Charts

KEXP Charts for the Week of Apr 19 - Apr 25

Add Date: Apr 29

NOTE: KEXP's charts include albums that have not been released to the public yet, but have been made available to KEXP for airplay. 

Top 90:  

  1. Khruangbin - A LA SALA (Dead Oceans/Night Time Stories Ltd.)
  2. Beyoncé - COWBOY CARTER (Parkwood Entertainment/Columbia)
  3. Brainstory - Sounds Good (Big Crown)
  4. English Teacher - This Could Be Texas (Island)
  5. Brimheim - RATKING (TAMBOURHINOCEROS)
  6. Ibibio Sound Machine - Pull the Rope (Merge)
  7. Gary Clark Jr. - JPEG RAW (Warner)
  8. Chicano Batman - Notebook Fantasy (ATO)
  9. Seafood Sam - Standing On Giant Shoulders (drink sum wtr)
  10. Nia Archives - Silence Is Loud (Hijinxx/Island)
  11. Gustaf - Package Pt. 2 (Royal Mountain)
  12. somesurprises - Perseids (Doom Trip)
  13. Fontaines D.C. - Romance [XL Recordings]
  14. St. Vincent - All Born Screaming (Virgin)
  15. Various Artists - Everyone’s Getting Involved: A Tribute to Talking Heads’ Stop Making Sense (A24)
  16. Pearl Jam - Dark Matter (Monkeywrench/Republic)
  17. The Black Keys - Ohio Players (Nonesuch)
  18. Brittany Howard - What Now (Island)
  19. Chastity Belt - Live Laugh Love (Suicide Squeeze)
  20. Another Taste - Another Taste (Space Grapes)
  21. EMEL - MRA (Little Human)
  22. Boeckner - Boeckner! (Sub Pop)
  23. Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band - BRSB (Big Crown)
  24. Dehd - Poetry (Fat Possum)
  25. Jamie xx - “Baddy on the Floor (feat. Honey Dijon)” (Young)
  26. Nilufer Yanya - “Like I Say (I runaway)” (Ninja Tune)
  27. Suki Waterhouse - “My Fun” (Sub Pop)
  28. Yannis & The Yaw - Lagos Paris London EP (Transgressive)
  29. Francis of Delirium - Lighthouse (Dalliance Recordings)
  30. Waxahatchee - Tigers Blood (ANTI-)
  31. Tierra Whack - WORLD WIDE WHACK (Interscope)
  32. New Age Healers - The Spin Out (self-released)
  33. Cindy Lee - Diamond Jubilee (self-released)
  34. Dabeull - Analog Love (Roche Musique)
  35. Logic1000 - Mother (Therapy/Because Music)
  36. Glass Beams - Mahal EP (Ninja Tune)
  37. Ana Tijoux - Vida (Victoria Producciones)
  38. Justice - Hyperdrama (Ed Banger Records/Because)
  39. The Decemberists - As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again (YABB Records/Thirty Tigers)
  40. Been Stellar - Scream from New York, NY (Dirty Hit)
  41. Brijean - Macro (Ghostly International)
  42. GEMZ - “Younger”(Sonic Ritual)
  43. Brittany Davis - Image Issues (Loosegroove)
  44. Empress Of - For Your Consideration (Giant Music)
  45. The Jesus and Mary Chain - Glasgow Eyes (Fuzz Club)
  46. Sheer Mag - Playing Favorites (Third Man)
  47. Real Estate - Daniel (Domino)
  48. Middle Kids - Faith Crisis Pt 1 (AWAL)
  49. Gossip - Real Power (Columbia)
  50. Bnny - One Million Love Songs (Fire Talk)
  51. Ride - Interplay (Wichita)
  52. A Certain Ratio - It All Comes Down To This (Mute)
  53. The Reds, Pinks & Purples - Unwishing Well (Tough Love)
  54. Shabaka - Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace (Impulse!)
  55. Ki! - Yong‐Gwanglo Part One (Crunchy Frog)
  56. Orgone - Chimera (3 Palm)
  57. Aaron Frazer - Into The Blue (Dead Oceans)
  58. The Marías - Submarine (Nice Life/Atlantic)
  59. Caribou - “Honey” (Merge)
  60. Habibi - Dreamachine (Kill Rock Stars)
  61. Shannon & The Clams - The Moon Is In the Wrong Place (Easy Eye Sound)
  62. Arooj Aftab - Night Reign (Verve)
  63. Iron & Wine - Light Verse (Sub Pop)
  64. Baby Rose & BADBADNOTGOOD - Slow Burn EP (Secretly Canadian)
  65. Mannequin Pussy - I Got Heaven (Epitaph)
  66. Erick The Architect - I’ve Never Been Here Before (self-released)
  67. Ducks Ltd. - Harm’s Way (Carpark)
  68. IDLES - TANGK (Partisan)
  69. Cloud Nothings - Final Summer (Pure Noise)
  70. Dog Park - Festina Lente (Géographie)
  71. Ekko Astral - pink balloons (Topshelf)
  72. Mei Semones - Kabutomushi EP (Bayonet Records)
  73. Pillow Queens - Your Sorrow (Royal Mountain)
  74. Maggie Rogers - Don’t Forget Me (Capitol Records)
  75. Alice Russell - I Am  (Tru Thoughts)
  76. Mount Kimbie - The Sunset Violent (Warp)
  77. RiTchie - Triple Digits [112] (self-released)
  78. Cor.Ece & Bad Colours - Been Here Before (Bastard Jazz Recordings)
  79. Reyna Tropical - Malegría (Psychic Hotline)
  80. Bondax - Journey (Future Disco)
  81. Salt Cathedral - Before It’s Gone (Independent/The Orchard)
  82. Four Tet - Three (Text)
  83. Project Gemini - Colours & Light (Mr Bongo)
  84. Vegyn - The Road to Hell Is Paved With Good Intentions (PLZ Make It Ruins)
  85. Tyla - TYLA (FAX/Epic)
  86. Julia Holter - Something in the Room She Moves (Domino)
  87. Sly5thAve - Liberation (Tru Thoughts)
  88. Clarissa Connelly - World of Work (Warp)
  89. Jembaa Groove - Ye Ankasa | We Ourselves (Agogo)
  90. Nourished By Time - Catching Chickens EP (XL Recordings)

Americana: 

  1. Beyoncé - COWBOY CARTER (Parkwood Entertainment/Columbia)
  2. Gary Clark Jr. - JPEG RAW (Warner)
  3. Waxahatchee - Tigers Blood (ANTI-)
  4. The Decemberists - As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again (YABB Records/Thirty Tigers)
  5. Real Estate - Daniel (Domino)
  6. Iron & Wine - Light Verse (Sub Pop)
  7. Adrianne Lenker - Bright Future (4AD)
  8. Rosali - Bite Down (Merge)
  9. Sam Evian - Plunge (Flying Cloud Recordings)
  10. Louisa Stancioff - When We Were Looking (Yep Roc)

Global: 

  1. Ibibio Sound Machine - Pull the Rope (Merge)
  2. EMEL - MRA (Little Human)
  3. Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band - BRSB (Big Crown)
  4. Glass Beams - Mahal EP (Ninja Tune)
  5. Ana Tijoux - Vida (Victoria Producciones)
  6. Empress Of - For Your Consideration (Giant Music)
  7. Orgone - Chimera (3 Palm)
  8. Arooj Aftab - Night Reign (Verve)
  9. Reyna Tropical - Malegría (Psychic Hotline)
  10. Bondax - Journey (Future Disco)

Hip-Hop: 

  1. Seafood Sam - Standing On Giant Shoulders (drink sum wtr)
  2. Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band - BRSB (Big Crown)
  3. Tierra Whack - WORLD WIDE WHACK (Interscope)
  4. Ana Tijoux - Vida (Victoria Producciones)
  5. Erick The Architect - I’ve Never Been Here Before (self-released)
  6. RiTchie - Triple Digits [112] (self-released)
  7. Cor.Ece & Bad Colours - Been Here Before (Bastard Jazz Recordings)
  8. Vegyn - The Road to Hell Is Paved With Good Intentions (PLZ Make It Ruins)
  9. Sly5thAve - Liberation (Tru Thoughts)
  10. 1010benja - Ten Total   Three (Six Zero Recordings)

RPM/Electronic: 

  1. Ibibio Sound Machine - Pull the Rope (Merge)
  2. Nia Archives - Silence Is Loud (Hijinxx/Island)
  3. EMEL - MRA (Little Human)
  4. Jamie xx - “Baddy on the Floor (feat. Honey Dijon)” (Young)
  5. Dabeull - Analog Love (Roche Musique)
  6. Logic1000 - Mother (Therapy/Because M
  7. Ana Tijoux - Vida (Victoria Producciones)
  8. Justice - Hyperdrama (Ed Banger Records/Because)
  9. Brijean - Macro (Ghostly International)
  10. GEMZ - “Younger”(Sonic Ritual)

R&B/Blues: 

  1. Beyoncé - COWBOY CARTER (Parkwood Entertainment/Columbia)
  2. Brainstory - Sounds Good (Big Crown)
  3. Ibibio Sound Machine - Pull the Rope (Merge)
  4. Chicano Batman - Notebook Fantasy (ATO)
  5. Seafood Sam - Standing On Giant Shoulders (drink sum wtr)
  6. Nia Archives - Silence Is Loud (Hijinxx/Island)
  7. Brittany Howard - What Now (Island)
  8. Another Taste - Another Taste (Space Grapes)
  9. Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band - BRSB (Big Crown)
  10. Tierra Whack - WORLD WIDE WHACK (Interscope)

Jazz: 

  1. Brainstory - Sounds Good (Big Crown)
  2. Shabaka - Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace (Impulse!)
  3. Sly5thAve - Liberation (Tru Thoughts)
  4. Jembaa Groove - Ye Ankasa | We Ourselves (Agogo)
  5. Amaro Freitas - Y’Y (Psychic Hotline)
  6. mega cat - mega cat (Share It Music)
  7. Yussef Dayes - Live From Malibu (Brownswood Recodings)
  8. Kamasi Washington - Fearless Movement (Young)
  9. Hiatus Kaiyote - Love Heart Cheat Code (Brainfeeder)
  10. Ghost Funk Orchestra - A Trip To The Moon (Karma Chief)

Northwest: 

  1. somesurprises - Perseids (Doom Trip)
  2. Pearl Jam - Dark Matter (Monkeywrench/Republic)
  3. Chastity Belt - Live Laugh Love (Suicide Squeeze)
  4. New Age Healers - The Spin Out (self-released)
  5. GEMZ - “Younger”(Sonic Ritual)
  6. Brittany Davis - Image Issues (Loosegroove)
  7. Gossip - Real Power (Columbia)
  8. mega cat - mega cat (Share It Music)
  9. Acid Tongue - Acid On The Dancefloor (self-released)
  10. foamboy - Eating Me Alive (self-released)

Adds: 

Iron & Wine - Light Verse (Sub Pop)
St. Vincent - All Born Screaming (Virgin)
Bruk Rogers - Loopholes (Tru Thoughts)
Bullion - Affection (Ghostly International)
Corridor - Mimi (Sub Pop)
Hovvdy - Hovvdy (Arts & Crafts)
Justice - Hyperdrama (EdBanger/Because)
Asha Jefferies - Ego Ride (Nettwerk)
Babehoven - Water’s Here In You (Double Double Whammy)
Bad Bad Hats - Bad Bad Hats (Don Giovanni)
IYAMAH - In Two Worlds (self-released)
Joh Chase - SOLO (Kill Rock Stars)
Kindsight - No Shame No Fame (Rama Lama)
Maria Chiara Argirò - Closer (Innovative Leisure)
Maxband - On Ice (Holm Front)
Parsnip - Behold (Anti Fade/Upset the Rhythm)
porij - Teething (Play It Again Sam)
Sega Bodega - Dennis (ambient tweets)
Wine Lips - Super Mega Ultra (The Reverberation Appreciation Society/Levitation)
Annie-Claude Deschênes - LES MANIÈRES DE TABLE (Italians Do It Better)
Pet Shop Boys - Nonetheless (Parlophone)
Wisp - Pandora EP (Music Soup/Interscope)