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

 
TW LW Artist CD Title Label
1 4 CAROLINA CHOCOLATE DROPS LEAVING EDEN NONESUCH
2 1 NANCI GRIFFITH INTERSECTION PROPER / HELL NO
3 2 SHAWN COLVIN ALL FALL DOWN NONESUCH
4 5 THE HARD ROAD TRIO MONTICELLO DESERT NIGHT
5 8 LORETTA HAGEN MUD AND STONE BEARFORT
6 7 BAP KENNEDY THE SAILOR’S REVENGE PROPER AMERICAN
7 6 RANI ARBO & DAISY MAYHEM SOME BRIGHT MORNING SIGNATURE SOUNDS
8 10 PEYTON TOCHTERMAN A NEW WORLD SELF
9 12 STACEY EARLE AND MARK STUART DEDICATION GEARLE
10 28 THE DEEP DARK WOODS THE PLACE I LEFT BEHIND SIX SHOOTER / SUGAR HILL
11 0 REED FOEHL ONCE AN OCEAN NEVERFOEHL
12 0 ANNE & PETE SIBLEY COMING HOME SELF
13 0 GRACE PETTIS GRACE PETTIS BLUE ROCK RECORDS
14 0 JOY KILLS SORROW THIS UNKNOWN SCIENCE SIGNATURE SOUNDS
15 0 BETH WOOD THE WEATHER INSIDE BLUE ROCK
16 32 RED MOLLY LIGHT IN THE SKY SELF
17 22 DAVID FRANCEY LATE EDITION LAKER MUSIC
18 24 BARREN RIVER TRIO AMERICAN FOLK BARREN RIVER TRIO
19 31 THE TALLEST MAN ON EARTH THERE’S NO LEAVING NOW DEAD OCEANS
20 26 DULCIE TAYLOR FREE OF THIS SORROW MESA / FONTANA
21 27 MINDY SMITH MINDY SMITH SELF
22 0 THE HONEY DEWDROPS SILVER LINING SELF
23 25 THE CIVIL WARS BARTON HOLLOW SENSIBILITY
24 0 SARAH MCQUAID THE PLUM TREE AND THE ROSE WATERBUG
25 33 CARSIE BLANTON IDIOT HEART SELF
26 21 STEVE GATES A BEE IN HER MOUTH BLACK GUILLMOT MUSIC
27 0 GOOD LOVELIES LET THE RAIN FALL SELF
28 0 DAVID FERRARD JOOURNEYMAN ALTER ROAD
29 36 JAMES LEE STANLEY AND CLIFF EBERHARDT ALL WOOD AND DOORS BEACHWOOD
30 0 LAURA MARLING A CREATURE I DON’T KNOW EMI
31 0 ARLENE BISHOP BEGIN AGAIN THE TWELVE STEVES
32 0 BATTLEFIELD BAND LINE UP TEMPLE
33 23 PHARIS & JASON ROMERO A PASSING GLIMPSE LULA
34 0 PIETA BROWN MERCURY RED HOUSE
35 0 MADISON VIOLET THE GOOD IN GOODBYE TRUE NORTH
36 0 LAURA REPO GET YOURSELF HOME REPO GIRL
37 0 ANDREA ENGLAND HOPE & OTHER SINS LEMONADE FACTORY
38 0 100 MILE HOUSE HOLLOW PONDS HOLE IN MY SHOE PRODUCTIONS
39 0 JOHN DOYLE SHADOW AND LIGHT COMPASS
40 0 THE ONCE ROW UPON ROW OF THE PEOPLE THEY KNOW BOREALIS
41 13 JON BROOKS DELICATE CAGES SELF
42 0 JUNE TABOR RAGGED KINGDOM TOPIC
43 0 THEA GILMORE DON’T STOP SINGING ISLAND UK
44 0 VARIOUS ARTISTS MARK TWAIN: WORDS & MUSIC MAILBOAT
45 0 GRETCHEN PETERS HELLO CRUEL WORLD SCARLET LETTER
46 0 CARRIE CATHERINE WILDERNESS SELF
47 0 CRABTREE & MILLS RISE ABOVE FREE & EASY
48 0 LA BOTTINE SOURIANTE APPELLATION DORIGINE CONTROLEE BOREALIS
49 0 COLD SPECKS HOLLAND ARTS AND CRAFTS
50 0 THE REFUGEES 3 WABUHO
For the Week of June, 29 2012 All data entered online direct to the RMR database by member stations

RMR Radio Airplay Chart - Roots Country Top 50 Albums

 
TW LW Artist CD Title Label
1 2 ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO BIG STATION FANTASY / CONCORD
2 3 WILLIE NELSON HEROES LEGACY
3 5 KELLY HOGAN I LIKE TO KEEP MYSELF IN PAIN ANTI
4 1 RAY WYLIE HUBBARD THE GRIFTER’S HYMNAL BORDELLO
5 13 DOYLE LAWSON & QUICKSILVER DRIVE TIME MOUNTAIN HOME MUSIC
6 10 ANDRE WILLIAMS AND THE SADIES NIGHT & DAY YEP ROC
7 11 RODNEY CROWELL KIN – SONGS BY MARY KARR & RODNEY CROWELL VANGUARD
8 36 PUNCH BROTHERS WHO’S FEELING YOUNG NOW? NONESUCH
9 9 MARTY STUART & HIS FABULOUS SUPERLATIVES NASHVILLE VOL. 1 — TEAR THE WOODPILE DOWN SUGAR HILL
10 4 JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE NOTHING’S GONNA CHANGE THE WAY YOU FEEL ABOUT ME NOW BLOODSHOT
11 0 THE DEADFIELDS DANCE IN THE SUN SELF
12 17 THE MCEUEN SESSIONS FOR ALL THE GOOD MESA
13 14 JASON EADY AM COUNTRY HEAVEN UNDERGROUND SOUND
14 18 THE DOC MARSHALLS LOOK OUT, COMPADRE TWINPOST MUSIC
15 16 TURNPIKE TROUBADOURS GOODBYE NORMAL STREET BOSSIER CITY
16 8 SARA WATKINS SUN MIDNIGHT SUN NONESUCH
17 23 JERRY DOUGLAS TRAVELER E ONE
18 21 LYDIA LOVELESS INDESTRUCTIBLE MACHINE BLOODSHOT
19 19 HANK WILLIAMS III LONG GONE DADDY CURB
20 12 TODD SNIDER TIME AS WE KNOW IT – THE SONGS OF JERRY JEFF WALKER AIMLESS
21 22 JON DEE GRAHAM GARAGE SALE FREEDOM
22 20 O’BRIEN PARTY OF 7 REINCARNATION – THE SONGS OF ROGER MILLER HOWDY SKIES
23 0 BLACKIE AND THE RODEO KINGS KINGS AND QUEENS DRAMATICO
24 0 DARRELL SCOTT LONG RIDE HOME FULL LIGHT
25 6 JAY FARRAR, WILL JOHNSON, ANDERS PARKER, AND YIM YAMES NEW MULTITUDES ROUNDER
26 30 JOHN DOE AND EXENE CERVENKA SINGING AND PLAYING MOONLIGHT GRAHAM
27 26 LUCERO WOMEN & WORK ATO
28 27 CHELLE ROSE THE GHOST OF BROWDER HOLLER SELF
29 24 NATASHA BORZILOVA OUT OF MY HANDS HADLEY MUSIC GROUP
30 34 PENNY NEY THE HARDEST TRUTH ONE BELLSED PENNY
31 39 DANGERMUFFIN OLLY OXEN FREE DANGERMUFFIN
32 0 JONAS FRIDDLE BELLE DE LOUISVILLE SELF
33 7 HOOTS & HELLMOUTH SALT SELF
34 0 SETH WALKER TIME CAN CHANGE SELF
35 40 TISH HINOJOSA OUR LITTLE PLANET VARESE SARABANDE / FONTANA
36 41 RYAN ADAMS ASHES & FIRE CAPITOL
37 35 SUGAR & THE HI-LOWS — TRENT DABBS AND AMY STROUP SUGAR & THE HI-LOWS — TRENT DABBS AND AMY STROUP SELF
38 15 LYLE LOVETT RELEASE ME CURB / LOST HIGHWAY
39 37 CHUCK SCHAEFFER ALONG THESE LINES SELF
40 43 TOKYO ROSENTHAL WHAT DID I USED TO BE (SINGLE) ROCK AND SOCKS
41 38 BRYAN CLARK & THE NEW LYCEUM PLAYERS SOUTHERN INTERMISSION SELF
42 25 BOVINE SOCIAL CLUB BOVINE SOCIAL CLUB ECLIPSO RECORDS
43 46 SUSAN DOUGLASS TAYLOR GREAT FALLS ROAD SELF
44 47 BRIAN KALINEC THE FENCE BERKALIN
45 0 EMILY JANE WHITE ODE TO SENTENCE ANTENNA FARM
46 0 CATHERINE MACLELLAN SILHOUETTE TRUE NORTH
47 42 WILCO THE WHOLE LOVE ANTI-
48 50 MELANIE ROSE DYER THE LONG WAY AROUND SELF
49 44 D. L. MARBLE NOT THE ONE DIRTBAG RECORDS
50 0 BUZZ CASON SURF AND TURF ARENA
For the Week of June, 29 2012 All data entered online direct to the RMR database by member stations