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December 2022
Alvvays
Alvvays have been dominiating the earshot charts recently and take over the #1 spot on the !earshot Top 200 for November 2022 with Blue Rev on Polyvinyl Records. Zoon has jumped up to #2 with his EP A Starling Murmuration and Status/Non Status's Surely Travel holds steady at #3. Alex G (God Save The Animals) and Sudan Archives (Natural Brown Prom Queen) round out the !earshot Top 5.
Specialty Charts #1s Electronic: Daphni - Cherry - (Jiaolong) Hip Hop: Sampa The Great - As Above So Below - (Loma Vista) International: Joy Lapps - Girl In The Yard - (Self-Released) Jazz: Ernesto Cervini - Joy - (TPRRecords) Loud: KEN mode - Null - (Artoffact) Folk/Roots/Blues: Mariel Buckley - Everywhere I Used To Be - (Birthday Cake) Check out all the latest chart action on the weekly charts.
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!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
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CFBX Folk/Roots/Blues #1 Rosanne Baker Thornley 1 day ago
CFBX Loud #1 MVLL CRIMES 1 day ago
CFBX Jazz #1 PJ Perry 1 day ago
CFBX International #1 Adrian Sherwood 1 day ago
CFBX Hip Hop #1 Ivason Black 1 day ago
CFBX Electronic #1 Junior Boys 1 day ago
CFOU Loud #1 Obituary 1 day ago
CFOU Top 30 #1 Goat 1 day ago
CISM Top 30 #1 Weyes Blood 1 day ago
International #1 Hermanos Gutiérrez 3 days ago
Hip Hop #1 Run The Jewels 3 days ago
Electronic #1 Junior Boys 3 days ago
Top 50 #1 Weyes Blood 3 days ago
CJAM Top 30 #1 PONY 4 days ago
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!earshot Top 50
For the Week Ending: Tuesday, January 31, 2023
TW Artist - Title - (Label) 1 Weyes Blood
And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglo - (Sub Pop)2 Alvvays
Blue Rev - (Polyvinyl)3 Little Simz
NO THANK YOU - (Forever Living Originals)4 Dumb
Pray 4 Tomorrow - (Mint)5 White Lung
Premonition - (Domino)6 Planet Giza
You Don't Understand [EP] - (Self-Released)7 MorMor
Semblance - (Don't Guess)8 Field Guide
Field Guide - (Birthday Cake)9 Atsuko Chiba
Water, It Feels Like It's Growing - (Mothland)10 Junior Boys
Waiting Game - (City Slang)View the full Top 50
Specialty Charts #1s Electronic: Junior Boys - Waiting Game - (City Slang) Hip Hop: Run The Jewels - RTJ CU4TRO - (BMG) International: Hermanos Gutiérrez - El Bueno y El Malo - (Easy Eye Sound) !earshot November Top 200
For the Month of November 2022
TW Artist - Title - (Label) 1 Alvvays
Blue Rev - (Polyvinyl)2 Zoon
A Sterling Murmuration - (Paper Bag)3 Status/Non-Status
Surely Travel - (You've Changed)4 Alex G
God Save The Animals - (Domino)5 Sudan Archives
Natural Brown Prom Queen - (Stones Throw)6 Blue Moon Marquee
Scream, Holler & Howl - (Self-Released)7 Kiwi Jr.
Chopper - (Sub Pop)8 Sampa The Great
As Above So Below - (Loma Vista)9 Heaven for Real
Energy Bar - (Mint)10 Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Cool It Down - (Secretly Canadian)View the full !earshot Top 200
Specialty Charts #1s Electronic: Daphni - Cherry - (Jiaolong) Hip Hop: Sampa The Great - As Above So Below - (Loma Vista) International: Joy Lapps - Girl In The Yard - (Self-Released) Jazz: Ernesto Cervini - Joy - (TPRRecords) Loud: KEN mode - Null - (Artoffact) Folk/Roots/Blues: Mariel Buckley - Everywhere I Used To Be - (Birthday Cake) !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
CFBX Top 30 #1 Actors 1 day ago
CFBX Folk/Roots/Blues #1 Rosanne Baker Thornley 1 day ago
CFBX Loud #1 MVLL CRIMES 1 day ago
CFBX Jazz #1 PJ Perry 1 day ago
CFBX International #1 Adrian Sherwood 1 day ago
CFBX Hip Hop #1 Ivason Black 1 day ago
CFBX Electronic #1 Junior Boys 1 day ago
CFOU Loud #1 Obituary 1 day ago
CFOU Top 30 #1 Goat 1 day ago
CISM Top 30 #1 Weyes Blood 1 day ago
International #1 Hermanos Gutiérrez 3 days ago
Hip Hop #1 Run The Jewels 3 days ago
Electronic #1 Junior Boys 3 days ago
Top 50 #1 Weyes Blood 3 days ago
CJAM Top 30 #1 PONY 4 days ago
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