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

Anais Mitchell child ballads CD cover

 
TW LW Artist CD Title Label
1 7 ANAIS MITCHELL & JEFFERSON HAMER CHILD BALLADS WILDERLAND
2 5 PETE SEEGER & LORRE WYATT A MORE PERFECT UNION APPLESEED
3 13 KATHY MATTEA CALLING ME HOME SUGAR HILL
4 19 THE STRAY BIRDS THE STRAY BIRDS SELF
5 6 MALCOLM HOLCOMBE DOWN THE RIVER GYPSY EYES MUSIC
6 8 ANGEL SNOW ANGEL SNOW SELF
7 9 HEIDI TALBOT ANGELS WITHOUT WINGS COMPASS
8 10 KATE RUSBY 20 ISLAND
9 11 STEPHEN FEARING BETWEEN HURRICANES LOWDENPROUD
10 1 CAHALEN MORRISON & ELI WEST OUR LADY OF THE TALL TREES INDIE
11 12 ANNALIVIA THE SAME WAY DOWN SELF
12 14 PAUL KELLY SPRING AND FALL GAWD AGGIE / UNIVERSAL
13 21 THE BILLS YES PLEASE INDIE
14 15 SALLY BARRIS WILDER GIRL SELF
15 4 DARRYL PURPOSE NEXT TIME AROUND BLUE ROCK
16 16 RANI ARBO & DAISY MAYHEM SOME BRIGHT MORNING SIGNATURE SOUNDS
17 17 JOHN FULLBRIGHT FROM THE GROUND UP BLUE DIRT
18 18 DAVE GUNNING NO MORE PENNIES WEE HOUSE OF MUSIC
19 3 LUCY KAPLANSKY REUNION REDHOUSE
20 20 MARK KNOPFLER PRIVATEERING UNIVERSAL
21 29 HEATHER MALONEY HEATHER MALONEY SIGNATURE SOUNDS
22 22 BETTYSOO AND DOUG COX MORE LIES BORDERLINE TALENT
23 48 PHARIS & JASON ROMERO LONG GONE OUT WEST BLUES SELF
24 23 LORI REID TEMPERANCE HOTEL SELF
25 24 GURF MORLIX FINDS THE PRESENT TENSE SELF
26 25 OLD MAN LUEDECKE TENDER IS THE NIGHT TRUE NORTH
27 26 RAYLENE RANKIN ALL THE DIAMONDS CORVUS
28 27 ALAN DOYLE BOY ON BRIDGE UNIVERSAL
29 28 NELS ANDREWS SCRIMSHAW SELF
30 35 LORI BURKE HOLD ON SELF
31 31 BUSKIN & BATTEAU LOVE REMEMBERED, LOVE FORGOT BUSKIN & BATTEAU
32 32 JASON COLLETT RECKON ARTS & CRAFTS
33 33 THE UNSEEN STRANGERS FOLLOW THE SOUND SELF
34 38 MARIA DUNN PIECE BY PIECE DISTANT WHISPER MUSIC
35 34 GREAT BIG SEA XX WARNER MUSIC
36 30 OVERMOUNTAIN MEN THE NEXT BEST THING RAMSEUR
37 36 TRENT SEVERN TRENT SEVERN OUTSIDE MUSIC
38 37 ANNABELLE CHVOSTEK RISE BOREALIS
39 39 RITA HOSKING LITTLE BOAT SELF
40 40 JORY NASH LITTLE PILGRIM THIN MAN RECORDS
41 45 MUMFORD & SONS BABEL GLASSNOTE RECORDS
42 42 ANDREA ENGLAND HOPE & OTHER SINS LEMONADE FACTORY
43 47 WOOD & WIRE WOOD & WIRE SELF
44 44 LORI MCKENNA HEART SHAPED BULLET HOLE MDM RECORDINGS
45 46 DALA BEST DAY COMPASS
46 41 SUSAN MCKEOWN BELONG HIBERNIAN MUSIC
47 2 MARY GAUTHIER LIVE AT BLUE ROCK SELF
48 50 CARA LUFT DARLINGFORD BLUE CASE TUNES
49 0 HAT CHECK GIRL ROAD TO RED POINT WATERBUG
50 0 SCOTT COOPER QUIET COMPANY SELF
For the Week of April 26, 2013

RMR Radio Airplay Chart - Roots Country Top 50 Albums

Son Volt Honky Tonk album

 
TW LW Artist CD Title Label
1 1 SON VOLT HONKY TONK ROUNDER
2 2 RICHARD THOMPSON ELECTRIC NEW WEST
3 5 CORB LUND CABIN FEVER NEW WEST
4 4 STEVE EARLE & THE DUKES (& DUCHESSES) THE LOW HIGHWAY NEW WEST
5 3 GREG BROWN HYMNS TO WHAT IS LEFT SAWDUST
6 23 VARIOUS ARTISTS UNSUNG HERO – A TRIBUTE TO THE MUSIC OF RON DAVIES LITTLE CHICKADEE
7 7 CAITLIN ROSE THE STAND-IN ATO
8 11 AVETT BROTHERS THE CARPENTER AMERICAN
9 10 BELLE STARR THE BURNING OF ATLANTA SONY MUSIC
10 15 KELLY WILLIS & BRUCE ROBISON CHEATER’S GAME PREMIUM
11 17 JIMMY LAFAVE DEPENDING ON THE DISTANCE MUSIC ROAD
12 16 BLACK LILLIES RUNAWAY FREEWAY BLUES SELF
13 18 KASEY CHAMBERS STORYBOOK SUGAR HILL
14 13 BOBBY BARE, SR. DARKER THAN LIGHT PLOWBOY
15 8 GARRETT LEBEAU RISE TO THE GRIND MUSIC ROAD
16 19 KRIS KRISTOFFERSON FEELING MORTAL KK RECORDS
17 9 BILLY BRAGG TOOTH & NAIL COOKING VINYL
18 14 EMMYLOU HARRIS & RODNEY CROWELL OLD YELLOW MOON WARNER
19 24 JOHN WORT HANNAM BRAMBLES & THORNS BOREALIS
20 31 MILK CARTON KIDS THE ASH & CLAY ANTI
21 27 SHANNON WHITWORTH HIGH TIDE EF RECORDS
22 26 LINDA MCRAE ROUGH EDGES & RAGGED HEARTS 42 RECORDS
23 28 BONNIE BISHOP FREE SELF
24 6 THE MAVERICKS IN TIME THE VALORY MUSIC
25 20 HOLLY WILLIAMS THE HIGHWAY GEORGIANA
26 12 BLACK PRAIRIE A TEAR IN THE EYE IS A WOUND IN THE HEART SUGAR HILL
27 21 SONS OF FATHERS BURNING DAYS SELF
28 22 SHANNON MCNALLY SMALL TOWN TALK SACRED SUMAC
29 32 THE FLATLANDERS THE ODESSA TAPES NEW WEST
30 29 DALE WATSON EL RANCHO AZUL RED HOUSE
31 38 KASEY CHAMBERS AND SHANE NICHOLSON WRECK & RUIN SUGAR HILL
32 30 CARRIE RODRIGUEZ GIVE ME ALL YOU GOT NINTH STREET OPUS
33 33 ROGER KNOX AND THE PINE VALLEY COSMONAUTS STRANGER IN MY LAND BLOODSHOT
34 25 VARIOUS ARTISTS THE MUSIC IS YOU – A TRIBUTE TO BOB DENVER ATO
35 0 RAY WYLIE HUBBARD THE GRIFTER’S HYMNAL BORDELLO
36 35 BETH LEE & THE BREAKUPS ONE MORE TIME AGAIN SELF
37 42 WHEELER BROTHERS GOLD BOOTS GLITTER BISMEAUX
38 36 BUDDY MILLER & JIM LAUDERDALE BUDDY & JIM NEW WEST
39 41 JOSHUA DAVIS A MIRACLE OF BIRDS EARTH-WORK
40 37 SHOOTER JENNINGS THE OTHER LIFE EONE
41 45 DAVID LUNING JUST DROP ON BY SELF
42 46 THE STEEL WHEELS NO MORE RAIN SELF
43 40 SALLIE FORD AND THE SOUND OUTSIDE UNTAMED BEAST PARTISAN
44 44 THE CIVIL WARS AND T BONE BURNETT A PLACE AT THE TABLE (OST) BMG / SENSIBILITY MUSIC
45 43 THE BLACK TWIG PICKERS ROUGH CARPENTER THIRLL JOCKEY
46 47 SID HEMPHILL THE DEVIL’S DREAM MISSISSIPPI
47 0 DAWES STORIES DON’T END ATO
48 0 JOSH RITTER THE BEAST IN ITS TRACKS PYTHEAS
49 50 DALLAS MOORE BLESSED BE THE BAD ONES SOL
50 48 WILLIE NELSON AND FAMILY LET’S FACE THE MUSIC AND DANCE SONY LEGACY
For the Week of April 26, 2013