06-01-2026

KEXP Charts for the Week of May 22 - May 28

Add Date: June 1

NOTE: KEXP's charts include albums that have not been released to the public yet, but have been made available to KEXP for airplay. 

Top 90:  

  1. aja monet - the color of rain (drink sum wtr)
  2. Genesis Owusu - REDSTAR WU & THE WORLDWIDE SCOURGE (OURNESS)
  3. Arlo Parks - Ambiguous Desire (Transgressive)
  4. Vince Staples - Cry Baby (Loma Vista)
  5. Telehealth - Green World Image (Sub Pop)
  6. Chinese American Bear - Dim Sum & Then Some (Moshi Moshi)
  7. Hannah Lew - Hannah Lew (Night School)
  8. Honey Dijon - The Nightlife (SOS)
  9. Lime Garden - Maybe Not Tonight (So Young) 
  10. Man/Woman/Chainsaw - Cannonball (Fiction Records)
  11. TV Star - Music For Heads (Father/Daughter Records)
  12. Kevin Morby - Little Wide Open (Dead Oceans) 
  13. Little Simz - Sugar Girl EP (AWAL)
  14. Makthaverskan - Glass and Bones (Welfare Sounds & Records) 
  15. Fcukers - Ö (Ninja Tune)
  16. Kelley Stoltz - If You Don’t Know Me, Buy Now! (Dandy Boy)
  17. Thee Marloes - Di Hotel Malibu (Big Crown)
  18. Blu & Exile - Time Heals Everything (Dirty Science)
  19. Jump Source - Fold (NAFF)
  20. Suki Waterhouse - “Back In Love” (Island)
  21. Thundercat - Distracted (Brainfeeder)
  22. Courtney Barnett - Creature of Habit (Mom+Pop/Fiction)
  23. Waves Crashing - In The Blur (Audiomanic)
  24. Black Milk - CEREMONIAL (Computer Ugly)
  25. Ecca Vandal - LOOKING FOR PEOPLE TO UNFOLLOW (Loma Vista) 
  26. Baby Rose - YEARNALISM (Secretly Canadian)
  27. Blondshell - “Heart Has To Work So Hard” (Partisan)
  28. GENER8ION & Yung Lean - STORM (Iconoclast)
  29. Ibibio Sound Machine - “Return To Sender” (Merge)
  30. Kelela - new avatar (Warp)
  31. Kurt Vile - Philadelphia's been good to me (Verve Records)
  32. Spacemoth - Inward Eye (Greenway Records)
  33. Jessie Ware - Superbloom (Interscope/EMI) 
  34. Nubiyan Twist - Chasing Shadows (Strut)
  35. Beck Zegans - Engraving Of Armor (Exploding In Sound) 
  36. Isaiah Rashad - IT’S BEEN AWFUL (Top Dawg Entertainment/Warner)
  37. Khun Narin - III (Innovative Leisure)
  38. Lykke Li - The Afterparty (Neon Gold/Futures)
  39. Oddisee & Heno. - From Takoma With Love (Outer Note Label)
  40. Metric - Romanticize The Dive (Metric Music International/Thirty Tigers) 
  41. Future Islands - From a Hole in the Floor to a Fountain of Youth (4AD)
  42. Tank and the Bangas - The Last Balloon (Verve) 
  43. Orbit 17 - Betrayer (self-released)
  44. Frog - Frog For Sale (Audio Antihero/tapewormies) 
  45. Nine Inch Nails & Boys Noize - Nine Inch Noize (The Null Corporation/Interscope) 
  46. Irreversible Entanglements - Future Present Past (Impulse!) 
  47. Asha Puthli & Say She She - “Pawa!” (Naya Beat)
  48. Gelli Haha  - “Klouds Will Carry Me To Sleep” (Innovative Leisure)
  49. Getdown Services - Massive Champion (Breakfast)
  50. Modest Mouse - An Eraser and A Maze (Glacial Pace Recordings/Virgin Music Group)
  51. Sera Cahoone - “Say Something” (Sub Pop)
  52. Adrian Younge - Afro Disco Makossa EP (Linear Labs)
  53. Cerrone & Adi Oasis - “New Highs” (Because Music)
  54. Father John Misty - “The Payoff” (Sub Pop)
  55. HEALTH - ADDENDUM EP (Loma Vista)
  56. Megatronic & Natasha Diggs - “People” (Radio Version) (The Jazz Diaries)
  57. Party Dozen - “Special Unit” (City Slang)
  58. Sweeping Promises - You Say I Romanticize (Sub Pop)
  59. The Avalanches - “Together” (feat. Nikki Nair, Jessy Lanza and Prentiss) (Modular Recordings)
  60. Terror/Cactus - Colapso (Share It Music)
  61. The Black Tones - “Troublemaker” (feat. Death Valley Girls) (self-released)
  62. Jenevieve - “Flight Risqué” (feat. Freddie Gibbs & SALIMATA) (Interscope)
  63. Iceage - For Love of Grace & the Hereafter (Mexican Summer) 
  64. Dua Saleh - Of Earth & Wires (Ghostly International)
  65. Angélique Kidjo - HOPE!! (Parlophone/Warner)
  66. Heavy Bloom - Back To Us (self-released) 
  67. La Doña - Corrientes (Text Me Records)
  68. Zookraught - Pressure (Den Tapes) 
  69. JuJu Rogers - Pink Guitars, Spaceships N Voodoo Dolls (Counterkultur)
  70. Modern Woman - Johnny's Dreamworld (One Little Independent) 
  71. Pigeon - OUTTANATIONAL (Memphis Industries) 
  72. Yaya Bey - Fidelity (drink sum wtr) 
  73. Eaves Wilder - Little Miss Sunshine (Secretly Canadian)
  74. Alela Diane - Who’s Keeping Time? (Fluff & Gravy/Loose Music) 
  75. Divers - Odd Dog in the Capital (Community Music)
  76. HOTT MT - Haunted House (Mutation)
  77. Los Mirlos - The World Meets Los Mirlos (Revancha/BMG)
  78. Madeline Goldstein - Speaking to the Body (Artoffact)
  79. Poolgirl - Still Not Getting What I Want EP (Petit Village)
  80. Broken Social Scene - Remember The Humans (Arts & Crafts) 
  81. Cola - Cost of Living Adjustment (Fire Talk)
  82. Ladytron - Paradises (Nettwerk) 
  83. Holy Fuck - Event Beat (Satellite Services) 
  84. Twisted Teens - Blame the Clown (Jazz Life) 
  85. Death Cab For Cutie - I Built You A Tower (ANTI-)
  86. Brooke Combe - “Tears Won’t Lie” (Fontana)
  87. IAN SWEET - Shiverstruck (Polyvinyl)
  88. Lambrini Girls - “Cult of Celebrity” (City Slang)
  89. Nia Archives - Emotional Junglist (HIJINXX/Island Records)
  90. Ruti - “I'LL BE YOUR FRIEND” (Big Family Music)

Americana/Folk: 

  1. Kevin Morby - Little Wide Open (Dead Oceans)
  2. Frog - Frog For Sale (Audio Antihero/tapewormies) 
  3. Sera Cahoone - “Say Something” (Sub Pop)
  4. La Doña - Corrientes (Text Me Records)
  5. Alela Diane - Who’s Keeping Time? (Fluff & Gravy/Loose Music) 
  6. Twisted Teens - Blame the Clown (Jazz Life) 
  7. Thomas Dollbaum - Birds of Paradise (Dear Life) 
  8. Aldous Harding - Train On The Island (4AD)
  9. Kathryn Mohr - Carve (The Flesner) 
  10. Mildred - Fenceline (Memorials of Distinction/Dog Day)

Global: 

  1. Thee Marloes - Di Hotel Malibu (Big Crown)
  2. Ibibio Sound Machine - “Return To Sender” (Merge)
  3. Nubiyan Twist - Chasing Shadows (Strut)
  4. Khun Narin - III (Innovative Leisure)
  5. Adrian Younge - Afro Disco Makossa EP (Linear Labs)
  6. Terror/Cactus - Colapso (Share It Music)
  7. Angélique Kidjo - HOPE!! (Parlophone/Warner)
  8. La Doña - Corrientes (Text Me Records)
  9. Pigeon - OUTTANATIONAL (Memphis Industries) 
  10. Los Mirlos - The World Meets Los Mirlos (Revancha/BMG)

Hip-Hop: 

  1. aja monet - the color of rain (drink sum wtr)
  2. Genesis Owusu - REDSTAR WU & THE WORLDWIDE SCOURGE (OURNESS)
  3. Vince Staples - Cry Baby (Loma Vista)
  4. Little Simz - Sugar Girl EP (AWAL)
  5. Blu & Exile - Time Heals Everything (Dirty Science)
  6. Jump Source - Fold (NAFF)
  7. Thundercat - Distracted (Brainfeeder)
  8. Black Milk - CEREMONIAL (Computer Ugly)
  9. Nubiyan Twist - Chasing Shadows (Strut)
  10. Isaiah Rashad - IT’S BEEN AWFUL (Top Dawg Entertainment/Warner)

RPM/Electronic: 

  1. Honey Dijon - The Nightlife (SOS) 
  2. Fcukers - Ö (Ninja Tune)
  3. Jump Source - Fold (NAFF)
  4. GENER8ION & Yung Lean - STORM (Iconoclast)
  5. Ibibio Sound Machine - “Return To Sender” (Merge)
  6. Nine Inch Nails & Boys Noize - Nine Inch Noize (The Null Corporation/Interscope) 
  7. HEALTH - ADDENDUM EP (Loma Vista)
  8. The Avalanches - “Together” (feat. Nikki Nair, Jessy Lanza and Prentiss) (Modular Recordings)
  9. Terror/Cactus - Colapso (Share It Music)
  10. Dua Saleh - Of Earth & Wires (Ghostly International)

R&B/Blues/Soul: 

  1. aja monet - the color of rain (drink sum wtr)
  2. Genesis Owusu - REDSTAR WU & THE WORLDWIDE SCOURGE (OURNESS)
  3. Arlo Parks - Ambiguous Desire (Transgressive)
  4. Honey Dijon - The Nightlife (SOS) 
  5. Little Simz - Sugar Girl EP (AWAL)
  6. Thee Marloes - Di Hotel Malibu (Big Crown)
  7. Thundercat - Distracted (Brainfeeder)
  8. Black Milk - CEREMONIAL (Computer Ugly)
  9. Baby Rose - YEARNALISM (Secretly Canadian)
  10. Ibibio Sound Machine - “Return To Sender” (Merge)

Jazz: 

  1. aja monet - the color of rain (drink sum wtr)
  2. Thee Marloes - Di Hotel Malibu (Big Crown)
  3. Thundercat - Distracted (Brainfeeder)
  4. Black Milk - CEREMONIAL (Computer Ugly)
  5. Nubiyan Twist - Chasing Shadows (Strut)
  6. Irreversible Entanglements - Future Present Past (Impulse!) 
  7. Adrian Younge - Afro Disco Makossa EP (Linear Labs)
  8. Pigeon - OUTTANATIONAL (Memphis Industries) 
  9. Yaya Bey - Fidelity (drink sum wtr) 
  10. Arturo Sandoval - Sangú (TM Records)

Northwest: 

  1. Telehealth - Green World Image (Sub Pop)
  2. Chinese American Bear - Dim Sum & Then Some (Moshi Moshi)
  3. TV Star - Music For Heads (Father/Daughter Records)
  4. Waves Crashing - In The Blur (Audiomanic)
  5. Orbit 17 - Betrayer (self-released)
  6. Modest Mouse - An Eraser and A Maze (Glacial Pace Recordings/Virgin Music Group)
  7. Sera Cahoone - “Say Something” (Sub Pop)
  8. Terror/Cactus - Colapso (Share It Music)
  9. The Black Tones - “Troublemaker” (feat. Death Valley Girls) (self-released)
  10. Heavy Bloom - Back To Us (self-released) 

Bay Area: 

  1. Hannah Lew - Hannah Lew (Night School)
  2. Kelley Stoltz - If You Don’t Know Me, Buy Now! (Dandy Boy)
  3. Spacemoth - Inward Eye (Greenway Records)
  4. Orbit 17 - Betrayer (self-released)
  5. La Doña - Corrientes (Text Me Records)
  6. Cindy - Another Country (Tough Love)
  7. Louie El Ser - “Perra (i wanna be your dog)” (Text Me)
  8. lucky break - made it! (Fire Records)
  9. Kathryn Mohr - Carve (The Flesner) 
  10. Mildred - Fenceline (Memorials of Distinction/Dog Day)

Adds: 

Francis of Delirium - Run, Run Pure Beauty (Dalliance)
Iceage - For Love of Grace & the Hereafter (Mexican Summer) 
Boards of Canada - Inferno (Warp)
Chico Detour - Wash It Down EP (Den Tapes)
Greg Mendez - Beauty Land (Dead Oceans) 
KÁRYYN - PHYSICS UNIVERSAL LOVE LANGUAGE (PULL) (Mute) 
Konyikeh - Cinere (FAMM)
Kurt Vile - Philadelphia's been good to me (Verve) 
Sosyete '25 - Yaygara (Tru Thoughts)
villagerrr - Carousel (Winspear)
Widemouth - No Gasoline (Urban Scandal)
A/S/L - Burnt Out Disco For Club Rats EP (Future Gods)
Brian Jackson - Now More Than Ever (BBE)
feeble little horse - bitknot (Saddle Creek)
Future Islands - From a Hole in the Floor to a Fountain of Youth (4AD)
Marika Christine - Enjoy The Clouds (Anxiety Blanket Records) 
Naomi Scott - F.I.G (ALTER Music)
Tank and the Bangas - The Last Balloon (Verve) 
The Bug Club - Every Single Muscle (Sub Pop)
TOMI - Break It Til You Fix It (self-released)