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 chart is posted here with permission.

RMR Radio Airplay Chart

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TW LW Artist CD Title Label
0 ELIZA GILKYSON ROSES AT THE END OF TIME RED HOUSE
2 2 THE CIVIL WARS BARTON HOLLOW SENSIBILITY
3 1 PAUL SIMON SO BEAUTIFUL OR SO WHAT HEAR MUSIC
4 11 THE WAIFS TEMPTATION COMPASS
5 4 CARRIE ELKIN CALL IT MY GARDEN RED HOUSE
6 3 ABIGAIL WASHBURN CITY OF REFUGE FOREIGN CHILDREN RECORDS
7 8 BRUCE COCKBURN SMALL SOURCE OF COMFORT TRUE NORTH
8 5 BOBBY LONG A WINTER TALE ATO
9 7 THE WAILIN’ JENNYS BRIGHT MORNING STARS RED HOUSE
10 6 RED HORSE RED HORSE RED HOUSE
11 13 JEFFREY FOUCAULT HORSE LATITUDES SIGNATURE SOUNDS
12 0 HEIDI TALBOT THE LAST STAR COMPASS
13 12 RACHEL HARRINGTON CELILO FALLS SKINNY DENNIS
14 0 COLIN HAY GATHERING MERCURY COMPASS
15 0 T WITH THE MAGGIES T WITH THE MAGGIES TWM / COMPASS
16 0 LUKA BLOOM DREAMS IN AMERICA COMPASS
17 15 VARIOUS ARTIST A NOD TO BOB 2 — AN ARTISTS TRIBUTE TO BOB DYLAN ON HIS 70TH BIRTHDAY RED HOUSE
18 24 ANNIE GALLUP WEATHER WATERRBUG
19 0 M. LUCAS DUST SKILLET DOG
20 16 AMANDA SHIRES CARRYING LIGHTNING SELF
21 18 THE ONCE THE ONCE BOREALIS
22 21 DAVID FRANCEY LATE EDITION LAKER MUSIC
23 23 SEAN ROWE MAGIC ANTI / EPITAPH
24 0 TUMBLING BONES RISK NOT YOUR SOUL REBEL RECORDS
25 25 MARK DVORAK TIME AIN’T GOT NOTHIN’ ON ME WATERBUG
26 0 SCREEN DOOR PORCH SCREEN DOOR PORCH SCREEN DOOR PORCH
27 26 DIANA JONES HIGH ATMOSPHERE PROPER RECORDS US
28 30 SI KAHN COURAGE STRICTLY COUNTRY
29 10 MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER THE AGE OF MIRACLES ZOE
30 27 ANDREW CALHOUN GRAPEVINE WATERBUG
31 29 BRUCE ROPER ACCIDENTAL ENGLISH WATERBUG
32 44 RUTH MOODY THE GARDEN RED HOUSE
33 22 FRAZEY FORD OBADIAH NETTWERK
34 0 LOREENA MCKENNITT THE WIND THAT SHAKES THE BARLEY QUINLAN ROAD
35 37 RON HYNES STEALING GENIUS BOREALIS
36 28 KIM BEGGS BLUE BONES BLACK HEN MUSIC
37 0 PESKY J. NIXON MONKEY BUSINESS & MISLAID HOPES CDBY
38 19 LAUREN SHEEHAN ROSE CITY RAMBLE INDIE
39 0 ANDY BERKHOUT BE SILENT ANDY BERKHOUT
40 38 DANNY SCHMIDT MAN OF MANY MOONS RED HOUSE
41 0 TOM CHAPIN GIVE PEAS A CHANCE SUNDANCE MUSIC
42 0 ERIC FORSYTH THE THIN OF THICK THINGS SELF
43 0 JEANNE JOLLY FALLING IN CAROLINA SELF
44 0 KATIE MOORE MONTEBELLO PURPLE CAT RECORDS
45 40 MAE MOORE FOLKLORE POETICAL LICENSE
46 9 MARY GAUTHIER THE FOUNDLING RAZOR & TIE
47 0 HUGH BLUMENFELD DAD WATERBUG
48 0 MALCOLM HOLCOMBE TO DRINK THE RAIN MUSIC ROAD
49 49 KIM STOCKWOOD BACK TO THE WATER TURTLEMUSIC
50 0 THE WILDERNESS OF MANITOBA WHEN YOU LEFT THE FIRE DELAWARE HOUSE / VERIT?
For the Week of May 27, 2011