Top 100 new albums played in 2017 presents:
This chart is the top 100 most played albums of those 4,135. 19 of those albums are from local bands/artists (noted in bold). WRIR and Richmond are incredibly blessed to have such a diversity of talent and chart of new albums played that reflects our unique music ecosystem.
Rank | Artist | Album | Label |
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1 | Saw Black | Azalea Days | Crystal Pistol |
2 | Priests | Nothing Feels Natural | Sister Polygon |
3 | Opin | Opin | EggHunt |
4 | Juana Molina | Halo | Crammed Discs |
5 | Bad Magic | Harsh Surrender | Bad Magic |
6 | Antiphons | Groan | Citrus City/Gigantic Noise |
7 | Gorillaz | Humanz | Parlophone / Warner Bros. |
8 | Thundercat | Drunk | Brainfeeder |
9 | Lobo Marino | The Mulberry House | Earth Folk Collective |
10 | Camp Howard | Juice – EP | EggHunt |
11 | Girlpool | Powerplant | Anti- |
12 | Waxahatchee | Out in the Storm | Merge |
13 | Alvvays | Antisocialites | Polyvinyl |
14 | Sacred Paws | Strike a Match | Rock Action |
15 | Chastity Belt | I Used to Spend So Much Time Alone | Hardly Art |
16 | The Magnetic Fields | 50 Song Memoir | Nonesuch |
17 | Valerie June | The Order of Time | Concord |
18 | Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings | Soul of a Woman | Daptone |
19 | Big Thief | Capacity | Saddle Creek |
20 | The Milkstains | Punch the Sky | Trrrash |
21 | Fat Spirit | Nihilist Blues | Citrus City |
22 | Vagabon | Infinite Worlds | Father/Daughter |
23 | Sid Kingsley | Good Way Home | American Paradox |
24 | Girl Ray | Earl Grey | Moshi Moshi |
25 | Cherry Glazerr | Apocalipstick | Secretly Canadian |
26 | Future Islands | The Far Field | 4AD |
27 | Japanese Breakfast | Soft Sounds From Another Planet | Dead Oceans |
28 | This Is the Kit | Moonshine Freeze | Rough Trade |
29 | The Mountain Goats | Goths | Merge |
30 | Blush Face | What Do You Want? | Trrrash |
31 | The Wimps | Reel Whirl | Trrrash |
32 | Bedouine | Bedouine | Spacebomb |
33 | Meklit | When the People Move, the Music Moves Too | Six Degrees |
34 | Mac DeMarco | This Old Dog | Captured Tracks |
35 | Queens of the Stone Age | Villains | Matador |
36 | Hurray for the Riff Raff | The Navigator | ATO |
37 | Liars | TFCF | Mute |
38 | Robyn Hitchcock | Robyn Hitchcock | Yep Roc |
39 | Night Idea | Riverless | Citrus City/Gigantic Noise |
40 | Oumou Sangaré | Mogoya | No Format |
41 | Doll Baby | Hell Block – EP | EggHunt |
42 | The Shins | Heartworms | Columbia |
43 | King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard | Flying Microtonal Banana | Remote Control / Flightless |
44 | Minor Poet | And How! | EggHunt |
45 | LCD Soundsystem | American Dream | DFA/Columbia |
46 | Hand Habits | Wildly Idle (Humble Before the Void) | Woodsist |
47 | Sylvan Esso | What Now | Loma Vista |
48 | The Courtneys | The Courtneys II | Flying Nun |
49 | Diet Cig | Swear I’m Good At This | Frenchkiss |
50 | Buddy List | Shaking on the Ridge | Buddy List |
51 | Sampha | Process | Young Turks Recordings |
52 | Chelsea Wolfe | Hiss Spun | Sargent House |
53 | Downtown Boys | Cost of Living | Sub Pop |
54 | Ibibio Sound Machine | Uyai | Merge |
55 | Big Baby | Sour Patch – EP | EggHunt |
56 | The National | Sleep Well Beast | 4AD |
57 | Ani Cordero | Querido Mundo | self-released |
58 | Jane Weaver | Modern Kosmology | Fire |
59 | Sneaks | It’s a Myth | Merge |
60 | Nikki Lane | Highway Queen | New West |
61 | Afro-Zen Allstars | Greatest Hits | self-released |
62 | Jay Som | Everybody Works | Polyvinyl |
63 | Fleet Foxes | Crack-Up | Nonesuch |
64 | Jay-Z | 4:44 | Roc Nation |
65 | JD McPherson | Undivided Heart and Soul | New West |
66 | Allison Crutchfield | Tourist in This Town | Merge |
67 | Brand New | Science Fiction | Procrastinate! Music Traitors |
68 | Jesca Hoop | Memories Are Now | Sub Pop |
69 | Jamila Woods | HEAVN | Jagjaguwar |
70 | Guerilla Toss | GT Ultra | DFA |
71 | Guantanamo Baywatch | Desert Center | Suicide Squeeze |
72 | OndatrĂ³pica | Baile Bucanero | Soundway |
73 | Black Liquid | Anti | Black Liquid |
74 | King Krule | The OOZ | XL Recordings |
75 | Slowdive | Slowdive | Dead Oceans |
76 | Gogol Bordello | Seekers and Finders | Cooking Vinyl |
77 | 2 Chainz | Pretty Girls Like Trap Music | 2Chainz PS/Def Jam |
78 | Oh Sees | Orc | Castle Face |
79 | St. Vincent | Masseduction | Loma Vista |
80 | Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile | Lotta Sea Lice | Matador |
81 | The Moonlandingz | Interplanetary Class Classics | Transgressive / PIAS / Hostess |
82 | Syd | Fin | Colombia |
83 | Don Bryant | Don’t Give up on Love | Fat Possum |
84 | Ariel Pink | Dedicated to Bobby Jameson | Mexican Summer |
85 | The New Pornographers | Whiteout Conditions | Concord |
86 | Temples | Volcano | Fat Possum |
87 | Tuxedo | Tuxedo II | Stones Throw |
88 | Julien Baker | Turn Out the Lights | Matador |
89 | Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith | The Kid | Western Vinyl |
90 | Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever | The French Press – EP | Sub Pop |
91 | Rachel Baiman | Shame | Free Dirt |
92 | Laura Marling | Semper Femina | More Alarming |
93 | Sam Gleaves & Tyler Hughes | Sam Gleaves & Tyler Hughes | self-released |
94 | Dharma Bombs | Old Time Romance | Crystal Pistol |
95 | Myrkur | Mareridt | Relapse |
96 | Saint Etienne | Home Counties | Heavenly Recordings |
97 | The Regrettes | Feel Your Feelings Fool! | Warner Bros. |
98 | Chuck Prophet | Bobby Fuller Died for Your Sins | Yep Roc |
99 | Pissed Jeans | Why Love Now | Sub Pop |
100 | Elf Power | Twitching in Time | Orange Twin |
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Anna C. January 1st, 2018