Trade
24 Pusha T DAYTONA Def Jam
25 Marisa Anderson Cloud Corner Thrill Jockey
26 Kadhja Bonet Childqueen Fat Possum
27 Courtney Barnett Tell Me How You Really Feel Indie Rock
28 Lucius Nudes Mom+Pop
29 Beach Skulls Las Dunas PNKSLM
30 Hinds I Don’t Run Mom+Pop

(more…)

    June 23rd, 2018

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