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September 2023
TEKE::TEKE
TEKE::TEKE hits Number 1 for the second month on the August 2023 !earshot Top 200 with their album Hagata on Kill Rock Stars. Jessy Lanza moves up to the #2 spot with Love Hallucination. La Sécurité hovers at #3 with Stay Safe, while Haviah Mighty climbs to #4 with Crying Crystals and Half Moon Run takes over #5 with Salt.
Lots is happening over on the weekly charts. Check it out!
Specialty Charts #1s Electronic: Jessy Lanza - Love Hallucination - (Hyperdub) Hip Hop: Haviah Mighty - Crying Crystals - (Mighty Gang Inc.) International: TEKE::TEKE - Hagata - (Kill Rock Stars) Jazz: Astrocolor - Moonlighting - Astrojazz Vol. 1 - (Amelia Recordings) Loud: Voivod - Morgöth Tales - (Century Media) Folk/Roots/Blues: Shane Ghostkeeper - Songs For My People - (Victory Pool) 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
Loud #1 Baroness 8 hours ago
Jazz #1 Yussef Dayes 8 hours ago
Top 50 #1 YOCTO 8 hours ago
CHLY Top 30 #1 Anteater Eater 15 hours ago
CJSW Folk/Roots/Blues #1 Charlotte Cornfield 15 hours ago
CJSW Loud #1 Snooper 15 hours ago
CJSW Jazz #1 Apollo Suns 16 hours ago
CJSW International #1 Altin Gun 16 hours ago
CJSW Hip Hop #1 The Allergies 16 hours ago
CJSW Electronic #1 Sargeant X Comrade 16 hours ago
CJSW Top 30 #1 Sargeant X Comrade 16 hours ago
CJRU Top 30 #1 Hannah Georgas 18 hours ago
CFUR Top 30 #1 Jeremie Albino 19 hours ago
CFRU Jazz #1 Apollo Suns 19 hours ago
CFRU Top 30 #1 Apollo Suns 19 hours ago
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!earshot Top 50
For the Week Ending: Tuesday, October 3, 2023
TW Artist - Title - (Label) 1 YOCTO
Zepta Supernova - (Duprince)2 Mitski
The Land Is Inhospitable And So Are We - (Dead Oceans)3 Allison Russell
The Returner - (Fantasy / Concord)4 Elisapie
Inuktitut - (Bonsound)5 Hannah Georgas
I’d Be Lying If I Said I Didn’t Care - (Real Kind/Arts & Crafts)6 Turnstile & BADBADNOTGOOD
New Heart Designs EP - (Roadrunner)7 Mother Tongues
Love In A Vicious Way - (Wavy Haze)8 Slowdive
everything is alive - (Dead Oceans)9 Ora Cogan
Formless - (Self-Released)10 Ratboys
The Window - (Self-Released)View the full Top 50
Specialty Charts #1s Jazz: Yussef Dayes - Black Classical Music - (Brownswood/Cashmere Thoughts/Nonesuch) Loud: Baroness - Stone - (Abraxan Hymns) !earshot August Top 200
For the Month of August 2023
TW Artist - Title - (Label) 1 TEKE::TEKE
Hagata - (Kill Rock Stars)2 Jessy Lanza
Love Hallucination - (Hyperdub)3 La Sécurité
Stay Safe! - (Mothland)4 Haviah Mighty
Crying Crystals - (Mighty Gang Inc.)5 Half Moon Run
Salt - (BMG)6 Freak Heat Waves
Mondo Tempo - (Mood Hut)7 FRANKIIE
Between Dreams - (Paper Bag)8 Jenn Grant
Champagne Problems - (Leo Vela)9 Zoon
Bekka Ma'iingan - (Paper Bag)10 Kimmortal
Shoebox - (Self-Released)View the full !earshot Top 200
Specialty Charts #1s Electronic: Jessy Lanza - Love Hallucination - (Hyperdub) Hip Hop: Haviah Mighty - Crying Crystals - (Mighty Gang Inc.) International: TEKE::TEKE - Hagata - (Kill Rock Stars) Jazz: Astrocolor - Moonlighting - Astrojazz Vol. 1 - (Amelia Recordings) Loud: Voivod - Morgöth Tales - (Century Media) Folk/Roots/Blues: Shane Ghostkeeper - Songs For My People - (Victory Pool) !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
Loud #1 Baroness 8 hours ago
Jazz #1 Yussef Dayes 8 hours ago
Top 50 #1 YOCTO 8 hours ago
CHLY Top 30 #1 Anteater Eater 15 hours ago
CJSW Folk/Roots/Blues #1 Charlotte Cornfield 15 hours ago
CJSW Loud #1 Snooper 15 hours ago
CJSW Jazz #1 Apollo Suns 16 hours ago
CJSW International #1 Altin Gun 16 hours ago
CJSW Hip Hop #1 The Allergies 16 hours ago
CJSW Electronic #1 Sargeant X Comrade 16 hours ago
CJSW Top 30 #1 Sargeant X Comrade 16 hours ago
CJRU Top 30 #1 Hannah Georgas 18 hours ago
CFUR Top 30 #1 Jeremie Albino 19 hours ago
CFRU Jazz #1 Apollo Suns 19 hours ago
CFRU Top 30 #1 Apollo Suns 19 hours ago
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