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 2 WOODY GUTHRIE WOODY AT 100 SMITHSONIAN FOLKWAYS
2 1 SHAWN COLVIN ALL FALL DOWN NONESUCH
3 4 THE HARD ROAD TRIO MONTICELLO DESERT NIGHT
4 6 BAP KENNEDY THE SAILOR’S REVENGE PROPER AMERICAN
5 7 RANI ARBO & DAISY MAYHEM SOME BRIGHT MORNING SIGNATURE SOUNDS
6 3 THE TALLEST MAN ON EARTH THERE’S NO LEAVING NOW DEAD OCEANS
7 0 JIMBO MATHUS BLUE LIGHT BIG LEGAL MESS
8 10 ANNA DAGMAR SATELLITE SELF
9 8 THE HONEY DEWDROPS SILVER LINING SELF
10 5 NANCI GRIFFITH INTERSECTION PROPER / HELL NO
11 9 LORETTA HAGEN MUD AND STONE BEARFORT
12 19 ANTJE DUVEKOT NEW SIBERIA INDIE
13 12 STACEY EARLE AND MARK STUART DEDICATION GEARLE
14 13 PEYTON TOCHTERMAN A NEW WORLD SELF
15 0 ELLIS RIGHT ON TIME RUBBERNECK
16 0 PETER MAYER HEAVEN BELOW BLUE BOAT
17 0 JOE CROOKSTON DARKLING & THE BLUEBIRD JUBILEE INDIE
18 43 ADAM COHEN LIKE A MAN DECCA
19 15 DULCIE TAYLOR FREE OF THIS SORROW MESA / FONTANA
20 17 BARREN RIVER TRIO AMERICAN FOLK BARREN RIVER TRIO
21 18 THE DEEP DARK WOODS THE PLACE I LEFT BEHIND SIX SHOOTER / SUGAR HILL
22 11 CAROLINA CHOCOLATE DROPS LEAVING EDEN NONESUCH
23 16 MINDY SMITH MINDY SMITH SELF
24 0 ROBIN WOYWITKA THE IMPOSSIBLE ADDRESS CMF RECORDS
25 20 THE CIVIL WARS BARTON HOLLOW SENSIBILITY
26 23 JAMES LEE STANLEY AND CLIFF EBERHARDT ALL WOOD AND DOORS BEACHWOOD
27 24 RED MOLLY LIGHT IN THE SKY SELF
28 25 CARSIE BLANTON IDIOT HEART SELF
29 0 ARLON BENNETT SUMMER’S VOICE RED SEA
30 27 VARIOUS ARTISTS MARK TWAIN: WORDS & MUSIC MAILBOAT
31 31 JAKOB DYLAN WOMEN AND COUNTRY SONY
32 0 KEVIN BROWN THE BELOVED COUNTRY SELF
33 38 LEONARD COHEN OLD IDEAS COLUMBIA
34 26 SHANNON STEPHENS PULL IT TOGETHER ASTHMATIC KITTY
35 33 COYOTE GRACE NOW TAKE FLIGHT MILE AFTER MILE
36 0 JOE SAMPSON KILL OUR FRIENDS FELLOW CREATURE RECORDINGS
37 0 LINDA RONSTADT & ANN SAVOY (THE ZOZO SISTERS) ADIEU FALSE HEART VANGUARD
38 0 RICHARD SHINDELL SOUTH OF DELIA SELF
39 0 DREW NELSON DUSTY ROAD TO BEULAH LAND WATERBUG
40 0 MATT HARLAN TIPS & COMPLIMENTS BERKALIN
41 0 LUCY WAINWRIGHT ROCHE LUCY INDIE
42 0 BRAD BOYER I SAT DOWN AND WROTE YOU A SONG SELF
43 0 GOOD LOVELIES LET THE RAIN FALL SELF
44 0 TIM GRIMM THANK YOU TOM PAXTON VAULT
45 0 TRIP MCCOOL THE TRAVELER THINKING DOG RECORDS
46 0 SARAH MCQUAID THE PLUM TREE AND THE ROSE WATERBUG
47 0 JOHN MCCUTCHEON THIS LAND – WOODY GUTHRIE’S AMERICA APPALSONGS
48 0 TOM PACHECO REBEL SPRING FROG’S CLAW RECORDS
49 0 PAUL KELLY THE A TO Z RECORDINGS GAWDAGGIE
50 0 TIM AND NICKI BLUHM DUETS SELF
For the Week of July 20, 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 1 WILLIE NELSON HEROES LEGACY
2 3 MARTY STUART & HIS FABULOUS SUPERLATIVES NASHVILLE VOL. 1 — TEAR THE WOODPILE DOWN SUGAR HILL
3 5 ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO BIG STATION FANTASY / CONCORD
4 4 KELLY HOGAN I LIKE TO KEEP MYSELF IN PAIN ANTI
5 6 ANDRE WILLIAMS AND THE SADIES NIGHT & DAY YEP ROC
6 7 RODNEY CROWELL KIN – SONGS BY MARY KARR & RODNEY CROWELL VANGUARD
7 0 ZOE MUTH & THE LOST HIGH ROLLERS OLD GOLD SIGNATURE SOUNDS
8 0 ELIZABETH COOK GOSPEL PLOW 31 TIGERS
9 10 JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE NOTHING’S GONNA CHANGE THE WAY YOU FEEL ABOUT ME NOW BLOODSHOT
10 2 SARA WATKINS SUN MIDNIGHT SUN NONESUCH
11 11 JASON EADY AM COUNTRY HEAVEN UNDERGROUND SOUND
12 15 JERRY DOUGLAS TRAVELER E ONE
13 12 JOHN, JONATHAN AND NATHAN MCEUEN THE MCEUEN SESSIONS – FOR ALL THE GOOD MESA / BLUE MOON / FONTANA
14 19 JOHN DOE AND EXENE CERVENKA SINGING AND PLAYING MOONLIGHT GRAHAM
15 21 MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER ASHES AND ROSES ZOE / ROUNDER
16 17 HANK WILLIAMS III LONG GONE DADDY CURB
17 13 TURNPIKE TROUBADOURS GOODBYE NORMAL STREET BOSSIER CITY
18 14 TODD SNIDER TIME AS WE KNOW IT – THE SONGS OF JERRY JEFF WALKER AIMLESS
19 0 RADNEY FOSTER DEL RIO TEXAS REVISITED – UNPLUGGED & LONESOME DEVIL’S RIVER
20 0 BLACKIE AND THE RODEO KINGS KINGS AND QUEENS DRAMATICO
21 16 JAY FARRAR, WILL JOHNSON, ANDERS PARKER, AND YIM YAMES NEW MULTITUDES ROUNDER
22 8 RAY WYLIE HUBBARD THE GRIFTER’S HYMNAL BORDELLO
23 22 CHELLE ROSE THE GHOST OF BROWDER HOLLER SELF
24 18 JON DEE GRAHAM GARAGE SALE FREEDOM
25 26 JONAS FRIDDLE BELLE DE LOUISVILLE SELF
26 0 PUNCH BROTHERS WHO’S FEELING YOUNG NOW? NONESUCH
27 24 LUCERO WOMEN & WORK ATO
28 25 PENNY NEY THE HARDEST TRUTH ONE BELLSED PENNY
29 29 SETH WALKER TIME CAN CHANGE SELF
30 49 ELENI MANDELL I CAN SEE THE FUTURE YEP ROC
31 30 DANGERMUFFIN OLLY OXEN FREE DANGERMUFFIN
32 34 KEVIN ABERNATHY SOME STORIES LIFE SOCKET RECORDS
33 0 DOYLE LAWSON & QUICKSILVER DRIVE TIME MOUNTAIN HOME MUSIC
34 9 HOOTS & HELLMOUTH SALT SELF
35 32 GRACE ADELE THE GRAND SESSIONS SELF
36 20 BOVINE SOCIAL CLUB BOVINE SOCIAL CLUB ECLIPSO RECORDS
37 41 EMILY JANE WHITE ODE TO SENTENCE ANTENNA FARM
38 33 JOY MILLS TRICK OF THE EYE INDIE
39 0 AVETT BROTHERS THE CARPENTER AMERICAN
40 35 TISH HINOJOSA OUR LITTLE PLANET VARESE SARABANDE / FONTANA
41 42 THORNTON CREEK A DIFFERENT DOOR INDIE
42 31 LYDIA LOVELESS INDESTRUCTIBLE MACHINE BLOODSHOT
43 36 RYAN ADAMS ASHES & FIRE CAPITOL
44 38 CHUCK SCHAEFFER ALONG THESE LINES SELF
45 45 THE DEADFIELDS DANCE IN THE SUN SELF
46 39 SUSAN DOUGLASS TAYLOR GREAT FALLS ROAD SELF
47 40 BRIAN KALINEC THE FENCE BERKALIN
48 0 CHATHAM COUNTY LINE SIGHT & SOUND YEP ROC
49 43 HONEYHONEY BILLY JACK LOST HIGHWAY
50 37 SUGAR & THE HI-LOWS — TRENT DABBS AND AMY STROUP SUGAR & THE HI-LOWS — TRENT DABBS AND AMY STROUP SELF
For the Week of July 20, 2012 All data entered online direct to the RMR database by member stations