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

Paul Kelly's Spring and Fall

 
TW LW Artist CD Title Label
1 2 PAUL KELLY SPRING AND FALL GAWD AGGIE / UNIVERSAL
2 3 ANAIS MITCHELL & JEFFERSON HAMER CHILD BALLADS WILDERLAND
3 1 DARRYL PURPOSE NEXT TIME AROUND BLUE ROCK
4 12 CAHALEN MORRISON & ELI WEST OUR LADY OF THE TALL TREES INDIE
5 4 MARY GAUTHIER LIVE AT BLUE ROCK SELF
6 5 LUCY KAPLANSKY REUNION REDHOUSE
7 7 HEIDI TALBOT ANGELS WITHOUT WINGS COMPASS
8 6 PETE SEEGER & LORRE WYATT A MORE PERFECT UNION APPLESEED
9 8 MALCOLM HOLCOMBE DOWN THE RIVER GYPSY EYES MUSIC
10 9 ANGEL SNOW ANGEL SNOW SELF
11 11 KATE RUSBY 20 ISLAND
12 10 STEPHEN FEARING BETWEEN HURRICANES LOWDENPROUD
13 13 ANNALIVIA THE SAME WAY DOWN SELF
14 14 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 21 MARK KNOPFLER PRIVATEERING UNIVERSAL
19 19 BETTYSOO AND DOUG COX MORE LIES BORDERLINE TALENT
20 18 HEATHER MALONEY HEATHER MALONEY SIGNATURE SOUNDS
21 20 THE BILLS YES PLEASE INDIE
22 22 LORI REID TEMPERANCE HOTEL SELF
23 38 PHARIS & JASON ROMERO LONG GONE OUT WEST BLUES SELF
24 24 SUSAN MCKEOWN BELONG HIBERNIAN MUSIC
25 25 OLD MAN LUEDECKE TENDER IS THE NIGHT TRUE NORTH
26 30 THE STRAY BIRDS THE STRAY BIRDS SELF
27 27 RAYLENE RANKIN ALL THE DIAMONDS CORVUS
28 28 ALAN DOYLE BOY ON BRIDGE UNIVERSAL
29 29 NELS ANDREWS SCRIMSHAW SELF
30 0 BUSKIN & BATTEAU LOVE REMEMBERED, LOVE FORGOT BUSKIN & BATTEAU
31 32 JASON COLLETT RECKON ARTS & CRAFTS
32 31 THE UNSEEN STRANGERS FOLLOW THE SOUND SELF
33 33 GREAT BIG SEA XX WARNER MUSIC
34 34 TRENT SEVERN TRENT SEVERN OUTSIDE MUSIC
35 36 ANNABELLE CHVOSTEK RISE BOREALIS
36 37 MARIA DUNN PIECE BY PIECE DISTANT WHISPER MUSIC
37 40 JORY NASH LITTLE PILGRIM THIN MAN RECORDS
38 41 ANDERS AND KENDALL WILD CHORUS NMR
39 42 ANDREA ENGLAND HOPE & OTHER SINS LEMONADE FACTORY
40 0 LORI MCKENNA HEART SHAPED BULLET HOLE MDM RECORDINGS
41 26 BARNABY BRIGHT THE LONGEST DAY MISHARA
42 45 DALA BEST DAY COMPASS
43 39 MARCY MARXER THINGS ARE COMING MY WAY COMMUNITY MUSIC
44 23 MUMFORD & SONS BABEL GLASSNOTE RECORDS
45 47 CARA LUFT DARLINGFORD BLUE CASE TUNES
46 44 DAVID ROVICS MEANWHILE IN AFGHANISTAN SELF
47 43 BILL FAY LIFE IS PEOPLE DEAD OCEANS
48 48 HAT CHECK GIRL ROAD TO RED POINT WATERBUG
49 49 SCOTT COOPER QUIET COMPANY SELF
50 46 KAMARA THOMAS AND THE GHOST GAMBLERS EARTH HERO RAWK RAGE
For the Week of March 22, 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 SON VOLT HONKY TONK ROUNDER
3 2 CARRIE RODRIGUEZ GIVE ME ALL YOU GOT NINTH STREET OPUS
4 5 GREG BROWN HYMNS TO WHAT IS LEFT SAWDUST
5 8 BUDDY MILLER & JIM LAUDERDALE BUDDY & JIM NEW WEST
6 10 KELLY WILLIS & BRUCE ROBISON CHEATER’S GAME PREMIUM
7 11 EMMYLOU HARRIS & RODNEY CROWELL OLD YELLOW MOON WARNER
8 4 KRIS KRISTOFFERSON FEELING MORTAL KK RECORDS
9 7 CORB LUND CABIN FEVER NEW WEST
10 12 BOBBY BARE, SR. DARKER THAN LIGHT PLOWBOY
11 23 CAITLIN ROSE THE STAND-IN ATO
12 13 BELLE STARR THE BURNING OF ATLANTA SONY MUSIC
13 9 JIMMY LAFAVE DEPENDING ON THE DISTANCE MUSIC ROAD
14 21 THE MAVERICKS IN TIME THE VALORY MUSIC
15 15 KASEY CHAMBERS AND SHANE NICHOLSON WRECK & RUIN SUGAR HILL
16 14 KASEY CHAMBERS STORYBOOK SUGAR HILL
17 6 AVETT BROTHERS THE CARPENTER AMERICAN
18 16 JOHN WORT HANNAM BRAMBLES & THORNS BOREALIS
19 17 HOLLY WILLIAMS THE HIGHWAY GEORGIANA
20 22 ROGER KNOX AND THE PINE VALLEY COSMONAUTS STRANGER IN MY LAND BLOODSHOT
21 20 DALE WATSON EL RANCHO AZUL RED HOUSE
22 18 LINDA MCRAE ROUGH EDGES & RAGGED HEARTS 42 RECORDS
23 25 SHANNON WHITWORTH HIGH TIDE EF RECORDS
24 19 BLACK PRAIRIE A TEAR IN THE EYE IS A WOUND IN THE HEART SUGAR HILL
25 28 BONNIE BISHOP FREE SELF
26 24 DWIGHT YOAKAM 3 PEARS WARNER NASHVILLE
27 46 STEVE EARLE & THE DUKES (& DUCHESSES) THE LOW HIGHWAY NEW WEST
28 26 THE FLATLANDERS THE ODESSA TAPES NEW WEST
29 0 BILLY BRAGG TOOTH & NAIL COOKING VINYL
30 49 MILK CARTON KIDS THE ASH & CLAY ANTI
31 29 AMANDA CEVALLOS I’LL NEVER HONKY TONK YOU SELF
32 31 SONS OF FATHERS BURNING DAYS SELF
33 30 SHOOTER JENNINGS THE OTHER LIFE EONE
34 33 JULIET AND THE LONESOME ROMEOS NO REGRETS TREE O RECORDS
35 36 THE BLACK TWIG PICKERS ROUGH CARPENTER THIRLL JOCKEY
36 38 BONNIE PRINCE BILLY AND DAWN MCCARTHY WHAT THE BROTHERS SANG DRAG CITY
37 44 DAVID LUNING JUST DROP ON BY SELF
38 35 ROSIE FLORES WORKING GIRL’S GUITAR BLOODSHOT
39 37 MAX GOMEZ RULE THE WORLD NEW WEST
40 48 SALLIE FORD AND THE SOUND OUTSIDE UNTAMED BEAST PARTISAN
41 39 RON SEXSMITH FOREVER ENDEAVOR COOKING VINYL
42 0 VARIOUS ARTISTS UNSUNG HERO – A TRIBUTE TO THE MUSIC OF RON DAVIES LITTLE CHICKADEE
43 34 JOSH RITTER THE BEAST IN ITS TRACKS PYTHEAS
44 27 IRIS DEMENT SING THE DELTA FLARIELLA
45 40 TOWNES VAN ZANDT SUNSHINE BOY OMNIVORE
46 0 BLACK LILLIES RUNAWAY FREEWAY BLUES SELF
47 41 CHRIS KNIGHT LITTLE VICTORIES DRIFTER’S CHURCH
48 42 JESSE DAYTON JESSE SINGS KINKY SWAG
49 43 DALLAS MOORE BLESSED BE THE BAD ONES SOL
50 0 HARPER SIMON DIVISION STREET PIAS
For the Week of March 22, 2013