Balu Brigada spends another week at #1, as does Lola Young at #2! Sports Team makes their way into the top 5 and Jonah Kagen makes his way into the top 10. We also have a bunch of new tracks from Fontaines DC, Myles Smith, Green Day, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Bon Iver, and Wallows! LW TW
1 1 Balu Brigada/So Cold (Balu; Atlantic)
2 2 Lola Young/Messy (This Wasn’t Meant for You, Anyway; Island)
4 3 Cage the Elephant/Metaverse (Neon Pill; RCA)
3 4 My Morning Jacket/Time Waited (Is; ATO Records)
7 5 Sports Team/I’m In Love (Subaru) (Boy These Days; Bright Antenna)
5 6 The Black Keys/The Night Before (No Rain, No Flowers; Easy Eye Sound)
6 7 Jack White/Archbishop Harold Holmes (No Name; Third Man)
9 8 DJO/Basic Being Basic (The Crux; AWAL)
12 9 Jonah Kagen/God Needs the Devil (Black Dress; Arista)
11 10 Shinedown/Three Six Five (Atlantic)
10 11 Culture Wars/It Hurts (It Hurts; Pool Toys Worldwide)
14 12 Dexter and The Moonrocks/Ritalin (Dexter and the Moonrocks; Severance Records)
16 13 Good Neighbors/Ripple (Capitol Records)
13 14 AWOLNation/Barbarian (The Phantom Five; Better Noise)
15 15 Coheed & Cambria/Someone Who Can (Vaxis: Act III – The Father of Make-Believe; Virgin)
18 16 Phantogram/Come Alive (Memory of a Day; Barsuk Records)
-- 17 Fontaines DC/It’s Amazing To Be Young (XL Records)
20 18 Momma/I Want You (Welcome to My Blue Sky; Polyvinyl)
8 19 Mumford and Sons/Rushmere (Rushmere; Glassnote)
21 20 Bad Suns/Communicating (Vagrant)
-- 21 Myles Smith/Nice To Meet You (A Minute…; Sony Music)
23 22 Little Image/The Pressure (Hollywood Records)
-- 23 Green Day/One-Eyed Bastard (Saviors; Reprise)
-- 24 The Yeah Yeah Yeahs/Spitting Off the Edge of the World (Cool It Down; Secretly Canadian)
-- 25 Bon Iver/Everything Is Peaceful Love (Sable, Fable; 4AD)
17 26 Snow Patrol/Your Heart Home (The Forest Is the Path; Jeepster Records)
-- 27 Wallows/Calling After Me (Model; Atlantic)
19 28 The Lumineers/Same Old Song (Automatic; Dualtone)
22 29 Justice & Tame Impala/Neverender (Hyperdrama; Atlantic Records)
26 30 Gigi Perez/Sailor Song (Sailor Song; Interscope)
#1 ON THE WERG CHARTS
Last Year (2024): Foo Fighters/The Glass (But Here We Are; RCA)
5 Years Ago (2020): Green Day/Oh, Yeah (Father of All; Reprise)
10 Years Ago (2015): Robert DeLong/Long Way Down (In the Cards; Glassnote)
15 Years Ago (2010): Metric/Gold, Guns, Girls (Fantasies; Metric Music Int’l.)
20 Years Ago (2005): The Killers/Mr. Brightside (Hot Fuss; Island)
25 Years Ago (2000): 3 Doors Down/Kryptonite (The Better Life; Republic)
30 Years Ago (1995): P.J. Harvey/Down by the Water (To Bring You My Love; Island Records)
35 Years Ago (1990): Electronic/Getting Away with It (Electronic; Warner Brothers)
40 Years Ago (1985): Simple Minds/Don’t You (Forget About Me) (The Breakfast Club soundtrack; A&M)
45 Years Ago (1980): Blondie/Call Me (American Gigolo; Chrysalis)
50 Years Ago (1975): LaBelle/Lady Marmalade (Nightbirds; Epic)