genre charts for Feb 15 presents:

AAA

Rank Artist Album Label
1 ANGELICA GARCIA Echo Electrico [EP] Spacebomb
2 STEVE POLTZ Stardust And Satellites Red House
3 RUPERT WATES For The People Self-Released
4 ANAIS MITCHELL Anais Mitchell BMG
5 GEORGE MANN A World Like This Self-Released
6 DANIEL ROMANO Cobra Poems You’ve Changed
7 LUMP Animal Partisan/Chrysalis
8 MASON JENNINGS Real Heart Loosegroove
9 TERRY KLEIN Good Luck, Take Care Self-Released
10 YASMIN WILLIAMS Urban Driftwood Spinster

Hip-Hop

Rank Artist Album Label
1 FLY ANAKIN Frank Lex
2 ATMOSPHERE WORD? Rhymesayers
3 JAKE PALUMBO Plant-Based Libtard SpaceLAB
4 AWFUL P Learning How To Fall Self-Released
5 BANE CAPITAL AND KONCEPT JACKSON Good Product Self-Released
6 CUBBIEBEAR AND SEEZ MICS Even In Death Strange Famous
7 SHABAAM SAHDEEQ AND NICK WIZ Cabin Fever Self-Released
8 STYLES P AND HAVOC Wreckage Manner MNRK
9 BLACKLIQ AND MOPES Time Is The Price Strange Famous
10 KHI INFINITE Take What You Need Artist Partner Group

Loud

Rank Artist Album Label
1 CUT THE ARCHITECT’S HAND The Eternity Box Aunt Mary/New Dirt
2 ARKAIK The Labyrinth of the Hungry Ghosts Unique Leader
3 CARCASS Torn Arteries Nuclear Blast
4 CRESCENT Carving The Fires Of Akhet Listenable
5 TERMINAL BLISS Brute Errata Relapse
6 ALL The Black Hand Self-Released
7 CAGED BASTARD Strive [EP] Self-Released
8 MYXOPHOBIA VARIOUS ARTIST [EP] Thorn
9 REFLECT “On the Streets / Reflect Stomp” [Single] Self-Released
10 NEEDLESS The Cosmic Cauldron UPRISING!

RPM

Rank Artist Album Label
1 FKA TWIGS CAPRISONGS Young/Atlantic
2 MOTIV Industrial Funk [EP] Innerground
3 MICHAEL ROTHER AND VITTORIA MACABRUNI As Long As the Light Gronland
4 ERIK WOLLO Sojourns Projekt
5 GOLDEN BUG Piscolabis La belle
6 CHEM Aorta Insane
7 HEXSYSTEM No Confluence [EP] Sterokroma
8 BLACK DOG, THE Brutal Minimalism [EP] Dust Science
9 CABU So Far To Go [EP] 823
10 SOSHI TAKEDA Floating Mountains 100% Silk

World

Rank Artist Album Label
1 GONORA SOUNDS Hard Times Never Kill The Vital
2 ABDULLAH IBRAHIM Water From An Ancient Well Yellowbird
3 MARCO FLORES Y LA JEREZ “Ahora Es Cuando (feat Grupo Legitimo)” [Single] Nacional
4 RENEE GOUST “La Muchacha Alegre (feat Nancy Sanchez)” [Single] Nacional
5 AFRO-ZEN ALLSTARS The Buzz And The Bells AZA
6 OKI Tonkori In The Moonlight (1996-2006) Mais Um
7 LUCIDVOX “Burn The Grief/Swarm” [Single] Glitterbeat
8 VIVA LA MUSICA DE PAPA WEMBA La Voix Du Maitre: Hommage A Papa Wemba Self-Released
9 SMALL ISLAND BIG SONG Our Island Self-Released
10 EXTRA MUSICA NOUVEL HORIZON Vision Universal Africa

    February 15th, 2022

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top 30 new albums for Oct 19 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 Atmosphere WORD? Rhymesayers
2 Joyner Lucas Your Heart (feat. J. Cole) – Single Twenty Nine
3 Dead Finks The Death and Resurrection of Johnathan Cowboy Urge
4 Fly Anakin Pixote Mutant Academy
5 Matthew E. White K Bay Domino
6 The Felice Brothers From Dreams to Dust Yep Roc
7 Sankofa The Floodgates Making Music with Dope Friends
8 Ships in the Night First Light – Single Cleopatra
9 Bronze Nazareth & Roc Marciano Ekphrasis Fat Beats
10 Juçara Marçal Delta Estácio Blues QTV
11 Bomba Estéreo Deja Sony Music Latin; Sony US Latin
12 Ant The Symbol Ant Hasn’t Heard of You, Either Vintage Youth
13 Gutterwall Seeing it From Zero Ground Zero Etching Tin
14 Karmah Richmond State of Mind – EP self-released
15 NDEFRU & Fan Ran Richmond Gas Gritty City
16 Fuggin Doe Ratchet AF Hitzville
17 LJ & the Sleeze Put Something Sleezy Between Your Legs – EP Eight Ball Record$
18 Junnie Mac Peace, Mercy & Blessings Monsta Inc & Purple Republic
19 Faceship Greatest Hits, Volume 11 Hangar 11
20 Richmond Avant Improv Collective (RAIC) Gestalt Cacophonous Revival
21 Benét Game Over! – EP Bayonet
22 McKinley Dixon For My Mama and Anyone Who Look Like Her Spacebomb
23 Big Kahuna OG & Unlucky Bastards Flameboy Advance Mutant Academy
24 Angelica Garcia Echo Eléctrico – EP Spacebomb
25 Profound 79 & Starr Nyce Diamonds in the Sky Gritty City
26 Hotspit CC – EP avery magoruims wonder emporium
27 Talk Me Off Abyss – EP Smartpunk
28 audiobooks Astro Tough Heavenly
29 Hovvdy True Love Grand Jury
30 Carolyn Wonderland Tempting Fate Alligator

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    October 19th, 2021

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genre charts for Apr 13 presents:

AAA

Rank Artist Album Label
1 FLOCK OF DIMES Head Of Roses Sub Pop
2 VIVIAN LEVA AND RILEY CALCAGNO Vivian Leva And Riley Calcagno Free Dirt
3 MO KENNEY Covers Turtlemusik
4 AMANDA COOK Narrowing The Gap Mountain Fever
5 ALEX LEACH BAND I’m Happpies When I’m Moving Self-Released
6 FRETLAND Could Have Loved You [Advance Tracks] Self-Released
7 ISKWE The Stars [EP] Self-Released
8 JOE PUG The Diving Sun [EP] Self-Released
9 SAMANTHAN CRAIN I Guess We Live Here Now Self-Released
10 CUJO MOON Bridges [EP] Self-Released

Hip-Hop

Rank Artist Album Label
1 PINK SIIFU AND FLY ANAKIN $mokebreak Lex
2 ILLA STYLES Mind Your Reality Monsta Inc
3 OHBLIV Rugged Tranquility Vols. 1 & 2 Paxico
4 GENESIS OWUSU Smiling With No Teeth House Anxiety/Ourness
5 NUMBER 2 Rape Whistle Ultra Beast United
6 DRAKE Scary Hours 2 [EP] Ovo/Republic
7 DJ MUGGS AND FLEE LORD Rammellzee Soul Assassins
8 JOHNNY CIGGS Paradise Gritty City
9 SENICA DA MISFIT Masterpiece [EP] Self-Released
10 MELLO MUSIC GROUP Bushido Self-Released

Loud

Rank Artist Album Label
1 BOOK OF WYRMS Occult New Age Self-Released
2 BODOM AFTER MIDNIGHT Paint The Sky With Blood Napalm
3 ALICE COOPER Detroit Stories earMUSIC
4 TERMINAL BLISS Brute Err/ata Relapse
5 GRAVESEND Methods Of Human Disposal 20 Buck Spin
6 PAYSAGE D’HIVER Geister Kunsthall Produktionen
7 KOLDOVSTVO “I” [Single] Babylon Doom Cult
8 VICTORY OVER THE SUN “Nowherer” [Single] Self-Released
9 BOG BODY “The Gate of Grief” [Single] Stygian Black Hand
10 TOMAHAWK Tonic Immobility Ipecac

RPM

Rank Artist Album Label
1 FLOATING POINTS, PHAROAH SANDERS AND THE LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Promises Luaka Bop
2 DANNY BLU The Pale Horse Self-Released
3 REYMOUR Leviosa Knekelhuis
4 IGLOOGHOST Lei Line Eon Supernature
5 GOMA The Dark Monarc Machine Man
6 STEVE ROACH AND SERENA GABRIEL Temple of the Melting Dawn Self-Released
7 SLIKBACK SHOTOTSU Self-Released
8 GREEN-HOUSE Music for Living Spaces Leaving
9 FATIMA AL QADIRI Medieval Femme Hyperdub
10 TAROTPLANE Horizontology 12th Isle

World

Rank Artist Album Label
1 LES FILLES DE ILLIGHADAD “Surbajo” [Single] Sahel Sounds
2 STRAIGHT FROM THE DECKS 2 VARIOUS ARTISTS Pura Vida Sounds/Heavenly Sweetness
3 KANE MATHIS Geminus Nyaato
4 COLOR DE TROPICO, VOL. 2 VARIOUS ARTIST [Advance Tracks] El Palmas
5 LEE FRY MUSIC “Wianek (feat Alia Fay)” [Single] Self-Released
6 ELIDA ALMEIDA Gerasonobu LusAfrica
7 NATION BEAT The Royal Chase Self-Released
8 YAADCORE, JAH9 AND SUBATOMIC SOUND SYSTEM “Police In Helicopter” [Single] Yard Birdz-Subatomic Sound
9 ALTIN GUN Yol ATO
10 TOMMY GUERRERO Sunshine Radio Too Good

    April 13th, 2021

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top 30 new albums for Jan 19 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 Pink Siifu & Fly Anakin FlySiifu’s Lex
2 The Dirty Knobs Wreckless Abandon BMG
3 Hoboknife Wig of Flies self-released
4 Prop Vintage Luggage HLGNLIFE
5 Sapphira Vee The Mask self-released
6 Kev Brown & J Scienide Stray From the Pack self-released
7 Johnny Ciggs x D.R.U.G.S. Beats Lighters and Lightbulbs Gritty City
8 Moses Boyd Dark Matter Exodus
9 Troy All We Got Is This (feat. Mick Jenkins) – Single Poverty
10 Butcher Brown #KingButch Concord Jazz
11 Eric Slick Wiseacre self-released
12 Naked Pictures W I D E Cheap Cuts
13 The Hustle Season Volume 1 Enough
14 D.J. Williams Short Stories self-released
15 Loud Night Mindnumbing Pleasure Vinyl Conflict
16 Opin Media & Memory WarHen
17 Coy Pond Living In Hindsight self-released
18 ohbliv LewseJoints Number 8(a) self-released
19 Front Line Assembly Mechanical Soul Metropolis
20 Landshapes Contact Bella Union
21 Slaughter Beach, Dog At the Moonbase Lame-O
22 Public Memory Ripped Apparition felte
23 Aesop Rock Spirit World Field Guide Rhymesayers
24 Katy J Pearson Return Heavenly
25 Heather Trost Petrichor Third Man
26 Songhoy Blues Optimisme Transgressive
27 The Mountain Goats Getting Into Knives Merge
28 Helena Deland Someone New Chivi Chivi
29 Loma Don’t Shy Away Sub Pop
30 Open Mike Eagle Anime, Trauma and Divorce Auto Reverse

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    January 19th, 2021

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genre charts for Jan 19 presents:

AAA

Rank Artist Album Label
1 HEATHER TROST Petrichor Third Man
2 STRUNG LIKE A HORSE WHOA! Transoceanic
3 COLTER WALL Wester Swing & Waltzes And Other Punchy Songs La Honda
4 KONRADSEN Rodeo No. 5 [EP] Cascine
5 HOLY RIVER Courage Earth Folk Collective
6 HORSENECKS, THE Started Out In Town Old Time Tiki Parlour
7 SAM MOSS Shapes Lost Honey
8 CLARA ENGEL A New Skin Self-Released
9 ELIZABETH COOK Aftermath Self-Released
10 VICTORIA BAILEY Jesus, Red Wine & Patsy Cline Rock Ridge

Hip-Hop

Rank Artist Album Label
1 PINK SIIFU AND FLY ANAKIN FlySiifu’s Lex
2 PROP Vintage Luggage HLGNLIFE
3 KEV BROWN AND J SCIENIDE Stray From the Pack Self-Released
4 TROY “All We Got Is This (feat. Mick Jenkins)” [Single] Poverty
5 OHBLIV LewseJoints Number 8(a) Self-Released
6 AESOP ROCK Spirit World Field Guide Rhymesayers
7 OPEN MIKE EAGLE Anime, Trauma And Divorce Auto Reverse
8 ACTION BRONSON Only For Dolphins Loma Vista
9 SA-ROC The Sharecropper’s Daughter Rhymesayers
10 BLU AND EXILE Miles Dirty Science

Loud

Rank Artist Album Label
1 HOBOKNIFE Wig of Flies Self-Released
2 EMMA RUTH RUNDLE AND THOU May Our Chambers Be Full [EP] Sacred Bones
3 BUTCHER 666 Goats Carry My Chariot Osmose
4 PALLBEARER Forgotten Days Nuclear Blast
5 NECROT Mortal Tankcrimes
6 VELNIAS Scion Of Aether Eisenwald
7 SVALBARD When I Die, Will I Get Better? Translation Loss
8 TRIBULATION Where The Gloom Becomes Sound [Advance Tracks] Metal Blade
9 LEFT CROSS Prophecy of Conquest Stygian Black Hand
10 GATECREEPER An Unexpected Reality Closed Casket Activities

RPM

Rank Artist Album Label
1 SAPPHIRA VEE The Mask Self-Released
2 OPIN Media & Memory WarHen
3 PUBLIC MEMORY Ripped Apparition Felte
4 WORKING MEN’S CLUB Working Men’s Club Heavenly/PIAS
5 SUFJAN STEVENS The Ascension Asthmatic Kitty
6 JULIANNA BARWICK Healing Is A Miracle Ninja Tune
7 KAMAAL WILLIAMS Wu Hen Black Focus
8 DJ SHUB War Club Self-Released
9 KAITLYN AURELIA SMITH The Mosaic Of Transformation Ghostly
10 ITAL TEK Outland Planet Mu

World

Rank Artist Album Label
1 LA CUMBIA MODERNA DE SOLEDAD/MACHUCA CUMBIA “Da Ya Think I’m Sexy/Stayin’ Alive” [Single] Vampisoul
2 STAR FEMININE BAND Star Feminine Band Born Bad
3 ZONKE FAMILY At The Studio Lokalophon
4 STELLA CHIWESHE Ambuya! Piranha
5 BALKAN TAKSIM Balkan Taksim [EP] Buda Musique
6 SYSTEMA SOLAR “Mi Kolombia” [Single] ONErpm
7 FONTANAS, THE “Capoeira Mata Um” [Single] Movimientos
8 RICARDO LEMVO AND MAKINA LOCA N’Dona Ponte Mopiato
9 MADE KUTI For(e)ward [Advance Tracks] Partisan
10 LEYLA MCCALLA Vari-Colored Songs: A Tribute To Langston Hughes Smithsonian Folkways

    January 19th, 2021

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top 100 new albums for WRIR in 2020 presents:

The chart reflects the diversity of programming on WRIR. In an average week, WRIR DJs play approximately 1,200 unique albums (and EPs and singles).

1 Butcher Brown #KingButch Concord Jazz
2 Sa-Roc The Sharecropper’s Daughter Rhymesayers
3 Positive No Kyanite Little Black Cloud
4 En Attendant Ana Juillet Trouble in Mind
5 Phoebe Bridgers Punisher Dead Oceans
6 Keleketla! Keleketla! Ahead Of Our Time
7 Addy Eclipse Topshelf
8 Deau Eyes Let It Leave Egghunt
9 Porridge Radio Every Bad Secretly Canadian
10 Pink Siifu & Fly Anakin FlySiifu’s Lex
11 Chloe x Halle Ungodly Hour Parkwood Entertainment / Columbia
12 Big No Big No self-released
13 Nas King’s Disease Mass Appeal
14 Moses Sumney græ Jagjaguwar
15 Johnny Ciggs Lighters and Lightbulbs Gritty City
16 Algiers There Is No Year Matador
17 Sneeze Self-Titled self-released
18 SAULT UNTITLED (Black Is) Forever Living Originals
19 Run The Jewels RTJ4 Jewel Runners / BMG
20 Melenas Días Raros Trouble in Mind
21 Horse Lords The Common Task Northern Spy
22 Fiona Apple Fetch The Bolt Cutters Epic
23 Waxahatchee Saint Cloud Merge
24 True Body Heavenly Rhythms for the Uninitiated Funeral Party
25 Fontaines D.C. A Hero’s Death Partisan / Fontana North
26 Angelica Garcia Cha Cha Palace Spacebomb
27 Thundercat It Is What It Is Brainfeeder
28 Shabaka and the Ancestors We Are Sent Here By History Impulse!
29 Moaning Uneasy Laughter Sub Pop
30 Megan Thee Stallion Good News 300 Entertainment
31 gnawing Shaky – EP Refresh
32 Coriky Coriky Dischord
33 Action Bronson Only For Dolphins Loma Vista
34 Og Illa Richmond Renegade HLGNLIFE / Gritty City
35 Jake Blount Spider Tales Free Dirt
36 Deerhoof Future Teenage Cave Artists Joyful Noise
37 Blu & Exile Miles Fat Beats
38 Tom Misch & Yussef Dayes What Kinda Music Beyond The Groove / Blue Note
39 OOIOO nijimusi Thrill Jockey
40 Mourn Self Worth Captured Tracks
41 Man Man Dream Hunting in the Valley of the In-Between Sub Pop
42 Aesop Rock Spirit World Field Guide Rhymesayers
43 Westside Gunn Pray for Paris Griselda
44 Trapcry Dangerous 1986
45 The Birthday Massacre Diamonds Metropolis
46 Smyth Knight North Chesterfield Kidz At Play
47 Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever Sideways to New Italy Ivy League / Sub Pop
48 Protomartyr Ultimate Success Today Domino
49 OHMME Fantasize Your Ghost Joyful Noise
50 Julianna Barwick Healing Is a Miracle Ninja Tune
51 Inter Arma Garbers Days Revisited Relapse
52 Eliza Juno Do Tree Lobsters Experience Love Eliza Juno; self-released
53 Deradoorian Find the Sun Anti/Epitaph
54 Big Baby Fizzy Cola – EP self-released
55 Zhé Aqueen The Hypnomonic Album Heye Vibez
56 Yves Tumor Heaven To a Tortured Mind Warp
57 THICK 5 Years Behind Epitaph
58 Spectres Nostalgia Artoffact
59 Six Organs of Admittance Companion Rises Drag City
60 RVG Feral Fire
61 Prof Powderhorn Suites Ineffable
62 Moemaw Naedon Dr. Deadhorse Soul Slime
63 Homeboy Sandman Don’t Feed the Monster Mello Music Group
64 Hamerkop Remote Drag City
65 Flat Worms Antarctica GOD?
66 Christine and the Queens La vita nuova – EP Because Music
67 Chris Brown Slime & B Chris Brown Entertainment/300 Entertainment/RCA
68 Cable Ties Far Enough Poison City
69 Atmosphere The Day Before Halloween Rhymesayers
70 U.S. Girls Heavy Light 4AD
71 The Magnetic Fields Quickies Nonesuch
72 Tame Impala The Slow Rush Island / Interscope / Fiction / Caroline
73 Sweeping Promises Hunger for a Way Out Feel It
74 Opin Media & Memory WarHen
75 Moses Boyd Dark Matter Exodus
76 Lomelda Hannah Double Double Whammy
77 Kosha Dillz Nobody Cares Except You Rapperfriends
78 Kenny Mason Angelic Hoodrat self-released
79 Jeff Parker Suite for Max Brown International Anthem
80 IDLES Ultra Mono PTKF; Partisan / Liberator Music
81 Holy Fuck Deleter Last Gang
82 Gumming Overripe Vinyl Conflict
83 FM Skyline Liteware 100% Electronica; Crystal Pistol
84 Fight Cloud Thoughts Aligned self-released
85 Colin Phils Trust/Fall Post.
86 Busta Rhymes Extinction Level Event 2: The Wrath of God The Conglomerate Entertainment, Inc. / EMPIRE
87 Anjimile Giver Taker Father/Daughter
88 Adrianne Lenker songs 4AD
89 vv III self-released
90 The Beths Jump Rope Gazers Carpark
91 Testament Titans of Creation Nuclear Blast
92 Peel Dream Magazine Agitprop Alterna Slumberland
93 Open Mike Eagle Anime, Trauma and Divorce Auto Reverse
94 Lithics Tower of Age Trouble In Mind
95 Kelly Lee Owens Inner Song Smalltown Supersound
96 Isobel Campbell There is No Other… Cooking Vinyl Limited
97 FACS Void Moments Trouble In Mind
98 Evidence Unlearning – Single Rhymesayers
99 Justis Bratt LHPS (Radio Edit) – Single Hollywood Starstruck
100 BlackLiq x Ohbliv The Best – Single No Other Way

    December 29th, 2020

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top 30 new albums for Dec 8 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 Pink Siifu & Fly Anakin FlySiifu’s Lex
2 Statik Selektah The Balancing Act Mass Appeal
3 Cabaret Voltaire Shadow of Fear Mute
4 Iamdoechii Oh the Places You’ll Go Five 5
5 Smyth Knight North Chesterfield Kidz At Play
6 Roc Marciano Mt. Marci Marci Enterprises
7 Juana Molina ANRMAL (Live in México) Crammed Discs
8 Big G Keep on Rockin Stone River
9 The Bush League Here We Are…again self-released
10 The Flavor Project Food for Thought Reeverb Entertainment
11 Trapcry Dangerous 1986
12 Butcher Brown #KingButch Concord Jazz
13 Public Memory Ripped Apparition felte
14 Under the Puddle Picking Up Speed – EP self-released
15 Negativland The World Will Decide Seeland
16 David Nance Staunch Honey Trouble In Mind
17 Aesop Rock Spirit World Field Guide Rhymesayers
18 AC/DC POWER UP Columbia
19 Heather Trost Petrichor Third Man
20 Atmosphere The Day Before Halloween Rhymesayers
21 Mourn Self Worth Captured Tracks
22 Cordovas Destiny Hotel ATO
23 Emma Donovan & The Putbacks Crossover HopeStreet
24 Low Cut Connie Private Lives Contender
25 Throwing Muses Sun Racket Fire
26 Fleet Foxes Shore Anti- / Epitaph
27 WIDOWSPEAK Plum Captured Tracks
28 Jyoti Mama, You Can Bet! EONE
29 Wax Chattels Clot Flying Nun
30 Sylvan Esso Free Love Loma Vista

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    December 8th, 2020

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genre charts for Dec 8 presents:

AAA

Rank Artist Album Label
1 HEATHER TROST Petrichor Third Man
2 SUZZY ROCHE AND LUCY WAINWRIGHT ROCHE I Can Still Hear You Storysound
3 ADAM HURT Back To The Earth Ubiquitone
4 RAYE ZARAGOZA Woman In Color Self-Released
5 WOOD AND WIRE No Matter Where It Goes From Here Self-Released
6 SPENCER CULLUM’S COIN COLLECTION Spencer Cullum’s Coin Collection yk
7 ANTJE DUVEKOT AND KEVIN SALEM Picket Ladies Tailors Strikers [EP] Fidelity Underground Network
8 BUDDY AND JULIE MILLER Lockdown Songs New West
9 GRAIN THIEF Gasoline Self-Released
10 STURGILL SIMPSON Cuttin’ Grass Vol. 1 High Top Mountain

Hip-Hop

Rank Artist Album Label
1 PINK SIIFU AND FLY ANAKIN FlySiifu’s Lex
2 STATIK SELEKTAH The Balancing Act Mass Appeal
3 IAMDOECHII Oh The Places You’ll Go [EP] Five 5
4 SMYTH KNIGHT North Chesterfield Self-Released
5 ROC MARCIANO Mt. Marci Marci Enterprises
6 AESOP ROCK Spirit World Field Guide Rhymesayers
7 ATMOSPHERE The Day Before Halloween Rhymesayers
8 SA-ROC The Sharecropper’s Daughter Rhymesayers
9 KOSHA DILLZ Nobody Cares Except You Rapperfriends
10 OPEN MIKE EAGLE Anime, Trauma And Divorce Auto Reverse

Loud

Rank Artist Album Label
1 TESTAMENT Titans Of Creation Nuclear Blast
2 PIG DESTROYER The Octagonal Stairway [EP] Relapse
3 MRS PISS Self-Surgery Sargent House
4 FEMINAZGUL No Dawn for Men Self-Released
5 SUMAC May You Be Held Thrill Jockey
6 CABARET VOLTAIRE Shadow Of Fear Mute
7 BIRTHDAY MASSACRE, THE Diamonds Metropolis
8 SUICIDE COMMANDO Mindstrip Redux Metropolis
9 AARKTICA AND BLACK TAPE FOR A BLUE GIRL Eating Rose Petals Projekt
10 LUDOVICO TECHNIQUE “Live as Myself” [Single] Self-Released

RPM

Rank Artist Album Label
1 PUBLIC MEMORY Ripped Apparition Felte
2 C DIAB White Whale Injazero
3 SPESH Salt Dimension Self-Released
4 RIVAL CONSOLES Articulation Erased Tapes
5 GRIMES Miss Anthropocene 4AD/Beggars Group
6 DUKES OF CHUTNEY Hazel Beats In Space
7 PYE CORNER AUDIO Black Mill Tapes Vol. 5: The Lost Tapes Lapsus
8 FAUCET Bitter Insane Melting Self-Released
9 ORB, THE Abolition Of The Royal Familia Cooking Vinyl
10 FAT FREDDY’S DROP LOCK-IN The Drop

World

Rank Artist Album Label
1 RICARDO LEMVO AND MAKINA LOCA N’Dona Ponte Mopiato
2 DANDANA Free The System Rebel Up
3 LOS SAICOS 69 “El Mercenario/Un Poquito De Pena” [Single] Munster
4 SONGHOY BLUES Optimisme Fat Possum
5 ANCIENT ASTRONAUTS Kampala Fire [EP] Switchstance
6 GINA CHAVEZ La Que Manda [EP] Self-Released
7 PROTOJE In Search Of Lost Time In.Digg.Nation Collective/Six Course/RCA
8 SETENTA Materia Negra Latin Big Note
9 MARCOS VALLE, ADRIAN YOUNGE AND ALI SHAHEED MUHAMMAD Marcos Valle JID 003 Jazz Is Dead
10 LADAMA Oye Mujer Six Degrees

    December 8th, 2020

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top 30 new albums for Dec 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 Pink Siifu & Fly Anakin FlySiifu’s Lex
2 Butcher Brown #KingButch Concord Jazz
3 Shame Water In the Well – Single Dead Oceans
4 clipping. Visions of Bodies Being Burned Sub Pop
5 Billy Bacci Band Paint on It MB
6 Opin Media & Memory WarHen
7 Deau Eyes Let It Leave Egghunt
8 Melodic Kayobi – EP The Enrich Brand
9 Trapcry Dangerous 1986
10 Kokoroko Baba Ayoola – Single Brownswood
11 Eric Slick Wiseacre self-released
12 Naked Pictures W I D E Cheap Cuts
13 She TRL 2004 – EP Brat Daddy
14 GULL Relative Stranger self-released
15 Gumming Overripe Vinyl Conflict
16 Tim Barry Live 2018 Chunksaah
17 Haircut Cake – EP 11 PM
18 The Cribs Night Network Sonic Blew
19 Anna McClellan I Saw First Light Father/Daughter
20 David Nance Staunch Honey Trouble In Mind
21 Aesop Rock Spirit World Field Guide Rhymesayers
22 Various Artists Strum & Thrum: The American Jangle Underground 1983-1987 Captured Tracks
23 Various Artists Closer to Heaven: a Tribute to Ed Ackerson Susstones
24 Atmosphere The Day Before Halloween Rhymesayers
25 MOURN Self Worth Captured Tracks
26 Jeremy Ivey Waiting out the Storm Anti/Epitaph
27 Fleet Foxes Shore Anti/Epitaph
28 OSEES Protean Threat Castle Face
29 The Mountain Goats Getting Into Knives Merge
30 Mipso Mipso Rounder

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    December 1st, 2020

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genre charts for Dec 1 presents:

AAA

Rank Artist Album Label
1 TIM BARRY Live 2018 Chunksaah
2 JEREMY IVEY Waiting Out The Storm Anti-
3 MIPSO Mipso Rounder/Concord
4 SUSAN PEPPER Prettiest Bird Self-Released
5 BRIGID MAE POWER Head Above The Water Fire
6 SPENCER BURTON Coyote Still
7 DARRELL SCOTT “A Satisfied Mind” [Single] Soundly
8 STURGILL SIMPSON Cuttin’ Grass Vol. 1 High Top Mountain
9 BECKY BULLER Distance And Time Dark Shadow
10 LARKIN POE Self Made Man Tricki Woo

Hip-Hop

Rank Artist Album Label
1 PINK SIIFU AND FLY ANAKIN FlySiifu’s Lex
2 MELODIC Kayobi [EP] The Enrich Brand
3 AESOP ROCK Spirit World Field Guide Rhymesayers
4 ATMOSPHERE The Day Before Halloween Rhymesayers
5 SA-ROC The Sharecropper’s Daughter Rhymesayers
6 KOSHA DILLZ Nobody Cares Except You Rapperfriends
7 MARQUES MARTIN Brave And Afraid Operator
8 OPEN MIKE EAGLE Anime, Trauma And Divorce Auto Reverse
9 BEN FM Private Audio Self-Released
10 MEGAN THEE STALLION Good News 1501 Certified

Loud

Rank Artist Album Label
1 DYSPHORIA Primal Entropy Self-Released
2 DEEDS OF FLESH Nucleus Unique Leader
3 SPECTRUM OF DELUSION Neoconception The Artisan Era
4 DOWNFALL OF MANKIND The Path of Human Existence [EP] Raising Legends
5 CARNAL ABHORRENCE The Crowned Apocalypse Self-Released
6 SIDEREAN Sidereal Evolution Edged Circle Productions
7 NECROTTED Operation: Mental Castration Self-Released
8 ABIOTIC Ikagai Syndrome Audio
9 OCEANS ATE ALASKA “Metamorph” [Single] Fearless
10 THY ART IS MURDER “Killing Season” [Single] Nuclear Blast

RPM

Rank Artist Album Label
1 CLIPPING Visions Of Bodies Being Burned Sub Pop
2 OPIN Media & Memory WarHen
3 GULL Relative Stranger Self-Released
4 GASLAMP KILLER Heart Math NAYMLIS
5 JULIANNA BARWICK Healing Is A Miracle Ninja Tune
6 GREEN HOUSE Six Songs From Invisible Gardens [EP] Leaving
7 WULFFLUW XCIV Ngoma Injection Hakuna Kulala
8 PRINCE ASHTON SIZZLE Land of Make Believe KingJam/EMG
9 KELEKETLA Keleketla! Ahead Of Our Time
10 ROBERT HAIGH Black Sarabande Unseen Worlds

World

Rank Artist Album Label
1 RICARDO LEMVO AND MAKINA LOCA N’Dona Ponte Mopiato
2 DANDANA Free The System Rebel Up
3 LOS SAICOS 69 “El Mercenario/Un Poquito De Pena” [Single] Munster
4 SONGHOY BLUES Optimisme Fat Possum
5 ANCIENT ASTRONAUTS Kampala Fire [EP] Switchstance
6 GINA CHAVEZ La Que Manda [EP] Self-Released
7 PROTOJE In Search Of Lost Time In.Digg.Nation Collective/Six Course/RCA
8 SETENTA Materia Negra Latin Big Note
9 MARCOS VALLE, ADRIAN YOUNGE AND ALI SHAHEED MUHAMMAD Marcos Valle JID 003 Jazz Is Dead
10 LADAMA Oye Mujer Six Degrees

    December 1st, 2020

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