top 30 new albums for Feb 16 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 Yasmin Williams Urban Driftwood Spinster
2 The Weather Station Ignorance Fat Possum
3 The Notwist Vertigo Days Morr Music
4 Johnny Ciggs Paradise Gritty City
5 Mickey Guyton Bridges – EP Capitol Nashville
6 Modal Citizan Control, Alter, Deplete. self-released
7 Butcher Brown #KingButch Concord Jazz
8 Tiffany Williams I’ll Be Back Soon self-released
9 Sun June Somewhere Run For Cover
10 Rupert Wates Lamentations self-released
11 The Staves Good Woman Atlantic UK
12 God Is an Astronaut Ghost Tapes #10 Napalm Handels GmbH
13 Goat Girl On All Fours Rough Trade
14 Cub Scout Bowling Pins Heaven Beats Iowa – EP GBV Inc
15 Greenlights Music The Art Of Poise Greenlights Music
16 Hilang Child Every Mover Bella Union
17 Roland Roberts All About the Timing self-released
18 Kacy & Clayton and Marlon Williams Plastic Bouquet New West
19 Cabaret Voltaire Shadow of Fear Mute
20 Shygirl ALIAS Because Music Ltd.
21 Negativland The World Will Decide Seeland
22 Heather Trost Petrichor Third Man
23 Adrianne Lenker songs 4AD
24 Various Artists The Harry Smith B-Sides Dust to Digital
25 Bartees Strange Live Forever Memory Music
26 Hen Ogledd Free Humans Weird World
27 Black Country, New Road For the First Time Ninja Tune
28 Theravada Xenophon 2000 ENT.
29 John Dwyer Witch Egg (feat. Nick Murray, Brad Caulkins, Tom Dolas & Greg Coates) Castle Face
30 Tribulation Where the Gloom Becomes Sound Metal Blade

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    February 16th, 2021

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genre charts for Feb 16 presents:

AAA

Rank Artist Album Label
1 MICKEY GUYTON “Black Like Me” [Single] Capitol
2 TIFFANY WILLIAMS I’ll Be Back Soon [EP] Blue Redbird
3 RUPERT WATES Lamentations Self-Released
4 ROLAND ROBERTS All About The Timing Happy Life
5 KACY AND CLAYTON AND MARLON WILLIAMS Plastic Bouquet New West
6 HEATHER TROST Petrichor Third Man
7 TAYLOR ASHTON Romanticize [Advance Tracks] Signature Sounds
8 JAKE LOEW Return Of The Son Of Old-Time Fiddle Old Time Tiki Parlour
9 RISING APPALACHIA “Hungry World” [Single] Swamptronic
10 ESTHER ROSE How Many Times [Advance Tracks] Father/Daughter

Hip-Hop

Rank Artist Album Label
1 JOHNNY CIGGS Paradise Gritty City
2 THERAVADA Xenophon 2000 ENT.
3 GUTTA BABY Remain Solid Gutta Baby
4 KNXWLEDGE VGM’s​​​​​.​​​​​PRT​​.​​9_ Self-Released
5 THA GOD FAHIM AND YOUR OLD DROOG Tha Wolf on Wall St Fat Beats
6 HENNY LO Ree Louis Mutant Academy
7 ILLA STYLES Mind Your Reality Monsta Inc
8 ROBALU GIBSUN Avenue Of Champions Self-Released
9 IAMDOECHII Oh The Places You’ll Go [EP] Five 5
10 PROF Powderhorn Suites Stophouse

Loud

Rank Artist Album Label
1 TRIBULATION Where The Gloom Becomes Sound Metal Blade
2 DVNE Etemen Ænka Metal Blade
3 ABIOTIC Ikagai Syndrome Audio
4 SCOUR The Black EP [EP] Nuclear Blast
5 WOLF KING The Path of Wrath Prosthetic
6 CROWN, THE Royal Destroyer Metal Blade
7 BAEST Necro Sapiens Century Media
8 PUPIL SLICER Mirrors Prosthetic
9 DEVIL SOULD HIS SOUL Loss Nuclear Blast
10 CRYPTOSIS Bionic Swarm Century Media

RPM

Rank Artist Album Label
1 SHYGIRL ALIAS [EP] Because
2 MADLIB Sound Ancestors Madlib Invazion
3 GRIMES Miss Anthropocene (Rave Edition) 4AD
4 BUKE AND GASE WITH SO PERCUSSION A Record Of… Brassland
5 FAT FREDDY’S DROP Lock-In The Drop
6 808 DOT POP The Cubic Temperature (feat. Cubic) Alfa Matrix
7 I YA TOYAH Out Of Order [EP] Self-Released
8 VIRTUAL MAGE Moondust [EP] Self-Released
9 LINKWOOD AND OTHER LANDS Face the Facts Athens Of The North
10 BEAUTIFY JUNKYARDS Cosmorama Ghost Box

World

Rank Artist Album Label
1 FEMI KUTI Stop The Hate Partisan
2 BUYEPONGO VS. QUITAPENAS “Cantarito/Inspiracion” [Single] Peace & Rhythm
3 MADE KUTI For(e)ward Partisan
4 NKUMBA SYSTEM Bailao Duro Prado
5 VOILAAA Voiciii Favorite
6 JOAO SELVA Navegar Underdog
7 STELLA CHIWESHE Ambuya! Piranha
8 VENEZONIX La Que Es [EP] Nacional
9 GLOBAL RIDDIMS, VOL. 4 VARIOUS ARTISTS NYP
10 CHRISTINE SALEM Mersi Blue Fanal

    February 16th, 2021

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