WEEK 40 ADDS PREVIEW

This week could be tight but I imagine its Bon Ivers world and we are just living in it.
If you have updates or corrections or comments just let me know!


Here are this weeks New Releases 

And here are the records going for ADDS this week!


Distiller  has:

Ex-Cult

Sonny Knight and the Lakers

Lady Wray

ALU 

Pirate has :

Regina Spektor
Touche Amore
Brett Newski
Defend the Rhino

Terrorbird has :

Rituals of Mine

Bellows

Itasca

Jackie Zealous

Christian Loffler

Team Clermont has:

The Burgeoning

Sam Evian

Shovels and Rope

Vitriol has:

Night Club

A man A Plan A Canal has:

Boreal Sons

Planetary has:

Elephant Stone

The Breath

Say Yes!

Lanikai

Shine on has

Aerial East

TUNS

Jenny Hval

Krief

Charlotte Day Wilson

Sonic Youth Reissue

Co sign has:

Danny Brown

Holy Sons

JONES

Babeheaven

The Syndicate has:

The Faint

The Pixies

The Range

Suicidal Tendencies 

Norah Jones 

Band Mom has:

Baby Robot has:


Tell All Your Friends :


Secretly Canadian:

Bon Iver

Here are this weeks ADD conversations.

Douglas Blake:

there is no world where Bon Iver dosen’t get #1 added right?

not at all

Douglas Blake:

so the ever exciting race for #2

ha

i like that better

because #1 doesn't even have to be on my radar

so #2 race will be Regina, Danny Brown, Pixies, maybe Ex-Cult?

Douglas Blake:

yeah I think Regina can be top 5 but already a lot of kids don’t know who she is so a good amount of education

so fucking sad ha

Douglas Blake:

well i am sure there are some that don’t know who the pixies are too

oh im sure

ex-cult is big yeah?

Douglas Blake:

It will be interesting to see what Pitchfork reviews tomorrow last friday they did both How to dress well and Beach Slang and gave them eh reviews

like nothing to help or hurt them reviews

but they hated that pixies so much last time

yeah that's a good point

and could see them giving Danny Brown BNM tomorrow or monday

Douglas Blake:

right and bon

oh yeah, totally

Douglas Blake:

Pixies was top 10? last time, Bon Iver #1 easily … what about Danny Brown?

I looked for Regina and could not find it

and not sure about Ex Cult

Danny topped out at #21, but this record is so much buzzier i think

lemme check on those

Douglas Blake:

right yeah seems like a lot more buzz

doesn't look like anyone worked last regina

Douglas Blake:

yeah i thought that was weird though cause i could of sworn AAM did one but i couldn’t find it

so i guess i was wrong

ex-cult was #25, i thought they were bigger

Douglas Blake:

 syn also has Norah Jones ?

that was a last minute add for them

Douglas Blake:

yeah thats what he said

weird

and she peaked at #13 last time

And now the conversation with a station. 

you see all the adds for this week? interested in your take for what the biggest will be

hmmm

i hate to say it but probably pixies

yeah i was wondering if people were still into them after the last record

i like them a bunch but was unsure

yeah i mean a couple of the singles so far are solid

and my DJs spun the first single a lot

yeah no the whole record is good

what else

probably regina spektor and norah jones too

distiller has a band called Ex Cult that i've never heard of but it's some of the best garage rock i've heard

which i know college radio seems to love

who is working Norah jones? i did not see that anywhere

syn

huh

i think it was ashort notice thing

doesn't seem like a college record really

but what do i know

it was never in any of their "upcoming releases" emails

idk im bad at this stuff hahaha

Interesting you have not named the one that I consider to be the runaway this week

which?

maybe i haven't seen it

Bon Iver

OH

i forgot about that

i haven't gotten it yet

definitely #1

haha yeah

i think so too

it already has so much hype off the one single

COLLEGE RADIO RECAP WEEK 39

Stop everything! 2 weeks in a row with 200 stations it was enough to crash CMJ for an  hour or so yesterday. Such excitement!

This weeks ADDS were a bit of a surprise to me. I thought for sure, as did many of you based on the twitter poll, that Beach Slang would take #1 and it's not unusual for me to be wrong but it wasn't even close.

1	82	LVL UP	Return To Love	SUB POP
2	57	BEACH SLANG	A Loud Bash Of Teenage Feelings	Polyvinyl
3	48	EZTV	High In Place	Captured Tracks
4	46	DEVENDRA BANHART	Ape In Pink Marble	Nonesuch
5	44	SURVIVE	RR7349	Relapse
6	44	HOW TO DRESS WELL	Care	Domino
7	41	AGAINST ME!	Shape Shift With Me	Total Treble
8	40	WARPAINT	Heads Up	Rough Trade
9	39	WYTCHES	All Your Happy Life	Heavenly-Pias

It was LVL UP and everyone else. Devendra Barnhart and How to Dress well have had #1 records in the past and I would imagine that would be the expectation this time around as well so it will be interesting to see how they come out of the gate next week. Sometimes you see a disappointing add week but then the record will debut but none of the records aside from LVL UP had a debut this week. 

On the charts it is still the Angel Olsen show and I have no idea when it will come to an end. I was expecting the number of supporters to start to drop this week but it continues to go up.  The last 3 weeks have gone 108, 125 and now 128 ( number of stations). 

Wilco moved up into the #2 spot but the gap is sill pretty large.  Having only been out there for 2 seeks the number of stations has gone from 88 to 108.  So there is still a lot of gains to be made. I would think the gap would get smaller this next week and perhaps in 2 weeks be in a position to take the title from Angel Olsen. 

You can see it on Spinitron as well where the gap is 165 for Angel Olsen and 128 for Wilco. Always like to see them line up.  While we are speaking of Spinitron they quietly rolled out an update under the NEWS tab on their site that includes links to Search and live recent spins https://spinitron.com/v2/news/

As far as the other alternative NACC the charts come out too late to be included in the weekly recaps. 

Some records to keep an eye on on the charts. Allah-las made the move up to #5.  Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds follow up the #1 most added performance with what is a top 10 debut at #8.  De La Soul continues to climb up the chart and could have a real shot at top 5. 

Cass McCombs made a jump into the top 10 from #15, and Flock of Dimes had a huge 2nd week going from #45 to #15.  The oldest record in the top 40 Car Seat Headrest is at #37 having been on the charts for 18 weeks of far.   

Frank Ocean is a fun one to look at. When you look at the spin data he comes in 3rd with 113 spins. All of the other records with high spin counts are pretty close to their position on the top 200 chart. But Frank Ocean comes in at #54 with a peak of #51. Still thats pretty impressive with no real push at college radio. 

Thank you for reading. Check in on Thursday when we go over the ADDS for the next week. 

and lets continue the conversation on Twitter. 

WEEK 39 ADDS PREVIEW

The last two weeks have been pretty easy ADD weeks.

Wilco took #1 very easily as did Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

So what does this week hold? Well here are this weeks new releases 

Distiller  has:

Bridges and Powerlines

Shota

Dom Le Nena

Angelo Moore & The Brand New Step
The Wytches

Pirate has :
Against Me
Wovenhand
This Wild Life
Duke of Norfolk

Terrorbird has :

EZTV

Infinity Crush

Maderia

PUFF!

Flyying Colours

Team Clermont has:

Warehouse

Crushed Out

This Frontier Needs Heroes

Curse of Lono

Vitriol has:


A man A Plan A Canal has:

Mariza

Planetary has:

GRIT

S U R V I V E 

Batwings

Morricone

Shine on has
LVL UP

Co sign has:

Machinedrum

MIYNT

Fil Bo Riva

The Syndicate has:

Beach Slang

Big Jesus

How To Dress Well

The Get Down

Microwave

Public Access TV

Band Mom has:

Baby Robot has:


Tell All Your Friends :

Negative Gemini

This is what we have so far. If any one has any updates just tweet at me.

Trying to get this all done before I hit the road but the obvious big ones are both from The Syndicate this week with Beach Slang and How to Dress well.  How to Dress well peaked at #2 last time out and Beach Slang seems to be "the next big thing"   I would not be shocked to see those two 1 and 2 but its hard when its coming from the same indie to get everyone on board so it will be interesting to see what one they pick as the priority.

This week I thought I would do the POLL via Twitter. So head to www.twitter.com/theanimalarrg and vote on who you think will be the most added record of the week.

COLLEGE RADIO WEEK 38 RECAP

Well they said, (well I said), it wouldn't happen but it did. We finally broke past the 200 station barrier this week!!! 205 precious souls decided it was worth reporting to CMJ.  I'm sorry this still sucks. It wasn't that long ago where we pushing for the 300 station barrier and that seems like a pipe dream at this point.
      Of course the quality of stations matters more than the quantity of stations but we have lost a lot of good ones not just mediocre ones.  Stations continue to ask me what am I paying CMJ for and with new resources popping up it is becoming less and less important.  One of the main worries stations have is that they won't get records anymore. I am curious if thats true.  Anyways on to the Charts!

Lets start with Spinitron this week because its  again a foreshadowing of what the CMJ charts brought us.

Lets look at the top 10

1	153	Angel Olsen	My Woman	Rock
2	95	Wilco	Schmilco	Rock
3	91	De La Soul	and the Anonymous Nobody...	Hip-Hop / Rap
4	90	Of Montreal	Innocence Reaches	Rock
5	87	Thee Oh Sees	A Weird Exits	Rock
6	73	Allah-Las	Calico Review	Rock
7	73	The Avalanches	Wildflower	Electronic
8	72	Local Natives	Sunlit Youth	Rock
9	71	Blood Orange	Freetown Sound	Rock
10	69	Frank Ocean	Blonde	R&B

Another killer week by Angel Olsen. When I see this chart on Mondays I have a pretty good idea of what the CMJ charts might look like. Especially when you see such a huge gap. I had little doubt that Angel Olsen would be #1 this week and we will get to that in a second but it wasn't even close. 

The ADDS preview seems to be something you guys like so thanks for reading. This past week we had a poll on what would be the #1 record for the week. This too wasn't even close as Nick Cave ran away with it. I did the Poll wrong so you don't see the results but it was Nick Cave and then 1 or 2 votes for everything else. 

A lot of bunching on this weeks ADDS chart 

1	65	NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS	Skeleton Tree	Kobalt
2	50	KISHI BASHI	Sonderlust	Joyful Noise
3	35	DAWES	We're All Gonna Die	Q Prime-HUB
4	34	PARTYBABY	The Golden Age Of Bullshit	Warner Bros.
5	33	MNDSGN	Body Wash	Stones Throw
6	32	CHAIN WALLET	Chain Wallet	Jansen Plateproduksjon
7	30	DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS	American Band	ATO
8	28	NICK WATERHOUSE	Never Twice	Innovative Leisure
9	26	BILLY BRAGG AND JOE HENRY	Shine A Light	Cooking Vinyl
10	23	CYMBALS EAT GUITARS	Pretty Years	Sinderlyn

You could say Nick Cave and Kishi Bashi are in one tier then the next 8 are all pretty close together. 

Also worth nothing that 5 of those ten records have already debuted on the charts. 

As for the charts as I mentioned it was Angel Olsen and it wasn't even close. Just above 60% of stations charted the record up from 53% the week before. 

TW	LW	2W	PK	WKS	Artist	Recording	Label
1	1	5	1	4	ANGEL OLSEN	MY WOMAN	Jagjaguwar
2	2	3	2	4	OF MONTREAL	Innocence Reaches	Polyvinyl
3	3	1	1	7	THEE OH SEES	A Weird Exits	Castle Face
4	103	-	4	2	WILCO	Schmilco	Anti
5	9	140	5	3	LOCAL NATIVES	Sunlit Youth	Loma Vista
6	8	20	6	3	MILD HIGH CLUB	Skiptracing	Stones Throw
7	4	7	4	4	CRYSTAL CASTLES	Amnesty (I)	Republic
8	36	190	8	3	ALLAH-LAS	Calico Review	Mexican Summer
9	10	15	9	3	DE LA SOUL	And The Anonymous Nobody	A.O.I.

Based on the Spinitron chart I would of thought De La Soul would of been higher but its only week 3.   The last few #1 ADDS have had big firsts weeks and while I was expecting something similar for Wilco I didn't expect top 5.  

Over the next few weeks it will be interesting to watch the race for #1. Wilco, Local Natives are the 2 front runners but Nick Cave should have a big jump up to the top 10 this next week. But All of these records are going to need huge gains and a huge drop off from Angel Olsen to have a shot. I imagine next week will give us a good idea of who could be the next #1.  

Ok thank you for reading. I am On the road on Friday so am unsure if I can do a full ADDS blog but I will try! 

Lets talk on twitter though! 

WEEK 38 ADDS PREVIEW

Before we get started with this weeks New Releases and ADDS be sure to check out this article from Billboard about CMJ.It is a doozy. However one note is that the back end of CMJ continues to work despite there not being any updates on the consumer facing side. Stations are still reporting what they are playing and there are still charts delivered to the industry.

Hello everyone here are this weeks new Releases 
And here are the ADDS


Distiller  has:

Dinowalrus
The do yo Thangs
Drive-by Truckers
Katie Burden
Nick Jaina
Oy
Patten


Pirate has :
Nick Waterhouse
Keaton Henson
Boxed in
Helms Alee
Toy Cars

Terrorbird has :

Sin Fang
Trentemoller
Sat. Nite Duets
Alex G
Fresh Snow

Team Clermont has:
AHI
Cheshires
Kishi Bashi
The Shondes
Snowball II


Vitriol has:
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

A man A Plan A Canal has:



Planetary has:

Andrew Cymose
Luyas
Benta
Billy Bragg and Joe Henry
EFG
Chain Wallet


Shine on has

Royal Canoe
Half noise
True Widow
Tim Presley
El Perro Del Mar
Julia Jacklin
Klangstof

Co sign has:
Seiah Sue
Tribe called red
MNDSGN




The Syndicate has:
Dawes
Partybaby
Mac Miller
The Moms

Band Mom has:

Baby Robot has:


Tell All Your Friends :

Cymbals Eat Guitars


Labels with adds:

Secretly:

Beggars:

Last week our station said it was a 10/10 week this week. Not as difficult they think

So whats the #1 add for the week?

I haven't listened yet but from what I have heard so far I'd say Boxed In

But that's me personally and I know not many will agree

haha how hard is this week if last week was 10/10

For a top 5 choice? 3/10

yeah

a lot easier

And for my weekly ADDS chat.

Nick Cave? Dawes? Alex G? Kishi Bashi? El Perro Del Mar? Nick Waterhouse? 

I don’t really see anything beating Cave 

but he's had about 20 early adds already.. or something like that

i doubt the Alex G re-issue it too big of a deal

oh is it? 

Kishi, Dawes and Nick should all be top 5

yeah

do people like drive by truckers still?

IDK 

oh! Cymbals at Guitars, right?

oh 

duh

ha

yeah but they don’t care about ADDS

no?

yeah it will do fine but Im pretty sure they don’t really care about that 

interesting..

yeah none of their "big records" get a lot of adds

So yeah I am going to say regardless of the early adds Nick Cave gets #1 

i'll go with that as well

Nick Cave, Dawes, Waterhouse, Kishi, and not sure about #5 I guess I would put Cymbals 

The Moms is a bar/none thing that people might like as well

Yeah I kind of see it as Cave easily getting the most and then everyone else fighting it out for the rest of the top 5 like the same thing as this week I guess 

but I didn’t expect that this week so I will probably be wrong about next week too 

yeah, this week was extremely interesting. 21 ADDs separated 2nd and 11th most added. 

between the same chart positions it was 31 ADDs last week

and 34 the week before

and 42 week before

so i bet this is another week of it all being close 

yeah i would say 2-8 will be close, and then a big drop off from there

I don’t even know what I would pick if its not Cave everything seems pretty much the same to me 

Maybe Kishi Bashi? 4th most ADDed last time, peaked at #14

or Nick Waterhouse

i would say those are 1,2 &3

yeah thats what I mean i could see any of them getting.  Maybe I am overselling how well Nick Cave will do like I undersold Wilco last week. I am going to stick with my top five I think.  

Should of done this last week as this week is not as exciting. But here  you can vote on what you think will be the #1 add of the week.

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