WEEKLY TOP AIRPLAY: AUGUST 23, 2021
POSTED:: August 24, 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: 8/24/21
TOP 30
1 SON VOLT Electro Melodier Transmit Sound/Thirty Tigers
2 YOLA Stand For Myself Easy Eye Sound/Concord
3 XPOSED 4HEADS “Kink In The System” [Single] Internal Combustion*
4 DESCENDENTS 9th & Walnut Epitaph
5 DURAND JONES AND THE INDICATIONS Private Space Dead Oceans/Secretly Group
6 CHRIS TISHLER Reach For the Sun Black Mountain US*
7 BICENTENNIAL DRUG LORD BDL Vfib*
8 HIPPO CAMPUS Good Dog, Bad Dream [EP] Grand Jury
9 LOS LOBOS Native Sons New West
10 SAULT Nine (Nine) Forever Living Originals
11 TORRES Thirstier Merge
12 DARK PSYCHIC Hallucination Self-Released*
13 MIKE AND THE MOONPIES One to Grow On Prairie Rose
14 NIGHT BEATS Outlaw R&B Fuzz Club
15 BRITTANY HOWARD Jaime Reimagined ATO
16 LIARS The Apple Drop Mute
17 GO TEAM, THE Get Up Sequences Part One Memphis Industries
18 SHINY JOE RYAN Shiny’s Democracy Spinning Top
19 LUMP Animal Partisan/Chrysalis
20 COLD STARES, THE “In The Night Time” [Single] Mascot Label Group
21 PREFAB MESSIAHS, THE Music For Concerned Citizens Self-Released
22 SALSA CHEST Activity Joyful Noise
23 LUNG Come Clean Right Now Sofaburn
24 EVAN CHEADLE Fault Line Serenade Victory Pool
25 ALEX REX Paradise Neolithic
26 YVES TUMOR The Asymptotical World [EP] Warp
27 METZ Live At The Opera House Sub Pop
28 RODRIGO AMARANTE Drama Polyvinyl
29 DEATH VALLEY GIRLS Street Venom Suicide Squeeze
30 A GREAT BIG PILE OF LEAVES Pono Topshelf
ADDS
1 BNNY Everything Fire Talk
2 BRONX, THE Bronx VI Cooking Vinyl
3 CONNIE SMITH The Cry Of The Heart Fat Possum
4 EYEDRESS Mulholland Drive Lex
5 HARRY THE NIGHTGOWN “The Painter” b/w “If You Were Wrong” [Single] Dangerbird
6 OCCURRENCE I Have So Much Love To Give Archie & Fox
7 PILE Songs Known Together, Alone Exploding In Sound
8 SHANNON AND THE CLAMS Year Of The Spider Easy Eye Sound/Concord
9 SWERVE Ruin Your Day Swerve LA
10 TROPICAL FUCK STORM Deep States Joyful Noise
ELECTRONIC
1 XPOSED 4HEADS “Kink In The System” [Single] Internal Combustion*
2 DARK PSYCHIC Hallucination Self-Released*
3 YVES TUMOR The Asymptotical World [EP] Warp
4 LITTLE DRAGON New Me, Same Us Remixes [EP] Ninja Tune
5 YOU WIN !!! [FEAT. BLOOD] “The Entrance” [Single] Self-Released*
6 KHRUANGBIN Mordechai Remixes Dead Oceans
7 LUXI “unclearly” [Single] Wicked Alley*
8 KDAP Influences Arts & Crafts
9 HEMAI Strange Beauty Tru Thoughts
10 ORA THE MOLECULE Human Safari Mute
HEAVY
1 DESCENDENTS 9th & Walnut Epitaph
2 QUICKSAND Distant Populations Epitaph
3 LINGUA IGNOTA SINNER GET READY Sargent House
4 QRIXKUOR Poison Palinopsia Self-Released
5 DESASTER Churches Without Saints Metal Blade
6 KING WOMAN Celestial Blues Relapse
7 LUCIFER’S FALL “Across the Void” [Single] Sun and Moon
8 METZ Live At The Opera House Sub Pop
9 AENIGMATUM Deconsecrate 20 Buck Spin
10 ANNIHILUS Follow a Song From the Sky Self-Released
WORLD
1 BALKAN TAKSIM Disko Telegraf Buda Musique
2 ANGELIQUE KIDJO Mother Nature Verve
3 OKUTE Okuté Chulo
4 JUPITER AND OKWESS Na Kozonga Everloving
5 ESSO Xicago Self-Released
6 JUANA MOLINA Segundo (Remastered) Crammed
7 MDOU MOCTAR Afrique Victime Matador/Beggars Group
8 ALBOROSIE For The Culture VP/Greensleeves
9 MANZANITA Y SU CONJUNTO Trujillo – Perú 1971 – 1974 Analog Africa
10 U-ROY Solid Gold U-Roy Trojan/BMG
JAZZ
1 ALICE COLTRANE Kirtan: Turiya Sings Impulse
2 SONS OF KEMET Black To The Future Impulse!
3 DEVIN DROBKA TRIO Resorts Shifting Paradigm*
4 CARLOS NINO AND FRIENDS More Energy Fields, Current International Anthem
5 MILES DAVIS Merci Miles! Live At Vienne Rhino/Warner
6 DAVE FLIPPO Dedication – Jazz From Planet Flippo Self-Released
7 ROY HARGROVE AND MULGREW MILLER In Harmony Resonance
8 CARLOS VEGAS Art Of The Messenger Origin
9 KYLE ASCHE ORGAN TRIO Five Down Blues Cellar
10 JOHN CHIN Anything Mose! Jinsy
BLUES (UPDATED MONTHLY)
1 Sean Chambers, That’s What I’m Talkin About – Tribute to Hubert Sumlin, Quarto Valley Records
2 Various Artists, Alligator Records: 50 Years of Genuine Houserockin’ Music, Alligator
3 Tiffany Pollack & Co., Bayou Liberty, Nola Blue Records
4 Dave Kalz, Relish, Gulf Coast Records
5 Billy F Gibbons, Hardware, Concord Records
6 Gerald McClendon, Let’s Have a Party!, Delta Roots Records
7 Wee Willie Walker and the Anthony Paule Soul Orchestra, Not In My Lifetime, Blue Dot Records
8 Blind Lemon Pledge, A Satchel Full of Blues, Ofeh
9 Eddie 9v, Little Black Flies, Ruf Records
10 The Black Keys, Delta Kream, Nonesuch
11 Mike Zito, Resurrection Rock, Hillside Global
12 Rodd Bland and the Members Only Band, Live on Beale Street: A Tribute to Bobby “Blue” Bland (Live) – EP, Nola Blue
13 Adam Schultz, Soulful Distancing, Blue Heart Records
14 Tony Joe White, Smoke From the Chimney, Easy Eye Sound
15 Steve Marriner, Hope Dies Last, Stony Plain
16 Soulful Femme, It Is Well With My Soul, self-released
17 Polly O’Keary and the Rhythm Method, 50, self-released
18 Mark Cameron, Back From the Edge, Cop Records
19 Jeff Fetterman, Southern Son, Green Tea Music
20 Chris Daniels, Dana Marsh & Hazel Miller, What We Did, Moon Voyage Records
21 Clay Melton, Back to Blue – EP, self-released
22 Debbie Bond, Blues Without Borders, Blind Raccoon
23 Kelly’s Lot, Where and When, Blind Raccoon
24 Deb Ryder, Memphis Moonlight, VizzTone
25 GA-20, Try It…You Might Like It: GA-20 Does Hound Dog Taylor, Karma Chief Records