10-20-2025

KEXP Charts for the Week of Oct 10 - Oct 16

Add Date: Oct. 20

NOTE: Due to special programming during the week, we were only able to compile a Top 50 chart of rotation airplay. Full Top 90 resumes next week. Also, KEXP's charts include albums that have not been released to the public yet, but have been made available to KEXP for airplay. 


Top 50:  

  1. Jay Som - Belong (Polyvinyl)
  2. Packaging - Packaging (Share It Music)
  3. NoSo - When Are You Leaving? (Partisan)
  4. Geese - Getting Killed (Partisan)
  5. Austra - Chin Up Buttercup (Domino)
  6. Ya Tseen - Stand On My Shoulders (Sub Pop)
  7. SPRINTS - All That Is Over (Sub Pop)
  8. Cut Copy - Moments (Cutters)
  9. Courtney Barnett - “Stay In Your Lane” (Mom+Pop)
  10. Amber Mark - Pretty Idea (PMR Records/Interscope)
  11. Say She She - Cut & Rewind (drink sum wtr)
  12. Nation of Language - Dance Called Memory (Sub Pop)
  13. Blood Orange - Essex Honey (RCA)
  14. FONTINE - Good Buddy (Birthday Cake Records)
  15. Lack of Afro - Love Dealer (The Bastion Music Group)
  16. Automatic - Is It Now? (Stones Throw)
  17. Jeff Tweedy - Twilight Override (dBpm Records)
  18. Cochemea - Vol III: Ancestros Futuros (Daptone)
  19. DJ Seinfeld & Confidence Man - “The Right” (Ninja Tune)
  20. Just Mustard - WE WERE JUST HERE (Partisan)
  21. Sylvan Esso - “WDID” (Psychic Hotline)
  22. Wednesday - Bleeds (Dead Oceans)
  23. Big Thief - Double Infinity (4AD)
  24. Curtis Harding - Departures & Arrivals: Adventures of Captain Curt (ANTI-)
  25. The Beths - Straight Line Was A Lie (ANTI-)
  26. Lady Wray - Cover Girl (Big Crown Records)
  27. CARRTOONS - Space Cadet (+1)
  28. Alabama Shakes - “Another Life” (Island)
  29. Francis of Delirium - “Little Black Dress" (Dalliance Recordings)
  30. Genesis Owusu - “PIRATE RADIO” (OURNESS)
  31. Sugar - “House of Dead Memories” (BMG)
  32. Sudan Archives - THE BPM (Stones Throw)
  33. Rocket - R is for Rocket (Transgressive/Canvasback)
  34. Neko Case - Neon Grey Midnight Green (ANTI-)
  35. Dijon - Baby (R&R/Warner)
  36. Kassa Overall - CREAM (Warp)
  37. POLIÇA - Dreams Go (Memphis Industries)
  38. Soulwax - All Systems Are Lying (DEEWEE/Because)
  39. Pynch - Beautiful Noise (Chillburn Recordings)
  40. Ribbon Skirt - PENSACOLA EP (Mint Records)
  41. Die Spitz - Something to Consume (Third Man)
  42. Car Culture - Rest Here (NAFF Recordings)
  43. Lila Iké - Treasure Self Love (Ineffable)
  44. KAYTRANADA - AIN’T NO DAMN WAY! (RCA)
  45. Sofia Kourtesis - Volver EP (Ninja Tune)
  46. Tomo Nakayama - Ocean (Porchlight Records/Den Tapes)
  47. Hatchie - Liquorice (Secretly Canadian)
  48. Phantogram - “Earthshaker” (Neon Gold)
  49. Preoccupations - MUR/PONR (Born Losers Records)
  50. Angela Muñoz - “Noche No Te Vayas” (Stones Throw)

Americana/Folk: 

  1. FONTINE - Good Buddy (Birthday Cake Records)
  2. Jeff Tweedy - Twilight Override (dBpm Records)
  3. Wednesday - Bleeds (Dead Oceans)
  4. Big Thief - Double Infinity (4AD)
  5. Neko Case - Neon Grey Midnight Green (ANTI-)
  6. Dean Johnson - I Hope We Can Still Be Friends (Saddle Creek)
  7. KIRBY - Miss Black America (self-released)
  8. Hand Habits - Blue Reminder (Fat Possum)
  9. Mae Powell - Making Room for the Light (Karma Chief Records)
  10. Muireann Bradley - “These Days” (Decca/Verve Forecast)

Global: 

  1. Cochemea - Vol III: Ancestros Futuros (Daptone)
  2. Lila Iké - Treasure Self Love (Ineffable)
  3. Sofia Kourtesis - Volver EP (Ninja Tune)
  4. Angela Muñoz - “Noche No Te Vayas” (Stones Throw)
  5. Hollie Cook - Shy Girl (Mr Bongo)
  6. Yasmine Hamdan - I Remember I Forget بنسى وبتذك (Crammed Discs)
  7. Antibalas - Hourglass (Daptone)
  8. Orchestra Gold - Dakan (self-released)
  9. Lucrecia Dalt - A Danger to Ourselves (RVNG Intl)
  10. SE SO NEON - <NOW> (AWAL)

Hip-Hop: 

  1. CARRTOONS - Space Cadet (+1)
  2. Genesis Owusu - “PIRATE RADIO” (OURNESS)
  3. Sudan Archives - THE BPM (Stones Throw)
  4. Kassa Overall - CREAM (Warp)
  5. Lila Iké - Treasure Self Love (Ineffable)
  6. KAYTRANADA - AIN’T NO DAMN WAY! (RCA)
  7. Deki Alem - Forget in Mass (Amuseio AB)
  8. Danger Mouse & Black Thought with Rag’n’Bone Man - “Up” (BMG)
  9. Nightmares on Wax - Echo45 Sound System (Warp)
  10. Nourished By Time - The Passionate Ones (XL Recordings)

RPM/Electronic: 

  1. Austra - Chin Up Buttercup (Domino)
  2. Cut Copy - Moments (Cutters)
  3. Lack of Afro - Love Dealer (The Bastion Music Group)
  4. DJ Seinfeld & Confidence Man - “The Right” (Ninja Tune)
  5. Sylvan Esso - “WDID” (Psychic Hotline)
  6. Sudan Archives - THE BPM (Stones Throw)
  7. POLIÇA - Dreams Go (Memphis Industries)
  8. Soulwax - All Systems Are Lying (DEEWEE/Because)
  9. Car Culture - Rest Here (NAFF Recordings)
  10. KAYTRANADA - AIN’T NO DAMN WAY! (RCA)

R&B/Blues/Soul: 

  1. Amber Mark - Pretty Idea (PMR Records/Interscope)
  2. Say She She - Cut & Rewind (drink sum wtr)
  3. Blood Orange - Essex Honey (RCA)
  4. Lack of Afro - Love Dealer (The Bastion Music Group)
  5. Cochemea - Vol III: Ancestros Futuros (Daptone)
  6. Curtis Harding - Departures & Arrivals: Adventures of Captain Curt (ANTI-)
  7. Lady Wray - Cover Girl (Big Crown Records)
  8. CARRTOONS - Space Cadet (+1)
  9. Alabama Shakes - “Another Life” (Island)
  10. Sudan Archives - THE BPM (Stones Throw)

Jazz: 

  1. Cochemea - Vol III: Ancestros Futuros (Daptone)
  2. CARRTOONS - Space Cadet (+1)
  3. Kassa Overall - CREAM (Warp)
  4. Niia - V (Candid Records)
  5. El Michels Affair - 24 Hr Sports (Big Crown)
  6. Anushka - Ancestry (BBE Music)
  7. Nate Smith - LIVE-ACTION (naïve)
  8. KeiyaA - hooke’s law (XL Recordings)
  9. Maruja - Pain to Power (Music For Nations)
  10. Polyrhythmics - Life from Below (self-released)

Northwest: 

  1. Packaging - Packaging (Share It Music)
  2. Neko Case - Neon Grey Midnight Green (ANTI-)
  3. Kassa Overall - CREAM (Warp)
  4. Tomo Nakayama - Ocean (Porchlight Records/Den Tapes)
  5. Coral Grief - Air Between Us (Suicide Squeeze)
  6. Smokey Brights - Dashboard Heat (Share It Music)
  7. Dean Johnson - I Hope We Can Still Be Friends (Saddle Creek)
  8. glass egg - visions & ecstasies (frances dietrich/Den Tapes)
  9. Glitterfox - decoder (Jealous Butcher)
  10. Linda From Work - Linda From Work (self-released)

Adds: 

Sudan Archives - THE BPM (Stones Throw)
Tame Impala - Deadbeat (Columbia)
bar italia - Some Like It Hot (Matador)
Katie McBride - RHODO (Blue Water)
Militarie Gun - God Save The Gun (Loma Vista Recordings)
Orchestra Gold - Dakan (self-released)
POLIÇA - Dreams Go (Memphis Industries)
Soulwax - All Systems Are Lying (DEEWEE/Because)
Wargirl - Good Things (Clouds Hill)
Barnet - Galen och kär (sing a song fighter)
Casey Dienel - My Heart is an Outlaw (Jealous Butcher Records)
Good Flying Birds - Talulah’s Tape (Carpark)
Linda From Work - Linda From Work (self-released)
Massage - Coaster (Bobo Integral)
Megatronic - There’s Truth in Gospel (Razor-N-Tape)
Mondo Freaks - Mondo Freaks (Every Star)
Semisoft - Semisoft (Den Tapes)
Silvana Estrada - Vendrán Suaves Lluvias (Glassnote)
Siselabonga - Halo’s Glitter (A Tree in a Field)
Sunbörn Meets Clap! Clap! - Earth Is Begging (Wah Wah 45s)
The Expert - Vivid Visions (Rucksack)
The Wytches - Talking Machine (Alcopop Records)