September 2009
Radio 200
Rank Artist Recording Label User Supplied Version
1 IGGY POP Preliminaires Astralwerks
2 BEN HARPER AND RELENTLESS7 White Lies For Dark Times Capitol
3 ANTHONY B Rise Up Greensleeves
4 ELVIS COSTELLO Secret, Profane And Sugarcane Hear Music
5 YPPAH They Know What Ghost Know Ninja Tune
6 DAN AUERBACH Keep It Hid Nonesuch
7 JORMA KAUKONEN River Of Time Red House
8 FUGA Desde La Frontera Chafa
9 BAND OF SKULLS Baby Darling Doll Face Honey Shangri-La
10 SOUL OF JOHN BLACK Black John Electro Groove
11 SUBMARINES Honeysuckle Weeks Nettwerk
12 WIYOS THE WIYOS
13 SILA AND THE AFROFUNK EXPERIENCE Black President Visila
14 GOLEM Citizen Boris JDub
15 FREEKBASS Junkyard Waltz Bootzilla
16 RUSTED ROOT Stereo Rodeo Touchy Pegg
17 TOADIES No Deliverance Kirtland
18 GOLDEN Golden Tsunami
19 HERBALIZER BAND Session 2 !K7
20 VARIOUS ARTISTS War Child Presents Heroes Juno-Astralwerks
21 NEW YORK DOLLS Cause I Sez So ATCO
22 ORGONE Bacano Self-Released
23 BEAST Beast Verve Forecast
24 J BOOGIE'S DUBTRONIC SCIENCE Soul Vibrations Om
25 SWAY MACHINERY Hidden Melodies Revealed JDub
26 NAT KING COLE Re:Generations EMI-Capitol
27 ODD NOSDAM This Is My Element Soundtrack Anticon
28 FILASTINE Dirty Bomb Soot
29 DEER TICK Born On Flag Day Partisan
30 VARIOUS ARTISTS Putumayo Presents: Latin Reggae Putumayo
* indicates information which has not yet been verified by CMJ staff.
Loud Rock
Rank Artist Recording Label User Supplied Version
1 FREEKBASS Junkyard Waltz Bootzilla
2 BEN HARPER AND RELENTLESS7 White Lies For Dark Times Capitol
3 VARIOUS ARTISTS War Child Presents Heroes Juno-Astralwerks
4 GOLDEN Golden Tsunami
5 PEARL JAM Backspacer Monkeywrench
6 NEW YORK DOLLS Cause I Sez So ATCO
7 TOADIES No Deliverance Kirtland
8 XX TEENS Welcome To Goon Island Mute
9 KINGS OF LEON Only By The Night RCA
10 FRUIT BATS The Ruminant Band SUB POP
* indicates information which has not yet been verified by CMJ staff.
Hip Hop
Rank Artist Recording Label User Supplied Version
1 LUSHLIFE Cassette City Rapster LUSH LIFE Casset city
2 MOS DEF The Ecstatic Downtown
3 BIKE FOR THREE! More Heart Than Brains Anticon
4 AZEEM Air Cartoons Oaklyn
5 BAYONICS Bayonics Self-Released
6 HERB-N-WARFARE Some Of The Truest Self-Released HERB N WARFARE Some of the Trust
7 J BOOGIE'S DUBTRONIC SCIENCE Soul Vibrations Om
8 K'NAAN Troubadour A&M-Octone
9 THEMSELVES TheFREEhoudini Anticon
10 THE KNUX Remind Me In 3 Days E Pluribus Unum
* indicates information which has not yet been verified by CMJ staff.
New World
Rank Artist Recording Label User Supplied Version
1 EASY STAR ALL-STARS Easy Star's Lonely Hearts Dub Band Easy Star
2 NINEY THE EXPLORER Roots With Quality VP
3 GOLEM Citizen Boris JDub
4 ROKIA TRAORE Tchamantche Nonesuch
5 BELA FLECK Throw Down Your Heart, Tales From The Acoustic Planet, Vol. 3: Africa Sessions Rounder
6 SWAY MACHINERY Hidden Melodies Revealed JDub
7 ANTHONY B Rise Up Greensleeves
8 WOVEN ROOTS * Storms of Change * * waiting for CMJ verification
9 SILA AND THE AFROFUNK EXPERIENCE Black President Visila
10 ERROL MOORE Let Love In
* indicates information which has not yet been verified by CMJ staf
RPM
Rank Artist Recording Label User Supplied Version
1 YPPAH They Know What Ghost Know Ninja Tune
2 BEAST Beast Verve Forecast
3 ORGONE Bacano Self-Released
4 ODD NOSDAM This Is My Element Soundtrack Anticon
5 FREEKBASS Junkyard Waltz Bootzilla
6 HERBALIZER BAND Session 2 !K7
7 NAT KING COLE Re:Generations EMI-Capitol
8 MENAHAN STREET BAND Make The Road By Walking Daptone-Dunham
9 THIEVERY CORPORATION Radio Retaliation ESL
10 MARK FARINA Mushroom Jazz Volume 6 Om
* indicates information which has not yet been verified by CMJ staff.
Jazz
Rank Artist Recording Label User Supplied Version
1 ORGONE Bacano Self-Released
2 WYNTON MARSALIS He And She Blue Note
3 MEDESKI MARTIN AND WOOD Radiolarians III Indirecto
4 SPYRO GYRA Down The Wire Heads Up
5 MENAHAN STREET BAND Make The Road By Walking Daptone-Dunham
6 TRIO SUBTONIC The Aqueous Self Release
7 SEX MOB MEETS MEDESKI Sexmob Meets Medeski Live In Willisau 2009 Thirsty Ear
8 CLIFTON ANDERSON Decade DOXY
9 BRIAN MCCREE Changes In The Wind Accurate
10 ALISON BROWN The Company You Keep Compass
* indicates information which has not yet been verified by CMJ staff.
Radio 200 Adds
Rank Artist Recording Label User Supplied Version
1 FRUIT BATS The Ruminant Band SUB POP
2 HOT BUTTERED RUM Limbs Akimbo HBR
3 KARL DENSON'S TINY UNIVERSE Brother's Keeper Shanachie
4 EMMITT NERSHI BAND New Country Blues SCI Fidelity
5 SEA WOLF White Water, White Bloom Dangerbird
* indicates information which has not yet been verified by CMJ staff.
Hip Hop Adds
Rank Artist Recording Label User Supplied Version
1 HIRIGHT My Inside
2 CHUBB ROCK AND WORDSMITH Bridging The Gap Nu Revolution
3 D.O. Stay Driven Northstarr
4 TONY MENDOCINO American Dankster
5 MENTOR Evolution
* indicates information which has not yet been verified by CMJ staff.
Loud Rock Adds
Rank Artist Recording Label User Supplied Version
1 FRUIT BATS The Ruminant Band SUB POP
2 RUSTED ROOT Stereo Rodeo Touchy Pegg
3 PISSED JEANS King Of Jeans SUB POP
4 MEGADETH Endgame Roadrunner
* indicates information which has not yet been verified by CMJ staff.
RPM Adds
Rank Artist Recording Label User Supplied Version
1 HERBALIZER BAND Session 2 !K7
2 ORGONE Bacano Self-Released
3 SCRATCH PERVERTS Beatdown Fabric Records
4 VARIOUS ARTISTS Fabric 46: Claude VonStroke Fabric
5 LET'S GO TO WAR Karmageddon Last Gang
* indicates information which has not yet been verified by CMJ staff.
New World Adds
Rank Artist Recording Label User Supplied Version
1 SILA AND THE AFROFUNK EXPERIENCE Black President Visila
2 VARIOUS ARTISTS Putumayo Presents: Latin Reggae Putumayo
3 TARRUS RILEY Contagious VP Music Group
4 JEAN-PIERRE SIMONS Sentimentally… To Africa
5 VARIOUS ARTIST * Classic Rythms Volume 3 * VP records * waiting for CMJ verification
* indicates information which has not yet been verified by CMJ staff.