top 30 new albums for Dec 14 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.

1 Prabir Trio Haanji self-released
2 The NRIs Whispers & Noise – Single Red Stapler
3 Colleen The Tunnel and the Clearing Thrill Jockey
4 DJ Harrison Tales from the Old Dominion Stones Throw
5 La Luz La Luz Hardly Art
6 Dead Billionaires Dead Billionaires EP Clay Street
7 Gustaf Audio Drag for Ego Slobs Royal Mountain
8 Deerhoof Actually, You Can Joyful Noise
9 Trey Burnart Hall Songs I Can’t Sing Session #1 – EP Vocal Rest
10 The Wimps Pillow and Blankey self-released
11 MEL MACHETE Mel Machete – EP self-released
12 Cassidy Snider & The Wranglers Losing Lovers – EP Vocal Rest
13 Sharpening Keep It Real For Me self-released
14 Sofia Lakis Formula Front – EP self-released
15 Outer World Chapter 2 Little Black Cloud
16 Various Artists CH040: 20 Years of Cherub Records Cherub
17 SUSTO Time in the Sun New West
18 Dummy Mandatory Enjoyment Trouble In Mind
19 Clinic Fantasy Island Domino
20 My Morning Jacket My Morning Jacket ATO
21 Jackson+Sellers Breaking Point Anti- / Epitaph
22 Bummer Dead Horse Thrill Jockey
23 Ducks Ltd. Modern Fiction Carpark
24 illuminati hotties Let Me Do One More Snack Shack Tracks / Hopeless
25 Amon Tobin How Do You Live Nomark
26 Cheekface Emphatically Mo’ (b-sides) – EP New Professor
27 Moor Mother Black Encyclopedia of the Air Anti- / Epitaph
28 Mini Trees Always In Motion Tugboat
29 Amyl and The Sniffers Comfort To Me ATO
30 The Bots 2 Seater Big Indie

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    December 14th, 2021

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genre charts for Dec 14 presents:

AAA

Rank Artist Album Label
1 TREY BURNHART HALL Songs I Can’t Sing Session #1 [EP] Vocal Rest
2 JACKSON AND SELLERS Breaking Point Anti-
3 WENDY EISENBERG Bent Ring Dear Life
4 YASMIN WILLIAMS Urban Driftwood Spinster
5 ROSALI No Medium Spinster Sounds
6 MESKEREM MEES Julius Mayway
7 CASSANDRA JENKINS An Overview On Phenomenal Nature Ba Da Bing!
8 LAST REAL CIRCUS, THE “11:11” [Single] BoxCar Productions
9 WALTER DEBARR “Blackened” [Single] Unchained
10 RAYE ZARAGOZA “The It Girl (feat. Brooke Simpson)” [Single] United For Opportunity

Hip-Hop

Rank Artist Album Label
1 MOOR MOTHER Black Encyclopedia Of The Air Anti-
2 AESOP ROCK AND BLOCKHEAD Garbology Rhymesayers
3 BLACKLIQ AND MOPES Time Is The Price Strange Famous
4 NAPOLEON DA LEGEND AND AMERIGO GAZAWAY The World Changed TeamNDL
5 ALXNDRBRWN Glow Kid Strange Famous
6 BRONZE NAZARETH AND ROC MARCIANO Ekphrasis Fat Beats
7 SOVIETS Cold Waev [EP] Self-Released
8 BAS “The Jackie (Clean)” [Single] Dreamville
9 FLY ANAKIN “Sean Price” [Single] Lex
10 SOLEMN BRIGHAM “Dirty Whip” [Single] Mello

Loud

Rank Artist Album Label
1 DEVIANT PROCESS Nurture Season of Mist
2 AETHEREUS “Son of a Nameless Father” [Single] The Artisan Era
3 TURNSTILE Glow On Roadrunner
4 TRAITRS The Sick, Tired & Ill [EP] Freakwave/Schubert
5 ANDY JAMES “The Falcon God” [Single] AJR
6 LEE MCKINNEY “Stormage” [Single] Sumerian
7 NITA STRAUSS “Dead Inside” [Single] Sumerian
8 DEATH ANGEL The Bastard Tracks Nuclear Blast
9 GOJIRA Fortitude Roadrunner
10 KING WOMAN Celestial Blues Relapse

RPM

Rank Artist Album Label
1 COLLEEN The Tunnel And The Clearing Thrill Jockey
2 DJ HARRISON Tales from the Old Dominion Stones Throw
3 TREY BURNHART HALL Songs I Can’t Sing Session #1 [EP] Vocal Rest
4 SOFIA LAKIS Formula Front [EP] Self-Released
5 JACKSON AND SELLERS Breaking Point Anti-
6 AMON TOBIN How Do You Live Nomark
7 ARUSHI JAIN Under The Lilac Sky Leaving
8 BITCHIN BAJAS Switched On Ra Drag City
9 EMMA-JEAN THACKRAY Yellow Movementt
10 SARAH LOUISE Earth Bow Self-Released

World

Rank Artist Album Label
1 HAMDI BENANI, MEDHI HADDAB AND SPEED CARAVAN Nuba Nova Buda Musique
2 BALKAN TAKSIM Disko Telegraf Buda Musique
3 DELGRES 0.166666666666667 PIAS
4 LA MAMBANEGRA Los Ultimos Buses De Colores Tambora
5 ORQUESTA AKOKAN 16 Rayos Daptone
6 A ESPETACULAR CHARANGA DO FRANCA The Importance Of Being Espetacular Mais Um
7 MONEY CHICHA Chicha Summit Vampisoul
8 LOS CHAPILLACS Lo Bueno, Lo Malo, Lo Feo Y Los Alarcosos Chapillacs Vampisoul
9 ADRIAN QUESADA Look At My Soul: The Latin Shade Of Texas Soul Nacional
10 TOKYO GLOW: JAPANESE CITY POP, FUNK AND BOOGIE SELECTED BY DJ NOTOYA VARIOUS ARTISTS Wewantsounds

    December 14th, 2021

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genre charts for Jul 20 presents:

AAA

Rank Artist Album Label
1 BILL AND THE BELLES Happy Again Ditty Boom
2 JANET SIMPSON Safe Distance Cornelius Chapel
3 ROLAND ROBERTS All About The Timing Happy Life
4 GRAHAM SHARP Truer Picture Yep Roc
5 ESTHER ROSE How Many Times Father/Daughter
6 HARDENED AND TEMPERED Hold The Line Self-Released
7 FLATLANDERS, THE Treasure Of Love Rack ‘Em/Thirty Tigers
8 DALLAS MOORE The Rain SOL
9 HOPE DUNBAR Sweetheartland Self-Released
10 MERLE MONROE Songs of a Simple Life Pinecastle

Hip-Hop

Rank Artist Album Label
1 EVIDENCE Unlearning Vol. 1 Rhymesayers
2 MOTHER NATURE AND BOATHOUSE SZNZ Closed Sessions
3 KIPP STONE Faygo Baby [EP] Closed Sessions
4 MAASSAI With The Shifts Self-Released
5 J COLE The Off-Season Dreamville
6 ARMAND HAMMER AND THE ALCHEMIST Haram Backwoodz
7 DMX Exodus Def Jam
8 PINK SIIFU AND FLY ANAKIN $mokebreak Lex
9 SANKOFA Blktchp Self-Released
10 AMANI a constant condensation Self-Released

Loud

Rank Artist Album Label
1 APOGEAN Into Madness [EP] Self-Released
2 CHILIASM Flesh Over Finite [EP] Self-Released
3 NO LIVING WITNESS Cosmic Simulacra Self-Released
4 AXIAL “Wreckage” [Single] Self-Released
5 AEPOCH “The Flesh Totem” [Single] Self-Released
6 REPLICANT “Death Curse” [Single] Self-Released
7 HIDEOUS DIVINITY “Chestburst” [Single] Century Media
8 EPICEDIUM “Abhorrent Eucharist (feat. Stevie Boiser)” [Single] Self-Released
9 MORTEM OBSCURAM “A Fallen Kingdom” [Single] Self-Released
10 BLACK ANGEL Prince of Darkness Solid

RPM

Rank Artist Album Label
1 COLLEEN The Tunnel And The Clearing Thrill Jockey
2 TATI AU MIEL Solar Return Self-Released
3 RONE Rone & Friends InFiné
4 LORAINE JAMES Reflection Hyperdub
5 REYMOUR Leviosa Knekelhuis
6 OUI ENNUI L’esprit De L’escalier Self-Released
7 LOSCIL Clara Kranky
8 SAGAN Anti-Ark Seeland
9 LORENZO MONTANA Textrue Projekt
10 TROPICAL GEOMETRY Luck Mountain Same Difference

World

Rank Artist Album Label
1 OKUTE Okuté Chulo
2 VAUDOU GAME Noussin Hot Casa
3 MDOU MOCTAR Afrique Victime Matador/Beggars Group
4 LAS CAFETERAS “La Sirena” [Single] ONErpm
5 DERYA YILDIRIM AND GRUP SIMSEK Dost 1 Light In The Attic
6 CONKARAH “Papaya (Sick Wit It Crew mix)” [Single] BMG
7 SOFI TUKKER + AMADOU AND MARIAM “Mon Cheri” [Single] Red Hot
8 MOH ALILECHE Humanity Is Falling Apart Flag Of Freedom Productions
9 PHIRPO Y SUS CARIBES “Comencemos (Let’s Start)/Mi Moooto” Matasuna
10 COLOR DE TROPICO, VOL. 2 VARIOUS ARTISTS El Palmas

    July 20th, 2021

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genre charts for Jun 22 presents:

AAA

Rank Artist Album Label
1 ALLISON RUSSELL Outside Child Fantasy/Concord
2 DEBBIE CUSHMAN Springshine [EP] Self-Released
3 ANDY AND JUDY Let Us Sing Self-Released
4 ROBIN BIENEMANN Animal Communicator Self-Released
5 FIVE MILE MOUNTAIN ROAD Swingbilly Swagger Self-Released
6 JOHN HIATT WITH THE JERRY DOUGLAS BAND Leftover Feelings New West
7 PEACH AND QUIET Just Beyond The Shine Self-Released
8 TIM O’BRIEN He Walked On Howdy Skies
9 JAMESTOWN REVIVAL Fireside With Louis L’Amour [EP] Self-Released
10 JP HARRIS’ DREADFUL WIND AND RAIN Don’t You Marry No Railroad Man Free Dirt

Hip-Hop

Rank Artist Album Label
1 KIPP STONE Faygo Baby [EP] Closed Sessions
2 RACQUEL JONES IgnoRANT Magnetic Moon
3 GENESIS OWUSU Smiling With No Teeth House Anxiety/Ourness
4 BENNY THE BUTCHER AND 38 SPESH Trust The Sopranos Trust
5 SA-ROC The Sharecropper’s Daughter (Deluxe Edition) Rhymesayers
6 GOOD PEOPLE, THE The Greater Good Self-Released
7 PETER ROSENBERG Real Late Real Late
8 VIC SPENCER Legend Laws of Power Old Fart Luggage
9 YOUNG FLEXICO Dawg Flextopia
10 SKYZOO All The Brilliant Things Mello

Loud

Rank Artist Album Label
1 DEAFHEAVEN “Great Mass Of Color” [Single] Sargent House
2 HALF PAST DEAD “Unbreakable” [Single] Self-Released
3 ERIK WOLLO North Star Projekt
4 KIRLIAN CAMERA Cold Pills (Scarlet Gate of Toxic Daybreak) Dependent
5 ASTARI NITE “Pocket Full of Posies” [Single] Negative Gain Productions
6 KPT Obliterate [EP] GIVE/TAKE
7 DERISION CULT Worlds Collide Self-Released
8 WARM GADGET Rituals Self-Released
9 SYNAPSYCHE The Abyss Effect (Expanded Reissue) Alfa Matrix
10 DIGITAL FACTOR Relationchips (Remastered) Alfa Matrix

RPM

Rank Artist Album Label
1 COLLEEN The Tunnel And The Clearing Thrill Jockey
2 DER PLAN Save Your Software Bureau B
3 GARY NUMAN Intruder BMG
4 MOTH EFFECT Hovering Cue Dot
5 SARAH LOUISE Earth Bow Self-Released
6 DJ SHUB War Club Self-Released
7 STEVE ROACH AND JORGE REYES The Ancestor Circle Projekt
8 PSY’AVIAH Pretender Alfa Matrix
9 SYNTHETIC VILLAINS Obstacle Navigation Self-Released
10 TOMAGA Intimate Immensity Hands in the Dark

World

Rank Artist Album Label
1 JOAO SELVA Navegar Underdog
2 NGOMA ZETHU 7 Chapters Of Mystery Bantu Entertainment Network
3 ANTHONY JOSEPH The Rich Are Only Defeated When Running For Their Lives Heavenly Sweetness
4 KHALAB AND M’BERRA ENSEMBLE M’berra Real World
5 HAILU MERGIA AND THE WALIAS BAND Tezeta Awesome Tapes From Africa
6 OKUTE Okuté Chulo
7 MITCHUM YACOUB “Cumbia Divina” [Single] All-Town Sound
8 DERYA YILDIRIM AND GRUP SIMSEK Dost 1 Light In The Attic
9 VAUDOU GAME Noussin Hot Casa
10 SOFI TUKKER + AMADOU AND MARIAM “Mon Cheri” [Single] Red Hot

    June 22nd, 2021

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genre charts for Jun 1 presents:

AAA

Rank Artist Album Label
1 JOHN HIATT WITH THE JERRY DOUGLAS BAND Leftover Feelings New West
2 MARK O’CONNOR Markology II OMAC
3 BROTHER BROTHERS, THE Calla Lily Compass
4 PAUL WELLER Fat Pop Polydor
5 STEPHEN FLATT Cumberland Bones Self-Released
6 LOWLAND HUM So Low Tone Tree
7 NIGHTTIME Turning Wheel [EP] Self-Released
8 SHANNON LAY “Rare To Wake” [Single] Sub Pop
9 ABIGAIL LAPELL “Fortunate Son” [Single] Self-Released
10 RACHEL SERMANNI “Travelled” [Single] Jellygirl

Hip-Hop

Rank Artist Album Label
1 EVIDENCE Unlearning, Vol. 1 Rhymesayers
2 MACH-HOMMY Pray For Haiti Griselda
3 NAVY BLUE Navy’s Reprise Self-Released
4 GRAYMATTER The Fades Scheme Team
5 MCKINLEY DIXON For My Mama And Anyone Who Look Like Her Spacebomb
6 RACQUEL JONES IgnoRANT Magnetic Moon
7 LUSHLIFE Redamancy [EP] Fortune Tellers
8 BENNY THE BUTCHER AND 38 SPESH Trust The Sopranos Trust
9 AKAI SOLO True Sky Break All/Freedom Sounds
10 BENEFICENCE AND CONFIDENCE Stellar Mind Ill Adrenaline

Loud

Rank Artist Album Label
1 KNOLL Interstice Sludgelord
2 FUATH II Season Of Mist
3 PAYSAGE D’HIVER Geister Kunsthall Produktionen
4 FORHIST FORHIST Debemur Morti
5 CANVAS SOLARIS Chromosphere Divebomb
6 SPECTRAL WOUND A Diabolical Thirst Profound Lore
7 DEMISER Through the Gate Eternal Boris
8 MORDRED The Dark Parade M-Theory Audio
9 KOLDOVSTVO Ni Tsarya, Ni Boga Extraconscious
10 BOSSK Migration Death Wish

RPM

Rank Artist Album Label
1 COLLEEN The Tunnel And The Clearing Thrill Jockey
2 GO_A “SHUM” [Single] ROCKSOULANA
3 YU SU Yellow River Blue Bie
4 LORAINE JAMES Reflection Hyperdub
5 BAIUCA Embruxo Raso Estudio
6 DUSTIN ZAHN The Shock Doctrine Enemy
7 DJ MANNY Signals in My Head Planet Mu
8 BELA Guidelines Editions Appaerent
9 SARAH LOUISE Earth Bow Self-Released
10 PRAKTIKA Benkadi Blanc Manioc

World

Rank Artist Album Label
1 MDOU MOCTAR Afrique Victime Matador/Beggars Group
2 MOH ALILECHE Humanity Is Falling Apart Flag Of Freedom Productions
3 DOBET GNAHORE Couleur Cumbancha
4 MACKA B “My Father’s People” [Single] Before Zero
5 PHIRPO Y SUS CARIBES “Comencemos (Let’s Start)/Mi Moooto” [Single] Matasuna
6 COLOR DE TROPICO, VOL. 2 VARIOUS ARTISTS El Palmas
7 FLOR DE TOLOACHE “Florecita Rockera” [Single] Criteria
8 NATIK AWAYEZ Manbarani Sublime Frequencies
9 INNOV GNAWA Lila Daptone
10 KHALAB AND M’BERRA ENSEMBLE M’berra Real World

    June 1st, 2021

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top 30 new albums for Mar 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.

1 Colleen The Tunnel and the Clearing Thrill Jockey
2 Valerie June The Moon And Stars: Prescriptions For Dreamers Fantasy
3 Black Country, New Road For the first time Ninja Tune
4 Jane Weaver Flock Fire
5 Justin Townes Earle & Dawn Landes Do I Ever Cross Your Mind – Single FunMachine
6 St. Vincent Daddy’s Home Loma Vista
7 Anansy Cissé Anoura Riverboat
8 Adult Books Grecian Urn Taxi Gauche
9 Cool Ghouls At George’s Zoo Melodic / Empty Cellar
10 Billy Nomates Emergency Telephone – EP INVADA
11 Lost Horizons In Quiet Moments Bella Union
12 Mia Doi Todd Music Life City Zen
13 Julien Baker Little Oblivions Matador
14 Cameron Graves Seven Mack Avenue
15 Cassandra Jenkins An Overview on Phenomenal Nature Ba Da Bing!
16 TOLEDO Jockeys of Love – EP Telefono
17 The Fleshtones Face of the Screaming Werewolf Yep Roc
18 Rosier Légèrement Steeplejack Music
19 The Weather Station Ignorance Fat Possum
20 Widowspeak Honeychurch – EP Captured Tracks
21 Lia Ices Family Album Natural Music
22 Shame Drunk Tank Pink Dead Oceans
23 Sleaford Mods Spare Ribs Rough Trade
24 M. Caye Castagnetto Leap Second Castle Face
25 Elizabeth The Wonderful World of Nature Antifragile Music
26 Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio I Told You So Colemine
27 Sylvan Esso WITH LOVE self-released
28 Negativland The World Will Decide Seeland
29 Mourn Self Worth Captured Tracks
30 Yves Jarvis Sundry Rock Song Stock Flemish Eye

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    March 23rd, 2021

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genre charts for Mar 23 presents:

AAA

Rank Artist Album Label
1 VALERIE JUNE The Moon And Stars: Prescriptions For Dreamers Fantasy/Concord
2 JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE AND DAWN LANDES “Do I Ever Cross Your Mind” [Single] FunMachine
3 CASSANDRA JENKINS An Overview On Phenomenal Nature Ba Da Bing
4 TOLEDO Jockeys Of Love [EP] Telefono
5 ROSIER Légèrement FAMgroup
6 LIA ICES Family Album Self-Released
7 BILL CALLAHAN Gold Record Drag City
8 ISKWE The Stars [EP] Self-Released
9 LIZZY PLOTKIN AND NATALIE SPEARS Just Over The Ridge Self-Released
10 TIM GRIMM Gone Vault

Hip-Hop

Rank Artist Album Label
1 MAL DEVISA Wisdom Teeth Self-Released
2 NUMBER 2 Rape Whistle Ultra Beast United
3 JOHNNY CIGGS Paradise Gritty City
4 SENICA DA MISFIT Masterpiece [EP] Self-Released
5 JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH: THE INSPIRED ALBUM VARIOUS ARTISTS RCA
6 SAHTYRE The Roaring Below System
7 POP SMOKE Shoot For The Stars Aim For The Moon Republic
8 IAMDOECHII Oh The Places You’ll Go [EP] Five 5
9 LEONARD SUMNER Thunderbird Broken Reel
10 GRISELDA AND BSF: CONFLICTED (ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK) VARIOUS ARTISTS Griselda

Loud

Rank Artist Album Label
1 ABOMINABLE PUTRIDITY Parasitic Metamorphosis Manifestation Inherited Suffering
2 BRAND OF SACRIFICE Lifeblood Self-Released
3 UNFLESH Inhumation Self-Released
4 MENTAL CRUELTY A Hill to Die Upon Unique Leader
5 DEADVECTORS Paralyzer [EP] Aaron Chaparian
6 VOIVOD Lost Machine (Live) Century Media
7 ABLAZE MY SORROW Among Ashes And Monoliths Black Lion
8 HARAKIRI FOR THE SKY Maere AOP
9 EINHERJER North Star Napalm
10 BOOK OF WYRMS Occult New Age Self-Released

RPM

Rank Artist Album Label
1 COLLEEN The Tunnel and the Clearing Thrill Jockey
2 MADLIB Sound Ancestors Madlib Invazion
3 TEEN DAZE Breathing Tides [EP] Self-Released
4 KAMAAL WILLIAMS Wu Hen Black Focus
5 FOUR TET Parallel Text
6 KELEKETLA Keleketla! Ahead Of Our Time
7 SEDIBUS AND THE ORB The Heavens Cooking Vinyl
8 ALESSANDRO CORTINI “Chiaroscuro” [Single] Mute
9 RONE Rone & Friends InFiné
10 KELLY LEE OWENS Inner Song Smalltown Supersound

World

Rank Artist Album Label
1 STAR LOVERS Boafo Ne Nyame Hot Casa
2 KASAI ALLSTARS “Olooh, A War Dance For Peace” [Single] Crammed Discs
3 EDO FUNK EXPLOSION VOL 1 VARIOUS ARTISTS Analog Africa
4 AMJ COLLECTIVE FEAT NAI-JAH “Let Go Of Fear” [Single] Astar Artes
5 ALTIN GUN Yol ATO
6 BEATERS, THE Harari Matsuli
7 URBAN VILLAGE Udondolo No Format
8 ROGER FAKHR Fine Anyway Habibi Funk
9 KELEKETLA Keleketla! Ahead Of Our Time
10 AMPEX, THE The Ampex Munster

    March 23rd, 2021

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