Genre charts for Feb 4 presents:

AAA

Rank Artist Album Label
1 COMMON HOLLY When I Say To You Black Lightning Barsuk/Solitaire
2 KAREN AND THE SORROWS Guaranteed Broken Heart Ocean Born Mary
3 ROSIER ROSIER [EP] Famgroup
4 BONNY LIGHT HORSEMAN Bonny Light Horseman 37d03d
5 LIGHTNING DUST Spectre Western Vinyl
6 GEOFF BERNER Grand Hotel Cosmopolis COAX
7 LEWIS AND SPENCE Big Bully Self-Released
8 FAIRHAZEL I’m a Friend of Fairhazel Self-Released
9 JIMMIE RODGERS The Complete RCA Victor Recordings RCA/Legacy
10 CHUCK PROPHET “Get Off the Stage” [Single] Yep Rock

Hip-Hop

Rank Artist Album Label
1 TRAUMA LAVERN Album Announcement Fail Cold Rhymes
2 ATMOSPHERE Whenever Rhymesayers
3 DANNY BROWN uknowhatimsayin¿ Warp
4 CLIPPING There Existed An Addiction To Blood Sub Pop
5 BROTHER ALI Secrets & Escapes Rhymesayers
6 RYAN CARAVEO Butterfly Boy Paradise Forever
7 DENZEL CURRY Zuu Loma Vista/Concord
8 DWYNELL ROLAND X TRAVIS GORMAN Weird Captions Self-Released
9 BENNY THE BUTCHER The Plugs I Met [EP] Griselda
10 ATM ATM [EP] Mass Appeal

Loud

Rank Artist Album Label
1 3:33 Jaws of a Wolf Self-Released
2 FULL OF HELL Weeping Choir Relapse
3 UGLY MUSCLE Ugly Muscle Self-Released
4 EQUIPOISE Demiurgus The Artisan Era
5 HUMUNGUS Balls Killer Metal
6 BIG BRAVE A Gaze Among Them Southern Lord
7 ODIOUS MORTEM Synesthesia WillowTip
8 MUTANT FLESH Evil Eye Self-Released
9 HANZEL UND GRETYL Hexennacht Metropolis
10 BURNING WITCHES Burning Witches / Burning Alive Nuclear Blast

RPM

Rank Artist Album Label
1 KIDS TECHNO The Harmony of Spheres Cherub
2 HOLY FUCK Deleter Holy EF
3 FKA TWIGS Magdalene Young Turks/Beggars
4 DAN DEACON Mystic Familiar Domino
5 OOIOO Nijimusi Thrill Jockey
6 JAMAEL DEAN The Black Tapes Stones Throw
7 THOM YORKE Anima XL/Beggars Group
8 TIPPER Wobble Factor Tippermusic
9 SACHI Nights With Ruby Casablanca/Republic
10 MADEON Good Faith Columbia

World

Rank Artist Album Label
1 KALETA AND SUPER YAMBA BAND Medaho Ubiquity
2 GEOFF BERNER Grand Hotel Cosmopolis COAX
3 DUBIOZA KOLEKTIV #fakenews Menart
4 WUTA MAYI La Face Cachee Sterns
5 KOKOLO AFROBEAT ORCHESTRA 100 Fevers Peace & Rhythm
6 LOCOBEACH Psychedelic Disco Cumbia Dorsal Fin/Peace & Rhythm
7 LONDON AFROBEAT COLLECTIVE Humans Self-Released
8 LOS AFROINS A Gozar Salsomanos Vampisoul
9 OTAVA YO Do You Love ARC
10 YORKSTON/THORNE/KHAN Navarasa : Nine Emotions Domino

    February 1st, 2020

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Top 30 new albums for week ending Nov 1 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 Piranha Rama You’ve Earned It Trrrash
2 Common Holly When I say to you Black Lightning Barsuk / Solitaire
3 Mirtaw Vandals MXC
4 Danny Brown uknowhatimsayin¿ Warp
5 Alexa Rose Medicine for Living Big Legal Mess
6 Fly Anakin;Fly Anakin & Big Kahuna Og Holly Water Fat Beats
7 Karen & the Sorrows Guaranteed Broken Heart Ocean Born Mary Music
8 Easalio Fly July’s Prize / Purple Republic
9 Floating Points Crush Ninja Tune
10 Haybaby They Get There Tiny Engines
11 Stephanie tangerine nightmare self-released
12 The Wimps Plasma self-released
13 Toxic Moxie Falkonia self-released
14 Minor Poet The Good News – EP Sub Pop
15 NDEFRU Foreign Local – EP Blue Ether Sound
16 The Comet Is Coming The Afterlife Impulse!
17 Anna Meredith Fibs Black Prince Fury
18 Automatic Signal Stones Throw
19 Hovvdy Heavy Lifter Double Double Whammy
20 Miriam Clancy Astronomy Desert Road
21 Angel Olsen All Mirrors Jagjaguwar
22 Starcrawler Devour You Rough Trade
23 Dominic Sen Visitor Roll Call
24 Sylvia Black Twilight Animals self-released
25 Kim Gordon No Home Record Matador
26 Begonia Fear Rex Baby
27 Camp Howard Cañón Camp Howard
28 Marika Hackman Any Human Friend (Acoustic EP) Sub Pop
29 Rhi The Pale Queen Tru Thoughts
30 Boris LOVE & EVOL Third Man

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    November 2nd, 2019

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Genre charts for week ending Nov 1 presents:

AAA

Rank Artist Album Label
1 COMMON HOLLY When I Say To You Black Lightning Barsuk/Solitaire
2 ALEXA ROSE Medicine For Living Big Legal Mess
3 KAREN AND THE SORROWS Guaranteed Broken Heart Ocean Born Mary
4 MILK CARTON KIDS, THE The Only Ones [EP] Thirty Tigers
5 OAKLAND HOMELESS HEART COLLECTIVE Homeless Oakland Heart Electric Cowbell
6 LASSES, THE Undone Self-Released
7 LANDON ELLIOTT Domino American Paradox
8 DARRIN BRADBURY Talking Dogs & Atom Bombs Anti-
9 MOLLY SARLE Karaoke Angel Partisan
10 ROSIER ROSIER [EP] Famgroup

Hip-Hop

Rank Artist Album Label
1 MIRTAW Vandals MXC
2 DANNY BROWN uknowhatimsayin¿ Warp
3 FLY ANAKIN Holly Water Fat Beats
4 EASALIO Fly July’s Prize/Purple Republic
5 NDEFRU AND OHBLIV Foreign Local [EP] Blue Ether Sound
6 ALCHEMIST Yacht Rock 2 Self-Released
7 NAS Lost Tapes, Vol 2. Def Jam
8 3WAYSLIM MVP 3-Way
9 FLEE LORD Loyalty & Trust GGBR
10 DABABY Baby On Baby Interscope

Loud

Rank Artist Album Label
1 BORIS Love And Evol Third Man
2 RUSSIAN CIRCLES Blood Year Sargent House
3 PELICAN Nighttime Stories Southern Lord
4 ALLEGAEON Apoptosis Metal Blade
5 CLOAK The Burning Dawn Season of Mist
6 WINDHAND Live Elsewhere Relapse
7 ALCEST Spiritual Instinct Nuclear Blast
8 EQUIPOISE Waking Divinity Artisan Era
9 RUSSIAN WHITE, THE The Haunted Beach Lost Glacier
10 PRODUCT KF Songs of the Groves Chicago Research

RPM

Rank Artist Album Label
1 FLOATING POINTS Crush Ninja Tune
2 RHI The Pale Queen Tru Thoughts
3 SUI ZHEN Losing, Linda Cascine
4 BOY HARSHER Country Girl Uncut Ascetic House
5 FATAMORGANA Terra Alta La Vida Es Un Mus Discos
6 ANDRZEJ KORZYNSKI Plastic Dance 2 Finders Keepers
7 HOUSE OF IBIZA 2019 VARIOUS ARTISTS Street King
8 LAMB Backspace Unwind Cooking Vinyl
9 THROBBING GRISTLE A Souvenir of Camber Sands Mute
10 AFROSCHNITZEL Cagliari Azure [EP] Nite Grooves

World

Rank Artist Album Label
1 EARLY CONGO MUSIC 1946-1962: FIRST RUMBA TO THE REAL RUMBA VARIOUS ARTISTS El Sur
2 POUR ME A GROG VARIOUS ARTISTS Ostinato
3 AFROINS, LOS A Gozar Salsomanos Vampisoul
4 GARIFUNA COLLECTIVE, THE Aban Stonetree
5 CANALON DE TIMBIQUI De Mar Y Rio Llorona
6 ADNAN OTHMAN Bershukor: A Retrospective Of Hits By A Malaysian Pop Yeh Yeh Legend Sublime Frequencies
7 LOCOBEACH Psychedelic Disco Cumbia Dorsal Fin/Peace & Rhythm
8 KEITH AND TEX Greatest Hits 1966-1970 Rebel Sound
9 FARAFI Calico Soul Piranha
10 ADOLFO ECHEVERRIA Y SU ORQUESTA Sabroso Bacalao Vampisoul

    November 2nd, 2019

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