Simple Minds take the top spot in this week's Top 30 with their hit "Don't You (Forget About Me)"! This song was featured in the John Hughes film "The Breakfast Club".
Just kidding - April Fools! (Though it was a #1 hit on WERG 40 years ago today)
This time we're not joking though: Lola Young takes the top spot in this week's Top 30! My Morning Jacket takes the #2 spot, The Black Keys make their way into the Top 5, and Shinedown go Top 10. We've also got new tracks to check out from Franz Ferdinand and Chelsea Cutler & Noah Kahan!
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2 1 Lola Young/Messy (This Wasn’t Meant for You, Anyway; Island)
4 2 My Morning Jacket/Time Waited (Is; ATO Records)
3 3 Cage the Elephant/Metaverse (Neon Pill; RCA)
5 4 Sports Team/I’m In Love (Subaru) (Boy These Days; Bright Antenna)
6 5 The Black Keys/The Night Before (No Rain, No Flowers; Easy Eye Sound)
9 6 Jonah Kagen/God Needs the Devil (Black Dress; Arista)
8 7 DJO/Basic Being Basic (The Crux; AWAL)
10 8 Shinedown/Three Six Five (Atlantic)
1 9 Balu Brigada/So Cold (Balu; Atlantic)
13 10 Good Neighbors/Ripple (Capitol Records)
14 11 AWOLNation/Barbarian (The Phantom Five; Better Noise)
7 12 Jack White/Archbishop Harold Holmes (No Name; Third Man)
11 13 Culture Wars/It Hurts (It Hurts; Pool Toys Worldwide)
12 14 Dexter and The Moonrocks/Ritalin (Dexter and the Moonrocks; Severance Records)
17 15 Fontaines DC/It’s Amazing To Be Young (XL Records)
21 16 Myles Smith/Nice To Meet You (A Minute…; Sony Music)
15 17 Coheed & Cambria/Someone Who Can (Vaxis: Act III – The Father of Make-Believe; Virgin)
23 18 Green Day/One-Eyed Bastard (Saviors; Reprise)
16 19 Phantogram/Come Alive (Memory of a Day; Barsuk Records)
20 20 Bad Suns/Communicating (Vagrant)
18 21 Momma/I Want You (Welcome to My Blue Sky; Polyvinyl)
-- 22 Franz Ferdinand/Hooked (The Human Fear; Domino)
24 23 The Yeah Yeah Yeahs/Spitting Off the Edge of the World (Cool It Down; Secretly Canadian)
22 24 Little Image/The Pressure (Hollywood Records)
19 25 Mumford and Sons/Rushmere (Rushmere; Glassnote)
-- 26 Chelsea Cutler & Noah Kahan/Crazier Things (Republic)
25 27 Bon Iver/Everything Is Peaceful Love (Sable, Fable; 4AD)
26 28 Snow Patrol/Your Heart Home (The Forest Is the Path; Jeepster Records)
27 29 Wallows/Calling After Me (Model; Atlantic)
28 30 The Lumineers/Same Old Song (Automatic; Dualtone)
#1 ON THE WERG CHARTS
Last Year (2024): Cage the Elephant/Neon Pill (Neon Pill; Relentless)
5 Years Ago (2020): Green Day/Oh, Yeah (Father of All; Reprise)
10 Years Ago (2015): AWOLNation/Hollow Moon (Bad Wolf) (Run; Red Bull)
15 Years Ago (2010): Three Days Grace/The Good Life (Life Starts Now; Jive)
20 Years Ago (2005): Jimmy Eat World/Work (Futures; Interscope)
25 Years Ago (2000): Limp Bizkit/Break Stuff (Significant Other; Interscope)
30 Years Ago (1995): Dave Matthews Band/What Would You Say (Under the Table and Dreaming; RCA)
35 Years Ago (1990): Midnight Oil/Blue Sky Mine (Blue Sky Mining; Columbia)
40 Years Ago (1985): Simple Minds/Don’t You (Forget About Me) (The Breakfast Club soundtrack; A&M)
45 Years Ago (1980): Christopher Cross/Ride Like the Wind (Christopher Cross; Warner Brothers)
50 Years Ago (1975): Joe Cocker/You Are So Beautiful (I Can Stand a Little Rain; A&M)