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

Mark Knopfler (photo: Fabio Lovino)[/caption]

 
TW LW Artist CD Title Label
1 1 MARK KNOPFLER PRIVATEERING UNIVERSAL
2 3 CAHALEN MORRISON & ELI WEST OUR LADY OF THE TALL TREES INDIE
3 2 LUCY KAPLANSKY REUNION REDHOUSE
4 5 KATHY MATTEA CALLING ME HOME SUGAR HILL
5 6 ANNALIVIA THE SAME WAY DOWN SELF
6 4 MALCOLM HOLCOMBE DOWN THE RIVER GYPSY EYES MUSIC
7 7 ANGEL SNOW ANGEL SNOW SELF
8 9 PAUL KELLY SPRING AND FALL GAWD AGGIE / UNIVERSAL
9 8 PETE SEEGER & LORRE WYATT A MORE PERFECT UNION APPLESEED
10 10 BETTYSOO AND DOUG COX MORE LIES BORDERLINE TALENT
11 11 DAVE GUNNING NO MORE PENNIES WEE HOUSE OF MUSIC
12 12 JOHN DOYLE SHADOW AND LIGHT COMPASS
13 13 THE BILLS YES PLEASE INDIE
14 14 KATE RUSBY 20 ISLAND
15 18 SHAWN COLVIN ALL FALL DOWN NONESUCH
16 25 JORY NASH LITTLE PILGRIM THIN MAN RECORDS
17 17 RANI ARBO & DAISY MAYHEM SOME BRIGHT MORNING SIGNATURE SOUNDS
18 15 OLD MAN LUEDECKE TENDER IS THE NIGHT TRUE NORTH
19 16 THE STRAY BIRDS THE STRAY BIRDS SELF
20 20 NELS ANDREWS SCRIMSHAW SELF
21 23 SUSAN KANE A WORD CHILD SELF
22 21 THE UNSEEN STRANGERS FOLLOW THE SOUND SELF
23 22 MARIA DUNN PIECE BY PIECE DISTANT WHISPER MUSIC
24 24 MUMFORD & SONS BABEL GLASSNOTE RECORDS
25 26 RAYLENE RANKIN ALL THE DIAMONDS CORVUS
26 27 JASON COLLETT RECKON ARTS & CRAFTS
27 28 AMELIA CURRAN SPECTATORS SIX SHOOTER
28 29 ANDREA ENGLAND HOPE & OTHER SINS LEMONADE FACTORY
29 30 TRENT SEVERN TRENT SEVERN OUTSIDE MUSIC
30 32 ALAN DOYLE BOY ON BRIDGE UNIVERSAL
31 36 LUKA BLOOM THIS NEW MORNING COMPASS
32 0 GRETCHEN PETERS HELLO CRUEL WORLD SCARLET LETTER
33 31 BEN BEDFORD WHAT WE LOST WATERBUG
34 33 JAMES MCMURTRY OCCUPY THIS ALBUM RAZOR & TIE
35 34 OLLLAM THE OLLLAM COMPASS
36 19 ANNABELLE CHVOSTEK RISE BOREALIS
37 39 ELIZABETH MITCHELL BLUE CLOUDS SMITHSONIAN FOLKWAYS
38 37 DALA BEST DAY COMPASS
39 38 AMY WHITE WITH AL PETTEWAY HOME SWEET HOME – SONGS OF LOVE, LOSS, AND BELONGING FAIREWOOD STUDIOS
40 40 SCOTT COOPER QUIET COMPANY SELF
41 42 PETER KATZ STILL MIND STILL INDIE
42 43 CARA LUFT DARLINGFORD BLUE CASE TUNES
43 0 BOBBY LONG A WINTER TALE ATO
44 48 SONS OF THE NEVER WRONG KING FISHER KING WATERBUG
45 0 ANNIE LOU GRANDMA’S RULES FOR DRINKING INDIE
46 46 DREAMS OF THE SAN JOAQUIN DREAMS OF THE SAN JOAQUIN BLIX STREET
47 0 GREAT BIG SEA XX WARNER MUSIC
48 0 NANCI GRIFFITH INTERSECTION PROPER / HELL NO
49 0 JARON FREEMAN-FOX MANIC ALMANAC – SLOW MOBIUS SELF
50 0 ROBIN & LINDA WILLIAMS THESE OLD DARK HILLS RED HOUSE
For the Week of December 14, 2012 All data entered online direct to the RMR database by member stations.

Happy Holidays, our charts will be frozen until Jan 1. See you in the new year.

RMR Radio Airplay Chart - Roots Country Top 50 Albums

 
TW LW Artist CD Title Label
1 1 CORB LUND CABIN FEVER NEW WEST
2 2 JIMMY LAFAVE DEPENDING ON THE DISTANCE MUSIC ROAD
3 6 AVETT BROTHERS THE CARPENTER AMERICAN
4 3 GREG BROWN HYMNS TO WHAT IS LEFT SAWDUST
5 7 MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER ASHES AND ROSES ZOE / ROUNDER
6 12 RODNEY CROWELL KIN – SONGS BY MARY KARR & RODNEY CROWELL VANGUARD
7 5 BELLE STARR THE BURNING OF ATLANTA SONY MUSIC
8 11 JOHN WORT HANNAM BRAMBLES & THORNS BOREALIS
9 14 LINDA MCRAE ROUGH EDGES & RAGGED HEARTS 42 RECORDS
10 13 KASEY CHAMBERS STORYBOOK SUGAR HILL
11 21 NIALL TONER ONWARDS & UPWARDS PINECASTLE
12 10 THE FLATLANDERS THE ODESSA TAPES NEW WEST
13 23 DEL BARBER HEADWATERS SIX SHOOTER
14 9 BUDDY MILLER & JIM LAUDERDALE BUDDY & JIM NEW WEST
15 4 RONNIE FAUSS I AM THE MAN YOU KNOW I’M NOT NORMALTOWN
16 8 ROSIE FLORES WORKING GIRL’S GUITAR BLOODSHOT
17 27 BILL STAINES BENEATH SOME LUCKY STAR RED HOUSE
18 30 MARC BERGER RIDE REAL
19 33 JERRY DOUGLAS TRAVELER E ONE
20 0 RAY WYLIE HUBBARD THE GRIFTER’S HYMNAL BORDELLO
21 38 MICHAEL KOPPY ASHMORE’S STORE A GOOD TRACK RECORD
22 41 JOEL RAFAEL AMERICA COMING HOME INSIDE
23 0 LUCERO WOMEN & WORK ATO
24 47 ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO BIG STATION FANTASY / CONCORD
25 17 CHRIS KNIGHT LITTLE VICTORIES DRIFTER’S CHURCH
26 44 JOHN LOWELL I AM GOING TO THE WEST SELF
27 18 KASEY CHAMBERS AND SHANE NICHOLSON WRECK & RUIN SURGAR HILL
28 39 BILLY DON BURNS NIGHTS WHEN I’M SOBER RUSTY KNUCKLES
29 46 MUMFORD & SONS SIGH NO MORE GLASSNOTE
30 49 THE TRISHAS HIGH, WIDE & HANDSOME SELF
31 50 BRANDI CARLILE BEAR CREEK COLUMBIA
32 26 BLACK PRAIRIE A TEAR IN THE EYE IS A WOUND IN THE HEART SUGAR HILL
33 0 DON HALL DON HALL CHAPTER GATE RECORDS
34 42 THE LOST BROTHERS THE PASSING OF THE NIGHT READYMADE
35 0 TRAPPER SCHOEPP RUN ENGINE RUN GOOD LAND
36 0 TOM RUSSELL THE MAN FROM GOD KNOWS WHERE HIGHTONE
37 22 WANDA JACKSON UNFINISHED BUSINESS SUGAR HILL
38 0 KASEY CHAMBERS & SHANE NICHOLSON RATTLIN� BONES LIBERATION
39 0 LYDIA LOVELESS INDESTRUCTIBLE MACHINE BLOODSHOT
40 0 MOOT DAVIS MAN ABOUT TOWN HIGHWAY KIND
41 48 KEVIN ABERNATHY SOME STORIES LIFE SOCKET RECORDS
42 0 BURNS & KRISTY CARAVAN SELF
43 0 DUANE CARLETON RUST HIGHER ROAD RECORDS
44 0 JOHN HIATT DIRTY JEANS AND MUDSLIDE HYMNS NEWWEST
45 0 MATTHEW PERRYMAN JONES LAND OF THE LIVING CANTE JONDO RECORDS
46 0 RUBY FREE INTRODUCING RUBY FREE SODASTAR MUSIC
47 0 VARIOUS ARTISTS LOWE COUNTRY – THE SONGS OF NICK LOWE FIESTA RED
48 0 BROTHER SLADE GOOD ROOSTER’S REUNION SULLY BOY
49 0 PATRICK BROOKS RUST AND WEEDS SELF
50 0 WILL KIMBROUGH WINGS DAPHNE
For the Week of December 14, 2012 All data entered online direct to the RMR database by member stations.

Happy Holidays, our charts will be frozen until Jan 1. See you in the new year.