We've got a new face at No. 1! After a seven-week run, Pearl Jam has been dethroned by Pilots... Twenty-One of them. The Heavy Heavy enters the Top Ten, and there are new tracks to discover from Beabadoobee and Rufus du Sol. 35 years ago, we were rockin'-out to Channel Z. It was a Cosmic Thing :-)
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2 1 Twenty-One Pilots/The Craving (Clancy; Atlantic Records)
4 2 AWOLNation/Panoramic View (Better Noise)
6 3 The Offspring/Make It All Right (Supercharged; Concord)
3 4 The Beaches/Edge of the Earth (Blame My Ex; AWAL Recordings)
5 5 Coldplay/Feels Like I’m Falling in Love (Moon Music; Atlantic)
1 6 Pearl Jam/Wreckage (Dark Matter; Republic)
10 7 Cage the Elephant/Rainbow (Neon Pill; RCA)
12 8 The Heavy Heavy/Happiness (One of a Kind; ATO Records)
7 9 Sublime & Stick Figure/Feel Like That (Ruffwood)
8 10 Foster the People/Lost in Space (Paradise State of Mind; Atlantic)
13 11 Myles Smith/Stargazing (Sony Music)
9 12 Clairo/Sexy to Someone (Charm; Clairo Records)
15 13 Kings of Leon/Nowhere To Run (Can We Please Have Fun; Capitol)
18 14 Sum 41/Dopamine (Heaven :x: Hell; Rise)
17 15 Beach Weather/High in Low Places (Arista Records)
11 16 Atlas Genius/On a Wave (End of the Tunnel; Kobalt Music)
16 17 Winnetka Bowling League/America in Your 20’s (The Orchard)
19 18 Mondo Cozmo/Wild Horses (Last Gang)
22 19 Good Neighbours/Home (Some Action)
20 20 Judah and the Lion/Long Dark Night (Cletus the Van)
23 21 Robert DeLong/Soft Boy (Round Hill)
26 22 Michael Hutchence & Danny Saber/One Way (Boss Sonics)
21 23 Hozier/Too Sweet (Wasteland, Baby!; Columbia)
30 24 Rufus du Sol/Music Is Better (Warner)
-- 25 Beabadoobee/Take a Bite
29 26 311/You’re Gonna Get It (SKP)
14 27 Blame My Youth/The Break (Big Loud)
24 28 Glass Animals/Creatures in Heaven (I Love You So Much; Republic)
25 29 Royal Otis/Murder on the Dance Floor (Ourness)
28 30 The Last Dinner Party/Sinner (Prelude to Ecstasy; Island Records)
#1 ON THE WERG CHARTS
Last Year (2023): Lana Del Rey/Say Yes to Heaven (Ultraviolence – unreleased track; Interscope)
5 Years Ago (2019): Matt Maeson/Cringe (Bank on the Funeral; Atlantic)
10 Years Ago (2014): Vance Joy/Riptide (God Loves You When You’re Dancing; Liberation)
15 Years Ago (2009): Manchester Orchestra/I’ve Got Friends (Mean Everything to Nothing; Favorite Gentlemen)
20 Years Ago (2004): Franz Ferdinand/Take Me Out (Franz Ferdinand; Domino)
25 Years Ago (1999): Len/Steal My Sunshine (You Can’t Stop the Bum Rush; Work)
30 Years Ago (1994): Counting Crows/Einstein on the Beach (Films about Ghosts; Geffen)
35 Years Ago (1989): The B-52’s/Channel Z (Cosmic Thing; Reprise)
40 Years Ago (1984): Bruce Springsteen/Cover Me (Born in the U.S.A.; Columbia)
45 Years Ago (1979): Cheap Trick/I Want You To Want Me (Cheap Trick at Budokan; Epic)
50 Years Ago (1974): Steely Dan/Rikki Don’t Lose That Number (Pretzel Logic; ABC Records)
UPCOMING ALBUM RELEASES:
Aug 16: Foster the People/Paradise State of Mind (Atlantic)
Aug 23: Beabadoobee/This Is How Tomorrow Moves (Dirty Hit)
Aug 30: Mondo Cozmo/It’s Principle! (Last Gang)
Sep 6: Atlas Genius/End of the Tunnel (Frogs Head LLC)
The Heavy Heavy/One of a Kind (ATO)
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