top 30 new albums for Jul 21 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 Public Enemy State of the Union (STFU) – Single Enemy
2 Dream Wife So When You Gonna… Lucky Number
3 Christian Lee Hutson Beginners Anti-
4 bdrmm Bedroom Sonic Cathedral
5 McKinley Dixon The House That Got Knock Down EP self-released
6 Grey Wulf Seeing, Vol. 1 self-released
7 Rattlemouth Precious Standing self-released
8 FM Skyline Liteware 100% Electronica
9 VV III self-released
10 Richmond Avant Improv Collective (RAIC) Chance Operations Blight
11 Trauma Lavern Album Announcement Fail Cold Rhymes
12 Noah Page ABBA: a thing I made you self-released
13 Khruangbin Mordechai Dead Oceans
14 Remo Drive A Portrait of an Ugly Man Epitaph
15 Marlon Craft Work From Home – EP Same Plate
16 Phoebe Bridgers Punisher Dead Oceans
17 Moemaw Naedon Dr. Deadhorse Soul Slime
18 Country Westerns Country Westerns Fat Possum
19 Don Bryant You Make Me Feel Fat Possum
20 Lithics Tower of Age Trouble In Mind
21 Run The Jewels RTJ4 Jewel Runners
22 Sonic Boom All Things Being Equal Carpark
23 Little Simz Drop 6 – EP AGE 101
24 Doc Watson & Gaither Carlton Doc Watson and Gaither Carlton Smithsonian Folkways
25 Deerhoof Future Teenage Cave Artists Joyful Noise
26 Deante’ Hitchcock BETTER ByStorm Entertainment/RCA
27 Jaime Wyatt Neon Cross New West
28 Man Man Dream Hunting in the Valley of the In-Between Sub Pop
29 Yves Tumor Heaven To a Tortured Mind Warp
30 Drive-By Truckers The Unraveling ATO

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    July 21st, 2020

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genre charts for Jul 21 presents:

AAA

Rank Artist Album Label
1 DOC WATSON AND GAITHER CARLTON Doc Watson And Gaither Carlton Smithsonian Folkways
2 JAIME WYATT Neon Cross New West
3 LAURA MARLING Song For Our Daughter Chrysalis/Partisan
4 LOWEST PAIR, THE The Perfect Plan Delicata
5 ROE FAMILY SINGERS, THE Roll Up The Rug! Bonfire
6 SHEMEIKA COPELAND “Uncivil War” [Single] Alligator
7 I SEE HAWKS IN L.A. AND THE GOOD INTENTIONS hawks with good intentions western seeds
8 PARTY OF THE SUN Goldenwood [EP] Trailing Twelve
9 MARGO PRICE That’s How Rumors Get Started Loma Vista
10 TAMI NEILSON Chickaboom! Outside

Hip-Hop

Rank Artist Album Label
1 PUBLIC ENEMY “State Of The Union” [Single] Enemy
2 MCKINLEY DIXON The House That Got Knocked Down 773049 DK2
3 TRAUMA LAVERN Album Announcement Fail Cold Rhymes
4 MARLON CRAFT Work From Home [EP] RCA
5 MOEMAW NAEDON Dr. Deadhorse Soul Slime
6 RUN THE JEWELS RTJ4 Jewel Runners/RBC/BMG
7 LITTLE SIMZ Drop 6 [EP] AGE 101/AWAL
8 DEANTE HITCHCOCK BETTER RCA
9 SHABAZZ PALACES The Don Of Diamond Dreams Sub Pop
10 REEL SMOOVV 31st K.Nights Self-Released


RPM

Rank Artist Album Label
1 GREY WULF Seeing, Vol. 1 Self-Released
2 FM SKYLINE Liteware Crystal Pistol
3 YVES TUMOR Heaven To A Tortured Mind Warp
4 MOOR JEWELRY True Opera Don Giovanni
5 KELEKETLA Keleketla! Ahead Of Our Time
6 JULIANNA BARWICK Healing Is A Miracle Ninja Tune
7 ZENOBIA Halak Halak Acid Arab/Crammed
8 GARIFUNA COLLECTIVE, THE Aban Stonetree
9 GASLAMP KILLER, THE The Cat’s Meow Self-Released
10 MATMOS “No Concept” [Single] Thrill Jockey

World

Rank Artist Album Label
1 LA DAME BLANCHE “Cogelo Con Calma” [Single] Nacional
2 MINYO CRUSADERS PLUS FRENTE CUMBIERO “Cumbia Del Monte Fuji” [Single] Mais Um Discos
3 JUAN PINA CON LA REVELACION Juan Pina Con La Revelacion Vampisoul
4 JIMI TENOR “Sugar And Spice / Lover’s Bridge” [Single] Philophon
5 PETE RODRIGUEZ “I Like It Like That” (Uproot Andy Remix) b/w “I Like It Like That (Original)” [Single] Craft
6 BAMBA WASSOULOU GROOVE Dankele Lusafrica
7 FADHILEE ITULYA Kwetu Naxos World
8 JUNGLE FIRE Jungle Fire Nacional
9 CEU APKA! Six Degrees
10 DANDANA “Free The System” [Single] Rebel Up

    July 21st, 2020

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genre charts for Jul 14 presents:

AAA

Rank Artist Album Label
1 CAMILLE DELEAN Cold House Burning E-Tron
2 ELIZA GILKYSON 2020 (Twenty Twenty) Red House
3 AARON JONAH LEWIS Mozart Of The Banjo Tiki Parlour
4 HOLY HIVE Float Back To You Big Crown
5 DOC WATSON AND GAITHER CARLTON Doc Watson And Gaither Carlton Smithsonian Folkways
6 DZAMBO AGUSEVI ORCHESTRA Brasses For The Masses Asphalt Tango
7 FOREST HUVAL Forest Huval Self-Released
8 WYLDER AND WILL MCCARRY Acoustic Collection Self-Released
9 WILLIE NELSON First Rose Of Spring [Advance Tracks] BMG
10 JOHN HARTFORD John Hartford Fiddle Project Vol. 1 Self-Released

Hip-Hop

Rank Artist Album Label
1 PUBLIC ENEMY “State Of The Union” [Single] Enemy
2 MARLON CRAFT Work From Home [EP] RCA
3 RUN THE JEWELS RTJ4 Jewel Runners/RBC/BMG
4 MOEMAW NAEDON Dr. Deadhorse Soul Slime
5 RJD2 The Fun Ones RJ’s Electrical Connections
6 LITTLE SIMZ Drop 6 [EP] AGE 101/AWAL
7 DEANTE HITCHCOCK BETTER RCA
8 KENNY MASON Angelic Hoodrat Self-Released
9 REEL SMOOVV 31st K.Nights Self-Released
10 NNAMDI Brat Sooper

Loud

Rank Artist Album Label
1 WEREWOLVES The Dead Are Screaming Prosthetic
2 POWERWOLF Best Of The Blessed Napalm
3 CONCEPTION State Of Deception Self-Released
4 ORANSSI PAZUZU Mestarin Kynsi Nuclear Blast
5 INTER ARMA Garbers Days Revisited Relapse
6 NAGLFAR Cerecloth Century Media
7 IOCRHOMA Kolopsia Self-Released
8 SEEDS IN BARREN FIELDS Sanger som ramnar Self-Released
9 WOLF Feeding the Machine Century Media
10 MACHINE CHOP INC Live At Fallout 2015 Schlecht

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RPM

Rank Artist Album Label
1 CEU APKA! Six Degrees
2 SESHEN, THE CYAN Tru Thoughts
3 SOFT PINK TRUTH, THE Shall We Go On Sinning So That Grace May Increase? Thrill Jockey
4 YVES TUMOR Heaven To A Tortured Mind Warp
5 FM SKYLINE Liteware Crystal Pistol
6 SPEAKER MUSIC Black Nationalist Sonic Weaponry Self-Released
7 LITTLE DRAGON New Me, Same Us Ninja Tune
8 GULL Relative Stranger Self-Released
9 SPECIAL INTEREST The Passion Of Night School
10 AGAINST ALL LOGIC 2017-2019 Other People

World

Rank Artist Album Label
1 KELEKETLA Keleketla! Ahead Of Our Time
2 SAHRA HALGAN TRIO Waa Dardaaran Buda
3 MULATU ASTATKE AND BLACK JESUS EXPERIENCE To Know Without Knowing Agogo
4 LIDO PIMIENTA Miss Colombia Anti-
5 CALIBRO 35 Momentum Record Kicks
6 CADENCE REVOLUTION: DISQUES DEBS INTERNATIONAL VOL. 2 VARIOUS ARTISTS Strut
7 GILBER T “Sinnerman” [Single] Tomba
8 JAAKKO LAITINEN AND VAARA RAHA Borek Playground
9 SUPERFONICOS “El Adios” [Single] Hi-Fi
10 GROUPE RTD The Dancing Devils Of Djibouti Ostinato

    July 14th, 2020

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top 30 new albums for Jun 30 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 Sault Untitled (Black Is) Forever Living Originals
2 Public Enemy State of the Union (STFU) – Single self-released
3 Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith The Mosaic of Transformation Ghostly International
4 Groupe RTD The Dancing Devils of Djibouti Ostinato
5 Trapcry Stay Up (Longer Deluxe) self-released
6 Motihari Brigade Power from Below Creative Destruction
7 The Spitfires Life Worth Living Acid Jazz UK
8 Woven In Highs and Ultra Lows / Razzmatazz self-released
9 Calvin Presents Here. (feat. Sam Reed) – Single self-released
10 Coriky Coriky Dischord
11 Hoboknife Wig of Flies self-released
12 Fight Cloud Thoughts Aligned self-released
13 Fly Anakin The 8’s (2015-2018) Mutant Academy
14 Gumming Overripe Vinyl Conflict
15 Sick Bags Only the Young Die Good – EP Spaghetty Town
16 FM Skyline Liteware 100% Electronica
17 Deau Eyes Let It Leave Egghunt
18 Positive No Kyanite Little Black Cloud
19 VV III self-released
20 Archangel Architecture 2.0: Chapter 5 Classical Trax
21 Braids Shadow Offering Secret City
22 Phoebe Bridgers Punisher Dead Oceans
23 Bibio Sleep on the Wing Warp
24 Sonic Boom All Things Being Equal Carpark
25 Jake Blount Spider Tales Free Dirt
26 Alice Bag Sister Dynamite In The Red
27 2nd Grade Hit to Hit Double Double Whammy
28 Moses Sumney græ Jagjaguwar
29 Deerhoof Future Teenage Cave Artists Joyful Noise
30 Melenas Días Raros Trouble In Mind

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    June 30th, 2020

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genre charts for Jun 30 presents:

AAA

Rank Artist Album Label
1 JAKE BLOUNT Spider Tales Free Dirt
2 SARO LYNCH-THOMASON AND SAM GLEAVES I Have Known Women Strictly Country
3 ELIZA MEYER Hello Stranger Self-Released
4 TEDDY THOMPSON Heartbreaker Please Self-Released
5 APPALACHIAN ROAD SHOW, THE Tribulation Billy Blue
6 ROE FAMILY SINGERS, THE Roll Up The Rug! Bonfire
7 STEVE EARLE AND THE DUKES Ghosts Of West Virginia New West
8 HOLY HIVE Float Back To You Big Crown
9 HIGH FIDELITY Banjo Player’s Blues Rebel
10 BAY ALLEN “The Murder of George Floyd” [Single] Acoustic Backrub

Hip-Hop

Rank Artist Album Label
1 PUBLIC ENEMY “State Of The Union” [Single] Enemy
2 FLY ANAKIN The 8’s (2015-2018) Mutant Academy
3 KENNY MASON Angelic Hoodrat Self-Released
4 PROF Powederhorn Suites Rhymesayers
5 RIC WILSON AND TERRACE MARTIN They Call Me Disco [EP] Free Disco
6 PROFESSIONALS, THE The Professionals Madlib Invasion
7 STOVE GOD COOKS Reasonable Drought Self-Released
8 WESTSIDE GUNN Pray for Paris Griselda
9 DANJA MOWF Word of Mowf Funtown Media/804 Flava
10 MONEYBAGG YO Time Served N-Less Entertainment/Interscope

Loud

Rank Artist Album Label
1 HOBOKNIFE Wig of Flies Self-Released
2 WEREWOLVES The Dead Are Screaming Prosthetic
3 POWERWOLF Best Of The Blessed Napalm
4 IOCRHOMA Kolopsia Self-Released
5 TESTAMENT Titans Of Creation Nuclear Blast
6 ENSIFERUM “Rum, Women, Victory” [Single] Metal Blade
7 LAMB OF GOD Lamb Of God Epic
8 BEHOLD THE ARCTOPUS Hapeleptic Overtrove Willowtip
9 NAGLFAR Cerecloth Century Media
10 WOLF Feeding the Machine Century Media

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RPM

Rank Artist Album Label
1 KAITLYN AURELIA SMITH The Mosaic Of Transformation Ghostly
2 FM SKYLINE Liteware Crystal Pistol
3 ARCHANGEL Architecture 2.0: Chapter 5 Classical Trax
4 BIBIO Sleep On The Wing Warp
5 HAMERKOP Remote Drag City
6 HOLY FUCK Deleter Holy EF
7 FOUR TET Sixteen Oceans Text
8 VIRGO FOUR Do You Know Who You Are? Trax
9 TRAPCRY “2 Seater” [Single] Columbia
10 NIGHTIZM “Police Brutality” [Single] Saints Need Sinners

World

Rank Artist Album Label
1 LUKA PRODUCTIONS AND KANDIAFA Music From Saharan WhatsApp 06 [EP] Sahel Sounds
2 AMARIA HAMADALHER Music From Saharan WhatsApp 05 [EP] Sahel Sounds
3 NICO GOMEZ AND HIS AFRO-PERCUSSION INC “Baila Chibiquiban” [Single] Matasuna
4 ALKIBAR JUNIOR Music From Saharan WhatsApp 04 Sahel Sounds
5 HAILU MERGIA Yene Mircha Awesome Tapes From Africa
6 SILVERY BOYS, THE The Silvery Boys Vampisoul
7 JEICH OULD BALDU Music From Saharan WhatsApp 03 [EP] Sahel Sounds
8 ETRAN DE L’AIR Music From Saharan WhatsApp 01 [EP] Sahel Sounds
9 SUPERFONICOS “El Adios” [Single] Hi-Fi
10 BAHAMA SOUL CLUB “Never Roam No More (feat John Lee Hooker)” [Single] Buyu

    June 30th, 2020

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