03-02-2026

KEXP Charts for the Week of Feb. 20 - Feb. 26

Add Date: Mar. 2

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. Jill Scott - To Whom This May Concern (Blues Babe/Human Re Sources)
  2. Genesis Owusu - “STAMPEDE” (Ourness)
  3. Thundercat - Distracted (Brainfeeder)
  4. Altin Gün - Garip (ATO/Glitterbeat)
  5. Hannah Lew - Hannah Lew (Night School)
  6. DJ Harrison - ElectroSoul (Stones Throw)
  7. PVA - No More Like This (It’s All For Fun)
  8. Dry Cleaning - Secret Love (4AD)
  9. Ya Tseen - Stand On My Shoulders (Sub Pop)
  10. Lucid Express - Instant Comfort (Kanine)
  11. De La Soul - Cabin In The Sky (Mass Appeal)
  12. Lime Garden - Maybe Not Tonight (So Young)
  13. Ratboys - Singin’ to an Empty Chair (New West)
  14. Courtney Barnett - Creature of Habit (Mom+Pop)
  15. Melody’s Echo Chamber - Unclouded (Domino)
  16. aja monet - “hollyweird” (drink sum wtr)
  17. A$AP Rocky - Don’t Be Dumb (AWGE/RCA)
  18. TV Star - Music For Heads (Father/Daughter)
  19. Chinese American Bear - Dim Sum & Then Some (Moshi Moshi)
  20. Arlo Parks - Ambiguous Desire (Transgressive)
  21. Russian Blue - A Modern Analogue (Pegasus Theory)
  22. The Olympians - In Search of a Revival (Daptone)
  23. Gabriel Teodros - “POW” / “Violent State” (self-released)
  24. Chico Detour - “Crying At My Party” (self-released)
  25. The Belair Lip Bombs - Again (Third Man)
  26. Ellur - At Home in My Mind (Dance to the Radio)
  27. Austra - Chin Up Buttercup (Domino)
  28. Snail Mail - Ricochet (Matador)
  29. Sampa the Great - “Can’t Hold Us” (feat. Mwanjé) (Loma Vista)
  30. Hemi Hemingway - Wings of Desire (PNKSLM)
  31. Liz Cooper - New Day (Sleepyhead)
  32. La Sécurité - Bingo! (Bella Union)
  33. L’Éclair - Lagniappe Sessions (Innovative Leisure)
  34. Brooklyn Funk Essentials - Black Butterfly (Dorado)
  35. Various Artists - HELP(2) (War Child)
  36. AJ Suede, Lord OlO & Televangel - Relinquished (Last Epoch Recordings)
  37. Parlor Greens - Emeralds (Colemine)
  38. SPELLLING - “Portrait of My Heart” (feat. Brendan Yates) (Sacred Bones)
  39. SAULT - Chapter 1 (Forever Living Originals)
  40. Mitski - Nothing’s About to Happen to Me (Dead Oceans)
  41. Chalk - Crystalpunk (ALTER Music)
  42. CHROMA - 25 Forever (Alcopop!)
  43. Denzel Curry & The Scythe - Strictly 4 The Scythe (Loma Vista Recordings)
  44. Doechii & SZA - “girl, get up.” (Capitol/TDE)
  45. Nothing - a short history of decay (Run For Cover)
  46. Momoko Gill - Momoko (Strut)
  47. Gabriela Richardson - ISOLA (Virgin)
  48. Cardinals - Masquerade (So Young)
  49. Blind Yeo - Today / Tomorrow (Lost Map)
  50. plash - i live alone (Porchlight)
  51. Imarhan - Essam (City Slang)
  52. Avalon Emerson & the Charm - Written Into Changes (Dead Oceans)
  53. Ana Tijoux & DJ Dacel - 97 EP (Victoria Producciones)
  54. Catherine Moan - “Boy” (self-released)
  55. Kim Gordon - PLAY ME (Matador)
  56. Lykke Li - The Afterparty (Neon Gold/Futures)
  57. Metric - Romanticize The Dive (Metric Music International/Thirty Tigers)
  58. Painted Veil - “Wanna Be Enough” (self-released)
  59. Triángulo de Amor Bizarro - “Triángulo de Amor Bizarro” (Sonido Muchacho)
  60. SPRINTS - “Deceptacon” (Sub Pop)
  61. Peaches - No Lube So Rude (Kill Rock Stars)
  62. Various Artists - Naive Melodies (BBE)
  63. Joe Glass - Snakewards (self-released)
  64. Champagne Bubblebath - Mixtape: Volume One (self-released)
  65. ACTORS - “CTRL” (Artoffact)
  66. DJ Seinfeld - “Of Joy” (feat. ARY) (Ninja Tune)
  67. Nas & DJ Premier - Light-Years (Mass Appeal)
  68. Neon Ion - Laugh Now, Cry Later (Jazzland Recordings)
  69. Fred again.. - USB (Atlantic)
  70. Captain Planet - DIG (Bastard Jazz Recordings)
  71. Emi Pop - No Te Voy a Extrañar (Fink City)
  72. Dua Saleh - Of Earth & Wires (Ghostly International)
  73. Father John Misty - “The Old Law” (Sub Pop)
  74. Kevin Morby - Little Wide Open (Dead Oceans)
  75. Robyn - “Dopamine” (Young)
  76. Katzin - Buckaroo (Mexican Summer)
  77. Remember Sports - The Refrigerator (Get Better)
  78. Sotomayor - WABI SABI (Wonderwheel Recordings)
  79. Dina Ögon - Människobarn (Playground Music)
  80. Blackwater Holylight - Not Here Not Gone (Suicide Squeeze)
  81. GUV - Warmer Than Gold (Run For Cover)
  82. Liiek - Living in a Fiction (Adagio830)
  83. Midpak - “Disco Heaven 54” / “Evil Extension” (Middy P Ink)
  84. Al Green - To Love Somebody EP (Fat Possum)
  85. Alexis Taylor - Paris in the Spring (Night Time Stories)
  86. Anna Calvi - Is This All There Is? EP (Domino)
  87. Bathing Suits - “Empathy” (underplay)
  88. Bel Cobain - “Am I Dumb” (Brownswood Recordings)
  89. Dead Pioneers - “Nazi Teeth” (Hassle)
  90. deary - Birding (Bella Union)

Americana/Folk: 

  1. Altin Gün - Garip (ATO/Glitterbeat)
  2. Ratboys - Singin’ to an Empty Chair (New West)
  3. Courtney Barnett - Creature of Habit (Mom+Pop)
  4. Ellur - At Home in My Mind (Dance to the Radio)
  5. Father John Misty - “The Old Law” (Sub Pop)
  6. Kevin Morby - Little Wide Open (Dead Oceans)
  7. Katzin - Buckaroo (Mexican Summer)
  8. Luke Temple - Hungry Animal (Western Vinyl)
  9. Andrew Bird & Gavin Brivik - “Need Someone” (Wegawam Music Co./Loma Vista Recordings)
  10. Iron & Wine - Hen’s Teeth (Sub Pop)

Global: 

  1. Altin Gün - Garip (ATO/Glitterbeat)
  2. Gabriela Richardson - ISOLA (Virgin)
  3. Various Artists - Naive Melodies (BBE)
  4. Imarhan - Essam (City Slang)
  5. Ana Tijoux & DJ Dacel - 97 EP (Victoria Producciones)
  6. Triángulo de Amor Bizarro - “Triángulo de Amor Bizarro” (Sonido Muchacho)
  7. Captain Planet - DIG (Bastard Jazz Recordings)
  8. Sotomayor - WABI SABI (Wonderwheel Recordings)
  9. Dina Ögon - Människobarn (Playground Music)
  10. Peach Truck Hijackers - Peach Truck Hijackers (self-released)

Hip-Hop: 

  1. Jill Scott - To Whom This May Concern (Blues Babe/Human Re Sources)
  2. Thundercat - Distracted (Brainfeeder)
  3. DJ Harrison - ElectroSoul (Stones Throw)
  4. De La Soul - Cabin In The Sky (Mass Appeal)
  5. aja monet - “hollyweird” (drink sum wtr)
  6. A$AP Rocky - Don’t Be Dumb (AWGE/RCA)
  7. Gabriel Teodros - “POW” / “Violent State” (self-released)
  8. Sampa the Great - “Can’t Hold Us” (feat. Mwanjé) (Loma Vista)
  9. AJ Suede, Lord OlO & Televangel - Relinquished (Last Epoch Recordings)
  10. Denzel Curry & The Scythe - Strictly 4 The Scythe (Loma Vista Recordings)

RPM/Electronic: 

  1. PVA - No More Like This (It’s All For Fun)
  2. Austra - Chin Up Buttercup (Domino)
  3. Peaches - No Lube So Rude (Kill Rock Stars)
  4. ACTORS - “CTRL” (Artoffact)
  5. DJ Seinfeld - “Of Joy” (feat. ARY) (Ninja Tune)
  6. Fred again.. - USB (Atlantic)
  7. Captain Planet - DIG (Bastard Jazz Recordings)
  8. Robyn - “Dopamine” (Young)
  9. Sotomayor - WABI SABI (Wonderwheel Recordings)
  10. Apparat - A Hum Of Maybe (Mute)

R&B/Blues/Soul: 

  1. Jill Scott - To Whom This May Concern (Blues Babe/Human Re Sources)
  2. Thundercat - Distracted (Brainfeeder)
  3. DJ Harrison - ElectroSoul (Stones Throw)
  4. Arlo Parks - Ambiguous Desire (Transgressive)
  5. The Olympians - In Search of a Revival (Daptone)
  6. Brooklyn Funk Essentials - Black Butterfly (Dorado)
  7. Parlor Greens - Emeralds (Colemine)
  8. SAULT - Chapter 1 (Forever Living Originals)
  9. Doechii & SZA - “girl, get up.” (Capitol/TDE)
  10. Momoko Gill - Momoko (Strut)

Jazz: 

  1. Jill Scott - To Whom This May Concern (Blues Babe/Human Re Sources)
  2. Thundercat - Distracted (Brainfeeder)
  3. The Olympians - In Search of a Revival (Daptone)
  4. Momoko Gill - Momoko (Strut)
  5. Various Artists - Naive Melodies (BBE)
  6. Champagne Bubblebath - Mixtape: Volume One (self-released)
  7. Neon Ion - Laugh Now, Cry Later (Jazzland Recordings)
  8. Flea - Honora (Nonesuch)
  9. Irreversible Entanglements - Future Present Past (Impulse!)
  10. Baby Rose - “Friends Again” (feat. Leon Thomas) (Secretly Canadian)

Northwest: 

  1. TV Star - Music For Heads (Father/Daughter)
  2. Chinese American Bear - Dim Sum & Then Some (Moshi Moshi)
  3. Russian Blue - A Modern Analogue (Pegasus Theory)
  4. Gabriel Teodros - “POW” / “Violent State” (self-released)
  5. Chico Detour - “Crying At My Party” (self-released)
  6. AJ Suede, Lord OlO & Televangel - Relinquished (Last Epoch Recordings)
  7. plash - i live alone (Porchlight)
  8. Painted Veil - “Wanna Be Enough” (self-released)
  9. Champagne Bubblebath - Mixtape: Volume One (self-released)
  10. ACTORS - “CTRL” (Artoffact)

Adds: 

Amaro Freitas, Criolo y Dino D'Santiago - CRIOLO, AMARO E DINO (Criolo Produções)
Bibi Club - Amaro (Secret City)
Bill Callahan - My Days of 58 (Drag City)
GENA - The Pleasure Is Yours (Lex)
Lala Lala - Heaven 2 (Sub Pop)
Momoko Gill - Momoko (Strut)
Nothing - a short history of decay (Run For Cover)
Pina Palau - You Better Get Used To It (Mouthwatering)
Buck Meek - The Mirror (4AD)
Crooked Man - Crooked Stile (Vicious Charm)
Hen Ogledd - Discombobulated (Weird World/Domino)
Iron & Wine - Hen’s Teeth (Sub Pop)
Jane Remover - ♡ (deadAir)
Kay Yoko - Yuki’s Blue Greenhouse (Les Disques Magnétiques)
Lamisi - Let Us Clap (Real World Records) 
LB aka LABAT - Feel So Good Around U (Because)
Maria BC - Marathon (Sacred Bones)
Sepalot - closer (Eskapaden Musik)
trauma ray - Carnival (Dais)
Usted Señalemelo - Términos y Condiciones (Sony Music)