October 2022

The Sadies

The Sadies are rocking the #1 spot on the !earshot Top 200 for September 2022 with Colder Streams on Dine Alone Records. Kiwi Jr's Chopper is at #1 closely followed by Metric at #3 with Formentera. Marci (Marci) and Jay Wood (Slingshot) round out the top 5.

Specialty Charts #1s
Electronic:	Korea Town Acid - Elephant In The Room - (Urbnet)
Hip Hop:	Dill the Giant - Weed Man Son (Deluxe) - (Birthday Cake)
International:	KOKOROKO - Could We Be More - (Brownswood)
Jazz:	Billy Drummond and Freedom of Ideas - Valse Sinistre - (Cellar)
Loud:	The Chats - Get Fucked - (Bargain Bin)
Folk/Roots/Blues:	Mariel Buckley - Everywhere I Used To Be - (Birthday Cake)

Check out all the latest chart action on the weekly charts.

Features

TW	Artist - Title - (Label)
!earshot Top 200 of 2021 For January to December 2021
1	TEKE::TEKE Shirushi - (Kill Rock Stars)
2	The Halluci Nation One More Saturday Night - (Radicalized)
3	Chad VanGaalen World's Most Stressed Out Gardener - (Flemish Eye)
4	The Weather Station Ignorance - (Next Door)
5	Kiwi Jr. Cooler Returns - (Kiwi Club)
6	Arlo Parks Collapsed In Sunbeams - (Transgressive)
7	Ada Lea one hand on the steering wheel the other sewing a garden - (Next Door)
8	Sook-Yin Lee & Adam Litovitz jooj two - (Mint)
9	Suuns The Witness - (Secret City)
10	Andy Shauf Wilds - (Arts & Crafts)
*View the full !earshot Top 200*

Specialty Charts #1s
Electronic:	The Halluci Nation - One More Saturday Night - (Radicalized)
Hip Hop:	Cadence Weapon - Parallel World - (Self-Released)
International:	Lakou Mizik and Joseph Ray - Leave The Bones - (Anjunadeep)
Jazz:	Adrian Younge - The American Negro - (Jazz Is Dead)
Loud:	Tunic - Exhaling - (Artoffact)
Folk/Roots/Blues:	Allison Russell - Outside Child - (Fantasy)

Latest Charts

CFBX Folk/Roots/Blues #1 I Draw Slow 20 hours ago
CFBX Hip Hop #1 DK x Ghettosocks 20 hours ago
CFBX Electronic #1 DJ Phoenix 20 hours ago
CFBX Loud #1 Quit It! 20 hours ago
CFBX International #1 Joy Lapps 20 hours ago
CFBX Jazz #1 Rafael Zaldivar 20 hours ago
CFBX Top 30 #1 Teenage Art Scene 20 hours ago
CFOU Loud #1 Epica 21 hours ago
CFOU Top 30 #1 Goat 21 hours ago
CISM Top 30 #1 Anna Arrobas 23 hours ago
Folk/Roots/Blues #1 Blue Moon Marquee 2 days ago
Loud #1 The Chats 2 days ago
Hip Hop #1 Dill the Giant 2 days ago
Top 50 #1 Alvvays 2 days ago
CICK Top 30 #1 Dumb 3 days ago
More Charts...
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TW	Artist - Title - (Label)
!earshot Top 50 For the Week Ending: Tuesday, November 29, 2022
1	Alvvays Blue Rev - (Polyvinyl)
2	Dumb Pray 4 Tomorrow - (Mint)
3	Blue Moon Marquee Scream, Holler & Howl - (Self-Released)
4	Dry Cleaning Stumpwork - (4AD)
5	Zoon A Sterling Murmuration - (Paper Bag)
6	Status/Non-Status Surely Travel - (You've Changed)
7	Sloan Steady - (Yep Roc)
8	Sudan Archives Natural Brown Prom Queen - (Stones Throw)
9	Frankie Cosmos Inner World Peace - (Sub Pop)
10	Tegan And Sara Crybaby - (Mom + Pop)
*View the full Top 50*

Specialty Charts #1s
Hip Hop:	Dill the Giant - Weed Man Son (Deluxe) - (Birthday Cake)
Loud:	The Chats - Get Fucked - (Bargain Bin)
Folk/Roots/Blues:	Blue Moon Marquee - Scream, Holler & Howl - (Self-Released)

TW	Artist - Title - (Label)
!earshot September Top 200 For the Month of September 2022
1	The Sadies Colder Streams - (Dine Alone)
2	Kiwi Jr. Chopper - (Sub Pop)
3	Metric Formentera - (Thirty Tigers)
4	Marci Marci - (Arbutus)
5	JayWood Slingshot - (Captured Tracks)
6	Soccer Mommy Sometimes, Forever - (Concord / Loma Vista)
7	Mariel Buckley Everywhere I Used To Be - (Birthday Cake)
8	Art d'Ecco After the Head Rush - (Paper Bag)
9	Medicine Singers Medicine Singers - (Mothland)
10	Blue Moon Marquee Scream, Holler & Howl - (Self-Released)
*View the full !earshot Top 200*

Specialty Charts #1s
Electronic:	Korea Town Acid - Elephant In The Room - (Urbnet)
Hip Hop:	Dill the Giant - Weed Man Son (Deluxe) - (Birthday Cake)
International:	KOKOROKO - Could We Be More - (Brownswood)
Jazz:	Billy Drummond and Freedom of Ideas - Valse Sinistre - (Cellar)
Loud:	The Chats - Get Fucked - (Bargain Bin)
Folk/Roots/Blues:	Mariel Buckley - Everywhere I Used To Be - (Birthday Cake)

TW	Artist - Title - (Label)
!earshot Top 200 of 2021 For January to December 2021
1	TEKE::TEKE Shirushi - (Kill Rock Stars)
2	The Halluci Nation One More Saturday Night - (Radicalized)
3	Chad VanGaalen World's Most Stressed Out Gardener - (Flemish Eye)
4	The Weather Station Ignorance - (Next Door)
5	Kiwi Jr. Cooler Returns - (Kiwi Club)
6	Arlo Parks Collapsed In Sunbeams - (Transgressive)
7	Ada Lea one hand on the steering wheel the other sewing a garden - (Next Door)
8	Sook-Yin Lee & Adam Litovitz jooj two - (Mint)
9	Suuns The Witness - (Secret City)
10	Andy Shauf Wilds - (Arts & Crafts)
*View the full !earshot Top 200*

Specialty Charts #1s
Electronic:	The Halluci Nation - One More Saturday Night - (Radicalized)
Hip Hop:	Cadence Weapon - Parallel World - (Self-Released)
International:	Lakou Mizik and Joseph Ray - Leave The Bones - (Anjunadeep)
Jazz:	Adrian Younge - The American Negro - (Jazz Is Dead)
Loud:	Tunic - Exhaling - (Artoffact)
Folk/Roots/Blues:	Allison Russell - Outside Child - (Fantasy)

Latest Charts
CFBX Folk/Roots/Blues #1 I Draw Slow 20 hours ago
CFBX Hip Hop #1 DK x Ghettosocks 20 hours ago
CFBX Electronic #1 DJ Phoenix 20 hours ago
CFBX Loud #1 Quit It! 20 hours ago
CFBX International #1 Joy Lapps 20 hours ago
CFBX Jazz #1 Rafael Zaldivar 20 hours ago
CFBX Top 30 #1 Teenage Art Scene 20 hours ago
CFOU Loud #1 Epica 21 hours ago
CFOU Top 30 #1 Goat 21 hours ago
CISM Top 30 #1 Anna Arrobas 23 hours ago
Folk/Roots/Blues #1 Blue Moon Marquee 2 days ago
Loud #1 The Chats 2 days ago
Hip Hop #1 Dill the Giant 2 days ago
Top 50 #1 Alvvays 2 days ago
CICK Top 30 #1 Dumb 3 days ago
More Charts...
Adds This Week

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