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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top 30 new albums for Oct 20 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 BlackLiq x Ohbliv The Best – Single No Other Way
2 Butcher Brown #KingButch Concord Jazz
3 Westside Gunn Who Made the Sunshine? Griselda
4 Sa-Roc The Sharecropper’s Daughter Rhymesayers
5 Ricardo Lemvo & Makina Loca N’Dona Pointe Mopiato
6 Deerhoof Love-Lore Joyful Noise
7 The Budos Band Long in the Tooth Daptone
8 Calvin Presents Here. (feat. Sam Reed) – Single self-released
9 Bill Callahan Gold Record Drag City
10 Landshapes Contact Bella Union
11 Iochroma The Hideous Triumphs of Form and Function self-released
12 Trapcry Stay Up (Longer Deluxe) 1986
13 GULL Relative Stranger self-released
14 Opin Media & Memory WarHen
15 LJ & the Sleeze Keepin’ it Sleezy self-released
16 FM Skyline JPEG Jamz 100% Electronica
17 Deli Rowe Girl on the Beat, Vol. 1 Liberated Soul
18 Outer World Fixed Like A Painting self-released
19 Noah Page ABBA: a thing I made you self-released
20 Red Rum Club The Hollow of Humdrum Modern Sky UK
21 Low Cut Connie Private Lives Contender
22 Optic Sink Optic Sink Goner
23 Cut Worms Nobody Lives Here Anymore Jagjaguwar
24 Kosha Dillz Nobody Cares Except You Rapperfriends
25 Suzzy Roche & Lucy Wainwright Roche I Can Still Hear You StorySound
26 Quintron & Miss Pussycat Goblin Alert Goner
27 Sylvan Esso Free Love Loma Vista
28 Hen Ogledd Free Humans Weird World
29 Night Club Die Die Lullaby Gato Blanco
30 Future Islands As Long As You Are 4AD

(more…)

    October 20th, 2020

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genre charts for Oct 6 presents:

AAA

Rank Artist Album Label
1 BILL CALLAHAN Gold Record Drag City
2 OPIN Media & Memory WarHen
3 DAN BERN Ivan’s Barbershop Kababa
4 KRISTEN GRAINGER AND TRUE NORTH Ghost Tattoo Self-Released
5 DANA GAVANSKI Yesterday Is Gone Flemish Eye
6 LORI MCKENNA The Balladeer Thirty Tigers
7 RUSTON KELLY Shape & Destroy Rounder
8 TYLER CHILDERS Long Violent History Hickman Holler
9 OTIS GIBBS Hoosier National Self-Released
10 THIS FRONTIER NEEDS HEROES Go With The Flow Self-Released

Hip-Hop

Rank Artist Album Label
1 ACTION BRONSON Only For Dolphins Loma Vista
2 NAS King’s Disease Mass Appeal
3 FLY ANAKIN The 8’s (2015-2018) Mutant Academy
4 RADIO B All Art Ain’t Pretty The Association Of Great Minds
5 MARQUES MARTIN Brave And Afraid Operator
6 JABEE This World Is So Fragile And Cruel I’m Glad I Got You Grand Union
7 RUN THE JEWELS RTJ4 Jewel Runners/RBC/BMG
8 PUBLIC ENEMY What You Gonna Do When The Grid Goes Down? Def Jam
9 POP SMOKE Shoot For The Stars Aim For The Moon Republic
10 ELZHI Seven Times Down Eight Times Up Fat Beats

Loud

Rank Artist Album Label
1 NAPALM DEATH Throes Of Joy In The Jaws Of Defeatism Century Media
2 OCEAN, THE Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic | Cenozoic Metal Blade
3 DEEDS OF FLESH Nucleus Unique Leader
4 PALLBEARER “Forgotten Days” [Single] Nuclear Blast
5 NAGLFAR Cerecloth Century Media
6 ZAKK SABBATH Vertigo Magenetic Eye
7 MORS PRINCIPIUM EST. Seven AFM
8 ARMORED SAINT Punching The Sky [Advance Tracks] Metal Blade
9 SIX FEET UNDER “Amputator” [Single] Metal Blade
10 CULT OF LILITH Mara Metal Blade

RPM

Rank Artist Album Label
1 SUFJAN STEVENS The Ascension Asthmatic Kitty
2 JAGA JAZZIST Pyramid Brainfeeder
3 MARY LATTIMORE Silver Ladders Ghostly International
4 LOUIE VEGA AND THE MARTINEZ BROTHERS “Let It Go on” [Single] Cuttin’ Headz
5 KELEKETLA Keleketla! Ahead Of Our Time
6 TOBACCO Hot Wet & Sassy Ghostly International
7 BONOBO AND TOTALLY ENORMOUS EXTINCT DINOSAURS “Heartbreak” [Single] Outlier
8 DUKES OF CHUTNEY Hazel Beats In Space
9 JULIANNA BARWICK Healing Is A Miracle Ninja Tune
10 WILLIAM CASHION Postcard Music Ideas For Housecrafts

World

Rank Artist Album Label
1 RICARDO LEMVO AND MAKINA LOCA N’Dona Ponte Mopiato
2 CLINT EASTWOOD AND GENERAL SAINT “Stop That Train/Talk About Run” [Single] Greensleeves
3 CONTENTO “Paso Palante” [Single] El Palmas
4 GOOD ONES, THE “Soccer (Summer 1988)” [Single] Anti-
5 CAMPOS Shake Up The World: Live In The Studio, Volume 1 Peace & Rhythm
6 JUANA MOLINA “Eras (ANRMAL)” [Single] Crammed
7 ROUGH GUIDE TO URBAN MALI, THE VARIOUS ARTISTS World M Network
8 KELEKETLA Keleketla! Ahead Of Our Time
9 BLACK MARKET BRASS Undying Thirst Colemine
10 OK JAZZ Pas Un Pas Sans … The Boleros Of OK Jazz Planet Ilunga

    October 6th, 2020

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