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

Darryl Purpose Next Time Around CD Cover

 
TW LW Artist CD Title Label
1 2 DARRYL PURPOSE NEXT TIME AROUND BLUE ROCK
2 1 PAUL KELLY SPRING AND FALL GAWD AGGIE / UNIVERSAL
3 6 ANAIS MITCHELL & JEFFERSON HAMER CHILD BALLADS WILDERLAND
4 3 MARY GAUTHIER LIVE AT BLUE ROCK SELF
5 5 LUCY KAPLANSKY REUNION REDHOUSE
6 8 PETE SEEGER & LORRE WYATT A MORE PERFECT UNION APPLESEED
7 12 HEIDI TALBOT ANGELS WITHOUT WINGS COMPASS
8 10 MALCOLM HOLCOMBE DOWN THE RIVER GYPSY EYES MUSIC
9 11 ANGEL SNOW ANGEL SNOW SELF
10 13 STEPHEN FEARING BETWEEN HURRICANES LOWDENPROUD
11 14 KATE RUSBY 20 ISLAND
12 4 CAHALEN MORRISON & ELI WEST OUR LADY OF THE TALL TREES INDIE
13 9 ANNALIVIA THE SAME WAY DOWN SELF
14 7 KATHY MATTEA CALLING ME HOME SUGAR HILL
15 15 SALLY BARRIS WILDER GIRL SELF
16 16 RANI ARBO & DAISY MAYHEM SOME BRIGHT MORNING SIGNATURE SOUNDS
17 17 DAVE GUNNING NO MORE PENNIES WEE HOUSE OF MUSIC
18 47 HEATHER MALONEY HEATHER MALONEY SIGNATURE SOUNDS
19 19 BETTYSOO AND DOUG COX MORE LIES BORDERLINE TALENT
20 20 THE BILLS YES PLEASE INDIE
21 22 MARK KNOPFLER PRIVATEERING UNIVERSAL
22 21 LORI REID TEMPERANCE HOTEL SELF
23 24 MUMFORD & SONS BABEL GLASSNOTE RECORDS
24 26 SUSAN MCKEOWN BELONG HIBERNIAN MUSIC
25 25 OLD MAN LUEDECKE TENDER IS THE NIGHT TRUE NORTH
26 31 BARNABY BRIGHT THE LONGEST DAY MISHARA
27 27 RAYLENE RANKIN ALL THE DIAMONDS CORVUS
28 28 ALAN DOYLE BOY ON BRIDGE UNIVERSAL
29 29 NELS ANDREWS SCRIMSHAW SELF
30 23 THE STRAY BIRDS THE STRAY BIRDS SELF
31 30 THE UNSEEN STRANGERS FOLLOW THE SOUND SELF
32 32 JASON COLLETT RECKON ARTS & CRAFTS
33 45 GREAT BIG SEA XX WARNER MUSIC
34 34 TRENT SEVERN TRENT SEVERN OUTSIDE MUSIC
35 43 OVERMOUNTAIN MEN THE NEXT BEST THING RAMSEUR
36 35 ANNABELLE CHVOSTEK RISE BOREALIS
37 36 MARIA DUNN PIECE BY PIECE DISTANT WHISPER MUSIC
38 18 PHARIS & JASON ROMERO LONG GONE OUT WEST BLUES SELF
39 33 MARCY MARXER THINGS ARE COMING MY WAY COMMUNITY MUSIC
40 37 JORY NASH LITTLE PILGRIM THIN MAN RECORDS
41 40 ANDERS AND KENDALL WILD CHORUS NMR
42 38 ANDREA ENGLAND HOPE & OTHER SINS LEMONADE FACTORY
43 41 BILL FAY LIFE IS PEOPLE DEAD OCEANS
44 42 DAVID ROVICS MEANWHILE IN AFGHANISTAN SELF
45 44 DALA BEST DAY COMPASS
46 39 KAMARA THOMAS AND THE GHOST GAMBLERS EARTH HERO RAWK RAGE
47 48 CARA LUFT DARLINGFORD BLUE CASE TUNES
48 49 HAT CHECK GIRL ROAD TO RED POINT WATERBUG
49 50 SCOTT COOPER QUIET COMPANY SELF
50 46 JOSHUA JAMES FROM THE TOP OF WILLAMETTE MOUNTAIN MISSING PIECE
For the Week of March 15, 2013

RMR Radio Airplay Chart - Roots Country Top 50 Albums

Richard Thompson Electric

 
TW LW Artist CD Title Label
1 2 RICHARD THOMPSON ELECTRIC NEW WEST
2 3 CARRIE RODRIGUEZ GIVE ME ALL YOU GOT NINTH STREET OPUS
3 10 SON VOLT HONKY TONK ROUNDER
4 5 KRIS KRISTOFFERSON FEELING MORTAL KK RECORDS
5 1 GREG BROWN HYMNS TO WHAT IS LEFT SAWDUST
6 4 AVETT BROTHERS THE CARPENTER AMERICAN
7 7 CORB LUND CABIN FEVER NEW WEST
8 6 BUDDY MILLER & JIM LAUDERDALE BUDDY & JIM NEW WEST
9 8 JIMMY LAFAVE DEPENDING ON THE DISTANCE MUSIC ROAD
10 9 KELLY WILLIS & BRUCE ROBISON CHEATER’S GAME PREMIUM
11 31 EMMYLOU HARRIS & RODNEY CROWELL OLD YELLOW MOON WARNER
12 17 BOBBY BARE, SR. DARKER THAN LIGHT PLOWBOY
13 11 BELLE STARR THE BURNING OF ATLANTA SONY MUSIC
14 13 KASEY CHAMBERS STORYBOOK SUGAR HILL
15 16 KASEY CHAMBERS AND SHANE NICHOLSON WRECK & RUIN SUGAR HILL
16 15 JOHN WORT HANNAM BRAMBLES & THORNS BOREALIS
17 18 HOLLY WILLIAMS THE HIGHWAY GEORGIANA
18 14 LINDA MCRAE ROUGH EDGES & RAGGED HEARTS 42 RECORDS
19 12 BLACK PRAIRIE A TEAR IN THE EYE IS A WOUND IN THE HEART SUGAR HILL
20 19 DALE WATSON EL RANCHO AZUL RED HOUSE
21 21 THE MAVERICKS IN TIME THE VALORY MUSIC
22 22 ROGER KNOX AND THE PINE VALLEY COSMONAUTS STRANGER IN MY LAND BLOODSHOT
23 46 CAITLIN ROSE THE STAND-IN ATO
24 20 DWIGHT YOAKAM 3 PEARS WARNER NASHVILLE
25 28 SHANNON WHITWORTH HIGH TIDE EF RECORDS
26 23 THE FLATLANDERS THE ODESSA TAPES NEW WEST
27 24 IRIS DEMENT SING THE DELTA FLARIELLA
28 25 BONNIE BISHOP FREE SELF
29 27 AMANDA CEVALLOS I’LL NEVER HONKY TONK YOU SELF
30 34 SHOOTER JENNINGS THE OTHER LIFE EONE
31 32 SONS OF FATHERS BURNING DAYS SELF
32 0 SAMANTHA HARLOW LOVE LETTERS SELF
33 33 JULIET AND THE LONESOME ROMEOS NO REGRETS TREE O RECORDS
34 47 JOSH RITTER THE BEAST IN ITS TRACKS PYTHEAS
35 29 ROSIE FLORES WORKING GIRL’S GUITAR BLOODSHOT
36 36 THE BLACK TWIG PICKERS ROUGH CARPENTER THIRLL JOCKEY
37 37 MAX GOMEZ RULE THE WORLD NEW WEST
38 39 BONNIE PRINCE BILLY AND DAWN MCCARTHY WHAT THE BROTHERS SANG DRAG CITY
39 0 RON SEXSMITH FOREVER ENDEAVOR COOKING VINYL
40 38 TOWNES VAN ZANDT SUNSHINE BOY OMNIVORE
41 40 CHRIS KNIGHT LITTLE VICTORIES DRIFTER’S CHURCH
42 41 JESSE DAYTON JESSE SINGS KINKY SWAG
43 45 DALLAS MOORE BLESSED BE THE BAD ONES SOL
44 0 DAVID LUNING JUST DROP ON BY SELF
45 42 RICH MAHAN BLAME BOBBY BARE SNORTIN’ HORSE
46 0 STEVE EARLE & THE DUKES (& DUCHESSES) THE LOW HIGHWAY NEW WEST
47 26 PATTERSON HOOD HEAT LIGHTNING RUMBLES IN THE DISTANCE ATO
48 0 SALLIE FORD AND THE SOUND OUTSIDE UNTAMED BEAST PARTISAN
49 0 MILK CARTON KIDS THE ASH & CLAY ANTI
50 0 RYAN BINGHAM TOMORROWLAND AXSTER BINGHAM RECORDS
For the Week of March 15, 2013