Roots Music Report compiles weekly radio airplay charts for various roots-related genres. These are based on spin totals reported by music directors and DJs from more than 400 terrestrial and Internet radio stations. The latest Folk and Roots Country charts are posted here with permission.

RMR Radio Airplay Chart - Folk Top 50 Albums

 
TW LW Artist CD Title Label
1 4 NANCI GRIFFITH INTERSECTION PROPER / HELL NO
2 28 SHAWN COLVIN ALL FALL DOWN NONESUCH
3 2 ROSE COUSINS WE HAVE MADE A SPARK OUTSIDE MUSIC
4 1 CAROLINA CHOCOLATE DROPS LEAVING EDEN NONESUCH
5 0 THE HARD ROAD TRIO MONTICELLO DESERT NIGHT
6 20 RANI ARBO & DAISY MAYHEM SOME BRIGHT MORNING SIGNATURE SOUNDS
7 44 BAP KENNEDY THE SAILOR’S REVENGE PROPER AMERICAN
8 26 LORETTA HAGEN MUD AND STONE BEARFORT
9 43 PETER MULVEY THE GOOD STUFF SIGNATURE SOUNDS
10 42 PEYTON TOCHTERMAN A NEW WORLD SELF
11 0 ANTJE DUVEKOT NEW SIBERIA INDIE
12 38 STACEY EARLE AND MARK STUART DEDICATION GEARLE
13 13 JON BROOKS DELICATE CAGES SELF
14 41 JONAH TOLCHIN CRIMINAL MAN NEW WHEEL
15 0 INDIGO GIRLS BEAUTY QUEEN SISTER VANGUARD
16 0 ROBBY HECHT LAST OF THE LONG DAYS 101 DISTRIBUTION
17 48 BAHAMAS BARCHORDS BRUSHFIRE RECORDS
18 0 OLIVER SWAIN IN A BIG MACHINE SELF
19 0 THE STRAY BIRDS BORDERLAND SELF
20 0 JARON FREEMAN-FOX MANIC ALMANAC – SLOW MOBIUS SELF
21 45 STEVE GATES A BEE IN HER MOUTH BLACK GUILLMOT MUSIC
22 47 DAVID FRANCEY LATE EDITION LAKER MUSIC
23 21 PHARIS & JASON ROMERO A PASSING GLIMPSE LULA
24 0 BARREN RIVER TRIO AMERICAN FOLK BARREN RIVER TRIO
25 0 THE CIVIL WARS BARTON HOLLOW SENSIBILITY
26 0 DULCIE TAYLOR FREE OF THIS SORROW MESA / FONTANA
27 0 MINDY SMITH MINDY SMITH SELF
28 24 THE DEEP DARK WOODS THE PLACE I LEFT BEHIND SIX SHOOTER / SUGAR HILL
29 0 JOHN K. SAMSON PROVINCIAL ANTI-
30 0 MATT HARLAN & THE SENTIMENTALS BOW & BE SIMPLE BERKALIN
31 0 THE TALLEST MAN ON EARTH THERE’S NO LEAVING NOW DEAD OCEANS
32 5 RED MOLLY LIGHT IN THE SKY SELF
33 0 CARSIE BLANTON IDIOT HEART SELF
34 0 MARIEL VANDERSTEEL HICKORY INDIE
35 0 MARVIN ETZIONI MARVIN COUNTRY! NINE MILE RECORDS
36 0 JAMES LEE STANLEY AND CLIFF EBERHARDT ALL WOOD AND DOORS BEACHWOOD
37 0 EMILY WELLS MAMA PARTISAN
38 0 JAKOB DYLAN WOMEN AND COUNTRY SONY
39 0 ADAM COHEN LIKE A MAN DECCA
40 8 THE CHIEFTAINS VOICE OF AGES HEAR MUSIC
41 0 CHRIS LAVANCHER ROADSIDE ATTRACTIONS SELF
42 0 DAVE POTTS LIVE AT SUNDILLA LOOKING UP
43 0 SPARK & WHISPER SPARK & WHISPER SELF
44 0 EVE GOLDBERG CROSSING THE WATER BOREALIS
45 0 JENNIFER LEONHARDT MINSTREL’S DAUGHTER WATERBUG
46 0 MICHAEL JOHNATHON RAVENWOOD POETMAN RECORDS
47 0 TOM CHAPIN & JOHN FORSTER BROADSIDES SUNDANCE MUSIC
48 0 BROTHER SUN BROTHER SUN INDIE
49 0 ROD MACDONALD SONGS OF FREEDOM BLUE FLUTE
50 0 BROWN BIRD SALT FOR SALT SUPPLY & DEMAND
For the Week of June, 22 2012 All data entered online direct to the RMR database by member stations

RMR Radio Airplay Chart - Roots Country Top 50 Albums

Ray Wylie Hubbard (photo:Todd Wolfson)[/caption]
 
TW LW Artist CD Title Label
1 1 RAY WYLIE HUBBARD THE GRIFTER’S HYMNAL BORDELLO
2 2 ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO BIG STATION FANTASY / CONCORD
3 3 WILLIE NELSON HEROES LEGACY
4 4 JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE NOTHING’S GONNA CHANGE THE WAY YOU FEEL ABOUT ME NOW BLOODSHOT
5 6 KELLY HOGAN I LIKE TO KEEP MYSELF IN PAIN ANTI
6 16 JAY FARRAR, WILL JOHNSON, ANDERS PARKER, AND YIM YAMES NEW MULTITUDES ROUNDER
7 7 HOOTS & HELLMOUTH SALT SELF
8 28 SARA WATKINS SUN MIDNIGHT SUN NONESUCH
9 9 MARTY STUART & HIS FABULOUS SUPERLATIVES NASHVILLE VOL. 1 — TEAR THE WOODPILE DOWN SUGAR HILL
10 12 ANDRE WILLIAMS AND THE SADIES NIGHT & DAY YEP ROC
11 38 RODNEY CROWELL KIN – SONGS BY MARY KARR & RODNEY CROWELL VANGUARD
12 27 TODD SNIDER TIME AS WE KNOW IT – THE SONGS OF JERRY JEFF WALKER AIMLESS
13 20 DOYLE LAWSON & QUICKSILVER DRIVE TIME MOUNTAIN HOME MUSIC
14 19 JASON EADY AM COUNTRY HEAVEN UNDERGROUND SOUND
15 5 LYLE LOVETT RELEASE ME CURB / LOST HIGHWAY
16 25 TURNPIKE TROUBADOURS GOODBYE NORMAL STREET BOSSIER CITY
17 14 THE MCEUEN SESSIONS FOR ALL THE GOOD MESA
18 35 THE DOC MARSHALLS LOOK OUT, COMPADRE TWINPOST MUSIC
19 24 HANK WILLIAMS III LONG GONE DADDY CURB
20 33 O’BRIEN PARTY OF 7 REINCARNATION – THE SONGS OF ROGER MILLER HOWDY SKIES
21 34 LYDIA LOVELESS INDESTRUCTIBLE MACHINE BLOODSHOT
22 29 JON DEE GRAHAM GARAGE SALE FREEDOM
23 0 JERRY DOUGLAS TRAVELER E ONE
24 41 NATASHA BORZILOVA OUT OF MY HANDS HADLEY MUSIC GROUP
25 40 BOVINE SOCIAL CLUB BOVINE SOCIAL CLUB ECLIPSO RECORDS
26 31 LUCERO WOMEN & WORK ATO
27 36 CHELLE ROSE THE GHOST OF BROWDER HOLLER SELF
28 44 LONESOME HEROES DAYDREAM WESTERN SELF
29 45 GOOD OLD WAR COME BACK AS RAIN SARGENT HOUSE
30 0 JOHN DOE AND EXENE CERVENKA SINGING AND PLAYING MOONLIGHT GRAHAM
31 32 CORNFLOWER BLUE RUN DOWN THE RAILS SELF
32 15 DEL BARBER HEADWATERS SIX SHOOTER
33 0 FRED EAGLESMITH 6 VOLTS INDIE
34 0 PENNY NEY THE HARDEST TRUTH ONE BELLSED PENNY
35 0 SUGAR & THE HI-LOWS — TRENT DABBS AND AMY STROUP SUGAR & THE HI-LOWS — TRENT DABBS AND AMY STROUP SELF
36 21 PUNCH BROTHERS WHO’S FEELING YOUNG NOW? NONESUCH
37 48 CHUCK SCHAEFFER ALONG THESE LINES SELF
38 50 BRYAN CLARK & THE NEW LYCEUM PLAYERS SOUTHERN INTERMISSION SELF
39 0 DANGERMUFFIN OLLY OXEN FREE DANGERMUFFIN
40 0 TISH HINOJOSA OUR LITTLE PLANET VARESE SARABANDE / FONTANA
41 0 RYAN ADAMS ASHES & FIRE CAPITOL
42 0 WILCO THE WHOLE LOVE ANTI-
43 0 TOKYO ROSENTHAL WHAT DID I USED TO BE (SINGLE) ROCK AND SOCKS
44 0 D. L. MARBLE NOT THE ONE DIRTBAG RECORDS
45 0 WOODY PINES YOU GOTTA ROLL SELF
46 0 SUSAN DOUGLASS TAYLOR GREAT FALLS ROAD SELF
47 0 BRIAN KALINEC THE FENCE BERKALIN
48 0 BROCK ZEMAN ME THEN YOU BUSTED FLAT
49 0 STETSON & CIA STETSON & CIA SELF
50 0 MELANIE ROSE DYER THE LONG WAY AROUND SELF
For the Week of June, 22 2012 All data entered online direct to the RMR database by member stations