WEEKLY TOP AIRPLAY: MAY 31, 2022
POSTED:: May 31, 2022
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: 5/31/22
TOP 30
1 JON SPENCER AND THE HITMAKERS SPENCER GETS IT LIT! In The Red
2 PORRIDGE RADIO Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder To The Sky Secretly Canadian/Secretly Group
3 FONTAINES DC Skinty Fia Partisan
4 PUP The Unraveling Of PupTheBand Rise/BMG
5 PINK MOUNTAINTOPS Peacock Pools ATO
6 KURT VILE (watch my moves) Verve
7 SPIRITUALIZED Everything Was Beautiful Fat Possum
8 JACK WHITE Fear Of The Dawn Third Man/The Orchard
9 JOSEPH HUBER The Downtowner Self-Released
10 KIKAGAKU MOYO Kumoyo Island Guruguru Brain
11 TORO Y MOI MAHAL Dead Oceans
12 YVES JARVIS The Zug Anti-
13 CONVERT Saves Triple Eye Industries*
14 ELEPHANT STONE Le Voyage De M. Lonely Dans La Lune [EP] Elephants On Parade
15 CLASH, THE Combat Rock (40th Anniversary) Legacy
16 KEVIN MORBY This Is A Photograph Dead Oceans/Secretly Group
17 SHARON VAN ETTEN We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong Jagjaguwar
18 MUFFS, THE Really Really Happy [expanded reissue] Omnivore
19 IBIBIO SOUND MACHINE Electricity Merge
20 WEIRD NIGHTMARE Weird Nightmare Sub Pop
21 SHILPA RAY Portrait Of A Lady Northern Spy
22 50 FOOT WAVE Black Pearl Fire
23 QUILZ, THE “Love Submission [Champagne remix]” [Single] Prickly Records*
24 MARY VEILS, THE Esoteric Hex PNKSLM
25 CRAIG FINN A Legacy Of Rentals Positive Jams/Thirty Tigers
26 ROLLING BLACKOUTS COASTAL FEVER Endless Rooms Sub Pop
27 MELODY’S ECH0 CHAMBER Emotional Eternal Domino
28 MARK BIERMANN III Glory In Exile [EP] Self-Released*
29 WET LEG Wet Leg Domino
30 POLYHEDREN Psychic BAMP
ADDS
1 BRANDON COLEMAN Interstellar Black Space Brainfeeder
2 BREAD PILOT New To You Double Double Whammy
3 DEHD Blue Skies Fat Possum
4 JUST MUSTARD Heart Under Partisan
5 KAITLYN AURELIA SMITH AND EMILE MOSSERI I Could Be Your Dog/I Could Be Your Moon Ghostly International/Secretly Group
6 POLICA Madness Memphis Industries
7 STARS From Capelton Hill Last Gang
8 VALERY TRAILS, THE Disappear [EP] Self-Released
9 WILCO Cruel Country dBpm
10 RARE EARLY SSR ELECTRONICA EP 1989-91 VARIOUS ARTISTS [EP] Crammed Archives
ELECTRONIC
1 TORO Y MOI MAHAL Dead Oceans
2 IBIBIO SOUND MACHINE Electricity Merge
3 QUILZ, THE “Love Submission [Champagne remix]” [Single] Prickly Records*
4 ZONI Samsara Self-Released*
5 JORDANA Face The Wall Grand Jury
6 MARIA CHIARA ARGIRO Forest City Innovative Leisure
7 SAADA BONAIRE 1992 (Nineteen Ninety-Two) Captured Tracks
8 T GOWDY Miracles Constellation
9 !!! (CHK CHK CHK) Let It Be Blue Warp
10 ACID ARAB Remixes Crammed Discs
WORLD
1 KIKAGAKU MOYO Kumoyo Island Guruguru Brain
2 DOWDELIN Lanmou Lanmou Underdog
3 IBIBIO SOUND MACHINE Electricity Merge
4 ROKIA KONE AND JACKNIFE LEE Bamanan Real World
5 KOLONIEN Till Skogen Cumbancha
6 IBEYI Spell 31 XL
7 TRUPA TRUPA B Flat A Glitterbeat
8 LOS BITCHOS Let The Festivities Begin! City Slang
9 FRIGHTNRS, THE “Always” [Single] Daptone
10 PI JA MA Seule Sous Ma Frange Bleepmachine
JAZZ
1 JOHN SCOFIELD John Scofield ECM
2 EVAN DRYBREAD Tiger Tail Self-Released
3 LENNY MARCUS TRIO When A Door Opens Self-Released
4 JOYFULTALK Familiar Science Constellation
5 MIKE BOONE QUINTET Asynchronization Party Self-Released
6 EUGENIE JONES Players Open Mic
7 GABRIEL MARK HASSELBACH Mid Century Modern, Vol. 3 Bluemoon
8 MICHAEL ORENSTEIN Aperture Origin
9 STEVE DAVIS Bluesthetic Smoke
10 NATHAN BORTON Each Stop OA2
BLUES (UPDATED MONTHLY)
1 Ann Peebles & Hi Rhythm Section, Live in Memphis, Memphis International
2 Edgar WInter Brother Johnny Quarto Valley Records
3 Bonnie Raitt Just Like That Redwing Records
4 The Duke Robillard Band, They Called It Rhythm and Blues, Stony Plain
5 Keb’ Mo’, Good To Be…, Rounder
6 Larry McCray Blues Without You Keeping The Blues Alive Records
7 Roxi Copland I Come From Crazy self-released
8 Mighty Mike Schermer Just Gettin’ Good Finedog Records
9 Beth Hart, A Tribute to Led Zeppelin, Provogue
10 Sugaray Rayford, In Too Deep, Forty Below Records
11 Horojo Trio Set The Record Stony Plain
12 Son House Forever On My MInd Easy Eye Sound
13 Albert Castiglia, I Got Love, Gulf Coast Records
14 Gina Sicilia Unchange VizzTone
15 Levee Town Trying To Keep My Head Above Water Hudtone Records
16 Vaneese Thomas Fight The Good Fight Blue Heart Records
17 Ronnie Earl and the Broadcasters Mercy Me Stony Plain
18 Mississippi Heat, Madeleine, Van Der Linden Recordings
19 Stew Cutler The Blues From Another Angle Cogna
20 Jose Ramirez Major League Blues Delmark
21 Dana Fuchs Borrowed Time Ruf Records
22 Albert Cummings Ten Ivy Music Company
23 Bob Stroger & The Headcutters, That’s My Name, Delmark Records
24 Miss Bix Bring It Blue Heart Records
25 The Nighthawks, Established 1972, VizzTone