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 JOY KILLS SORROW WIDE AWAKE SIGNATURE SOUNDS
3 8 AOIFE O’DONOVAN FOSSILS YEP ROC
4 9 AMY SPEACE HOW TO SLEEP IN A STORMY BOAT WINDBONE
5 11 EMERALD RAE IF ONLY I COULD FLY SELF
6 5 LORI REID TEMPERANCE HOTEL SELF
7 20 LAURA MARLING ONCE I WAS AN EAGLE RIBBON MUSIC
8 3 RUTH MOODY THESE WILDER THINGS RED HOUSE
9 23 BROTHER SUN SOME PART OF TRUTH SELF
10 24 BELLA HARDY BATTLEPLAN NOE RECORDS
11 25 SOLAS SHAMROCK CITY SELF
12 27 LYNN MILES DOWNPOUR SELF
13 28 HEIDI TALBOT ANGELS WITHOUT WINGS COMPASS
14 29 GURF MORLIX FINDS THE PRESENT TENSE SELF
15 7 STEPHEN FEARING BETWEEN HURRICANES LOWDENPROUD
16 4 DAVID FRANCEY SO SAY WE ALL RED HOUSE
17 26 SALLY BARRIS WILDER GIRL SELF
18 31 APRIL VERCH BRIGHT LIKE GOLD SLAB TOWN
19 34 DARRYL PURPOSE NEXT TIME AROUND BLUE ROCK
20 32 SUTTON, HOLT & COLEMAN READY FOR THE TIMES HIGH WINDY
21 33 MICHAEL MARTIN MURPHEY RED RIVER DRIFTER RED RIVER ENTERTAINMENT
22 30 ANAIS MITCHELL & JEFFERSON HAMER CHILD BALLADS WILDERLAND
23 35 PHARIS & JASON ROMERO LONG GONE OUT WEST BLUES SELF
24 36 ASHLEY CONDON THIS GREAT COMPROMISE LAKER MUSIC
25 37 KEITH GLASS BAD DOG SELF
26 38 WOODY GUTHRIE WOODY GUTHRIE AT 100 – LIVE AT THE KENNEDY CENTER SMITHSONIAN FOLKWAYS
27 41 THE BILLS YES PLEASE INDIE
28 39 ENTER THE HAGGIS THE MODEST REVOLUTION FIREBRAND
29 10 BURNING BRIDGET CLEARY PRESSED FOR TIME SELF
30 42 SUSAN MCKEOWN BELONG HIBERNIAN MUSIC
31 44 BETSE ELLIS HIGH MOON ORDER FREE DIRT
32 43 ALICE GERRARD BITTERSWEET SPRUCE & MAPLE
33 49 LAUREN LAPOINTE SUPERHERO SELF
34 47 MEAN MARY YEAR OF THE SPARROW WOODROCK
35 46 MANDOLIN ORANGE THIS SIDE OF JORDAN YEP ROC
36 48 JOSIENNE CLARKE & BEN WALKER FIRE & FORTUNE NAVIGATOR / COMPASS
37 0 OVERMOUNTAIN MEN THE NEXT BEST THING RAMSEUR
38 0 LYDIA BROWNFIELD WANTING’S FOR SINNERS SELF
39 50 JADEA KELLY CLOVER DIVERGENT / TRUE NORTH
40 0 MUMFORD & SONS BABEL GLASSNOTE RECORDS
41 0 WHITEHORSE THE ROAD TO MASSEY HALL SIX SHOOTER
42 0 MATTY POWELL KISS THE CITY INDIE
43 45 SI KAHN BRISTOL BAY STRICTLY COUNTRY
44 0 MARK KNOPFLER PRIVATEERING UNIVERSAL
45 0 THE FUGATIVES BIGGER THAN LUCK LIGHT ORGAN RECORDS
46 0 CORIN RAYMOND & THE SUNDOWNERS PAPER NICKELS LOCAL RASCAL RECORDS
47 0 FRUITION JUST ONE OF THEM NIGHTS SELF
48 0 MARY GAUTHIER LIVE AT BLUE ROCK SELF
49 0 LORI BURKE HOLD ON SELF
50 40 ROY BOOK BINDER THE GOOD BOOK PEG LEG
For the Week of August 23, 2013

RMR Radio Airplay Chart - Roots Country Top 50 Albums

Delbert & Glen CD cover

 
TW LW Artist CD Title Label
1 4 DELBERT MCCLINTON AND GLEN CLARK BLIND, CRIPPLED AND CRAZY NEW WEST
2 2 GUY CLARK MY FAVORITE PICTURE OF YOU DUALTONE
3 1 SLAID CLEAVES STILL FIGHTING THE WAR MUSIC ROAD
4 3 STEVE EARLE & THE DUKES (& DUCHESSES) THE LOW HIGHWAY NEW WEST
5 8 LORI MCKENNA MASSACHUTSETTS HOODIE SONGS
6 7 HOLLY WILLIAMS THE HIGHWAY GEORGIANA
7 5 BILLY BRAGG TOOTH & NAIL COOKING VINYL
8 13 AMANDA SHIRES DOWN FELL THE DOVES LIGHTNING ROD
9 6 EMMYLOU HARRIS & RODNEY CROWELL OLD YELLOW MOON WARNER
10 12 RICHARD THOMPSON ELECTRIC NEW WEST
11 11 SHANNON MCNALLY SMALL TOWN TALK SACRED SUMAC
12 14 DARDEN SMITH LOVE CALLING COMPASS
13 16 VARIOUS ARTISTS YOU DON’T KNOW ME – REDISCOVERING EDDY ARNOLD PLOWBOY
14 18 THE CIVIL WARS CIVIL WARS COLUMBIA
15 20 100 MILE HOUSE WAIT WITH ME CHRONOGRAPH
16 19 BARNEY BENTALL FLESH AND BONE TRUE NORTH
17 17 DONNA THE BUFFALO TONIGHT, TOMORROW, AND YESTERDAY SUGAR HILL
18 23 JUSTIN RUTLEDGE VALLEYHEART OUTSIDE MUSIC
19 24 LINDA MCRAE ROUGH EDGES & RAGGED HEARTS 42 RECORDS
20 26 BONNIE BISHOP FREE SELF
21 27 SARA PETITE CIRCUS COMES TO TOWN SELF
22 28 CHRIS SHIFLETT & THE DEAD PEASANTS ALL HAT AND NO CATTLE SIDEONE DUMMY
23 25 KELLY WILLIS & BRUCE ROBISON CHEATER’S GAME PREMIUM
24 0 VARIOUS ARTISTS THE BIG E – A SALUTE TO STEEL GUITARIST BUDDY EMMONS MPI
25 15 BLACK LILLIES RUNAWAY FREEWAY BLUES ATTACK MONKEY
26 40 DEBORAH HOLLAND VANCOUVER RAGE ON
27 32 SARAH LEE GUTHRIE & JOHNNY IRION WASSAIC WAY RTE 8
28 0 TIM EASTON NOT COOL THIRTY TIGERS
29 35 THRIFTSTORE MASTERPIECE TROUBLE IS A LONESOME TOWN SIDE ONE DUMMY
30 22 SON VOLT HONKY TONK ROUNDER
31 29 THE GOOD FAMILY THE GOOD FAMILY ALBUM LATENT
32 33 COURT YARD HOUNDS AMELITA COLUMBIA
33 30 KEVIN ABERNATHY SOME STORIES LIFE SOCKET RECORDS
34 0 AVETT BROTHERS THE CARPENTER AMERICAN
35 36 NEKO CASE THE WORSE THINGS GET, THE HARDER I FIGHT… ANTI
36 46 TOM JONES SPIRIT IN THE ROOM ROUNDER
37 0 RAY WYLIE HUBBARD THE GRIFTER’S HYMNAL BORDELLO
38 21 BILL KIRCHEN SEEDS AND STEMS PROPER
39 0 BIG SANDY AND HIS FLY-RITE BOYS WHAT A DREAM IT’S BEEN COW ISLAND
40 38 VARIOUS ARTISTS TURN ME LOOSE – OUTSIDERS OF OLD-TIME MUSIC TOMPKINS SQUARE
41 50 SCOTT COOK ONE MORE TIME AROUND GROOVE REVIVAL
42 0 CORB LUND CABIN FEVER NEW WEST
43 39 TWO TONS OF STEEL UNRAVELED SMITH ENTERTAINMENT
44 37 JASON BOLAND AND THE STRAGGLERS DARK & DIRTY MILE THIRTY TIGERS
45 43 STURGILL SIMPSON HIGH TOP MOUNTAIN THIRTY TIGERS
46 41 MICHAEL CHAPMAN WRECKED AGAIN LIGHT IN THE ATTIC
47 0 VARIOUS ARTIST IMAGINATIONAL ANTHEM VOL. 6 – THE ROOTS OF AMERICAN PRIMITIVE GUITAR TOMPKINS SQUARE
48 0 JAY AYMAR OVERTIME INDIE
49 44 HALDEN WOFFORD & THE HI-BEAMS ROCKY MOUNTAIN HONKY TONK SELF
50 42 SCUD MOUNTAIN BOYS DO YOU LOVE THE SUN ASHMONT
For the Week of August 23, 2013