WEEKLY TOP AIRPLAY: MAY 12, 2020 POSTED:: May 12, 2020
FILED UNDER::
Top Airplay
FILED UNDER:: Top Airplay
WMSE’S PROGRAM HOSTS CONSTANTLY SEARCH THROUGH THE LATEST RELEASES AND FEATURE THE BEST IN ALL GENRES ON THEIR WEEKLY SHOWS. AT WMSE, THERE IS NO PROGRAM DIRECTOR CREATING DAILY PLAYLISTS, SO WHAT YOU HEAR IS A REFLECTION OF THE KNOWLEDGE, INTERESTS, AND PERSONALITIES OF OUR DEDICATED ON-AIR STAFF.THE ALBUMS ON THE WEEKLY TOP AIRPLAY LIST REFLECT THE DIVERSE INTERESTS OF OUR STAFF, AND THE RANGE OF WHAT IS CONSIDERED “ALTERNATIVE”. AS A QUICK GENRE GUIDE: TOP 30 = MOSTLY POP AND ROCK AND SOME CROSSOVER GENRES LIKE ELECTRONIC, SOUL, HIP HOP AND WORLD, ADDS = TOP BRAND NEW RELEASES FOR THE WEEK, ELECTRONIC = ELECTRONIC, WORLD = WORLD, JAZZ = JAZZ (PRETTY EASY TO FIGURE OUT, RIGHT?). WMSE REPORTS THESE CHARTS EACH WEEK TO NACC, ALONGSIDE HUNDREDS OF OTHER STATIONS. THE NORTH AMERICAN COLLEGE AND COMMUNITY CHART TABULATES WEEKLY AIRPLAY FROM COLLEGE AND NON-COMMERCIAL RADIO STATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA. BLUES IS REPORTED AND UPDATED MONTHLY, SO CHECK BACK EVERY FOUR WEEKS FOR THE LATEST NEWS ON THOSE BLUES.TAKE A LOOK THROUGH THE PAST WEEKS’ LISTS AND NOTICE JUST HOW MUCH THINGS CHANGE WEEK TO WEEK HERE AT WMSE. YOU’LL NEVER HEAR US GET VERY STAGNANT.EACH WEEK, WMSE’S MUSIC DIRECTOR, ERIN MAKES THOSE CHARTS AVAILABLE TO YOU, OUR LISTENERS. TAKE A LOOK AT WHAT OUR DJ’S ARE EXCITED ABOUT THESE DAYS IN SIX DIFFERENT CATEGORIES AND GET A SENSE OF WHAT YOU’LL BE HEARING WHEN YOU TUNE IN TO WMSE…FOR NOW.
LISTINGS PRINTED AS: ARTIST, TITLE, LABEL
*= LOCAL
DATE REPORTED: 5/12/20
TOP 30
1 SPACE RAFT Positively Space Raft Dusty Medical*
2 FIELD REPORT Brake Light Red Tide Fellesskap*
3 SUICIDE MACHINES Revolution Spring Fat Wreck Chords
4 GGOOLLDD Here We Are Solid Gold*
5 LUCINDA WILLIAMS Good Souls Better Angels Highway 20/Thirty Tigers
6 PEZZETTINO Venus [Advance Tracks] Self-Released*
7 EOB Earth Capitol
8 CASHFIRE SUNSET Age Before Beauty Self-Released*
9 ULTRAISTA Sister Partisan
10 WORRIERS You Or Someone You Know 6131
11 MOANING Uneasy Laughter Sub Pop
12 BRETT NEWSKI Don’t Let The Bastards Get You Down Nomad Union*
13 ESME PATTERSON There Will Come Soft Rains BMG
14 DISQ Collector Saddle Creek*
15 KENDRA AMALIE/RYLEY WALKER Papaya In A Hound’s Tooth [EP] Husky Pants 003*
16 DREAM SYNDICATE, THE The Universe Inside Anti-
17 CARIBOU Suddenly Merge
18 SIS Fingerpaint [EP] Native Cat
19 DAN DEACON Mystic Familiar Domino
20 SYLVAN ESSO With Loma Vista/Concord*
21 YVES TUMOR Heaven To A Tortured Mind Warp
22 FIONA APPLE Fetch The Bolt Cutters Epic
23 JOYFULTALK A Separation Of Being Constellation
24 THUNDERCAT It Is What It Is Brainfeeder
25 WILMA ARCHER A Western Circular Weird World
26 DEERHOOF Future Teenage Cave Artists [Advance Tracks] Joyful Noise
27 BLACK MARKET BRASS Undying Thirst Colemine
28 CAR SEAT HEADREST Making A Door Less Open Matador/Beggars
29 RINGO DEATHSTARR Ringo Deathstarr Vinyl Junkie
30 BUTTERTONES, THE Jazzhound Innovative Leisure
ADDS
1 AKSAK MABOUL “C’est Charles” [Single] Crammed
2 ALICE BAG Sister Dynamite In The Red
3 ARCHERS OF LOAF “Street Fighting Man” [Single] Merge
4 BUSCABULLA Regresa Ribbon
5 DIRTY PROJECTORS “Lose Your Love” [Single] Domino
6 JESS WILLIAMSON Sorceress Mexican Summer
7 JOAN AS POLICE WOMAN Cover Two Sweet Police/PIAS
8 KAITLYN AURELIA SMITH The Mosaic Of Transformation Ghostly
9 STRFKR Future Past Life Polyvinyl
10 TIJUANA PANTHERS Pull The Chute [EP] Innovative Leisure
ELECTRONIC
1 GGOOLLDD Here We Are Solid Gold*
2 CARIBOU Suddenly Merge
3 YVES TUMOR Heaven To A Tortured Mind Warp
4 THUNDERCAT It Is What It Is Brainfeeder
5 SQUAREPUSHER Be Up A Hello Warp
6 KING KRULE Man Alive! True Panther/Matador
7 DAN DEACON Mystic Familiar Domino
8 AUSTRA HiRUDiN Domino
9 NICHOLAS ELERT Brittle Frames Self-Released*
10 TYCHO Simulcast Mom + Pop
HIP HOP
1 THUNDERCAT It Is What It Is Brainfeeder
2 KAYLEE CROSSFIRE “Baddie Alert” [Single] Self-Released*
3 GIL SCOTT-HERON AND MAKAYA MCCRAVEN We’re New Again: A Reimagining by Makaya McCraven XL/Beggars Group
4 MEGAN THEE STALLION Suga [EP] 300
5 WILMA ARCHER A Western Circular Weird World
6 GUERRILLA GHOST “Keep Your Distance” [Single] Triple Eye Industries*
7 YUNG BAE Bae 5 The Future Of Funk
8 KLASSIK Quiet. Confluence*
9 SAMPA THE GREAT The Return Ninja Tune
10 WILL ROSE Wilted Self-Released*
HEAVY
1 BLACK DAHLIA MURDER, THE Verminous Metal Blade
2 UNMERCIFUL Wrath Encompassed Willowtip
3 AUGUST BURNS RED Guardians Fearless
4 EXPUNGED Expunged [EP] Hell’s Headbangers
5 ULCERATE Stare Into Death And Be Still Debemur Morti
6 HAVOK V Century Media
7 LAMB OF GOD Lamb Of God [Advance Tracks] Epic
8 BARISHI Old Smoke Season Of Mist
9 HAUNT Mind Freeze Shadow Kingdom
10 VOICES OF RUIN “Carved Out” [Single] M-Theory
WORLD
1 ANOUSHKA SHANKAR Love Letters Mercury Classics
2 SOTOMAYOR Orígenes Wonderwheel
3 BLACK MARKET BRASS Undying Thirst Colemine
4 SUNNY JAIN Wild Wild East Smithsonian Folkways
5 EMANCIPATOR Mountain Of Memory Loci
6 ROBERTO FONSECA Yesun Mack Avenue
7 KHRUANGBIN Mordechai [Advance Tracks] Dead Oceans
8 PURNA LOKA ENSEMBLE Metaraga Origin
9 ACID ARAB Jdid Crammed
10 COMBO CHIMBITA Ahomale Anti-
JAZZ
1 ADRIAN YOUNGE AND ALI SHAHEED MUHAMMED Jazz Is Dead Vol. 1 Jazz Is Dead
2 ELSA NILSSON Hindsight Bumblebee Collective
3 JIM ROBITAILLE TRIO Space Cycles Whaling City
4 FUNKY CHEMIST Groove Generator Citizen*
5 WORKS FOR ME Reach Within Posi-Tone
6 STEVE YEAGER Vibraharp Collective Vibe
7 JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER ORCHESTRA WITH WYNTON MARSALIS The Music Of Wayne Shorter Blue Engine
8 WAYNE ALPERN Standard Deviation Henri Elkan
9 SHABAKA AND THE ANCESTORS We Are Sent Here By History Impulse!
10 TED POOR You Already Know Impulse
BLUES (UPDATED MONTHLY)
1 Albert Cummings Believe Provogue
2 Cindy Cashdollar Waltz For Abilene Silver Shot Records
3 Tinsley Ellis Ice Cream In Hell Alligator Records
4 Jimmy Johnson Every Day Of Your Life Delmark Records
5 Lisa Mills The Triangle BMG
6 Betty Fox Band Peace In Pieces FoxyCavanagh Productions
7 Frank Bey All My Dues Are Paid Nola Blues Records
8 Robert Cray Band That’s What I Heard Thirty Tigers
9 Phantom Blues Band Still Cookin’ VizzTone
10 Sugar Blue Colors Beeble
11 Mark Hummel Wayback Machine Electro-Fi
12 Tas Cru Drive On Subcat Records
13 Whitney Shay Stand Up! Ruf Records
14 Richard Ray Farrell Three Pints Of Gin Blue Beet Records
15 Sonny Landreth Blacktop Run Provogue
16 “Chicago” Carl Snyder & Friends Lost and Found – Old Style Blues and Rhythm Lost World Music
17 Tomislav Goluban Memphis Light Blind Raccoon
18 Avey Grouws Band The Devil May Care Blind Raccoon
19 Roomful Of Blues In A Roomful Of Blues Alligator Records
20 The Mary Jo Curry Band Front Porch Blind Raccoon
21 The Forrest McDonald Band Blues In A Bucket World Talent Records
22 Gary Moore Live From London Provogue
23 Popa Chubby It’s A Mighty Hard Road – More Than 30 Years Of Blues Rock and Soul self-released
24 Jeremiah Johnson Heavens To Betsy Ruf Records
25 John Blues Boyd What My Eyes Have Seen Gulf Coast Records