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

Patty Griffin american kid album cover

 
TW LW Artist CD Title Label
1 1 PATTY GRIFFIN AMERICAN KID NEW WEST
2 2 ANAIS MITCHELL & JEFFERSON HAMER CHILD BALLADS WILDERLAND
3 4 DAVID FRANCEY SO SAY WE ALL RED HOUSE
4 6 DARRYL PURPOSE NEXT TIME AROUND BLUE ROCK
5 8 GURF MORLIX FINDS THE PRESENT TENSE SELF
6 7 THE STRAY BIRDS THE STRAY BIRDS SELF
7 13 BROTHER SUN SOME PART OF TRUTH SELF
8 11 SOLAS SHAMROCK CITY SELF
9 9 PAUL KELLY SPRING AND FALL GAWD AGGIE / UNIVERSAL
10 5 SALLY BARRIS WILDER GIRL SELF
11 12 HEIDI TALBOT ANGELS WITHOUT WINGS COMPASS
12 14 MALCOLM HOLCOMBE DOWN THE RIVER GYPSY EYES MUSIC
13 15 KATE RUSBY 20 ISLAND
14 18 RUTH MOODY THESE WILDER THINGS RED HOUSE
15 16 LORI REID TEMPERANCE HOTEL SELF
16 17 STEPHEN FEARING BETWEEN HURRICANES LOWDENPROUD
17 3 THE BILLS YES PLEASE INDIE
18 19 LUCY KAPLANSKY REUNION REDHOUSE
19 21 DAVE GUNNING NO MORE PENNIES WEE HOUSE OF MUSIC
20 20 PHARIS & JASON ROMERO LONG GONE OUT WEST BLUES SELF
21 10 SUSAN MCKEOWN BELONG HIBERNIAN MUSIC
22 22 ALAN DOYLE BOY ON BRIDGE UNIVERSAL
23 23 OLD MAN LUEDECKE TENDER IS THE NIGHT TRUE NORTH
24 24 LORI BURKE HOLD ON SELF
25 37 MUMFORD & SONS BABEL GLASSNOTE RECORDS
26 25 THE UNSEEN STRANGERS FOLLOW THE SOUND SELF
27 27 TRENT SEVERN TRENT SEVERN OUTSIDE MUSIC
28 28 JASON COLLETT RECKON ARTS & CRAFTS
29 29 OVERMOUNTAIN MEN THE NEXT BEST THING RAMSEUR
30 30 ANNABELLE CHVOSTEK RISE BOREALIS
31 32 AMELIA CURRAN SPECTATORS SIX SHOOTER
32 33 MEAN MARY YEAR OF THE SPARROW WOODROCK
33 0 KENNY ROBY MEMORIES & BIRDS LITTLE CRIMINAL RECORDS
34 34 JORY NASH LITTLE PILGRIM THIN MAN RECORDS
35 31 MARIA DUNN PIECE BY PIECE DISTANT WHISPER MUSIC
36 38 MARY GAUTHIER LIVE AT BLUE ROCK SELF
37 36 ENTER THE HAGGIS THE MODEST REVOLUTION FIREBRAND
38 26 RITA HOSKING LITTLE BOAT SELF
39 40 LAURA MARLING ONCE I WAS AN EAGLE RIBBON MUSIC
40 41 DALA BEST DAY COMPASS
41 42 BETTYSOO AND DOUG COX MORE LIES BORDERLINE TALENT
42 35 HEATHER MALONEY HEATHER MALONEY SIGNATURE SOUNDS
43 39 WOOD & WIRE WOOD & WIRE SELF
44 0 KARYN OLIVER MAGDALENE SELF
45 50 MOLLY VENTER & EBEN PARISER GOODNIGHT MOONSHINE SELF
46 43 HAT CHECK GIRL ROAD TO RED POINT WATERBUG
47 44 GREAT BIG SEA XX WARNER MUSIC
48 45 WHITEHORSE THE ROAD TO MASSEY HALL SIX SHOOTER
49 46 AUSTIN LOUNGE LIZARDS HOME AND DERANGED SELF
50 47 CARA LUFT DARLINGFORD BLUE CASE TUNES
For the Week of May 10, 2013

RMR Radio Airplay Chart - Roots Country Top 50 Albums

Steve Earle the low highway album cover

 
TW LW Artist CD Title Label
1 4 STEVE EARLE & THE DUKES (& DUCHESSES) THE LOW HIGHWAY NEW WEST
2 2 BILLY BRAGG TOOTH & NAIL COOKING VINYL
3 4 HOLLY WILLIAMS THE HIGHWAY GEORGIANA
4 5 BLACK LILLIES RUNAWAY FREEWAY BLUES ATTACK MONKEY
5 6 EMMYLOU HARRIS & RODNEY CROWELL OLD YELLOW MOON WARNER
6 7 RICHARD THOMPSON ELECTRIC NEW WEST
7 3 SON VOLT HONKY TONK ROUNDER
8 8 CORB LUND CABIN FEVER NEW WEST
9 10 KASEY CHAMBERS STORYBOOK SUGAR HILL
10 20 SHANNON MCNALLY SMALL TOWN TALK SACRED SUMAC
11 9 KELLY WILLIS & BRUCE ROBISON CHEATER’S GAME PREMIUM
12 11 GARRETT LEBEAU RISE TO THE GRIND MUSIC ROAD
13 23 LUKE WINSLOW-KING THE COMING TIDE BLOODSHOT
14 14 BONNIE BISHOP FREE SELF
15 13 VARIOUS ARTISTS UNSUNG HERO – A TRIBUTE TO THE MUSIC OF RON DAVIES LITTLE CHICKADEE
16 18 BLACK PRAIRIE A TEAR IN THE EYE IS A WOUND IN THE HEART SUGAR HILL
17 15 SONS OF FATHERS BURNING DAYS SELF
18 40 WILLIE NELSON AND FAMILY LET’S FACE THE MUSIC AND DANCE SONY LEGACY
19 19 JOHN WORT HANNAM BRAMBLES & THORNS BOREALIS
20 17 THE MAVERICKS IN TIME THE VALORY MUSIC
21 27 MILK CARTON KIDS THE ASH & CLAY ANTI
22 25 DALE WATSON EL RANCHO AZUL RED HOUSE
23 26 BARNEY BENTALL FLESH AND BONE TRUE NORTH
24 16 CAITLIN ROSE THE STAND-IN ATO
25 12 SHANNON WHITWORTH HIGH TIDE EF RECORDS
26 21 CARRIE RODRIGUEZ GIVE ME ALL YOU GOT NINTH STREET OPUS
27 37 THE STEEL WHEELS NO MORE RAIN SELF
28 31 BETH LEE & THE BREAKUPS ONE MORE TIME AGAIN SELF
29 29 LINDA MCRAE ROUGH EDGES & RAGGED HEARTS 42 RECORDS
30 30 GREG BROWN HYMNS TO WHAT IS LEFT SAWDUST
31 32 JUSTIN RUTLEDGE VALLEYHEART OUTSIDE MUSIC
32 34 JOSHUA DAVIS A MIRACLE OF BIRDS EARTH-WORK
33 36 WHEELER BROTHERS GOLD BOOTS GLITTER BISMEAUX
34 24 KASEY CHAMBERS AND SHANE NICHOLSON WRECK & RUIN SUGAR HILL
35 0 YVETTE LANDRY NO MAN’S LAND SOKO
36 33 100 MILE HOUSE WAIT WITH ME CHRONOGRAPH
37 38 AVETT BROTHERS THE CARPENTER AMERICAN
38 47 ROGER KNOX AND THE PINE VALLEY COSMONAUTS STRANGER IN MY LAND BLOODSHOT
39 39 THE CIVIL WARS AND T BONE BURNETT A PLACE AT THE TABLE (OST) BMG / SENSIBILITY MUSIC
40 48 STURGILL SIMPSON HIGH TOP MOUNTAIN THIRTY TIGERS
41 35 VARIOUS ARTISTS THE MUSIC IS YOU – A TRIBUTE TO BOB DENVER ATO
42 0 TIM EASTON BEFORE THE REVOLUTION NEW WEST
43 43 THE BLACK TWIG PICKERS ROUGH CARPENTER THIRLL JOCKEY
44 46 RAY WYLIE HUBBARD THE GRIFTER’S HYMNAL BORDELLO
45 42 SHOOTER JENNINGS THE OTHER LIFE EONE
46 0 ERIC BRACE & PETER COOPER THE COMEBACK ALBUM RED BEET RECORDS
47 49 JIMMY LAFAVE DEPENDING ON THE DISTANCE MUSIC ROAD
48 28 KRIS KRISTOFFERSON FEELING MORTAL KK RECORDS
49 22 BOBBY BARE, SR. DARKER THAN LIGHT PLOWBOY
50 50 DALLAS MOORE BLESSED BE THE BAD ONES SOL
For the Week of May 10, 2013