genre charts for May 3 presents:

AAA

Rank Artist Album Label
1 FLOCK OF DIMES Head Of Roses: Phantom Limb Sub Pop
2 HACKENSAW BOYS Hackensaw Boys Suns Work
3 MAL BLUM Ain’t It Nice [EP] Self-Released
4 LITTLE ROY LIZZIE SHOW, THE Welcome To The Show Mountain Home
5 ACCIDENTALS, THE Time Out (Session #2) Self-Released
6 AMANDA ANNE PLATT AND THE HONEYCUTTERS The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea Organic
7 CACTUS BLOSSOMS, THE One Day Walkie Talkie
8 RIVER WHYLESS Monoflora Soundly
9 JARLE SKAVHELLEN Monochrome Sunset Beech Street
10 JOHN CRAIGIE Mermaid Salt Self-Released

Hip-Hop

Rank Artist Album Label
1 SEAN KING We’ll Cry About This Later Self-Released
2 LINQUA FRANQA Bellringer Ernest Jenning
3 DEFCEE AND BOATHOUSE For All Debts Public And Private Closed Sessions
4 DENZEL CURRY Melt My Eyez See Your Future Loma Vista/Concord
5 FLY ANAKIN Frank Lex
6 ELZHI Zhigeist Nature Sounds
7 MOPES Unwound Strange Famous
8 VINCE STAPLES Ramona Park Broke My Heart Blacksmith/Motown
9 SANKOFA Legacy Materials Self-Released
10 PUSHA T It’s Almost Dry Getting Out Our Dreams

Loud

Rank Artist Album Label
1 BLACK ANGEL The Black Rose Solid
2 BATTLELORE “Firekeeper” [Single] Napalm
3 DECAPITATED Cancer Culture Nuclear Blast
4 ABSENT IN BODY Plague God Relapse
5 HALO EFFECT, THE Days Of The Lost Nuclear Blast
6 MESHUGGAH Immutable Atomic Fire
7 ORATORY “Capitulation Genuflect” [Single] Self-Released
8 STEVE VAI Inviolate Favored Nations
9 HAVUKRUUNU Kuu Erkylän Yllä Naturmacht Productions
10 (((S))) Mama, Do You Think It’s Going To Rain All Day? Aenaos

RPM

Rank Artist Album Label
1 BROADCAST Maida Vale Sessions Warp
2 SKOLD Dead God Cleopatra
3 EIKE HOSENFELD Coctemalan Salon Mondial
4 DELE SOSIMI “Lord Have Mercy (feat. Tamar Osborn)” [Single] Wah Wah 45s
5 MYSTERY SKULLS “Be With You” [Single] Self-Released
6 DUCAT “Andromeda” [Single] Self-Released
7 DJ OJI AKA THE ORIGINAL MAN “That Viral Whistle Song” [Single] Poji
8 NIGHT TEMPO “Astral Fantasy” [Single] Future 1980
9 ZED BIAS “The Music (Shur – I – Kan Remixes)” [Single] Foliage
10 GEOFFREY C “This Is Hot (Yes Indeedy)” [Single] unquantize

World

Rank Artist Album Label
1 CALEXICO El Mirador Anti-
2 ORCHESTRE MASSAKO Orchestre Massako [EP] Analog Africa
3 SATURNO 2000 VARIOUS ARTISTS Analog Africa
4 BOMBA ESTEREO Live In Dublin Nacional
5 JASON TAMBA Don’t Give Up Playing For Change
6 KABAKA INTERNATIONAL GUITAR BAND Led By G. Kabaka Opara Palenque
7 GOOD ONES, THE Rwanda… You See Ghosts, I See Sky Six Degrees
8 ORCHESTRE LES VOLCANS DU BENIN Vol. 1 Albarika Store
9 AFRICA NEGRA Antologia Vol. 1 Bongo Joe
10 LOS CALVOS Y Que Calvos! El Palmas

    May 3rd, 2022

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Top 30 new albums for week ending Jul 12 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 Bedouine Bird Songs of a Killjoy Spacebomb
2 Calexico and Iron & Wine Years to Burn Sub Pop
3 Mavis Staples We Get By Anti/Epitaph
4 Jesca Hoop STONECHILD Memphis Industries
5 Book of Wyrms Spirit Drifter – Single Twin Earth
6 Shana Cleveland Night of the Worm Moon Hardly Art
7 Mo’ Horizons Music Sun Love Agogo
8 French Vanilla How Am I Not Myself? Danger Collective
9 Pile Green and Gray Exploding In Sound
10 Lucy Dacus Forever Half Mast – Single Matador
11 Sleepwalkers Ages Spacebomb
12 ExKnives Witches and Skindivers self-released
13 Brother Rutherford Tunneling self-released
14 Super Doppler Super Doppler Sweet Brother
15 Houdan The Mystic Star Charts self-released
16 The Purge Rain self-released
17 Cut the Architect’s Hand No Quarter for Cowards and Traitors self-released
18 Hewolf Lilith self-released
19 I Am The Liquor Escape From Planet Smoke self-released
20 New Lions End Story – EP Nodderly
21 Hex Machine Cave Painting Minimum Underdrive
22 Bat Axestasy – EP Hells Headbangers
23 Jade Jackson Wilderness Anti- / Epitaph
24 Mal Blum Pity Boy Don Giovanni
25 Necking Cut Your Teeth Mint
26 METZ Automat Sub Pop
27 Hatchie Keepsake Heavenly
28 Quantic Atlantic Oscillations Tru Thoughts
29 Hackensaw Boys A Fireproof House of Sunshine – EP Free Dirt
30 black midi Schlagenheim Rough Trade

(more…)

    July 13th, 2019

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