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  • June 2021

    Chad VanGaalen is number 1 on the !earshot Top 200 for May 2021
    Chad VanGaalen.

    Chad VanGaalen is at it again and spends his second month at the top of the !earshot Top 200 for May 2021 with World's Most Stressed Out Gardener. Sook Yin Lee & Adam Litovitz jump to #2 with jooj two and Godspeed! You Black Emperor's G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END takes over at #3. Jay Wood (Some Days EP) and Dry Cleaning (New Long Leg) round out the Top 5.

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

    Features

    !earshot Top 200 of 2020

    For January tp December 2020
    Andy Shauf - Neon Skyline Lido Pimienta - Miss Colombia Wolf Parade - Thin Mind
    TW  Artist - Title - (Label)
    1 Andy Shauf Can Con
    Neon Skyline - (Arts & Crafts)
    2 Lido Pimienta Can Con
    Miss Colombia - (Anti-)
    3 Wolf Parade Can Con
    Thin Mind - (Royal Mountain)
    4 Zoon Can Con
    Bleached Wavves - (Paper Bag)
    5 Caribou Can Con
    Suddenly - (Merge)
    6 Tops Can Con
    I Feel Alive - (Musique TOPS)
    7 Tough Age Can Con
    Which Way Am I? - (Mint)
    8 U.S. Girls Can Con
    Heavy Light - (Royal Mountain)
    9 Destroyer Can Con
    Have We Met - (Merge)
    10 Thanya Iyer Can Con
    KIND - (Topshelf Records)
    View the full !earshot Top 200
    Specialty Charts #1s
    Electronic:  Caribou - Suddenly - (Merge)
    Hip Hop:  Run The Jewels - RTJ4 - (Jewel Runners)
    International: Lido Pimienta - Miss Colombia - (Anti-)
    Jazz: Audrey Ochoa - Frankenhorn - (Chronograph)
    Loud:  Lié - You Want It Real - (Mint)
    Folk/Roots/Blues: William Prince - Reliever - (Six Shooter Records)

    Eric Revis Best Jazz of 2020: Jim Dupuis - Jazz Notes
    Jazz host and regular contributor jim Dupuis surveys some of the best Jazz releases of 2020. By Jim Dupuis.

    Latest Charts

    Folk/Roots/Blues #1 Jake Ian 2 days ago
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    Electronic #1 Psychic Pollution 2 days ago
    Top 50 #1 TEKE::TEKE 2 days ago
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    CHSR Electronic #1 TEKE::TEKE 2 days ago
    CHSR Folk/Roots/Blues #1 Colin Fowlie 2 days ago
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  • !earshot Top 50 Charts RSS Feed

    TEKE::TEKE - Shirushi Paul Jacobs - Pink Dogs On The Green Grass yoo doo right - Don't Think You Can Escape Your Purpose
    For the Week Ending: Tuesday, June 22, 2021
    TW  Artist - Title - (Label)
    1 TEKE::TEKE CanCon
    Shirushi - (Kill Rock Stars)
    2 Paul Jacobs CanCon
    Pink Dogs On The Green Grass - (Blow The Fuse)
    3 yoo doo right CanCon
    Don't Think You Can Escape Your Purpose - (Mothland)
    4 Rochelle Jordan CanCon
    Play With The Changes - (Young Art)
    5 Century Egg CanCon
    Little Piece of Hair - (Forward Music Group)
    6 Status/Non-Status CanCon
    1, 2, 3, 4, 500 Year - (You've Changed)
    7 Japanese Breakfast
    Jubilee - (Dead Oceans)
    8 Allison Russell CanCon
    Outside Child - (Fantasy)
    9 JayWood CanCon
    Some Days EP - (Royal Mountain/Captured Tracks)
    10 Death From Above 1979 CanCon
    Is 4 Lovers - (Universal Music Canada)
    View the full Top 50
    Specialty Charts #1s
    Electronic:  Psychic Pollution - OCD Soundsystem - (Eat Glass)
    Hip Hop:  Cadence Weapon - Parallel World - (Self-Released)
    International:  BALKAN TAKSIM - Disko Telegraf - (Buda Musique)
    Jazz: Miguel de Armas - Continuous - (Three Pines)
    Loud:  Tunic - Exhaling - (Artoffact)
    Folk/Roots/Blues: Jake Ian - Everything Has Holes - (Self-Released)

    !earshot May Top 200

    For the Month of May 2021
    Chad VanGaalen - World's Most Stressed Out Gardener Sook-Yin Lee & Adam Litovitz - jooj two Godspeed You! Black Emperor - G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END
    TW  Artist - Title - (Label)
    1 Chad VanGaalen Can Con
    World's Most Stressed Out Gardener - (Flemish Eye)
    2 Sook-Yin Lee & Adam Litovitz Can Con
    jooj two - (Mint)
    3 Godspeed You! Black Emperor Can Con
    G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END - (Constellation)
    4 JayWood Can Con
    Some Days EP - (Royal Mountain/Captured Tracks)
    5 Dry Cleaning
    New Long Leg - (4AD)
    6 TEKE::TEKE Can Con
    Shirushi - (Kill Rock Stars)
    7 Paul Jacobs Can Con
    Pink Dogs On The Green Grass - (Blow The Fuse)
    8 Death From Above 1979 Can Con
    Is 4 Lovers - (Universal Music Canada)
    9 Xiu Xiu
    OH NO - (Polyvinyl)
    10 Leanne Betasamosake Simpson Can Con
    Theory Of Ice - (You`ve Changed Records)
    View the full !earshot Top 200
    Specialty Charts #1s
    Electronic:  Wake Island - Born to Leave - (Self-Released)
    Hip Hop: Denzel Curry x Kenny Beats - Unlocked 1.5 - (Loma Vista)
    International:  Jupiter & Okwess - Na Kozonga - (Everloving)
    Jazz:  Floating Points , Pharoah Sanders, The London Symphony Orchestra - Promises - (Luaka Bop)
    Loud:  Tunic - Exhaling - (Artoffact)
    Folk/Roots/Blues: Valerie June - The Moon And Stars: Prescriptions For Dreamers - (Fantasy)

    !earshot Top 200 of 2020

    For January tp December 2020
    Andy Shauf - Neon Skyline Lido Pimienta - Miss Colombia Wolf Parade - Thin Mind
    TW  Artist - Title - (Label)
    1 Andy Shauf Can Con
    Neon Skyline - (Arts & Crafts)
    2 Lido Pimienta Can Con
    Miss Colombia - (Anti-)
    3 Wolf Parade Can Con
    Thin Mind - (Royal Mountain)
    4 Zoon Can Con
    Bleached Wavves - (Paper Bag)
    5 Caribou Can Con
    Suddenly - (Merge)
    6 Tops Can Con
    I Feel Alive - (Musique TOPS)
    7 Tough Age Can Con
    Which Way Am I? - (Mint)
    8 U.S. Girls Can Con
    Heavy Light - (Royal Mountain)
    9 Destroyer Can Con
    Have We Met - (Merge)
    10 Thanya Iyer Can Con
    KIND - (Topshelf Records)
    View the full !earshot Top 200
    Specialty Charts #1s
    Electronic:  Caribou - Suddenly - (Merge)
    Hip Hop:  Run The Jewels - RTJ4 - (Jewel Runners)
    International: Lido Pimienta - Miss Colombia - (Anti-)
    Jazz: Audrey Ochoa - Frankenhorn - (Chronograph)
    Loud:  Lié - You Want It Real - (Mint)
    Folk/Roots/Blues: William Prince - Reliever - (Six Shooter Records)

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