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 RUTH MOODY THESE WILDER THINGS RED HOUSE
3 12 AOIFE O’DONOVAN FOSSILS YEP ROC
4 20 DAVID FRANCEY SO SAY WE ALL RED HOUSE
5 6 ANAIS MITCHELL & JEFFERSON HAMER CHILD BALLADS WILDERLAND
6 0 LORI REID TEMPERANCE HOTEL SELF
7 0 STEPHEN FEARING BETWEEN HURRICANES LOWDENPROUD
8 13 JOY KILLS SORROW WIDE AWAKE SIGNATURE SOUNDS
9 0 HEIDI TALBOT ANGELS WITHOUT WINGS COMPASS
10 0 GURF MORLIX FINDS THE PRESENT TENSE SELF
11 NEW BELLA HARDY BATTLEPLAN NOE RECORDS
12 0 SOLAS SHAMROCK CITY SELF
13 0 BROTHER SUN SOME PART OF TRUTH SELF
14 0 SALLY BARRIS WILDER GIRL SELF
15 0 DARRYL PURPOSE NEXT TIME AROUND BLUE ROCK
16 NEW LYNN MILES DOWNPOUR SELF
17 0 PHARIS & JASON ROMERO LONG GONE OUT WEST BLUES SELF
18 21 LAURA MARLING ONCE I WAS AN EAGLE RIBBON MUSIC
19 48 REBECCA FRAZIER WHEN WE FALL COMPASS
20 38 BUDDY MONDLOCK THE MEMORY WALL SPARKING GAP
21 0 SUSAN MCKEOWN BELONG HIBERNIAN MUSIC
22 0 MEAN MARY YEAR OF THE SPARROW WOODROCK
23 22 RED TAIL RING THE HEART’S SWIFT FOOT EARTH-WORK RECORDS
24 0 AMY SPEACE HOW TO SLEEP IN A STORMY BOAT WINDBONE
25 0 ENTER THE HAGGIS THE MODEST REVOLUTION FIREBRAND
26 24 LYDIA BROWNFIELD WANTING’S FOR SINNERS SELF
27 0 JADEA KELLY EASTBOUND PLATFORM SELF
28 0 MATTY POWELL KISS THE CITY INDIE
29 0 THE BILLS YES PLEASE INDIE
30 29 MUMFORD & SONS BABEL GLASSNOTE RECORDS
31 32 LORI BURKE HOLD ON SELF
32 36 OVERMOUNTAIN MEN THE NEXT BEST THING RAMSEUR
33 0 WHITEHORSE THE ROAD TO MASSEY HALL SIX SHOOTER
34 39 MELISSA FERRICK THE TRUTH IS MPRESS RECORDS
35 0 CORIN RAYMOND & THE SUNDOWNERS PAPER NICKELS LOCAL RASCAL RECORDS
36 37 VARIOUS ARTIST FOLK SONGS FOR CLIMATE JUSTICE SIGNATURE SOUNDS
37 45 ASHLEIGH FLYNN A MILLION STARS HOME PERM
38 44 THE BOXCAR LILLIES SUGAR SHACK SELF
39 47 KARYN OLIVER MAGDALENE SELF
40 49 KIMBERLY M’CARVER HARD WALTZ KOCKER
41 0 MARY GAUTHIER LIVE AT BLUE ROCK SELF
42 0 WOODY GUTHRIE WOODY AT 100 SMITHSONIAN FOLKWAYS
43 0 OLD MAN LUEDECKE TENDER IS THE NIGHT TRUE NORTH
44 0 ARLON BENNETT WORLD OF POSSIBILITY RED SEA
45 NEW TEDDY THOMPSON WAY TO BLUE: THE SONGS OF NICK DRAKE STORYSOUND RECORDS
46 42 SAM AMIDON BRIGHT SUNNY SOUTH NONESUCH
47 0 JAMES GORDON COYOTE’S CALLING BOREALIS
48 0 ERIC BOGLE A TOSS OF THE COIN GREENTRAX
49 0 VANDAVEER OH, WILLIE, PLEASE QUACK MEDIA
50 0 ESTHER GOLTON STAY WARM TINY CABIN MUSIC
For the Week of June 28, 2013

RMR Radio Airplay Chart - Roots Country Top 50 Albums

Steve Earle the low highway album cover

 
TW LW Artist CD Title Label
1 3 STEVE EARLE & THE DUKES (& DUCHESSES) THE LOW HIGHWAY NEW WEST
2 5 BILLY BRAGG TOOTH & NAIL COOKING VINYL
3 1 BLACK LILLIES RUNAWAY FREEWAY BLUES ATTACK MONKEY
4 14 SLAID CLEAVES STILL FIGHTING THE WAR MUSIC ROAD
5 7 HOLLY WILLIAMS THE HIGHWAY GEORGIANA
6 4 SON VOLT HONKY TONK ROUNDER
7 0 LORI MCKENNA MASSACHUTSETTS HOODIE SONGS
8 2 EMMYLOU HARRIS & RODNEY CROWELL OLD YELLOW MOON WARNER
9 6 KELLY WILLIS & BRUCE ROBISON CHEATER’S GAME PREMIUM
10 0 RICHARD THOMPSON ELECTRIC NEW WEST
11 0 BARNEY BENTALL FLESH AND BONE TRUE NORTH
12 0 100 MILE HOUSE WAIT WITH ME CHRONOGRAPH
13 0 JUSTIN RUTLEDGE VALLEYHEART OUTSIDE MUSIC
14 12 LUKE WINSLOW-KING THE COMING TIDE BLOODSHOT
15 17 STURGILL SIMPSON HIGH TOP MOUNTAIN THIRTY TIGERS
16 0 LINDA MCRAE ROUGH EDGES & RAGGED HEARTS 42 RECORDS
17 16 THE MAVERICKS IN TIME THE VALORY MUSIC
18 29 DELBERT MCCLINTON AND GLEN CLARK BLIND, CRIPPLED AND CRAZY NEW WEST
19 15 SHANNON MCNALLY SMALL TOWN TALK SACRED SUMAC
20 21 GARRETT LEBEAU RISE TO THE GRIND MUSIC ROAD
21 30 STATESBORO REVUE RAMBLE ON THE PRIVILEGE CREEK SHALLEY RECORDS
22 22 AVETT BROTHERS THE CARPENTER AMERICAN
23 19 VARIOUS ARTISTS UNSUNG HERO – A TRIBUTE TO THE MUSIC OF RON DAVIES LITTLE CHICKADEE
24 28 WILLIE NELSON AND FAMILY LET’S FACE THE MUSIC AND DANCE SONY LEGACY
25 0 DEBORAH HOLLAND VANCOUVER RAGE ON
26 36 DONNA THE BUFFALO TONIGHT, TOMORROW, AND YESTERDAY SUGAR HILL
27 35 VARIOUS ARTISTS GHOST BROTHERS OF DARKLAND COUNTY HEAR MUSIC
28 27 SHANNON WHITWORTH HIGH TIDE EF RECORDS
29 33 TOM JONES SPIRIT IN THE ROOM ROUNDER
30 23 MILK CARTON KIDS THE ASH & CLAY ANTI
31 32 WHEELER BROTHERS GOLD BOOTS GLITTER BISMEAUX
32 34 ERIC BRACE & PETER COOPER THE COMEBACK ALBUM RED BEET RECORDS
33 37 KRIS KRISTOFFERSON FEELING MORTAL KK RECORDS
34 39 GENE CLARK HERE TONIGHT – THE WHITE LIGHT DEMOS OMNIVORE
35 45 SHOOTER JENNINGS THE OTHER LIFE EONE
36 38 DAWES STORIES DON’T END ATO
37 46 FRANK BANG & THE SECRET STASH DOUBLE DARE BLUE HOSS
38 41 VARIOUS ARTIST LOVE FOR LEVON – A BENEFIT TO SAVE THE BARN STAR VISTA / TIME LIFE
39 42 JASON BOLAND AND THE STRAGGLERS DARK & DIRTY MILE THIRTY TIGERS
40 47 RAY WYLIE HUBBARD THE GRIFTER’S HYMNAL BORDELLO
41 43 DALE WATSON EL RANCHO AZUL RED HOUSE
42 44 YVETTE LANDRY NO MAN’S LAND SOKO
43 40 THE CIVIL WARS AND T BONE BURNETT A PLACE AT THE TABLE (OST) BMG / SENSIBILITY MUSIC
44 50 KEVIN ABERNATHY SOME STORIES LIFE SOCKET RECORDS
45 48 ROGER KNOX AND THE PINE VALLEY COSMONAUTS STRANGER IN MY LAND BLOODSHOT
46 0 JOSH HALVERSON ONE SHOT SELF
47 9 CORB LUND CABIN FEVER NEW WEST
48 0 THE COAL PORTERS FIND THE ONE PRIMA
49 0 RONNIE FAUSS I AM THE MAN YOU KNOW I’M NOT NORMALTOWN
50 0 BUDDY MILLER & JIM LAUDERDALE BUDDY & JIM NEW WEST
For the Week of June 28, 2013