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
1 ELIZA GILKYSON ROSES AT THE END OF TIME RED HOUSE
2 3 THE CIVIL WARS BARTON HOLLOW SENSIBILITY
3 4 PAUL SIMON SO BEAUTIFUL OR SO WHAT HEAR MUSIC
4 2 THE WAIFS TEMPTATION COMPASS
5 6 ABIGAIL WASHBURN CITY OF REFUGE FOREIGN CHILDREN RECORDS
6 5 CARRIE ELKIN CALL IT MY GARDEN RED HOUSE
7 7 BRUCE COCKBURN SMALL SOURCE OF COMFORT TRUE NORTH
8 8 THE WAILIN’ JENNYS BRIGHT MORNING STARS RED HOUSE
9 9 RED HORSE RED HORSE RED HOUSE
10 10 HEIDI TALBOT THE LAST STAR COMPASS
11 11 JEFFREY FOUCAULT HORSE LATITUDES SIGNATURE SOUNDS
12 13 COLIN HAY GATHERING MERCURY COMPASS
13 14 T WITH THE MAGGIES T WITH THE MAGGIES TWM / COMPASS
14 48 BOBBY LONG A WINTER TALE ATO
15 15 LUKA BLOOM DREAMS IN AMERICA COMPASS
16 12 RACHEL HARRINGTON CELILO FALLS SKINNY DENNIS
17 17 ANNIE GALLUP WEATHER WATERRBUG
18 19 THE ONCE THE ONCE BOREALIS
19 22 AMANDA SHIRES CARRYING LIGHTNING SELF
20 20 DAVID FRANCEY LATE EDITION LAKER MUSIC
21 18 LAUREN SHEEHAN ROSE CITY RAMBLE INDIE
22 23 SEAN ROWE MAGIC ANTI / EPITAPH
23 24 TUMBLING BONES RISK NOT YOUR SOUL REBEL RECORDS
24 21 ANDREW CALHOUN GRAPEVINE WATERBUG
25 26 SI KAHN COURAGE STRICTLY COUNTRY
26 0 MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER THE AGE OF MIRACLES ZOE
27 25 LOREENA MCKENNITT THE WIND THAT SHAKES THE BARLEY QUINLAN ROAD
28 0 MATT THE ELECTRICIAN ACCIDENTAL THIEF INDIE
29 28 RUTH MOODY THE GARDEN RED HOUSE
30 16 VARIOUS ARTIST A NOD TO BOB 2 — AN ARTISTS TRIBUTE TO BOB DYLAN ON HIS 70TH BIRTHDAY RED HOUSE
31 29 RON HYNES STEALING GENIUS BOREALIS
32 30 FRAZEY FORD OBADIAH NETTWERK
33 31 KIM BEGGS BLUE BONES BLACK HEN MUSIC
34 34 TOM CHAPIN GIVE PEAS A CHANCE SUNDANCE MUSIC
35 0 ERIN MCDERMOTT TIME TO GO SELF
36 0 MADELEINE PEYROUX STANDING ON THE ROOFTOP DECCA
37 37 JEANNE JOLLY FALLING IN CAROLINA SELF
38 0 PAUL BRADY HOOBA DOOBA PROPER
39 45 SUSAN WERNER KICKING THE BEEHIVE SLEEVE DOG
40 39 MALCOLM HOLCOMBE TO DRINK THE RAIN MUSIC ROAD
41 27 PESKY J. NIXON MONKEY BUSINESS & MISLAID HOPES SELF
42 40 KATIE MOORE MONTEBELLO PURPLE CAT RECORDS
43 41 MAE MOORE FOLKLORE POETICAL LICENSE
44 42 MARY GAUTHIER THE FOUNDLING RAZOR & TIE
45 46 KIM STOCKWOOD BACK TO THE WATER TURTLEMUSIC
46 47 THE WILDERNESS OF MANITOBA WHEN YOU LEFT THE FIRE DELAWARE HOUSE / VERIT?
47 0 MICHAEL FRACASSO SAINT MONDAY SELF
48 49 TIM O’BRIEN CHICKEN & EGG HOWDY SKIES
49 50 HUGH BLUMENFELD DAD WATERBUG
50 0 THE MOUNTAINS & THE TREES I MADE THIS FOR YOU SELF
For the Week of June 16, 2011