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November 2019
Begonia
It is a whole new game at the top of the !earshot National Top 200 for October 2019. At #1 is Begonia's stunning debut album Fear followed by Peach Pyramid's Bright Blue and Close Talker's How Do We Stay Here?. Indie stalwarts The New Pornographers are at #4 with In the Morse Code of Brake Lights and Rae Spoon rounds out the Top 5 with Mental Health.
Jean Michel Blais is the new #1 on the !earshot Electronic chart this month with Dans ma main (remixes) and Sampa the Great's The Return tops the October Hip Hop chart. Meanwhile Necking continues to dominate the Loud chart with their debut Cut Your Teeth.
Check out all the latest action on the weekly charts
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Folk/Roots/Blues #1 Kacy & Clayton 1 day ago
Loud #1 Sunn O))) 1 day ago
Jazz #1 Matana Roberts 1 day ago
International #1 Alex Cuba 1 day ago
Hip Hop #1 Danny Brown 1 day ago
Electronic #1 Blue Hawaii 1 day ago
Top 50 #1 Begonia 1 day ago
CKXU Top 30 #1 A. Trozzo and the Electric Few 2 days ago
CJLO Hip Hop #1 Danny Brown 2 days ago
CKUT Electronic #1 Pursuit Grooves 2 days ago
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!earshot Top 50
For the Week Ending: Tuesday, December 3, 2019
TW Artist - Title - (Label) 1 Begonia 
Fear - (Rex Baby)2 Corridor
Junior - (Bonsound)3 Common Holly
When I Say to You Black Lightning - (Royal Mountain)4 WHOOP-Szo
Warrior Down - (You've Changed)5 Peach Pyramid
Bright Blue - (Oscar Street)6 nêhiyawak
Nipiy - (Arts & Crafts)7 Woolworm
Awe - (Mint)8 The New Pornographers
In the Morse Code of Brake Lights - (Concord)9 Louise Burns
Portraits - (Light Organ Records)10 Sudan Archives
Athena - (Stones Throw)View the full Top 50
Specialty Charts #1s Electronic: Blue Hawaii - Open Reduction Internal Fixation - (Arbutus) Hip Hop: Danny Brown - U Know What I'm Sayin? - (Warp) International: Alex Cuba - Sublime - (Caracol) Jazz: Matana Roberts - Coin Coin Chapter Four: Memphis - (Constellation) Loud: Sunn O))) - Pyroclasts - (Southern Lord) Folk/Roots/Blues: Kacy & Clayton - Carrying On - (New West) !earshot October Top 200
For the Month of October 2019
TW Artist - Title - (Label) 1 Begonia
Fear - (Rex Baby)2 Peach Pyramid
Bright Blue - (Oscar Street)3 Close Talker
How Do We Stay Here? - (Slow Weather)4 The New Pornographers
In the Morse Code of Brake Lights - (Concord)5 Rae Spoon
Mental Health - (Coax)6 Men I Trust
Oncle Jazz - (Self-Released)7 Fly Pan Am
C’est ça - (Constellation)8 Shotgun Jimmie
Transistor Sister 2 - (You've Changed)9 Necking
Cut Your Teeth - (Mint)10 (Sandy) Alex G
House Of Sugar - (Domino)View the full !earshot Top 200
Specialty Charts #1s Electronic: Jean-Michel Blais - Dans ma main (remixes) - (Arts & Crafts) Hip Hop: Sampa The Great - The Return - (Ninja Tune) International: Alex Cuba - Sublime - (Caracol) Jazz: Baritone Madness - Baritone Madness - (Chronograph) Loud: Necking - Cut Your Teeth - (Mint) Folk/Roots/Blues: The Dead South - Sugar and Joy - (Six Shooter Records) !earshot Top 200 of 2018
For the Month of January to December 2018
TW Artist - Title - (Label) 1 U.S. Girls
In A Poem Unlimited - (Royal Mountain)2 Nap Eyes
I'm Bad Now - (You've Changed)3 Ought
Room Inside the World - (Royal Mountain)4 Suuns
Felt - (Secret City)5 Dumb
Seeing Green - (Mint)6 Jennifer Castle
Angels of Death - (Idee Fixe)7 Charlotte Day Wilson
Stone Woman - (Self-Released)8 Frigs
Basic Behaviour - (Arts & Crafts)9 Dilly Dally
Heaven - (Dine Alone)10 Michael Rault
It's A New Day Tonight - (Sleepless)View the full !earshot Top 200
Specialty Charts #1s Electronic: StegoSarahs - Simple Subtraction - (Self-Released) Hip Hop: Cadence Weapon - Cadence Weapon - (eOne Music (E1)) International: Kiran Ahluwalia - 7 Billion - (Six Degrees) Jazz: Peggy Lee - Echo Painting - (Songlines) Loud: Fucked Up - Dose Your Dreams - (Arts & Crafts) Folk/Roots/Blues: Sue Foley - The Ice Queen - (Stony Plain) -
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