CMJ, aka College Media Journal, was an online service that compiled music charts with independent underground labels and artists, including many non-commercial community and public stations among their reporters. They also published trade and consumer versions of their music magazine and held the CMJ Music Marathon, a week-long festival featuring the best new music in New York City each fall.
For almost 30 years, WORT participated in submitting charts to CMJ for our top 30, new adds, world, jazz, metal, electronic, hiphop and other genres. As a “core reporter,” the station got lots of attention from all the labels and promoters out there and this became the main way for them to discover our programs and send us promotional copies of music in all genres for airplay. So, after a period of uncertainty and despite plenty of promises to the contrary, in late February we were very sad to learn that CMJ had shut down without passing the business on.
Most of our listeners won’t be aware of any changes going on behind the scenes, but until there’s a stable, broad-ranging service to take its place, reporting our charts has become a lot trickier. NACC, the North American College and Community Chart, has been up for a few months with some of the same advantages as CMJ. However, at this time they’re only taking a top 30 and adds from stations. The site says they’re working on expanding to other genres, and with the official departure of CMJ hopefully that will be expedited. In the meantime we’re focusing primarily on rock/indie music and our top adds, but rest assured we’ll be getting back to the specialty genre charts in the near future, because We’re Still Here and going strong!!
Sybil Augustine
WORT Music Director
Top 30 Chart for WORT 89.9 FM
Artist Record Label
1 SADIES, THE Northern Passages Yep Roc
2 CHUCK PROPHET Bobby Fuller Died For Your Sins Yep Roc
3 THIEVERY CORPORATION The Temple Of I & I ESL
4 TY SEGALL Ty Segall Drag City
5 AUSTRA Future Politics Pink Fizz (Canada)/Domino (US)
6 NIKKI LANE Highway Queen New West
7 GILLIAN WELCH Boots No. 1 Acony
8 JUSTICE Woman Ed Banger
9 JOHN CRAIGIE No Rain, No Rose Zabriskie Point
10 RON GALLO Heavy Meta New West
11 RYAN ADAMS Prisoner Blue Note
12 SLEATER-KINNEY Live in Paris Sub Pop
13 ALL THEM WITCHES Sleeping Through The War New West
14 XX, THE I See You Young Turks
15 ANGELO MOORE AND THE BRAND NEW STEPS Centuries of Heat Ropeadope
16 MOLOCHS,THE America’s Velvet Glory Innovative Leisure
17 ANDRE WILLIAMS Don’t Ever Give Up Pravda
18 CHERRY GLAZERR Apocalipstick Secretly Canadian
19 FOXYGEN Hang Jagjaguwar
20 BONOBO Migration Ninja Tune
21 ROBERT RANDOLPH AND THE FAMILY BAND Got Soul Masterworks
22 JAPANDROIDS Near To The Wild Heart Of Life Anti
23 KID KOALA Music To Draw To: Satellite Arts & Crafts
24 JESCA HOOP Memories Are Now Sub Pop
25 HANNI EL KHATIB Savage Times Innovative Leisure
26 JULIE BYRNE Not Even Happiness Ba Da Bing!
27 WOODS Live At Third Man Third Man
28 STRAND OF OAKS Hard Love Dead Oceans
29 KING GIZZARD AND THE LIZARD WIZARD Flying Microtonal Banana ATO
30 VALERIE JUNE The Order of Time Concord
2-28 top adds
KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD Flying Microtonal Banana ATO
XIU XIU Forget Polyvinyl
JENS LEKMAN Life Will See You Now Secretly Canadian
DIRTY PROJECTORS Dirty Projectors Domino
FRONTIER RUCKUS Enter The Kingdom Sitcom Universe
