Genre charts for week ending Nov 23 presents:

AAA

Rank Artist Album Label
1 ADDY Rose Eyes [EP] Self-Released
2 HAZEL DICKENS AND ALICE GERRARD Sing Me Back Home: The DC Tapes, 1965-1969 Free Dirt
3 MICHIGAN RATTLERS Evergreen Self-Released
4 SILO ROAD Signal Hill Self-Released
5 WILL COURTNEY Crazy Love Super Secret
6 YVETTE LANDRY Louisiana Lovin’ Soko
7 SAW BLACK Water Tower Crystal Pistol
8 DOC WATSON Live at Club 47 Yep Roc
9 MARY GAUTHIER Rifles And Rosary Beads Thirty Tigers
10 RHETT MILLER The Messenger ATO

Hip-Hop

Rank Artist Album Label
1 LINA SYMONE “Need That” [Single] Self-Released
2 ABBY JASMINE Trap Mom Cinematic
3 DEM ATLAS Bad Actress Rhymesayers
4 TASHA Alone At Last Father/Daughter
5 BIG G Lonely Tears Stone River
6 BIG KAHUNA OG Sky Chryme Mutant Academy
7 ACTION BRONSON White Bronco Empire
8 AVANTDALE BOWLING CLUB Avantdale Bowling Club Years Gone By
9 BUN B Return Of The Trill DreamVille
10 CHOKER Honeybloom Jet Fuzz

Loud

Rank Artist Album Label
1 UNMAKER Firmament Self-Released
2 WINDHAND Eternal Return Relapse
3 LAURA JANE GRACE AND THE DEVOURING MOTHERS Bought To Rot Bloodshot
4 YOB Our Raw Heart Relapse
5 GUMMING Human Values Self-Released
6 MONSTER MAGNET Mindfucker Napalm
7 RESPIRE Memorial (An Accompaniment) Self-Released
8 WAY OUT Arc of Descent [EP] Atomic Action!
9 KEYS AND THE CREATOR, THE The Gate Opens Self-Released
10 HALO IN REVERSE I Am Become Death Destroyer of Worlds Alfa Matrix

RPM

Not enough new albums were played to generate a chart.

World

Rank Artist Album Label
1 VAUDOU GAME Otodi Hot Casa
2 AFRO CUBAN ALL STARS A Toda Cuba Le Gusta World Circuit
3 JOHNNY CLARKE Creation Rebel VP
4 STEP FORWARD YOUTH VARIOUS ARTISTS Greensleeves
5 BABA COMMANDANT AND THE MANDINGO BAND Siri Ba Kele Sublime Frequencies
6 DANIEL KAHN AND THE PAINTED BIRD The Butcher’s Share Oriente Musik
7 DUR DUR BAND Dur Dur Band of Somalia, Volume 1, Volume 2 Analog Africa
8 BLACK MASALA Trains And Moonlight Destinies Self-Released
9 LEMON BUCKET ORKESTRA If I Had The Strength Six Degrees
10 ANGELIQUE KIDJO Remain In Light Kraven Works

    November 24th, 2018

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Top 30 new albums for week ending Nov 23 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 Shadow Age Shadow Age – EP Native of the North
2 Lina Symone Need That – Single self-released
3 Boygenius Boygenius – EP Matador
4 Barro Somos self-released
5 Angélique Kidjo Remain in Light Kravenworks
6 Vaudou Game Otodi Hot Casa
7 Kaleta & Super Yamba Band Mr. Diva / Hungry Man, Angry Man Yamba
8 Julia Holter Aviary Domino
9 Sports Bar Stranger in My Head Mister Falcon
10 Addy Rose Eyes – EP self-released
11 Unmaker Firmament self-released
12 Windhand Eternal Return Relapse
13 Guerilla Toss Twisted Crystal DFA
14 Black Masala Trains and Moonlight Destinies self-released
15 Kelly Pardekooper 50-Weight Leisure Time
16 Laura Jane Grace & the Devouring Mothers Bought to Rot Bloodshot
17 Charles Bradley Black Velvet Daptone
18 The Mountain Movers Pink Skies Trouble In Mind
19 The Bottle Rockets Bit Logic Bloodshot
20 Kero Kero Bonito Time ‘n’ Place Polyvinyl
21 Doe Paoro Soft Power Anti/Epitaph
22 Mr Twin Sister Salt Twin Group
23 Farao Pure-O Western Vinyl
24 Oh Pep! I Wasn’t Only Thinking About You… People Speak
25 Kurt Vile Bottle It In Matador
26 Miranda Winters Xobeci, What Grows Here? Carpark / Hostess
27 Abby Jasmine TRAP MOM Cinematic Music Group
28 Pill Soft Hell Mexican Summer
29 Miya Folick Premonitions Terrible
30 Nova Materia It Comes Crammed Discs

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    November 24th, 2018

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