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January 2025
OMBIIGIZI
OMBIIGIZI starts the year off at the top of the earshot Top 200 for the month of December 2024 with SHAME on Arts & Crafts.
Australian outfit Amyl & the Sniffers are in the number 2 spot with Cartoon Darkness while Hildegard (Jour 1596), PyPy (Sacred Times) and former #1 knitting (My Method Actor) round out the top 5.Lots is happening over on the weekly charts. Check it out!
Specialty Charts #1s Electronic: Hildegard - Jour 1596 - (Chivi Chivi) Hip Hop: Snotty Nose Rez Kids - Red Future - (Self-Released) International: Jah'Mila - Woman Of The Sun - (Self-Released) Jazz: Joel Jeschke - Time & Place - (Self-Released) Loud: Amyl and the Sniffers - Cartoon Darkness - (Rough Trade) Folk/Roots/Blues: Blue Moon Marquee - New Orleans Sessions - (Self-Released) 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 Skinny Dyck 2 days ago
Hip Hop #1 Kendrick Lamar 2 days ago
Top 50 #1 The Weather Station 2 days ago
CFMH Top 30 #1 Love Is Noise 2 days ago
CICK Top 30 #1 Elena Erin 2 days ago
CITR Top 30 #1 Matt Hsu's Obscure Orchestra 2 days ago
CIVL Hip Hop #1 Kendrick Lamar 2 days ago
CIVL Electronic #1 FKA twigs 2 days ago
CFRU Top 30 #1 Elephant Stone 2 days ago
CFRU Top 30 #1 Elephant Stone 2 days ago
CFUV Folk/Roots/Blues #1 The Honey Cowboy 2 days ago
CFUV Loud #1 Coup D'état 2 days ago
CFUV Jazz #1 Carson Tworow and David Lavoie 2 days ago
CIVL Top 30 #1 Bukola 2 days ago
CHRW Top 30 #1 The Wabi Sabis 2 days ago
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!earshot Top 50
For the Week Ending: Tuesday, February 18, 2025
TW Artist - Title - (Label) 1 The Weather Station
Humanhood - (Next Door)2 N NAO
Nouveau Langage - (Mothland)3 Marlaena Moore
Because You Love Everything - (Self-Released)4 Lambrini Girls
Who Let The Dogs Out - (City Slang)5 FKA twigs
EUSEXUA - (Atlantic Records)6 Maddie Jay
I Can Change Your Mind - (Self-Released)7 Chloe Doucet
Sincerely, - (Self-Released)8 SHEBAD
Music is the Answer - (Lovetown)9 Squid
Cowards - (Warp Records)10 Gus Englehorn
The Hornbook - (Secret City)View the full Top 50
Specialty Charts #1s Hip Hop: Kendrick Lamar - GNX - (pgLang) Folk/Roots/Blues: Skinny Dyck - Easygoing - (Victory Pool) !earshot December Top 200
For the Month of December 2024
TW Artist - Title - (Label) 1 OMBIIGIZI
SHAME - (Arts & Crafts)2 Amyl and the Sniffers
Cartoon Darkness - (Rough Trade)3 Hildegard
Jour 1596 - (Chivi Chivi)4 PyPy
Sacred Times - (Goner)5 knitting
Some Kind of Heaven - (Mint Records)6 Godspeed You! Black Emperor
"NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28,340 DEAD" - (Constellation)7 Chloe Doucet
Sincerely, - (Self-Released)8 Jonah Yano
Jonah Yano & The Heavy Loop - (People Champs)9 Jennifer Castle
Camelot - (Paradise Of Bachelors)10 Talking Violet
Everything At Once - (Self-Released)View the full !earshot Top 200
Specialty Charts #1s Electronic: Hildegard - Jour 1596 - (Chivi Chivi) Hip Hop: Snotty Nose Rez Kids - Red Future - (Self-Released) International: Jah'Mila - Woman Of The Sun - (Self-Released) Jazz: Joel Jeschke - Time & Place - (Self-Released) Loud: Amyl and the Sniffers - Cartoon Darkness - (Rough Trade) Folk/Roots/Blues: Blue Moon Marquee - New Orleans Sessions - (Self-Released) !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 Skinny Dyck 2 days ago
Hip Hop #1 Kendrick Lamar 2 days ago
Top 50 #1 The Weather Station 2 days ago
CFMH Top 30 #1 Love Is Noise 2 days ago
CICK Top 30 #1 Elena Erin 2 days ago
CITR Top 30 #1 Matt Hsu's Obscure Orchestra 2 days ago
CIVL Hip Hop #1 Kendrick Lamar 2 days ago
CIVL Electronic #1 FKA twigs 2 days ago
CFRU Top 30 #1 Elephant Stone 2 days ago
CFRU Top 30 #1 Elephant Stone 2 days ago
CFUV Folk/Roots/Blues #1 The Honey Cowboy 2 days ago
CFUV Loud #1 Coup D'état 2 days ago
CFUV Jazz #1 Carson Tworow and David Lavoie 2 days ago
CIVL Top 30 #1 Bukola 2 days ago
CHRW Top 30 #1 The Wabi Sabis 2 days ago
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