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September 2024
Cola
Cola, the new band formed by members of Ought after that band's break-up to top the August 2024 earshot Top 200 with their second studio album The Closer. Clairo's Charm is number 2 and Chandler by Wyatt C.Louis is number 3. Iswe (nina at #4) and Laughing (Because It's True at #5) round out the top 5.
Lots is happening over on the weekly charts. Check it out!
Specialty Charts #1s Electronic: Prefuse 73 - New Strategies for Modern Crime Vol. 1 & 2 - (Lex) Hip Hop: Common and Pete Rock - The Auditorium, Vol. 1 - (Loma Vista/Concord) International: Ahmed Moneka - Kanzafula - (Lulaworld Records) Jazz: kim cass - levs - (Pi Recordings) Loud: The Anti-Queens - Disenchanted - (Stomp) Folk/Roots/Blues: Wyatt C. Louis - Chandler - (Royal Mountain) 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
Folk/Roots/Blues #1 Boy Golden 15 hours ago
Loud #1 Fucked Up 15 hours ago
International #1 Lemon Bucket Orkestra 15 hours ago
Hip Hop #1 Common and Pete Rock 15 hours ago
Top 50 #1 Clairo 15 hours ago
CITR Top 30 #1 knitting 2 days ago
CJAM Top 30 #1 Corridor 2 days ago
CKUT Jazz #1 Kris Davis 2 days ago
CJLO International #1 Boogat 2 days ago
CKUT Top 30 #1 Chris Burns & His Going Concerns 2 days ago
CHRW Top 30 #1 The Wabi Sabis 2 days ago
CFRU Top 30 #1 Dan Mangan 2 days ago
CJSW Folk/Roots/Blues #1 Hannah Juanita 2 days ago
CJLO Loud #1 Fucked Up 2 days ago
CICK Top 30 #1 Better Lovers 2 days ago
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!earshot Top 50
For the Week Ending: Tuesday, September 17, 2024
TW Artist - Title - (Label) 1 Clairo
Charm - (Self-Released)2 Donovan Woods
Things Were Never Good If They're Not Good Now - (End Times Music)3 Energy Slime
Planet Perfect - (We Are Time)4 Osees
SORCS 80 - (Castle Face)5 Magdalena Bay
Imaginal Disk - (Mom+Pop)6 Slow Spirit
That's The Gods Talking - (Birthday Cake)7 Boy Golden
For Eden - (Six Shooter)8 Motorists
Touched By the Stuff - (We Are Time)9 Fontaines D.C.
Romance - (XL Recordings)10 MJ Lenderman
Manning Fireworks - (Anti-)View the full Top 50
Specialty Charts #1s Hip Hop: Common and Pete Rock - The Auditorium, Vol. 1 - (Loma Vista/Concord) International: Lemon Bucket Orkestra - Cuckoo - (Self-Released) Loud: Fucked Up - Another Day - (Get Better) Folk/Roots/Blues: Boy Golden - For Eden - (Six Shooter) !earshot August Top 200
For the Month of August 2024
TW Artist - Title - (Label) 1 Cola
The Gloss - (Next Door / Fire Talk)2 Clairo
Charm - (Self-Released)3 Wyatt C. Louis
Chandler - (Royal Mountain)4 iskwe
nina - (Littlebit)5 Laughing
Because It's True - (Celluloid Lunch)6 Islands
What Occurs - (Elf)7 Donovan Woods
Things Were Never Good If They're Not Good Now - (End Times Music)8 Boy Golden
For Eden - (Six Shooter)9 Begonia
Open Swim EP - (Birthday Cake)10 Homeshake
Horsie - (Dine Alone)View the full !earshot Top 200
Specialty Charts #1s Electronic: Prefuse 73 - New Strategies for Modern Crime Vol. 1 & 2 - (Lex) Hip Hop: Common and Pete Rock - The Auditorium, Vol. 1 - (Loma Vista/Concord) International: Ahmed Moneka - Kanzafula - (Lulaworld Records) Jazz: kim cass - levs - (Pi Recordings) Loud: The Anti-Queens - Disenchanted - (Stomp) Folk/Roots/Blues: Wyatt C. Louis - Chandler - (Royal Mountain) !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
Folk/Roots/Blues #1 Boy Golden 15 hours ago
Loud #1 Fucked Up 15 hours ago
International #1 Lemon Bucket Orkestra 15 hours ago
Hip Hop #1 Common and Pete Rock 15 hours ago
Top 50 #1 Clairo 15 hours ago
CITR Top 30 #1 knitting 2 days ago
CJAM Top 30 #1 Corridor 2 days ago
CKUT Jazz #1 Kris Davis 2 days ago
CJLO International #1 Boogat 2 days ago
CKUT Top 30 #1 Chris Burns & His Going Concerns 2 days ago
CHRW Top 30 #1 The Wabi Sabis 2 days ago
CFRU Top 30 #1 Dan Mangan 2 days ago
CJSW Folk/Roots/Blues #1 Hannah Juanita 2 days ago
CJLO Loud #1 Fucked Up 2 days ago
CICK Top 30 #1 Better Lovers 2 days ago
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