genre charts for Dec 7 presents:

AAA

Rank Artist Album Label
1 ANGELICA GARCIA Echo Electrico [EP] Spacebomb
2 RED SAMMY Vultures Self-Released
3 LEEROY STAGGER Dystopian Weekends Tonic
4 ROBERT PLANT AND ALISON KRAUSS Raise The Roof Rounder/Concord
5 ALEXA ROSE Headwaters Big Legal Mess
6 SHANNON LAY Geist Sub Pop
7 JACKSON BROWNE Downhill From Everywhere Inside
8 DUSTED III Self-Released
9 DAG Pedestrian Life Bedroom Suck
10 LE REN Leftovers Secretly Canadian

Hip-Hop

Rank Artist Album Label
1 TRUE BODY AND DIGITAL HELL True Body and Digital Hell [EP] Funeral Party
2 EVIDENCE Unlearning Vol. 1 Rhymesayers
3 AESOP ROCK AND BLOCKHEAD Garbology Rhymesayers
4 COMMON A Beautiful Revolution PT. 2 Lorna Vista
5 MCKINLEY DIXON For My Mama And Anyone Who Look Like Her Spacebomb
6 BLACKLIQ AND MOPES Time Is The Price Strange Famous
7 NAPOLEON DA LEGEND AND AMERIGO GAZAWAY The World Changed TeamNDL
8 AWON AND PHONIKS Nothing Less Don’t Sleep
9 ALXNDRBRWN Glow Kid Strange Famous
10 FLY ANAKIN “Sean Price” [Single] Lex

Loud

Rank Artist Album Label
1 KING WOMAN Celestial Blues Relapse
2 GOJIRA Fortitude Roadrunner
3 DEATH ANGEL The Bastard Tracks Nuclear Blast
4 NITA STRAUSS “Dead Inside” [Single] Sumerian
5 ANDY JAMES “The Falcon God” [Single] AJR
6 LEE MCKINNEY “Stormage” [Single] Sumerian
7 ANIMALS AS LEADERS “The Problem of Other Minds” [Single] Sumerian
8 BLACKWATER HOLYLIGHT Silence/Motion RidingEasy
9 BORIS “Drowning by Numbers” [Single] Sacred Bones
10 CARRION “Revenant” [Single] Brutal Resonance

RPM

Rank Artist Album Label
1 DJ HARRISON Tales from the Old Dominion Stones Throw
2 GILLIGAN MOSS Gilligan Moss Foreign Family Collective
3 JAGUAR Madremonte El Palmas
4 ARCA kiCK iiii XL
5 KAYTRANADA Intimidated [EP] RCA
6 PYE CORNER AUDIO Entangled Routes Ghost Box
7 CONTENTO En Lancha Pal Futuro El Palmas
8 ADELAIDEAN, THE Inner Real Life Projekt
9 KVB, THE “Unite” [Single] Invada
10 NEGGY GEMMY “California” [Single] 100% Electronica

World

Rank Artist Album Label
1 QUANTIC AND NIDIA GONGORA Almas Conectadas Tru Thoughts
2 MUKAMBO PRESENTS GLOBAL AFROBEAT MOVEMENT 2 VARIOUS ARTISTS NYP
3 PHUONG TAM Magical Nights: Saigon Surf, Twist & Soul 1964-1966 Sublime Frequencies
4 LOS BITCHOS “Las Panteras” [Single] City Slang
5 ELIA Y ELIZABETH Elia Y Elizabeth Vampisoul
6 CONTENTO En Lancha Pal Futuro El Palmas
7 JUCARA MARCAL Delta Estacio Blues QTV
8 SHAGGY AND RAYVON “Drive Me Insane” [Single] Mr. Doo
9 META AND THE CORNERSTONES Dia Metarize
10 THEON CROSS Intra-I New Soil/Marathon

    December 7th, 2021

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top 30 new albums for Nov 23 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 True Body & Digital Hell True Body & Digital Hell – EP Funeral Party
2 Lunacy Dust – Single Dedstrange
3 Jackson+Sellers Breaking Point Anti/Epitaph
4 Maxwell Stern & Gordon M. Phillips You Are With Me – EP Alchemy Hours
5 The Wimps Pillow and Blankey self-released
6 Lucy Dacus Home Video Matador
7 AngĂ©lica Garcia Echo ElĂ©ctrico – EP Spacebomb
8 Dead Billionaires Dead Billionaires EP Clay Street
9 Outer World Chapter 2 Little Black Cloud
10 Luna Honey Ballast BLIGHT.
11 Mikrowaves 20 Up 20 Down Break Em Off
12 Bedouine Waysides self-released
13 Marconi Union Signals Just
14 SUSTO Time in the Sun New West
15 Trace Mountains HOUSE OF CONFUSION Lame-O
16 Henry Chadwick We All Start Again Swoon City
17 TONSTARTSSBANDHT Petunia Mexican Summer
18 Sam Russell & the Harborrats Ocean Shores KMV London
19 La Luz La Luz Hardly Art
20 Cedarsmoke Into the Wild World Cedarsmoke
21 Black Marble Fast Idol Sacred Bones
22 Xenia Rubinos Una Rosa Anti- / Epitaph
23 ONETWOTHREE Onetwothree Kill Rock Stars
24 Guided By Voices It’s Not Them. It Couldn’t Be Them. It Is Them! GBV Inc
25 Humbird Still Life Green Thumb
26 Atmosphere WORD? Rhymesayers
27 Efterklang Windflowers City Slang
28 Hovvdy True Love Grand Jury
29 Shannon Lay Geist Sub Pop
30 illuminati hotties Let Me Do One More Snack Shack Tracks / Hopeless

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    November 23rd, 2021

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top 30 new albums for Apr 28 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 Fiona Apple Fetch The Bolt Cutters Epic
2 Westside Gunn Pray for Paris Griselda
3 Basic Plumbing Keeping Up Appearances self-released
4 En Attendant Ana Juillet Trouble In Mind
5 True Body Heavenly Rhythms for the Uninitiated Funeral Party
6 Asylum XIII Waiting and Awake self-released
7 Fight Cloud Thoughts Aligned self-released
8 Midlife Pilot Telepathic – EP Nodderly
9 The Legendary Ingramettes Take a Look in the Book Virginia Folklife
10 Colin Phils Squirrel Gym – Live at Go West Studios self-released
11 Deau Eyes Let It Leave Egghunt
12 Big Baby Fizzy Cola – EP self-released
13 addy Eclipse Topshelf
14 Angelica Garcia Cha Cha Palace Spacebomb
15 Laura Marling Song For Our Daughter Chrysalis
16 Bassel & the Supernaturals Smoke & Mirrors self-released
17 Flat Worms Antarctica GOD?
18 Berlin Taxi In Pursuit self-released
19 Nikki & the Phantom Callers Everybody’s Going to Hell (But You and Me) Tiny Tornado
20 Reel Smoovv 31st K.Nights Deeply Rooted Tribe Ent
21 Datura4 West Coast Highway Cosmic Alive Naturalsound
22 FACS Void Moments Trouble In Mind
23 Moaning Uneasy Laughter Sub Pop
24 Deeper Auto-Pain Fire Talk
25 Porridge Radio Every Bad Secretly Canadian
26 Black Market Brass Undying Thirst Colemine
27 Swamp Dogg Sorry You Couldn’t Make It Joyful Noise
28 Emotionz Gems Beast Van
29 Haleek Maul Errol Lex
30 Soccer Mommy color theory Loma Vista

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    April 28th, 2020

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