Genre charts for week ending May 25th presents:

AAA

Rank Artist Album Label
1 TRACYANNE AND DANNY Tracyanne And Danny Merge
2 VARIOUS ARTISTS Voices of Mississippi: Artists and Musicians Documented by William Ferris Dust to Digital
3 VARIOUS ARTISTS The Rough Guide to Hokum Blues World Music Network
4 TOM MINDTE AND MASON VIA Tom Mindte and Mason Via Patuxent
5 ANNIE LOU End Zone Near North
6 JOE HOLT Something Louder [EP] Self-Released
7 LUKE WINSLOW-KING Blue Mesa Bloodshot
8 SAW BLACK Water Tower Crystal Pistol
9 JOHN PRINE The Tree of Forgiveness Oh Boy
10 JOACHIM COODER Fuchsia Machu Picchu Temple of Leaves

Hip-Hop

Rank Artist Album Label
1 PHARRELL WILLIAMS X CAMILA CABELLO “Sangria Wine” [Single] Columbia
2 LEON BRIDGES Good Thing Columbia
3 NICKELUS F Stuck AGM
4 NIÑA DIOZ Reyna Nacional
5 DR OCTAGON Moosebumps Bulk/Caroline
6 DEVA MAHAL Run Deep Motema
7 J COLE KOD Interscope
8 STARCHILD AND THE NEW ROMANTIC Language Ghostly
9 BUMPUS Way Down Deep Self-Released
10 CHRISETTE MICHELE Out of Control Rich Hipster/Four Kings

Loud

Rank Artist Album Label
1 DEADBALL “No Allegiance” [Single] Self-Released
2 CEMETERY BOYS, THE Small Town Witch Nitemare Self-Released
3 NINE INCH NAILS “God Break Down The Door” [Single] Capitol
4 EMPATH Liberating Guilt and Fear Get Better
5 GUMMING Human Values Self-Released
6 SLEEP The Sciences Third Man
7 SMIRKS, THE The Smirks Self-Released
8 XENTRIFUGE Desensitized Parallels Cleopatra
9 AIBOFORCEN Sense & Nonsense Alfa Matrix
10 LEDERMAN / DE MEYER Eleven Grinding Songs Alfa Matrix

RPM

There were not enough new albums played this week to generate a chart.

World

Rank Artist Album Label
1 BOMBINO Deran Partisan
2 YENI NOSTALJI Yeni Nostalji Ropeadope
3 LOS TEXMANIACS Cruzando Borders Smithsonian Folkways
4 NICKODEMUS A Long Engagement Wonderwheel
5 VARIOUS ARTISTS African Scream Contest 2 (Analog Africa No. 26) Analog Africa
6 ORQUESTA AKOKAN Orquesta Akokan Daptone
7 CAMARAO The Imaginary Soundtrack to a Brazilian Western Movie (1964-1974) Analog Africa
8 LEVANTA POEIRA VARIOUS ARTISTS Jazz & Milk
9 DOMENICO LACELLOTTI The Good Is a Big God Luaka Bop
10 PIERRE SANDWINI Le Troubadour De La Savane – 1978/1982 Born Bad

    May 26th, 2018

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Top 30 new albums for week ending May 25 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 Neko Case Hell-On Anti/Epitaph
2 Parquet Courts Wide Awake! Rough Trade
3 Tracyanne & Danny Tracyanne & Danny Merge
4 Courtney Barnett Tell Me How You Really Feel Mom+Pop
5 Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks Sparkle Hard Matador
6 La Luz Floating Features Hardly Art
7 Speedy Ortiz Twerp Verse Carpark
8 The Lovely Eggs This Is Eggland The Lovely Eggs
9 The Skull Defekts The Skull Defekts Thrill Jockey
10 Superorganism Superorganism Domino
11 Now, Now Saved Trans-
12 Facs Negative Houses Trouble in Mind
13 Half Waif Lavender Cascine
14 Jennifer Castle Angels of Death Paradise of Bachelors
15 The Breeders All Nerve 4AD
16 Beach House 7 Sub Pop
17 Various artists African Scream Contest 2 (Analog Africa No. 26) Analog Africa
18 Pharrell Williams x Camila Cabello Sangria Wine – Single Columbia
19 Yeni Nostalji Yeni Nostalji Ropeadope
20 Saw Black Water Tower Crystal Pistol
21 The Purge The Bad Ideas We Build Worlds Purge Music
22 Gumming Human Values self-released
23 Lucy Dacus Historian Matador
24 Magnus Lush Hell Is Real – EP Trrrash
25 Opin Drifters EP Harding Street Assembly Lab
26 Piranha Rama Beach Body Trrrash
27 The Dead Tongues Unsung Passage Psychic Hotline
28 Mary Lattimore Hundreds of Days Ghostly International
29 Peach Kelli Pop Gentle Leader Mint
30 Deeper Deeper Fire Talk

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    May 26th, 2018

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