Hozier remains at the top spot this week with "Too Sweet." Some new tracks from Joywave, Cigarettes After Sex, and Pierce the Veil enter the chart. And "On This Date x Years Ago (where x is evenly divisible by 5 or 10) we see great WERG songs by Yellowcard, The Cure, The Thompson Twins, and The Black Keys.
LW TW
1 1 Hozier/Too Sweet (Wasteland, Baby!; Columbia)
3 2 Royal Otis/Murder on the Dance Floor (Ourness)
2 3 Imagine Dragons/Eyes Closed (Interscope)
4 4 The Decemberists/Burial Ground (Capitol)
8 5 Pearl Jam/Wreckage (Dark Matter; Republic)
6 6 DJO/End of Beginning (Decide; AWAL Recordings)
7 7 Glass Animals/Creatures in Heaven (Republic)
12 8 The Black Keys/On the Game (Ohio Players; Easy Eye Sound)
10 9 Bleachers/Tiny Moves (Bleachers; Dirty Moves)
14 10 Nathaniel Ratecliff & The Nightsweats/Heartless (What If I; Stax)
13 11 Blame My Youth/The Break (Big Loud)
15 12 Rainbow Kitten Surprise/Superstar (Love Hate Music Box; Elektra Records)
19 13 Michael Marcagi/Scared To Start (American Romance; Warner)
16 14 Maggie Rogers/Don’t Forget Me (Don’t Forget Me; Capitol)
17 15 AWOLNation/Panoramic View (Better Noise)
20 16 The Beaches/Edge of the Earth (Blame My Ex; AWAL Recordings)
11 17 The Last Dinner Party/Sinner (Prelude to Ecstasy; Island Records)
5 18 Kings of Leon/Mustang (Can We Please Have Fun; Capitol)
22 19 Girl in Red/Too Much (I’m Doing It Again, Baby!; Columbia)
23 20 Good Neighbours/Home (Some Action)
21 21 Judah and the Lion/Long Dark Night (Cletus the Van)
18 22 Blue October/Everything We Lost in the Fire (Universal)
-- 23 Cigarettes After Sex/Tejano Blue (X’s; Partisan)
27 24 St. Vincent/Broken Man (All Born Screaming; Virgin Records)
-- 25 Pierce the Veil/Karma Police (Triple J)
-- 26 Joywave/Scared (Permanent Pleasure; Hollywood)
26 27 Gaslight Anthem/Ocean Eyes (History Books; Thirty Tigers)
9 28 Twenty-One Pilots/Overcompensate (Clancy; Atlantic Records)
28 29 Cults/Gilded Lili (Offering; Columbia)
25 30 Lo Moon/Water (I Wish You Way More Than Luck; Thirty Tigers)
#1 ON THE WERG CHARTS
Last Year (2023): Foo Fighters/Rescued (But Here We Are; RCA)
5 Years Ago (2019): Shaed/Trampoline (Melt; Caroline)
10 Years Ago (2014): The Black Keys/Fever (Turn Blue; Nonesuch)
15 Years Ago (2009): Silversun Pickups/Panic Switch (Swoon; Dangerbird)
20 Years Ago (2004): Yellowcard/Ocean Avenue (Ocean Avenue; Capitol)
25 Years Ago (1999): Blink 182/What’s My Age Again? (Enema of the State; MCA)
30 Years Ago (1994): Collective Soul/Shine (Hints, Allegations, and Things Left Unsaid; Atlantic)
35 Years Ago (1989): The Cure/Fascination Street (Disintegration; Elektra)
40 Years Ago (1984): Thompson Twins/Hold Me Now (Into the Gap; Arista)
45 Years Ago (1979): Donna Summer/Hot Stuff (Bad Girls; Casablanca Records)
50 Years Ago (1974): Paul McCartney & Wings/Band on the Run (Band on the Run; Apple)
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