July 2025

Bells Larsen

Bells Larsen jumps to the top of the earshot Top 200 for the month of June 2025 with Blurring Time on Royal Mountain

Specialty Charts #1s
Electronic:	Caribou - Honey - (Merge)
Hip Hop:	Kendrick Lamar - GNX - (pgLang)
International:	Amir Amiri Ensemble - Ajdad - Ancestors - Echoes of Persia - (Latitude 45)
Jazz:	Carson Tworow and David Lavoie - Teardown - (Self-Released)
Loud:	Amyl and the Sniffers - Cartoon Darkness - (Rough Trade)
Folk/Roots/Blues:	Skinny Dyck - Easygoing - (Victory Pool)

Check out all the latest chart action on the weekly charts.

Features

TW	Artist - Title - (Label)
!earshot Top 200 of 2021 For January to December 2021
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

CFMH Top 30 #1 Écarlate 4 hours ago
CICK Top 30 #1 Little Simz 6 hours ago
CIVL Top 30 #1 BAWAH 7 hours ago
CIVL Electronic #1 PinkPantheress 7 hours ago
CIVL Hip Hop #1 BAWAH 7 hours ago
CIVL Loud #1 Propagandhi 7 hours ago
CJLO Hip Hop #1 McKinley Dixon 7 hours ago
CHYZ Top 30 #1 dianacrawls 7 hours ago
CJAM Top 30 #1 Stereolab 8 hours ago
CJLO Loud #1 The Haunted 8 hours ago
CJLO Electronic #1 Zeds Dead 8 hours ago
CKUT Jazz #1 Luke Stewart's Remembrance Ensemble 10 hours ago
CKUT Top 30 #1 g.i. jinx 11 hours ago
CJLO Top 30 #1 Hotline TNT 11 hours ago
CFRU Folk/Roots/Blues #1 Dan Mangan 16 hours ago
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TW	Artist - Title - (Label)
!earshot Top 50 For the Week Ending: Tuesday, June 24, 2025
1	Bells Larsen Blurring Time - (Royal Mountain)
2	Ribbon Skirt Bite Down - (Mint)
3	Foxwarren 2 - (Anti-)
4	Destroyer Dan's Boogie - (Merge)
5	Propagandhi At Peace - (Epitaph)
6	Sister Ray Believer - (Royal Mountain)
7	Gloin All of your anger is actually shame (and I bet that makes you angry) - (Mothland)
8	Men I Trust Equus Caballus - (Self-Released)
9	TVOD Party Time - (Mothland)
10	Art d'Ecco Serene Demon - (Paper Bag)
*View the full Top 50*

Specialty Charts #1s
Electronic:	Marie Davidson - City of Clowns - (Because Music)
Loud:	Propagandhi - At Peace - (Epitaph)

TW	Artist - Title - (Label)
!earshot June Top 200 For the Month of June 2025
1	Bells Larsen Blurring Time - (Royal Mountain)
2	Ribbon Skirt Bite Down - (Mint)
3	Destroyer Dan's Boogie - (Merge)
4	Propagandhi At Peace - (Epitaph)
5	Stereolab Instant Holograms On Metal Film - (Warp)
6	Sister Ray Believer - (Royal Mountain)
7	Men I Trust Equus Caballus - (Self-Released)
8	PUP Who Will Look After The Dogs? - (Little Dipper)
9	Art d'Ecco Serene Demon - (Paper Bag)
10	Choses Sauvages Choses Sauvages III - (Audiogram)
*View the full !earshot Top 200*

Specialty Charts #1s
Electronic:	Marie Davidson - City of Clowns - (Because Music)
Hip Hop:	The Dirty Sample - Love Always Wins If You Let It - (Hand'Solo)
International:	Femi Kuti - Journey Through Life - (Partisan Records)
Jazz:	Rachel Therrien - Mi Hogar II - (Lula World Records)
Loud:	Propagandhi - At Peace - (Epitaph)
Folk/Roots/Blues:	Bells Larsen - Blurring Time - (Royal Mountain)

TW	Artist - Title - (Label)
!earshot Top 200 of 2021 For January to December 2021
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
CFMH Top 30 #1 Écarlate 4 hours ago
CICK Top 30 #1 Little Simz 6 hours ago
CIVL Top 30 #1 BAWAH 7 hours ago
CIVL Electronic #1 PinkPantheress 7 hours ago
CIVL Hip Hop #1 BAWAH 7 hours ago
CIVL Loud #1 Propagandhi 7 hours ago
CJLO Hip Hop #1 McKinley Dixon 7 hours ago
CHYZ Top 30 #1 dianacrawls 7 hours ago
CJAM Top 30 #1 Stereolab 8 hours ago
CJLO Loud #1 The Haunted 8 hours ago
CJLO Electronic #1 Zeds Dead 8 hours ago
CKUT Jazz #1 Luke Stewart's Remembrance Ensemble 10 hours ago
CKUT Top 30 #1 g.i. jinx 11 hours ago
CJLO Top 30 #1 Hotline TNT 11 hours ago
CFRU Folk/Roots/Blues #1 Dan Mangan 16 hours ago
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