Tuesday Top 30: September 22, 2026

Welcome to Autumn! Homecoming Weekend is upon us, and despite what Weezer is saying about being strangers (albeit while moving into the top slot), friends old and new are congregating on the Erie campus. Can you find the skyway entrance to Russell Hall? It's walled-over, but still exists if you know where to look. Likewise: the original WERG broadcast tower... you can catch a glimpse of it while walking on AJ's Way. Again - if you know where to look. See you around campus and at the tailgate on Saturday morning!

LW          TW

5             1             Weezer/We Might as Well Be Strangers (Weezer; Warner)

4             2             Tame Impala/Loser (Deadbeat; Columbia)

1             3             Cage the Elephant/Beaches in Tennessee (Mercury)

2             4             Buffalo Traffic Jam/Fool’s Gold (Take Me Home EP; Arista)

8             5             Foo Fighters/Window (Are Playing Where? EP; self-released)

3             6             Julia Wolf/In My Room (AWAL)

9             7             Young the Giant/Evergreen (Victory Garden; Concord)

11           8             Siiga/Losing You (Nostalgia Burns; Mina Stac)

12           9             Three Days Grace/Don’t Wanna Go Home Tonight (Alienation; RCA)

6             10           Edgehill/Love To Go (Ode to the Greyhouse; Big Loud Rock)

7             11           Almost Monday/No More Regrets (Thank God It’s Almost Monday EP; Hollywood)

19           12           Dominic Fike/Babydoll (Columbia)

10           13           U2/Street of Dreams (Island)

14           14           Death Cab for Cutie/Stone Over Water (I Built You a Tower; Anti- )

17           15           Shinedown/Young Again (Eight; Atlantic)

23           16           Brigitte Calls Me Baby/I Can Take the Sun Out of the Sky (Irreversible; ATO)

--             17           Fontaines D.C./Marianne (XL)

22           18           Sam Fender & Olivia Dean/Rein Me In (People Watching; Polydor)

25           19           The Neighbourhood/Private (Ultrasound; Epic)

15           20           Myles Smith/Hold Me in the Dark (My Mess, My Heart, My Life; RCA)

13           21           The Paradox/I Kinda Like That (Mysterium; High Roller)

--             22           Death Cab for Cutie/Pep Talk (I Built You a Tower; Anti- )

16           23           Brian Fallon and The Painkillers/Better Before (Lesser Known) 

20           24           The Strokes/Going Shopping (Reality Awaits; RCA)

26           25           Evanescence/Who Will You Follow (Sanctuary; Wind-Up)

18           26           Temper City/Self-Aware (Thirty Knots)

24           27           Phoebe Bridgers/Lost Boys (Lost Weekend; Dead Oceans)

27           28           Sombr/Homewrecker (Warner)

30           29           Noah Kahan/Doors (The Great Divide; Republic)

28           30           Florence and the Machine/Buckle (Everybody Scream; Republic)

#1 ON THE WERG CHARTS

Last Year (2025): Sublime/Ensenada (SVNBVRNT)

5 Years Ago (2021): Imagine Dragons/Wrecked (Mercury – Act I; Interscope)

10 Years Ago (2016): Twenty-One Pilots/Heathens (Suicide Squad: The Album; Warner Brothers)

15 Years Ago (2011): The Joy Formidable/Whirring (The Big Roar; Atlantic)

20 Years Ago (2006): Keane/Is It Any Wonder (Under the Iron Sea; Interscope)

25 Years Ago (2001): Nickelback/How You Remind Me (Silver Side Up; Roadrunner)

30 Years Ago (1996): 311/Down (311; Capricorn Records)

35 Years Ago (1991): Robyn Hitchcock/So You Think You’re In Love (Perspex Island; Go! Discs)

40 Years Ago (1986): The Talking Heads/Wild Wild Life (True Stories; Warner Brothers)

45 Years Ago (1981): Journey/Don’t Stop Believin’ (Escape; Columbia)

50 Years Ago (1976): Wild Cherry/Play That Funky Music (Wild Cherry; Epic)