genre charts for Oct 13 presents:

AAA

Rank Artist Album Label
1 TYLER CHILDERS Long Violent History Hickman Holler
2 ALEX THE ASTRONAUT The Theory Of Absolutely Nothing Nettwerk
3 LONELY ROOMS Until We Have To Fuzzycat
4 GILLIAN WELCH Boots No. 2: The Lost Songs, Vol. 2 Acony
5 COLTER WALL Wester Swing & Waltzes And Other Punchy Songs La Honda
6 INNOCENCE MISSION, THE See You Tomorrow Self-Released
7 STICK IN THE WHEEL Hold Fast From Here
8 BESSIE JONES Get In Union Thomkins Square
9 HAWKTAIL Formations Self-Released
10 BONNIE LIGHT HORSEMAN Bonnie Light Horseman 37d03d

Hip-Hop

Rank Artist Album Label
1 ACTION BRONSON Only For Dolphins Loma Vista
2 BISHOP NEHRU Nehruvia: My Disregarded Thoughts Nehruvia
3 WESTSIDE GUNN Who Made The Sunshine? Griselda
4 SLAUSON MALONE Vergangenheitsbewältigung Self-Released
5 MEGAN THEE STALLION Suga [EP] 300
6 HENNY LO Sages Mutant Academy
7 NAS King’s Disease Mass Appeal
8 SPORTING LIFE Labplex.Eco Self-Released
9 CONWAY THE MACHINE LULU ALC / EMPIRE
10 LEX AMOR Government Tropicana Self-Released

Loud

Rank Artist Album Label
1 VALKYRIE Fear Relapse
2 SVALBARD When I Die, Will I Get Better? Translation Loss
3 LIK Misanthropic Breed Metal Blade
4 UNLEASH THE ARCHERS Abyss Napalm
5 NUCLEAR POWER TRIO A Clear And Present Rager [EP] Metal Blade
6 A PRETEXT TO HUMAN SUFFERING Rotting Sanctum [EP] RealityFade
7 SPECTRUM OF DELUSION Neoconception The Artisan Era
8 BELPHEGOR Necrodaemon Terrorsathan Nuclear Blast
9 HOBOKNIFE Wig of Flies Self-Released
10 HELL BENEATH “Bells of the Unholy Cathedral” [Single] Self-Released

RPM

Rank Artist Album Label
1 SUFJAN STEVENS The Ascension Asthmatic Kitty
2 NAKED ROOMMATE Do The Duvet Trouble In Mind
3 HAAI Put Your Head Above The Parakeets [EP] Mute
4 KELEKETLA Keleketla! Ahead Of Our Time
5 HANTE FIERCE Remixes & More [EP] Metropolis
6 MYSTIC UNDERGROUND, THE Wrapped In Riddles Stereosonic
7 TETO PRETO Pedra Preta (Remixes) Mamba Rec
8 DAVID WALTERS Manyè (Remixes) [EP] Heavenly Sweetness
9 CONTENTO “Paso Palante” [Single] El Palmas
10 NOVA MATERIA “Strength” [Single] Self-Released

World

Rank Artist Album Label
1 MUKAMBO PRESENTS GLOBAL AFROBEAT MOVEMENT VARIOUS ARTISTS NYP
2 RICARDO LEMVO AND MAKINA LOCA N’Dona Ponte Mopiato
3 LEYLA MCCALLA “Mesi Bondye” [Single] Smithsonian Folkways
4 HIP HOP HOODIOS “Mexican Miller (The Stephen Miller Song)” [Single] Self-Released
5 CLINT EASTWOOD AND GENERAL SAINT “Stop That Train/Talk About Run” [Single] Greensleeves
6 LOS MOCOSOS All Grown Up Hip Spanic
7 ANDAL SUKABE Music From Saharan WhatsApp 07 [EP] Sahel Sounds
8 NOBLEZZA “Coletera” [Single] Codiscos
9 JUAN PINA CON LA REVELACION Juan Pina Con La Revelacion Vampisoul
10 BUDOS BAND, THE Long In The Tooth Daptone

    October 13th, 2020

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top 30 new albums for Oct 6 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 IDLES Ultra Mono Partisan / Liberator Music
2 Butcher Brown #KingButch Concord Jazz
3 Sufjan Stevens The Ascension Asthmatic Kitty
4 Action Bronson Only For Dolphins Loma Vista
5 Nas King’s Disease Mass Appeal
6 Bill Callahan Gold Record Drag City
7 SUUNS FICTION – EP Joyful Noise / Secret City
8 Cabbage Amanita Pantherina Brassica
9 Naked Pictures W I D E self-released
10 Fly Anakin The 8’s (2015-2018) Mutant Academy
11 ShotClock Side A – EP self-released
12 Opin Media & Memory WarHen
13 Positive No Kyanite Little Black Cloud
14 Ruth Good Haunt – EP Citrus City
15 Outer World Fixed Like A Painting self-released
16 Talk Me Off Cursed Smartpunk
17 Radio B. All Art Ain’t Pretty The Association Of Great Minds
18 Red Sammy That Raging Heart Red Sammy
19 Ric Robertson Strange World – EP Free Dirt
20 Leo Kottke & Mike Gordon Noon Megaplum / ATO
21 The Mommyheads New Kings of Pop Fanfar!
22 Telco My Name Is Not Kaiser – EP telco
23 Alex Rasmussen Make It Real – EP Lovely Ruckus
24 Lomelda Hannah Double Double Whammy
25 Josiah Johnson Every Feeling on a Loop Anti- / Epitaph
26 Marques Martin Brave & Afraid Operator
27 Hey, King! Be Still – EP Anti- / Epitaph
28 The Wilderness Until Tomorrow self-released
29 Jabee This World Is So Fragile and Cruel I’m Glad I Got You Grand Union Media
30 The Milwaukees The Calling Mint 400

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    October 6th, 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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top 30 new albums for July 14 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 Phoebe Bridgers Punisher Dead Oceans
2 Chloe x Halle Ungodly Hour Parkwood Entertainment/Columbia
3 Mulatu Astatke & Black Jesus Experience To Know Without Knowing Agogo
4 Fight Cloud Thoughts Aligned Fight Cloud
5 Sufjan Stevens The Ascension Asthmatic Kitty
6 Trapcry Stay Up 1986
7 Public Enemy State of the Union (STFU) – Single Enemy
8 Khruangbin Mordechai Dead Oceans
9 Calibro 35 Momentum Record Kicks
10 Lido Pimienta Miss Colombia Anti-
11 Deau Eyes Let It Leave Egghunt
12 Keleketla! Keleketla! Ahead Of Our Time
13 Calvin Presents Here. (feat. Sam Reed) – Single self-released
14 Damaged Bug Bug on Yonkers Castle Face
15 Fontaines D.C. A Hero’s Death Partisan / Fontana North
16 THICK 5 Years Behind Epitaph
17 BAD MOVES Untenable Don Giovanni
18 Dirty Projectors Flight Tower – EP Domino
19 Marlon Craft Work From Home – EP Sony Music
20 Moemaw Naedon Dr. Deadhorse Soul Slime
21 Camille Delean Cold House Burning New Habitat
22 Owen The Avalanche Big Scary Monsters
23 Céu APKÁ! Six Degrees
24 Future Punx 2020 2020 Anniversary
25 Don Bryant You Make Me Feel Fat Possum
26 Run The Jewels RTJ4 Jewel Runners
27 OHMME Fantasize Your Ghost Joyful Noise
28 Sports Team Deep Down Happy Bright Antenna
29 Modern Nature Annual Bella Union
30 No Age Goons Be Gone Drag City

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    July 14th, 2020

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