WEEKLY TOP AIRPLAY: DECEMBER 8, 2020

POSTED:: December 8, 2020

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: 12/8/20

TOP 30
1 AESOP ROCK Spirit World Field Guide Rhymesayers
2 GUNN TRUSCINSKI DUO Soundkeeper Three Lobed
3 JOE WONG Nite Creatures Decca*
4 STRUM AND THRUM: THE AMERICAN JANGLE UNDERGROUND 1983-1987 VARIOUS ARTISTS Captured Tracks
5 DOGS IN ECSTASY Welcome Back Self-Released*
6 MAGIK MARKERS Isolated From Exterior Time: 2020 [EP] Drag City
7 FUZZ III In The Red
8 XPOSED 4HEADS “Dance With The Krampus” [Single] Internal Combustion*
9 VARIOUS ARTISTS SLEIGHIN’ IT Mkeascene*
10 SPITS, THE VI Thriftstore
11 LOMA Don’t Shy Away Sub Pop
12 GHOST FUNK ORCHESTRA An Ode to Escapism Karma Chief
13 OPEN MIKE EAGLE Anime, Trauma And Divorce Auto Reverse
14 BATS, THE Foothills Flying Nun
15 NICHOLAS ELERT Infinity Gate Self-Released*
16 IDLES Ultra Mono Partisan
17 ELVIS PERKINS Creation Myths MIR/Petaluma
18 FRANKIE AND THE WITCH FINGERS Monsters Eating People Eating Monsters Greenway/RAS
19 BUDOS BAND, THE Long In The Tooth Daptone
20 HOT SCIENCE Summoner Triple Eye Industries
21 BANANAGUN The True Story Of Bananagun Full Time Hobby
22 OSEES Protean Threat Castle Face
23 DAYDREAM RETRIEVERS “The Ballad Of Who Could Care Less b/w Static On TV” [Single] Fort Sad*
24 DEATH VALLEY GIRLS Under The Spell Of Joy Suicide Squeeze
25 CONAN NEUTRON AND THE SECRET FRIENDS Dark Passengers Learning Curve
26 SOUP MOAT Be Brave Run Away Triple Eye Industries*
27 GANSER Just Look At That Sky Felte
28 WENDY EISENBERG Auto Ba Da Bing!
29 NICK CAVE Idiot Prayer (Nick Cave Alone At Alexandra Palace) Bad Seed Ltd./AWAL
30 ALEX MAAS Luca Innovative Leisure

ADDS
1 ANE BRUN How Beauty Holds The Hand Of Sorrow Balloon Ranger
2 ARCTIC MONKEYS Live At Royal Albert Hall Domino
3 CALEXICO Seasonal Shift Anti-
4 CHRISTMAS TOGETHER (WHEREVER WE ARE) VARIOUS ARTISTS Nettwerk
5 DOUG CARN, ADRIAN YOUNGE AND ALI SHAHEED MUHAMMAD Doug Carn JID005 Jazz Is Dead
6 GUIDED BY VOICES Styles We Paid For GBV Inc
7 IMMATERIAL POSSESSION Immaterial Possession Cloud
8 KELEKETLA! Keleketla Remixes Ahead Of Our Time
9 KHRUANGBIN Late Night Tales Night Time Stories
10 YOUNG LEGS Songs From Lost Valley Mint 400

ELECTRONIC
1 SYLVAN ESSO Free Love Loma Vista
2 ADOPTAHIGHWAY Coaxing A Ghost Into the Room Self-Released*
3 BLOOD Testamental Cleopatra*
4 TRICKY Fall To Pieces False Idols
5 POLE Fading Mute
6 TOBACCO Hot Wet & Sassy Ghostly International
7 ELA MINUS Acts Of Rebellion Domino
8 ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER Magic Oneohtrix Point Never Warp
9 SUFJAN STEVENS The Ascension Asthmatic Kitty
10 SNEAKS Happy Birthday Merge

HIP HOP
1 SA-ROC The Sharecropper’s Daughter Rhymesayers
2 ACTION BRONSON Only For Dolphins Loma Vista
3 SLY5THAVE What It Is Tru Thoughts
4 BLU AND EXILE Miles Dirty Science
5 DENZEL CURRY Unlocked Loma Vista
6 DEANTONI PARKS Silver Cord humani machina
7 GUERRILLA GHOST We Get What We Deserve Triple Eye Industries*
8 OPEN MIKE EAGLE Anime, Trauma And Divorce Auto Reverse
9 HOMEBOY SANDMAN Don’t Feed The Monster Mello
10 RANDAL BRAVERY Doki! Doki! Black Power Self-Released*

HEAVY
1 NOTHING The Great Dismal Relapse
2 ALL THEM WITCHES Nothing As The Ideal New West
3 WHITE MAGICIAN Dealers Of Divinity Cruz Del Sur
4 VOLUR Death Cult Prophecy
5 DWARROWDELF Evenstar Northern Silence
6 OCCULT BURIAL Burning Eerie Love Invictus
7 KRAKEN DUUMVIRATE The Stars Below, The Seas Above Silent Future
8 APPARITION Stand Your Ground To The Point
9 CREPUSCLE Heavenly Skies Self-Released
10 ACROSS TUNDRAS Loess~Loss Electric Relics

WORLD
1 GARMARNA Forbundet Season Of Mist
2 HAILU MERGIA Yene Mircha Awesome Tapes From Africa
3 TONY ALLEN AND HUGH MASEKELA Rejoice! World Circuit
4 MOLCHAT DOMA Monument Sacred Bones
5 LADAMA Oye Mujer Six Degrees
6 BOOGARINS Manchaca Vol 1 OAR
7 SONGHOY BLUES Optimisme Fat Possum
8 MINT FIELD Sentimiento Mundial Felte
9 MICHAEL FRANTI AND SPEARHEAD Work Hard And Be Nice Boo Boo Wax/Thirty Tigers
10 MULATU ASTATKE AND BLACK JESUS EXPERIENCE To Know Without Knowing Agogo

JAZZ
1 EABS Discipline Of Sun Ra Astigmatic
2 THELONIOUS MONK Palo Alto Impulse
3 LUKE STEWART EXPOSURE QUINTET Luke Stewart Exposure Quintet Astral Spirits
4 UTE LEMPER Rendezvous With Marlene Jazzhaus
5 OFRA HARNOY On The Rock Analekta
6 TRIO LINGUAE Signals Origin
7 WOLFF CLARK DORSEY Play Sgt. Pepper Jazzavenue
8 CHANCE HAYDEN Grab And Go Atlanta/Ropeadope
9 RON MILES Rainbow Sign Blue Note
10 MIKI YAMANAKA Human Dust Suite OutsideIn

BLUES (UPDATED MONTHLY)
1 Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band Straight To You Live Provogue
2 Shemekia Copeland Uncivil War Alligator
3 Charlie Musselwhite, Elvin Bishop 100 Years Of Blues Alligator
4 Big Al’s Blues Howlers Get It While It’s Hot self-released
5 Alastair Greene The New World Blues Whiskey Bayou Records
6 Bette Smith The Good The Bad And The Bette Ruf Records
7 Duke Robillard & Friends Blues Bash! Stony Plain
8 Justin Howl Wanderlust self-released
9 Nora Jean Wallace Blues Woman Severn
10 George Benson Weekend In London Provogue Records
11 Devin B. Thompson Tales Of The Soul Severn Records
12 Kevin Burt Stone Crazy Gulf Coast Records
13 Andy Cohen Tryin’ To Get Home Earwig Music Company
14 Vanessa Collier Heart On The Line Phenix Fire Records
15 Johnny Nicholas Mistaken Identity Valcour Records
16 Andy Watts Supergroove VizzTone
17 John Nemeth Stronger Than Strong Blind Raccoon
18 Bob Corritore, Henry Gray From The Vaults: Cold Chills VizzTone
19 Dennis Jones Soft Hard & Loud Blind Raccoon
20 Danny Brooks & Lil Miss Debi Are You Ready? The Mississippi Sessions HIS House Records
21 David Rotundo Band So Much Trouble Blind Raccoon
22 Andy Cohen Tryin’ To Get Home Earwig Music Company
23 Danielle Miraglia Bright Shining Stars VizzTone
24 Sonny Green Found! One Soul Singer Little Village Foundation
25 Erin Harpe Meet Me In The Middle VizzTone

POSTED BY:: Erin Wolf

TAGGED::Top Airplay