WEEKLY TOP AIRPLAY: MAY 18, 2021
POSTED:: May 18, 2021
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: 5/18/21
TOP 30
1 DEVILS TEETH La Leggenda Di Chong Li Triple Eye Industries*
2 RX DRUGS Broken By Design Good Land Records*
3 COUCH FLAMBEAU Bunny Hideout Rockhaus Records*
4 WEBSTERX “Huffy” [Single] Self-Released*
5 CALEY CONWAY Bliss Or Bust [EP] Self-Released*
6 DINOSAUR JR Sweep It Into Space Jagjaguwar
7 MOGWAI As The Love Continues Temporary Residence Ltd.
8 TEENAGE FANCLUB Endless Arcade Merge
9 JOE STRUMMER Assembly Dark Horse
10 TEKE TEKE Shirushi Kill Rock Stars
11 TONY JOE WHITE Smoke From The Chimney Swamp/Easy Eye Sound/Concord
12 SUGAR S.U.G.A.R. [EP] Alien Snatch
13 JEFF ROSENSTOCK Ska Dream Polyvinyl
14 ALTIN GUN Yol ATO
15 IMMORTAL GIRLFRIEND “Others” [Single] Black Winchesters*
16 FAYE WEBSTER I Know I’m Funny haha [Advance Tracks] Secretly Canadian
17 JULIANA HATFIELD Blood American Laundromat
18 DAM FUNK Architecture III Glydezone
19 PANSY Pansy Earth Libraries
20 PROUD PARENTS At Home With… Self-Released
21 KALBELLS Max Heart NNA Tapes
22 MOMMYHEADS, THE Coming Into Beauty Self-Released
23 LOS RETROS Looking Back [EP] Stones Throw
24 CITIZEN Life In Your Glass World Run For Cover
25 NICK WATERHOUSE Promenade Blue Innovative Leisure
26 ARLO PARKS Collapsed In Sunbeams Transgressive/PIAS
27 INDONESIAN JUNK Living In A Nightmare Rum Bar*
28 JUAN WAUTERS Real Life Situations Captured Tracks
29 NICK HAKIM AND ROY NATHANSON Small Things NYXO
30 DRY CLEANING New Long Leg 4AD/Beggars Group
ADDS
1 CHILLS, THE Scatterbrain Fire
2 CURRENT JOYS Voyager Secretly
3 LIONEL BOY Lionel Boy Innovative Leisure
4 LUMIERE A.M.I.E.S.A.M.O.U.R Bonsound
5 MARINERO Hella Love Hardly Art
6 MISSING SONS Missing Sons Joyful Noise
7 PACKS Take The Cake Fire Talk
8 PARDONER Came Down Different Bar-None
9 PATRICK PAIGE II If I Fail Are We Still Cool Forward And Up/Fat Possum
10 ST VINCENT Daddy’s Home Loma Vista/Concord
ELECTRONIC
1 IMMORTAL GIRLFRIEND “Others” [Single] Black Winchesters*
2 DAM FUNK Architecture III Glydezone
3 FLOATING POINTS, PHAROAH SANDERS AND THE LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Promises Luaka Bop
4 DAWN RICHARD Second Line Merge
5 PLEASURE CAM “Dust” [Single] NiceFM*
6 QUILZ, THE “Without You [David Bowie cover]” [Single] Prickly Records*
7 TRON JOVI Bass + Frequency: Studies In Dub, Chapter One [EP] Triple Eye Industries*
8 GRIMES Miss Anthropocene (Rave Edition) 4AD
9 NOTWIST, THE Vertigo Days Morr
10 COLLEEN “Hidden In The Current” [Single] Thrill Jockey
WORLD
1 ALTIN GUN Yol ATO
2 PALABRA PALABRA Dézòd Rèkòd*
3 YA TSEEN Indian Yard Sub Pop
4 JUPITER AND OKWESS Na Kozonga Everloving
5 TENO AFRIKA Amapiano Selections Awesome Tapes From Africa
6 LA FEMME Paradigmes Disque Pointu/IDOL
7 BOOGARINS Manchaca Vol. 2 OAR
8 LEE “SCRATCH” PERRY AND SPACEWAVE Dubz Of The Root Megawave
9 SONGHOY BLUES Optimisme Fat Possum
10 LAURE BRIARD Eu Voo [EP] Midnight Special
JAZZ
1 WAYNE ALPERN Jukebox Henri Elkan
2 DUMPSTAPHUNK Where Do We Go From Here [Advance Tracks] Funk Garage
3 BILL ORCUTT, CHRIS CORSANO Made Out of Sound Palilalia
4 NNENNA FREELON Time Traveler Origin
5 FLOATING POINTS, PHAROAH SANDERS AND THE LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Promises Luaka Bop
6 CAMERON GRAVES Seven Mack Avenue
7 EMMET COHEN Future Stride Mack Avenue
8 JAHARI MASAMBA UNIT Pardon My French Madlib Invazion
9 JAMES FRANCIES Purest Form Blue Note
10 JON BATISTE WE ARE Verve
BLUES (UPDATED MONTHLY)
1 Damon Fowler, Alafia Moon, Landslide
2 Chris Cain, Raisin’ Cain, Alligator
3 Curtis Salgado, Damage Control, Alligator
5 Bob Corritore, Bob Corritore & Friends: Spider In My Stew, VizzTone
6 Steve Cropper, Fire It Up, Provogue
7 Kat Danser, One Eye Open, Black Hen Music
8 AJ Fullerton, The Forgiver and the Runaway, VizzTone
9 Jimmie Bratcher, I’m Hungry – Red-Hot Blues To Inspire Your Appetite, Blind Raccoon
10 Patti Parks, Whole Nother World, VizzTone
11 Tomislav Goluban, Express Connection, Blind Raccoon
12 Ghalia Volt, One Woman Band, Ruf Records
13 The Halley DeVestern Band, Money Ain’t Time (The Halley DeVestern Band Live), Blind Raccoon
14 Dexter Allen, Keep Moving On, Endless Blues Records
15 Tia Carroll, You Gotta Have It, Little Village
16 New Moon Jelly Roll Freedom Rockers, Volume 2, Stony Plain
17 Tokyo Tramps, I’m A Tiger, Vagabond Ent.
18 Joe Lewis Band, Up Next, Blind Raccoon
19 Misty Blues, None More Blue, self-released
20 Black River Delta, Shakin’, Sofaburn
21 Veronica Lewis, You Ain’t Unlucky, Blue Heart Records
22 The Hitman Blues Band, Not My Circus Not My Monkey, Nerus Records
23 Hosty, Which Way to Tulsa, HTM Records
24 Donna Herula, Bang At the Door , Blind Raccoon
25 Gary Moore, How Blue Can You Get, Provogue