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March 2023
Alvvays
The UK's Little Simz tops the February 2023 !earshot Top 200 with No Thank You. July Talk takes on the #2 spot with Remember Never Before and Alvvays' Blue Rev drops down to #3 fro the top spot. . Atsuko Chiba (Water, It Feels Like It's Growing) and White Lung (Premonition) round out the Top 5. Over on the weekly charts there is a new battle for #1. Check it out!
Specialty Charts #1s Electronic: Junior Boys - Waiting Game - (City Slang) Hip Hop: Little Simz - NO THANK YOU - (Forever Living Originals) International: Didon - Tunisian Tale - (Electrofone Music) Jazz: George - Letters To George - (Out Of Your Head) Loud: Obituary - Dying of Everything - (Relapse) Folk/Roots/Blues: Whitehorse - I'm Not Crying, You're Crying - (Six Shooter) Check out all the latest chart action on the weekly charts.
Features
!earshot Top 200 of 2021
For January to December 2021
TW Artist - Title - (Label) 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
CHLY Top 30 #1 Tinge 8 hours ago
CKUT Jazz #1 Ingrid Laubrock 12 hours ago
CKUT Top 30 #1 Gayance 12 hours ago
CJLO Top 30 #1 Murtenscythe 12 hours ago
CJSW Folk/Roots/Blues #1 Jesse Murray 12 hours ago
CHYZ Top 30 #1 Shame 12 hours ago
CJSW Loud #1 The Wring 12 hours ago
CJSW Jazz #1 Cinephonic 12 hours ago
CJSW International #1 Various 12 hours ago
CJSW Hip Hop #1 Adrian Quesada 12 hours ago
CJSW Electronic #1 A Pact Between Strangers 12 hours ago
CJSW Top 30 #1 Shame 12 hours ago
CJAM Folk/Roots/Blues #1 Actual Human People 12 hours ago
CHOP Top 30 #1 Andy Shauf 12 hours ago
CJAM Top 30 #1 Pile 13 hours ago
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!earshot Top 50
For the Week Ending: Tuesday, March 21, 2023
TW Artist - Title - (Label) 1 Andy Shauf
Norm - (Arts & Crafts)2 Little Simz
NO THANK YOU - (Forever Living Originals)3 Begonia
Powder Blue - (Birthday Cake)4 Black Belt Eagle Scout
The Land, The Water, The Sky - (Saddle Creek)5 Young Fathers
Heavy Heavy - (Ninja Tune)6 U.S. Girls
Bless This Mess - (Royal Mountain)7 July Talk
Remember Never Before - (Six Shooter Records)8 Afternoon Bike Ride
Glossover - (Friends of Friends)9 Mac DeMarco
Five Easy Hotdogs - (Self-Released)10 Bridal Party
Cool Down - (Self-Released)View the full Top 50
Specialty Charts #1s Hip Hop: Snotty Nose Rez Kids - I'm Good, HBU - (Self-Released) Loud: Fucked Up - One Day - (Merge) Folk/Roots/Blues: Cat Clyde - Down Rounder - (Second Prize) !earshot February Top 200
For the Month of February 2023
TW Artist - Title - (Label) 1 Little Simz
NO THANK YOU - (Forever Living Originals)2 July Talk
Remember Never Before - (Six Shooter Records)3 Alvvays
Blue Rev - (Polyvinyl)4 Atsuko Chiba
Water, It Feels Like It's Growing - (Mothland)5 White Lung
Premonition - (Domino)6 Weyes Blood
And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglo - (Sub Pop)7 Mauvey
Before The Album: a love letter to the moons of mars - (604)8 Whitehorse
I'm Not Crying, You're Crying - (Six Shooter)9 Andy Shauf
Norm - (Anti-)10 Mayfly
HIDEAWAY Vol. 1 - (Duprince)View the full !earshot Top 200
Specialty Charts #1s Electronic: Junior Boys - Waiting Game - (City Slang) Hip Hop: Little Simz - NO THANK YOU - (Forever Living Originals) International: Didon - Tunisian Tale - (Electrofone Music) Jazz: George - Letters To George - (Out Of Your Head) Loud: Obituary - Dying of Everything - (Relapse) Folk/Roots/Blues: Whitehorse - I'm Not Crying, You're Crying - (Six Shooter) !earshot Top 200 of 2021
For January to December 2021
TW Artist - Title - (Label) 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
CHLY Top 30 #1 Tinge 8 hours ago
CKUT Jazz #1 Ingrid Laubrock 12 hours ago
CKUT Top 30 #1 Gayance 12 hours ago
CJLO Top 30 #1 Murtenscythe 12 hours ago
CJSW Folk/Roots/Blues #1 Jesse Murray 12 hours ago
CHYZ Top 30 #1 Shame 12 hours ago
CJSW Loud #1 The Wring 12 hours ago
CJSW Jazz #1 Cinephonic 12 hours ago
CJSW International #1 Various 12 hours ago
CJSW Hip Hop #1 Adrian Quesada 12 hours ago
CJSW Electronic #1 A Pact Between Strangers 12 hours ago
CJSW Top 30 #1 Shame 12 hours ago
CJAM Folk/Roots/Blues #1 Actual Human People 12 hours ago
CHOP Top 30 #1 Andy Shauf 12 hours ago
CJAM Top 30 #1 Pile 13 hours ago
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