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

Patty Griffin american kid album cover

 
TW LW Artist CD Title Label
1 1 PATTY GRIFFIN AMERICAN KID NEW WEST
2 2 RUTH MOODY THESE WILDER THINGS RED HOUSE
3 3 DAVID FRANCEY SO SAY WE ALL RED HOUSE
4 10 TIM O’BRIEN & DARRELL SCOTT MEMORIES AND MOMENTS FULL SKIES
5 8 AOIFE O’DONOVAN FOSSILS YEP ROC
6 4 THE DEEP DARK WOODS JUBILEE SIX SHOOTER
7 5 MANDOLIN ORANGE THIS SIDE OF JORDAN YEP ROC
8 13 MICHAEL MARTIN MURPHEY RED RIVER DRIFTER RED RIVER ENTERTAINMENT
9 11 LAURA MARLING ONCE I WAS AN EAGLE RIBBON MUSIC
10 9 LYNN MILES DOWNPOUR SELF
11 6 JOY KILLS SORROW WIDE AWAKE SIGNATURE SOUNDS
12 12 THE SKYDIGGERS NO. 1 NORTHERN LATENT
13 16 PHARIS & JASON ROMERO LONG GONE OUT WEST BLUES SELF
14 17 BROTHER SUN SOME PART OF TRUTH SELF
15 15 SALLY BARRIS WILDER GIRL SELF
16 7 AMY SPEACE HOW TO SLEEP IN A STORMY BOAT WINDBONE
17 18 APRIL VERCH BRIGHT LIKE GOLD SLAB TOWN
18 19 SOLAS SHAMROCK CITY SELF
19 20 ASHLEY CONDON THIS GREAT COMPROMISE LAKER MUSIC
20 21 GURF MORLIX FINDS THE PRESENT TENSE SELF
21 22 SUTTON, HOLT & COLEMAN READY FOR THE TIMES HIGH WINDY
22 23 KEITH GLASS BAD DOG SELF
23 24 JADEA KELLY CLOVER DIVERGENT / TRUE NORTH
24 25 ANAIS MITCHELL & JEFFERSON HAMER CHILD BALLADS WILDERLAND
25 14 BURNING BRIDGET CLEARY PRESSED FOR TIME SELF
26 26 HEIDI TALBOT ANGELS WITHOUT WINGS COMPASS
27 27 BELLA HARDY BATTLEPLAN NOE RECORDS
28 28 DARRYL PURPOSE NEXT TIME AROUND BLUE ROCK
29 48 LYDIA BROWNFIELD WANTING’S FOR SINNERS SELF
30 29 SI KAHN AND THE LOOPING BROTHERS ARAGON MILL – THE BLUEGRASS SESSIONS STRICTLY COUNTRY
31 30 STEPHEN FEARING BETWEEN HURRICANES LOWDENPROUD
32 37 FRUITION JUST ONE OF THEM NIGHTS SELF
33 43 LORI BURKE HOLD ON SELF
34 33 MARK KNOPFLER PRIVATEERING UNIVERSAL
35 34 ENTER THE HAGGIS THE MODEST REVOLUTION FIREBRAND
36 35 EMERALD RAE IF ONLY I COULD FLY SELF
37 36 THE BILLS YES PLEASE INDIE
38 38 JOSIENNE CLARKE & BEN WALKER FIRE & FORTUNE NAVIGATOR / COMPASS
39 40 LORI REID TEMPERANCE HOTEL SELF
40 41 SUSAN MCKEOWN BELONG HIBERNIAN MUSIC
41 39 LAUREN LAPOINTE SUPERHERO SELF
42 0 ELEPHANT REVIVAL THESE CHANGING SKIES THIRTY TIGERS
43 0 THE WOOD BROTHERS THE MUSE SOUTHERN GROUND ARTIST
44 31 GUY CLARK COLD DOG SOUP SUGAR HILL
45 32 WOODY GUTHRIE THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND UNION SQUARE
46 45 MEAN MARY YEAR OF THE SPARROW WOODROCK
47 47 WHITEHORSE THE ROAD TO MASSEY HALL SIX SHOOTER
48 0 ASHLEIGH FLYNN A MILLION STARS HOME PERM
49 49 THE FUGATIVES BIGGER THAN LUCK LIGHT ORGAN RECORDS
50 50 OVERMOUNTAIN MEN THE NEXT BEST THING RAMSEUR
For the Week of September 27, 2013

RMR Radio Airplay Chart - Roots Country Top 50 Albums

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TW LW Artist CD Title Label
1 1 DELBERT MCCLINTON AND GLEN CLARK BLIND, CRIPPLED AND CRAZY NEW WEST
2 3 SLAID CLEAVES STILL FIGHTING THE WAR MUSIC ROAD
3 2 TIM EASTON NOT COOL THIRTY TIGERS
4 4 SCOTT COOK ONE MORE TIME AROUND GROOVE REVIVAL
5 5 GUY CLARK MY FAVORITE PICTURE OF YOU DUALTONE
6 6 STEVE EARLE & THE DUKES (& DUCHESSES) THE LOW HIGHWAY NEW WEST
7 7 SHANNON MCNALLY SMALL TOWN TALK SACRED SUMAC
8 8 ROBBIE FULKS GONE AWAY BACKWARD BLOODSHOT
9 16 NEKO CASE THE WORSE THINGS GET, THE HARDER I FIGHT… ANTI
10 9 BILLY BRAGG TOOTH & NAIL COOKING VINYL
11 10 AMANDA SHIRES DOWN FELL THE DOVES LIGHTNING ROD
12 11 EMMYLOU HARRIS & RODNEY CROWELL OLD YELLOW MOON WARNER
13 24 BLACK LILLIES RUNAWAY FREEWAY BLUES ATTACK MONKEY
14 14 SARAH LEE GUTHRIE & JOHNNY IRION WASSAIC WAY RTE 8
15 12 LORI MCKENNA MASSACHUTSETTS HOODIE SONGS
16 13 VINCE GILL & PAUL FRANKLIN BAKERSFIELD MCA NASHVILLE
17 17 RICHARD THOMPSON ELECTRIC NEW WEST
18 15 HOLLY WILLIAMS THE HIGHWAY GEORGIANA
19 20 VARIOUS ARTISTS YOU DON’T KNOW ME – REDISCOVERING EDDY ARNOLD PLOWBOY
20 22 THE CIVIL WARS CIVIL WARS COLUMBIA
21 18 JUSTIN RUTLEDGE VALLEYHEART OUTSIDE MUSIC
22 21 VARIOUS ARTISTS THE BIG E – A SALUTE TO STEEL GUITARIST BUDDY EMMONS MPI
23 19 MUMFORD & SONS THE ROAD TO RED ROCKS GLASSNOTE
24 25 AUSTIN LUCAS STAY RECKLESS NEW WEST
25 26 LITTLE MISS HIGGINS THE BISON RANCH RECORDING SESSIONS INDIE
26 30 OVER THE RHINE MEET ME AT THE END OF THE WORLD GREAT SPECKLED DOG RECORDS
27 37 SCARLET LEDBETTER SCARLET LEDBETTER SELF
28 0 RED DIRT RANGERS LONE CHIMNEY RANGER RECORDS
29 27 LINDA MCRAE ROUGH EDGES & RAGGED HEARTS 42 RECORDS
30 23 DARDEN SMITH LOVE CALLING COMPASS
31 28 SARA PETITE CIRCUS COMES TO TOWN SELF
32 31 DEBORAH HOLLAND VANCOUVER RAGE ON
33 0 LINDI ORTEGA TIN STAR LAST GANG
34 39 THE BLACK LILLIES WHISKEY ANGEL SELF
35 33 KELLY WILLIS & BRUCE ROBISON CHEATER’S GAME PREMIUM
36 41 NORTH MISSISSIPPI ALL-STARS WORLD BOOGIE IS COMING THIRTY TIGERS
37 38 THE GOOD FAMILY THE GOOD FAMILY ALBUM LATENT
38 34 THRIFTSTORE MASTERPIECE TROUBLE IS A LONESOME TOWN SIDE ONE DUMMY
39 36 THE GRAHAMS RIVERMAN’S DAUGHTER SELF
40 0 THE SADIES INTERNAL SOUNDS YEP ROC
41 35 COURT YARD HOUNDS AMELITA COLUMBIA
42 42 BIG SANDY AND HIS FLY-RITE BOYS WHAT A DREAM IT’S BEEN COW ISLAND
43 40 SON VOLT HONKY TONK ROUNDER
44 0 BRENNEN LEIGH & NOEL MCKAY BEFORE THE WORLD WAS MADE B&N RECORDS
45 43 BARNEY BENTALL FLESH AND BONE TRUE NORTH
46 44 AVETT BROTHERS THE CARPENTER AMERICAN
47 48 STURGILL SIMPSON HIGH TOP MOUNTAIN THIRTY TIGERS
48 45 DOMINIQUE PRUITT DOMINIQUE PRUITT SELF
49 50 HALDEN WOFFORD & THE HI-BEAMS ROCKY MOUNTAIN HONKY TONK SELF
50 0 BAND OF HEATHENS SUNDAY MORNING RECORD BOH
For the Week of September 27, 2013