genre charts for May 12 presents:

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Rank Artist Album Label
1 INNOCENCE MISSION, THE See You Tomorrow Self-Released
2 TICA DOUGLAS Lo Self-Released
3 LOWEST PAIR, THE The Perfect Plan Delicata
4 JOANNE SHENANDOAH Shenandoah Country Self-Released
5 AMERICAN AQUARIUM Me + Mine (Lamentations) New West
6 ROSE COUSINS Bravado Outside
7 GRETCHEN PETERS The Night You Wrote That Song: The Songs Of Mickey Newbury Scarlet Letter
8 BRENT COBB The World Is Ending Thirty Tigers
9 EILEN JEWELL “A Satisfied Mind” [Single] Self-Released
10 KYLE DAVIS Make It Count Self-Released

Hip-Hop

Rank Artist Album Label
1 OHBLIV Spirit Medicine B Sides Self-Released
2 WESTSIDE GUNN Pray for Paris Griselda
3 RAH SCRILLA AND PROFOUND 70 SOUND CHECK [EP] Gritty City
4 KENNY MASON Angelic Hoodrat Self-Released
5 RJD2 The Fun Ones RJ’s Electrical Connections
6 JACK HARLOW Sweet Action Generation Now/Atlantic
7 AESOP ROCK Music From The Game Freedom Finger Rhymesayers
8 PROFESSIONALS, THE The Professionals Madlib Invasion
9 SCOOPKID ScoopKid Satellite Syndicate
10 STOVE GOD COOKS Reasonable Drought Self-Released

Loud

None this week.

RPM

Rank Artist Album Label
1 MOOR JEWELRY True Opera (feat. Moor Mother & Mental Jewelry) Self-Released
2 CYSTHEN Home(s) Self-Released
3 FM SKYLINE Liteware Crystal Pistol
4 ADULT Perception Is/As/Of Deception Dais
5 THIEVERY CORPORATION Symphonik ESL
6 HOUSES OF HEAVEN Silent Places Felte
7 HAMERKOP Remote Drag City
8 YVES TUMOR Heaven To A Tortured Mind Warp
9 MOBY All Visible Objects [Advance Tracks] Mute
10 JOYFULTALK A Separation Of Being Constellation

World

Rank Artist Album Label
1 DZAMBO AGUSEVI ORCHESTRA Brasses For The Masses Asphalt Tango
2 BAMBA WASSOULOU GROOVE Dankele Lusafrica
3 THIEVERY CORPORATION Symphonik ESL
4 JEICH OULD BALDU Music From Saharan WhatsApp 03 [EP] Sahel Sounds
5 SILVERY BOYS, THE The Silvery Boys Vampisoul
6 LAKOU MIZIK HaitiaNola Cumbancha
7 ALBOROSIE “Unprecedented Time” [Single] VP
8 SANTROFI Alewa Out Here
9 BETO JAMAICA Rey De Mi Folklor: Vallenato Y Cumbia Colombiana OM Producciones
10 EVRITIKI ZYGIA Ormenion Teranga Beat

    May 12th, 2020

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Genre charts for Feb 18 presents:

AAA

Rank Artist Album Label
1 INNOCENCE MISSION, THE See You Tomorrow Self-Released
2 DRIVE BY TRUCKERS The Unraveling ATO
3 JOHN SURGE AND THE HAYMAKERS Your Wonderful Life Self-Released
4 TEDDY THOMPSON Heartbreaker Please Self-Released
5 LANKUM The Livelong Day Rough Trade/Beggars
6 ELIZA MEYER Hello Stranger Self-Released
7 BONNIE PRINCE BILLY I Made A Place Drag City
8 FRANK AND ALLIE LEE Treat A Stranger Right Bake Tone
9 MISS TESS The Moon Is An Ashtray Tone Tree
10 MATT WATROBA The Far Si: The Si Kahn Funny Song Sing-Along Song Book Self-Released

Hip-Hop

Rank Artist Album Label
1 DANNY BROWN uknowhatimsayin¿ Warp
2 FLY ANAKIN At the End of the Day. Mutant Academy
3 ATMOSPHERE Whenever Rhymesayers
4 DJ SHADOW Our Pathetic Age Mass Appeal
5 LEONARD SIMPSON DUO LSD Jakarta
6 HUS KINGPIN End Of A Decade Self-Released
7 THEOPHILIUS LONDON Bebey my bebey/independently popular.
8 VON PEA City For Sale HiPNOTT
9 LIL BABY “Woah” [Single] Qulaity Control
10 THA GOD FAHIM Lost Kingz Nature Sounds

Loud

Rank Artist Album Label
1 GOST Valedection Century Media
2 HU, THE The Gereg Eleven Seven
3 PSYCHOTIC WALTZ The God-Shaped Void InsideOut
4 ODIOUS MORTEM Synesthesia WillowTip
5 GOD DETHRONED Illuminati Metal Blade
6 ARKA’N Za Keli AbsolutKemitCore
7 NILE Vile Nilotic Rites Nuclear Blast
8 OVERKILL The Wings Of War Nuclear Blast
9 CLOAK The Burning Dawn Season of Mist
10 TESTAMENT Titans of Creation Nuclear Blast

RPM

Rank Artist Album Label
1 SQUAREPUSHER Be Up A Hello Warp
2 HOLY FUCK Deleter Holy EF
3 NATURE VOIX Self-Released
4 SESHEN, THE Take It All Away Tru Thoughts
5 PAULASTRETCH Shellbody Self-Released
6 MONOLITHE NOIR Moira kowtow
7 SOFIA LAKIS Diesel Hybrid Self-Released
8 SHINEDOE Feelings [EP] Rekids
9 MISS FD Keep Going Quantum Release
10 ALAN FITZPATRICK AND PATRICE RUSHEN “Haven’t You Heard” [Single] Parlophone/Warner Bros.

World

Rank Artist Album Label
1 DAVID WALTERS Soleil Kreyol Heavenly Sweetness
2 ANTIBALAS Fu Chronicles Daptone
3 LOS SHAINS El Ritmo De Los Shains Munster
4 LEVE LEVE: SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE SOUNDS (70S – 80S) VARIOUS ARTISTS Bongo Joe
5 ALEFA MADAGASCAR: SALEGY, SOUKOUS AND SOUL FROM THE RED ISLAND 1974-1984 VARIOUS ARTISTS Strut
6 MARCOS VALLE Cinzento Deck
7 DALLAS “Love From A Distance” [Single] Rain Tree
8 ETRAN DE L’AIR Music From Saharan WhatsApp 01 [EP] Sahel Sounds
9 NIKANOR Bajo El Sol Rebel Up
10 EL WALI Tiris Sahel Sounds

    February 18th, 2020

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Top 30 new albums for Jan 28 presents:

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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 En Attendant Ana Juillet Trouble In Mind
2 Moaning Uneasy Laughter Sub Pop
3 Midlife Pilot Telepathic – EP self-released
4 The Innocence Mission See You Tomorrow Bella Union
5 Eminem Music To Be Murdered By Interscope
6 Big No Big No Flux Editions
7 Common Holly When I Say to You Black Lightning Dalliance
8 Songs From The Road Band Waiting on a Ride Lucks Dumpy Toad
9 The Coathangers The Devil You Know Suicide Squeeze
10 She She – Single self-released
11 Colpa Mia Midnight – Single self-released
12 Shadow of Intent Melancholy self-released
13 Brain Drain Bitch self-released
14 dogfuck Shelly Duvall self-released
15 Fight Cloud Thoughts Aligned self-released
16 Positive No Kyanite Little Black Cloud
17 3:33 Jaws of a Wolf Tired and Pissed
18 Big Baby Fizzy Cola – EP Hidden Bay
19 Addy Eclipse Topshelf
20 Holy Fuck Deleter Last Gang
21 Laumė Waterbirth Carpark
22 Hayley Mary The Piss, The Perfume – EP I OH YOU
23 Oval Scis Thrill Jockey
24 OOIOO nijimusi Thrill Jockey
25 Caveboy Night in the Park, Kiss in the Dark self-released
26 Pete Molinari Just Like Achilles we are hear
27 A Girl Called Eddy Been Around Elefant
28 Alexandra Savior The Archer 30th Century
29 Georgia Maq Pleaser Run For Cover
30 Bonnie “Prince” Billy I Made a Place Drag City

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    January 25th, 2020

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Genre charts for Jan 28 presents:

AAA

Rank Artist Album Label
1 INNOCENCE MISSION, THE See You Tomorrow Self-Released
2 COMMON HOLLY When I Say To You Black Lightning Barsuk/Solitaire
3 SONGS FROM THE ROAD BAND Waiting On A Ride LDT
4 ELIZA MEYER Hello Stranger Self-Released
5 HISS GOLDEN MESSENGER Terms Of Surrender Merge
6 MOUNT EERIE WITH JULIE DOIRON Lost Wisdom Pt. 2 P.W. Elverum & Sun
7 ANDRE ETHIER Croak In The Weeds Telephone Explosion
8 ALEXANDRIA MAILLOT Benevolence Self-Released
9 JAMES LEVY Somebody Innit
10 CARISSA JOHNSON A Hundred Restless Thoughts A Diamond Heart

Hip-Hop

Rank Artist Album Label
1 EMINEM Music To Be Murdered By Shady
2 DOGFUCK Shelly Duvall Self-Released
3 BLOCKHEAD Free Sweatpants – Instrumentals Backwoodz Studioz
4 MAC MILLER Circles Warner
5 DANNY BROWN uknowhatimsayin¿ Warp
6 SAMPA THE GREAT The Return Ninja Tune
7 RYAN CARAVEO Butterfly Boy Paradise Forever
8 PHOTOSYNTHESIZERS Apollogy Self-Released
9 MILANO Boulevard Author D.I.T.C. Studios
10 RODDY RICCH Please Excuse Me For Being Antisocial Columbia

Loud

Rank Artist Album Label
1 SHADOW OF INTENT Melancholy Self-Released
2 HU, THE The Gereg Eleven Seven
3 HAUNT Mind Freeze Shadow Kingdom
4 WIND ROSE Wintersaga Napalm
5 SIGNS OF THE SWARM Vital Deprivation Unique Leader
6 ALCEST Spiritual Instinct Nuclear Blast
7 GATECREEPER Deserted Relapse
8 MARK MORTON Anesthetic Spinefarm
9 INFERI The End of an Era (Rebirth) The Artisan Era
10 INFANT ANNIHILATOR The Battle of Yaldabaoth Self-Released

RPM

Rank Artist Album Label
1 HOLY FUCK Deleter Holy EF
2 OVAL Scis Thrill Jockey
3 RHI The Pale Queen Tru Thoughts
4 ALTA Reasons Soothsayer
5 DAN FRIEL Fanfare Thrill Jockey
6 MOOR MOTHER Analog Fluids Of Sonic Black Holes Don Giovanni
7 AMON TOBIN Long Stories Nomark
8 CARIBOU Suddenly [Advance Tracks] Merge
9 TYCHO Weather Mom+Pop/Ninja Tune
10 YATTA Wahala PTP

World

Rank Artist Album Label
1 AFRICA EXPRESS Egoli Self-Released
2 NIGERIA SOUL POWER 70 – AFRO-FUNK, AFRO-ROCK, AFRO-DISCO VARIOUS ARTISTS Soul Jazz
3 PUT ON YOUR BEST DRESS: SONIA POTTINGER, SKA AND ROCK STEADY, 1966-1967 VARIOUS ARTISTS Doctor Bird
4 BATUNGA AND THE SUBPRIMES “Gates Of Ouantou” [Single] Matasuna
5 DAVID WALTERS “Krye Mwen” [Single] Heavenly Sweetness
6 EL WALI Tiris Sahel Sounds
7 MAMADOU KELLY Les Bateaux Clermont
8 KOKOLO AFROBEAT ORCHESTRA 100 Fevers Peace & Rhythm
9 FARAFI Calico Soul Piranha
10 ADNAN OTHMAN Bershukor: A Retrospective Of Hits By A Malaysian Pop Yeh Yeh Legend Sublime Frequencies

    January 25th, 2020

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Genre charts for week ending Jul 13 presents:

AAA

Rank Artist Album Label
1 INNOCENCE MISSION, THE Sun On The Square Badman
2 SARAH SHOOK AND THE DISARMERS Years Bloodshot
3 DEATHHOUSE BLUES The Beer Battered Boogies Self-Released
4 SMOKING FLOWERS, THE Let’s Die Together Bandaloop
5 6 STRING DRAG Top of the World Schoolkids
6 ALANIS OBOMSAWIN Bush Lady Constellation
7 ANA EGGE White Tiger Self-Released
8 DONOVAN WOODS Both Ways Meant Well
9 PATTERSON BARRETT Give ‘Em What They Want Self-Released
10 WESTERN CENTURIES Songs From The Deluge Free Dirt

Hip-Hop

Rank Artist Album Label
1 NICKELUS F Stuck AGM
2 BIG KAHUNA OG Sky Chryme Mutant Academy
3 TUAMIE Emergency Raps, Vol. 2 Mutant Academy
4 GORILLAZ The Now Now Parlophone/Warner Bros.
5 MCKINLEY DIXON The Importance of Self Belief Wadada
6 DR OCTAGON Moosebumps Bulk/Caroline
7 FREDDIE GIBBS Freddie Empire
8 NAS Nasir Def Jam
9 CARTERS, THE Everything Is Love Roc Nation
10 JORJA SMITH Lost & Found RCA

Loud

Rank Artist Album Label
1 SLEEP The Sciences Third Man
2 YOB Our Raw Heart Relapse
3 DESERT ALTAR Desert Altar Self-Released
4 GHOST Prequelle Concord/Loma Vista
5 ZEAL AND ARDOR Stranger Fruit Self-Released
6 GUMMING Human Values Self-Released
7 ASG Survive Sunrise Relapse
8 BODEGA Endless Scroll What’s Your Rupture?
9 BURN THE PRIEST Legion: XX Epic
10 WAYFARER World’s Blood Profound Lore

RPM

Rank Artist Album Label
1 AISHA DEVI DNA Feelings Houndstooth
2 MARY LATTIMORE Hundreds of Days Ghostly International
3 TANGENTS New Bodies Temporary Residence
4 VENETIAN SNARES AND DANIEL LANOIS Venetian Snares X Daniel Lanois Timesig
5 CASINO VERSUS JAPAN Suicide by Sun Self-Released
6 HOLODECK VISION ONE VARIOUS ARTISTS HoloDeck
7 S AND S PRESENTS DREAMS VARIOUS ARTISTS Stadiums & Shrines / Cascine
8 NEOTROPIC Your War [EP] Slowcraft
9 LCD SOUNDSYSTEM American Dream DFA/Columbia
10 IBEYI Ash XL

World

Rank Artist Album Label
1 ANGELIQUE KIDJO Remain In Light Kraven Works
2 BOMBINO Deran Partisan
3 ABU OBAIDA HASSAN Abu Obaida Hassan & His Tambour: The Shaigiya Sound of Sudan Ostinato
4 ALPHEUS Light Of Day Liquidator
5 JUPITER AND OKWESS Kin Sonic Everloving
6 AFRICAN SCREAM CONTEST 2 VARIOUS ARTISTS Analog Africa
7 SIDI TOURE Toubalbero Thrill Jockey
8 KING KONG Repatriation Irie Ites
9 REGGAE SAX RIDDIM VARIOUS ARTISTS Reggae Vibes
10 MYSTERY OF THE BULGARIAN VOICES, THE BooCheeMish Prophecy

    July 14th, 2018

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Top 30 new albums for week ending Jul 13 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

Rank Artist Album Label
1 Snail Mail Lush Matador
2 The Innocence Mission Sun on the Square Bella Union
3 Dumb Waiter Heck JUJU
4 Van Morrison & Joey DeFrancesco You’re Driving Me Crazy Legacy
5 Sarah Shook & the Disarmers Years Bloodshot
6 Blush Face What Do You Want? Blush Face
7 Charles Lloyd & The Marvels + Lucinda Williams Vanished Gardens Blue Note
8 Sleep The Sciences Third Man
9 Shannon Shaw Shannon In Nashville Easy Eye Sound
10 Angélique Kidjo Remain in Light Kravenworks
11 PMS and the Mood Swings PMS and the Mood Swings Burger
12 YOB Our Raw Heart Relapse
13 Bombino Deran Partisan
14 John Coltrane Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album Impulse
15 Manatree Engines self-released
16 Woolen Men Post self-released
17 Hoax Hunters Dormant – EP Cherub
18 Natalie Prass The Future and the Past ATO
19 Deathhouse Blues The Beer Battered Boogies self released
20 Nickelus F Stuck AGM
21 Big Kahuna OG Sky Chryme Mutant Academy
22 Tuamie Emergency Raps, Vol. 2 Mutant Academy
23 Desert Altar Desert Altar self-released
24 Jim James Uniform Distortion ATO
25 Gorillaz The Now Now Parlophone
26 Wimps Garbage People Kill Rock Stars
27 Wild Moccasins Look Together New West
28 The Smoking Flowers Let’s Die Together Bandaloop
29 Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever Hope Downs Sub Pop
30 Kamasi Washington Heaven and Earth Young Turks

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    July 14th, 2018

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