genre charts for Sep 8 presents:

AAA

Rank Artist Album Label
1 JAYHAWKS, THE Xoxo Sham/Thirty Tigers
2 RAYE ZARAGOZA Woman In Color [Advance Tracks] Art Menius
3 JEREMY IVEY The Dream And The Dreamer Anti-
4 HEIDI NEWFIELD The Barly Sessions Vol 1 Self-Released
5 BILLY SIMARD Secret ki-keek
6 WOOD AND WIRE No Matter Where It Goes From Here Self-Released
7 CHICKS, THE Gaslighter Columbia
8 ISAAC HOSKINS Sell the Farm Self-Released
9 BRENNEN LEIGH Prairie Love Letter Self-Released
10 MAPLE RUN BAND Maple Run Band Back Pasture

Hip-Hop

Rank Artist Album Label
1 NAS King’s Disease Mass Appeal
2 OHBLIV LewseJoints Number 10 (b) Self-Released
3 FLY ANAKIN At the End of the Day. Mutant Academy
4 SNEAKS Happy Birthday Merge
5 BLU AND EXILE Miles Dirty Science
6 RUN THE JEWELS RTJ4 Jewel Runners/RBC/BMG
7 LITTLE SIMZ Drop 6 [EP] AGE 101/AWAL
8 MOEMAW NAEDON Dr. Deadhorse Soul Slime
9 DEANTE HITCHCOCK BETTER RCA
10 SA-ROC The Sharecropper’s Daughter [Advance Tracks] Rhymesayers

Loud

Rank Artist Album Label
1 INTER ARMA Garbers Days Revisited Relapse
2 NAPALM DEATH Thrones Of Joy In The Jaws Of Defeatism [Advance Tracks] Century Media
3 INFERI Of Sunless Realms [EP] The Artisan Era
4 CYTOTOXIN Nuklearth Unique Leader
5 HEISENBERG E.P. Yo [EP] Self-Released
6 VICIOUS RUMORS Celebration Decay SPV
7 PIG DESTROYER The Octagonal Stairway Relapse
8 WITHIN DESTRUCTION Yōkai Ultra Heavy
9 GOREPOT Things Asians Do When They’re Done with Homework Self-Released
10 OLIVIA NEUTERED JOHN Gorewhore Blackened Death

RPM

Rank Artist Album Label
1 YVES TUMOR Heaven To A Tortured Mind Warp
2 WORKING MEN’S CLUB “A. A. A. A.” [Single] Heavenly/PIAS
3 POWERMAN 5000 The Noble Rot Cleopatra
4 SUFJAN STEVENS The Ascension [Advance Tracks] Asthmatic Kitty
5 KATE NV Room For The Moon RVNG Intl
6 MORT GARSON Mother Earth’s Plantasia [Reissue] Sacred Bones
7 TWO FINGERS Fight! Fight! Fight! Nomark
8 FALLE NIOKE AND GHOST CULTURE Youkounkoun [EP] PRAH
9 RENEGADE CONNECTION Politicians Protesters & Thieves The Sound of Sinners
10 ANTHILIAWATERS Barcelona [EP] Isophlux

World

Rank Artist Album Label
1 QWANQWA Volume 3 Self-Released
2 FALLE NIOKE AND GHOST CULTURE Youkounkoun [EP] PRAH
3 LOS MOCOSOS All Grown Up Hip Spanic
4 ACID COCO “El Amor De Mis Amores” [Single] El Palmas
5 NOHE AND SUS SANTOS Tempestad Self-Released
6 COLAH COLAH AND PEACE DEVELOPMENT CREW “Steady Meddi!” [Single] Boomrush Productions
7 KABAKA PYRAMID “Nice Up The Dance” [Single] VP
8 SONE “Overcome” [Single] Sone Ministries
9 FORSHPIL Tsvey Self-Released
10 MATEUS ALELUIA Olorum Selo Sesc

    September 8th, 2020

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genre charts for Aug 25 presents:

AAA

Rank Artist Album Label
1 ORVILLE PECK Show Pony [EP] Columbia
2 KENNY ROBY The Reservoir Self-Released
3 COURTNEY MARIE ANDREWS Old Flowers Fat Possum
4 EMMA SWIFT Blonde On The Tracks Self-Released
5 DAN BERN Quarantine Me Kababa
6 JOSHUA RAY WALKER Glad You Made It State Fair
7 HAILEY WHITTERS The Dream Pigasus
8 DAVID ALLAN COE Texas Moon HHO
9 LARA HOPE’S GOLD HOPE DUO Songs in the Key of Quarantine Self-Released
10 GREAT PEACOCK Forever Worse Better Self-Released

Hip-Hop

Rank Artist Album Label
1 HENNY LO Sages Mutant Academy
2 TYKOON THA MISFIT Model Citizen Self-Released
3 MOEMAW NAEDON Dr. Deadhorse Soul Slime
4 DEANTE HITCHCOCK BETTER RCA
5 SA-ROC “Hand Of God” [Single] Rhymesayers
6 SNEEZE “Detached” [Single] Self-Released
7 MARLOWE Marlowe 2 Mello Group
8 SKINNYY HENDRIXX AND PT VELL Case Closed [EP] Smooth League Villains
9 PUBLIC ENEMY “State Of The Union” [Single] Enemy
10 EVIDENCE “Unlearning” [Single] Rhymesayers

Loud

Rank Artist Album Label
1 INTER ARMA Garbers Days Revisited Relapse
2 INCANTATION Sect of Vile Divinities Relapse
3 OZZY OSBOURNE Ordinary Man Epic
4 NOVARIUM Stain Of A Soul Self-Released
5 HALF PAST DEAD “The Evil That You Make” [Single] Self-Released
6 HALF PAST DEAD “Show Me The Way” [Single] Self-Released
7 TACKS, THE The Tacks [EP] Dust Up!
8 STONEBURNER Beauty Is Terror Self-Released
9 LAMB OF GOD Lamb Of God Epic
10 IMPERIAL TRIUMPHANT Alphaville Century Media

RPM

Rank Artist Album Label
1 CUT COPY Freeze, Melt Cutters
2 MOOR JEWELRY True Opera Don Giovanni
3 OOIOO Nijimusi Thrill Jockey
4 GHETTO KUMBE Ghetto Kumbé ZZK
5 DJ OXI Close the Doors [EP] Self-Released
6 CLAMS CASINO Instrumental Relics Self-Released
7 ACID COCO “Yo Bailo Sola” [Single] El Palmas
8 POWER GLOVE “Aeon” [Single] NewRetroWave
9 JONK AND SPONK “The Flow” [Single] SJS
10 WORKING MEN’S CLUB “Valleys” [Single] Heavenly/PIAS

World

Rank Artist Album Label
1 A GUIDE TO THE BIRDSONG OF MEXICO, CENTRAL AMERICA, AND THE CARIBBEAN VARIOUS ARTISTS Shika Shika
2 EVA CORTES Todas Las Voces Blue Fern
3 SONGHOY BLUES Optimisme [Advance Tracks] Fat Possum
4 LA LOCURA DE MACHUCA 1975-1980 VARIOUS ARTIST [Advance Tracks] Analog Africa
5 CADENCE REVOLUTION: DISQUES DEBS INTERNATIONAL VOL. 2 VARIOUS ARTISTS Strut
6 PETE RODRIGUEZ I Like It Like That (A Mi Me Gusta Asi) Fania/Craft/Concord
7 ALHOUSSEINI ANIVOLLA AND GIRUM MEZMUR Afropentatonism Piranha
8 JUAN PINA CON LA REVELACION Juan Pina Con La Revelacion Vampisoul
9 GROUPE RTD The Dancing Devils Of Djibouti Ostinato
10 KEITH HUDSON “Nuh Skin Up” [Single] Greensleeves

    August 25th, 2020

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top 30 new albums for Aug 4 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 Julianna Barwick Healing Is a Miracle Ninja Tune
2 Inter Arma Garbers Days Revisited Relapse
3 Gillian Welch Boots No. 2: The Lost Songs, Vol. 1 Acony
4 Noveller Arrow Ba Da Bing!
5 Zombi 2020 Relapse
6 DJ Harrison Vault Series 10 : Covered self-released
7 Ronnie Luxe Rabbit Hole EP self-released
8 Rattlemouth Precious Standing self-released
9 Nightcreature Nightcreature self-released
10 VV III self-released
11 Faucet Bitter Insane Melting self-released
12 Big No Big No Flux Editions
13 Benderheads Bent Violence self-released
14 Jake Blount Spider Tales Free Dirt
15 Bibio Sleep on the Wing Warp
16 Braids Shadow Offering Secret City
17 Run The Jewels RTJ4 BMG
18 Khruangbin Mordechai Dead Oceans
19 The Vacant Lots Interzone Fuzz Club
20 The Jerry Cans Echoes Pheromone Distribution / Fontana North
21 Little Simz Drop 6 – EP AGE 101
22 Moemaw Naedon Dr. Deadhorse Soul Slime
23 Doc Watson & Gaither Carlton Doc Watson and Gaither Carlton Smithsonian Folkways
24 Protomartyr Ultimate Success Today Domino
25 LADAMA Oye Mujer Six Degrees
26 A.A. Williams Forever Blue Bella Union
27 Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith The Mosaic of Transformation Ghostly International
28 Dan Bern Quarantine Me Kababa Music
29 Aksak Maboul Figures Crammed Discs
30 Thundercat It Is What It Is Brainfeeder

(more…)

    August 4th, 2020

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genre charts for Aug 4 presents:

AAA

Rank Artist Album Label
1 GILLIAN WELCH Boots No. 2: The Lost Songs, Vol. 1 [Advance Tracks] Acony
2 JAKE BLOUNT Spider Tales Free Dirt
3 DOC WATSON AND GAITHER CARLTON Doc Watson And Gaither Carlton Smithsonian Folkways
4 DAN BERN Quarantine Me Kababa
5 LOGAN LEDGER Logan Ledger Rounder/Concord
6 TEDDY THOMPSON Heartbreaker Please Self-Released
7 NATHANIEL RATELIFF And It’s Still Alright Stax/Concord
8 DANA GAVANSKI Yesterday Is Gone Flemish Eye
9 AARON JONAH LEWIS Mozart Of The Banjo Tiki Parlour
10 ELIZA MEYER Hello Stranger Self-Released

Hip-Hop

Rank Artist Album Label
1 DJ HARRISON Vault Series 10 : Covered Self-Released
2 RUN THE JEWELS RTJ4 Jewel Runners/RBC/BMG
3 LITTLE SIMZ Drop 6 [EP] AGE 101/AWAL
4 MOEMAW NAEDON Dr. Deadhorse Soul Slime
5 RONNIE LUXE Rabbit Hole [EP] Self-Released
6 THUNDERCAT It Is What It Is Brainfeeder
7 RJD2 The Fun Ones RJ’s Electrical Connections
8 KENNY MASON Angelic Hoodrat Self-Released
9 DA BABY Baby On Baby Universal
10 YOUNG RJ AND MEGA RAN 2HANDSUP Ne’Astra

Loud

Rank Artist Album Label
1 INTER ARMA Garbers Days Revisited Relapse
2 BLACK CROWN INITIATE Violent Portraits Of Doomed Escape [Advance Tracks] Century Media
3 PIG DESTROYER The Octagonal Stairway Relapse
4 ENSIFERUM Thalassic Metal Blade
5 BORIS No Self-Released
6 ORANSSI PAZUZU Mestarin Kynsi Nuclear Blast
7 VARG Zeichen Napalm
8 ENSLAVED Utgard Nuclear Blast
9 SEEDS IN BARREN FIELDS Sånger som rämnar Self-Released
10 FEMINAZGUL No Dawn for Men Birds Before the Storm

RPM

Rank Artist Album Label
1 JULIANNA BARWICK Healing Is A Miracle Ninja Tune
2 FAUCET Bitter Insane Melting Self-Released
3 BIBIO Sleep On The Wing Warp
4 KAITLYN AURELIA SMITH The Mosaic Of Transformation Ghostly
5 RONE Room With A View Infine
6 GREEN HOUSE Six Songs From Invisible Gardens [EP] Leaving
7 ROB BYRD Outerworld Del Chapel
8 VINCENZO RAMAGLIA La Parole Playground
9 KELEKETLA Keleketla! Ahead Of Our Time
10 SOFT PINK TRUTH, THE Am I Free To Go? Self-Released

    August 4th, 2020

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Genre charts for Jan 7 presents:

AAA

Rank Artist Album Label
1 TODD SNIDER Cash Cabin Sessions, Vol.3 Thirty Tigers
2 DORI FREEMAN Every Single Star Blue Hens
3 ALASDAIR ROBERTS The Fiery Margin Drag City
4 VOLLMERS Waves On The Sea Self-Released
5 OUR NATIVE DAUGHTERS Songs Of Our Native Daughters Smithsonian Folkways
6 JUST AROUND THE BEND: SURVIVAL AND REVIVAL IN SOUTHERN BANJO STYLES – MIKE SEEGER’S LAST DOCUMENTARY VARIOUS ARTISTS Smithsonian Folkways
7 CHE APALACHE Rearrange My Heart Free Dirt
8 OZARK HIGHBALLERS Going Down To ‘Leven Point Self-Released
9 TOM RUSSELL October In The Railroad Earth Proper
10 AN AMERICAN FOREST O Brother, Donder Yonder? Self-Released

Hip-Hop

Rank Artist Album Label
1 MIRTAW Vandals MXC
2 SANJI THE HEDGEHOG Sanji Adventure Battle Secret Bonus Level
3 FAN RAN parole party Gritty City
4 OHBLIV LewseJoints V Self-Released
5 DOGFUQ L’alphabet Self-Released
6 ANT THE SYMBOL The What?! Gritty City
7 WESTSIDE GUNN Flygod Is A Awesome God Shady
8 YOUR OLD DROOG Jewelry Self-Released
9 RADIO B Kill The Dreamer Vol 1: New Independence The Association Of Great Minds
10 JUSTIS BRATT Justified [EP] Hollywood Starstruck

Loud

Rank Artist Album Label
1 INTER ARMA Sulphur English Relapse
2 IOCRHOMA Kolopsia Self-Released
3 GOTHIC LIZARD Creeping Out of the Dark Cold Vision
4 RUSSIAN CIRCLES Blood Year Sargent House
5 CLOAK The Burning Dawn Season of Mist
6 MALEVOLENT CREATION The 13th Beast M-Therory
7 PELICAN Nighttime Stories Southern Lord
8 BORIS Love And Evol Third Man
9 RINGS OF SATURN Gidim Nuclear Blast
10 EQUIPOISE Demiurgus The Artisan Era

RPM

Rank Artist Album Label
1 FEVER RAY Plunge Remix Mute
2 ECHO THE NIGHT Zero Eight-One Three Self-Released
3 FLOATING POINTS Crush Ninja Tune
4 LADYTRON Far From Home (Night Versions) [EP] Self-Released
5 PORANGUI PORANGUI Self-Released
6 PLAID Polymer Warp
7 KID KOALA Music to Draw To: Io Arts & Crafts
8 FOLLAKZOID I (One) Sacred Bones
9 KAYTRANADA Bubba RCA
10 FM SKYLINE Advanced Memory Suite Crystal Pistol

World

Rank Artist Album Label
1 ALEFA MADAGASCAR: SALEGY, SOUKOUS AND SOUL FROM THE RED ISLAND 1974-1984 VARIOUS ARTISTS Strut
2 WUTA MAYI La Face Cachee Sterns
3 JUANA MOLINA Forfun [EP] Crammed
4 JAMBU (E OS MITICOS SONS DA AMAZONIA) VARIOUS ARTISTS Analog Africa
5 ZAIKO LANGA LANGA AND JOSSART NYOKA LONGO Seve Prozal
6 POUR ME A GROG VARIOUS ARTISTS Ostinato
7 JULIAN Y SU COMBO Noche De Fiesta Vampisoul
8 GARIFUNA COLLECTIVE, THE Aban Stonetree
9 RACHID TAHA Je Suis Africaine Believe
10 AGGROLITES, THE Reggae Now! Pirates Press

    January 4th, 2020

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Genre charts for week ending Mar 8 presents:

AAA

Rank Artist Album Label
1 LULA WILES What Will We Do Smithsonian Folkways
2 MARY BRAGG Violets As Camouflage Self-Released
3 OUR NATIVE DAUGHTERS Songs Of Our Native Daughters Smithsonian Folkways
4 SAW BLACK “Blocking out the Windows” [Single] Crystal Pistol
5 TELLICO Woven Waters Organic
6 ADAM KLEIN Low Flyin’ Planes Self-Released
7 MANDOLIN ORANGE Tides Of A Teardrop Yep Roc
8 JS ONDARA Tales Of America [Advance Tracks] Verve Forecast
9 KIM LENZ Slowly Speeding Blue Star
10 TINY RUINS Olympic Girls Milk!

Hip-Hop

Rank Artist Album Label
1 SOL DEVELOPMENT The Sol of Black Folk SOL DVLPMNT
2 21 SAVAGE I Am > I Was Slaughter Gang
3 ARCH ANGEL “Hey! Listen (feat. Sanji the Hedgehog)” [Single] Self-Released
4 THIN PIGEON Demos [EP] Self-Released
5 GODFATHER DON “Status” [Single] Fresh Pressings International
6 AMINE Onepointfive Republic
7 PRINCESS NOKIA Metallic Butterfly (Remastered) Rough Trade
8 MYKELE DEVILLE Maintain [Advance Tracks] No Trend
9 SAMPA THE GREAT “Energy” [Single] Self-Released
10 BLACK PANTHER: THE ALBUM VARIOUS ARTISTS Top Dawg/Interscope

Loud

Rank Artist Album Label
1 INTER ARMA Sulphur English Relapse
2 DEVIL MASTER Satan Spits on Children of Light Relapse
3 HELMS ALEE Noctiluca Sargent House
4 CHILDREN OF BODOM Hexed Nuclear Blast
5 CARNAL FORGE Gun To The Mouth Of Salvation ViciSolum
6 MARK MORTON Anesthetic Spinefarm
7 ROY BATTY Roy Batty Self-Released
8 HELGAMITE Hypnogogia Lost Apparition
9 PIG DESTROYER Head Cage Relapse
10 INTERRUPTERS, THE Fight The Good Fight Hellcat

RPM

Rank Artist Album Label
1 LADYTRON Ladytron !K7
2 MATMOS Plastic Anniversary Thrill Jockey
3 BRANKO Nosso Enchufada
4 CHARLOTTE ADIGERY Zandoli [EP] DEEWEE/PIAS
5 SNAPPED ANKLES Stunning Luxury The Leaf
6 JAPANESE HOUSE, THE Good At Falling Dirty Hit
7 SLEAFORD MODS ETON ALIVE Self-Released
8 LCD SOUNDSYSTEM Electric Lady Sessions Columbia
9 ERIK WOLLO Infinite Moments Projekt
10 EPROM “The Cat” [Single] Deadbeats

World

Rank Artist Album Label
1 FREDERICO 7 Exotico Americano Self-Released
2 LOBO MARINO At Appalachian South Folklife Center Self-Released
3 MDOU MOCTAR Ilana (The Creator) [Advance Tracks] Sahel Sounds
4 JUANECO Y SU COMBO El Gran Cacique Infopesa
5 HELADO NEGRO This Is How You Smile RVNG Intl.
6 DAWDA JOBARTEH I Met Her By The River Sterns Africa
7 UMUT ADAN Bahar Riverboat
8 LE VENT DU NORD Territoires Borealis
9 BRANKO Nosso Enchufada
10 COMBO CHIMBITA Ahomale [Advance Tracks] Anti-

    March 9th, 2019

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Top 30 for Aug 1-7 presents:

Rank Artist Album Label
1 Avers Omega/Whatever Egghunt
2 Get In The Car Get In The Car self-released
3 The Julie Ruin Hit Reset Hardly Art
4 Young Scum Zona Citrus City
5 Inter Arma Paradise Gallows Relapse
6 Naked Pictures Nudes self-released
7 Atta Girl Fuck the Sun Bad Grrrl
8 Pete Curry Advice on Love Crystal Pistol
9 Dinosaur Jr. Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not Jagjaguwar
10 Deerhoof The Magic Polyvinyl
11 Modern Baseball Holy Ghost Run For Cover
12 Omni Deluxe Trouble in Mind
13 Honey Radar Blank Cartoon What’s Your Rupture?
14 Diarrhea Planet Turn to Gold Infinity Cat
15 Greys Outer Heaven Carpark
16 Fruit Bats Absolute Loser Easy Sound
17 Heaters Baptistina Beyond Beyond is Beyond
18 Omar I Want It To Be Freestyle
19 case/lang/veirs case/lang/veirs Anti-
20 Lisa Prank Adult Teen Father/Daughter
21 Psychic Ills Inner Journey Out Sacred Bones
22 The Gotobeds Blood//Sugar//Secs//Traffic Sub Pop
23 Clair Morgan New Lions & the Not-Good Night EggHunt
24 Pete Curry Doin’ Nothin’ Crystal Pistol
25 Miramar Dedication to Sylvia Rexach Barbès
26 Lucy Dacus No Burden EggHunt
27 Camp Howard Camp Howard Bad Grrrl / Crystal Pistol / Citrus City
28 Fight Cloud We’ll Be Alright self-released
29 Teen Brains Translucent Witchgirl / Citrus City
30 The Wimps The Wimps Bad Grrrl

    August 8th, 2016

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Top 30 for Jul 4-10 presents:

Rank Artist Album Label
1 Nelly Kate Woodshedding self-released
2 Peoples Blues of Richmond Quit or Die Circus Rock
3 Jeremy D. Simmons Pie in the Sky self-released
4 Inter Arma Paradise Gallows Relapse
5 Clair Morgan New Lions and the Not-Good Night EggHunt
6 Lady God Lady God #2 self-released
7 Bandrew In the Meantime self-released
8 Get In The Car Get In The Car self-released
9 Lucy Dacus No Burden EggHunt
10 Explosions in the Sky The Wilderness Temporary Residence Ltd.
11 Mitski Puberty 2 Dead Oceans
12 Bob Mould Patch the Sky Merge
13 Greys Outer Heaven Carpark
14 M83 Junk Mute
15 Parquet Courts Human Performance Rough Trade
16 Summer Cannibals Full of It Kill Rock Stars
17 Andrew Bird Are You Serious Loma Vista
18 Paul Simon Stranger to Stranger Concord
19 Let’s Eat Grandma I, Gemini PIAS
20 Still Parade Concrete Vision Lefse
21 case/lang/veirs case/lang/veirs Anti-
22 Kills Ash & Ice Domino
23 James Blake The Colour in Anything Republic
24 Jessy Lanza Oh No Hyperdub
25 Big Thief Masterpiece Saddle Creek
26 Monkees Good Times! Rhino
27 Holy Fuck Congrats Innovative Leisure
28 Radiohead A Moon Shaped Pool XL
29 Wire Nocturnal Koreans Pink Flag
30 Pete Astor Spilt Milk Slumberland

    July 11th, 2016

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