Top Country Album Chart for the Year of 2021

The Roots Music Report's
Top Country Album Chart
for the Year of 2021

	Album Title	Band/Artist Name	Label	Sub Genre
1	Starting over	Chris Stapleton	Mercury Nashville	Americana Country
2	The Horses and the Hounds	James McMurtry	New West	Americana Country
3	From an Old Guitar: Rare and Unreleased Recordings	Dave Alvin	Yep Roc	Americana Country
4	Triage	Rodney Crowell	RC1	Americana Country
5	Cuttin' Grass - Vol. 1 (Butcher Shoppe Sessions)	Sturgill Simpson	High Top Mountain	True Country
6	The Waylon Sessions	Shannon McNally	Compass	Americana Country
7	Total Freedom	Kathleen Edwards	Dualtone	Americana Country
8	Chasing Old Highs	Ross Cooper	Start Swimming	Americana Country
9	Same Shirt, Different Day	Rodney Rice	Self-Release	Americana Country
10	Rare Bird	Sara Petite	JTM Music	Outlaw Country
11	Treasure of Love (feat. Butch Hancock, Joe Ely & Jimmie Dale Gilmore)	The Flatlanders	Rack 'Em	Americana Country
12	Electro Melodier	Son Volt	Transmit Sound	Americana Country
13	You Don't Really Know Me	Tim Easton	Black Mesa	Americana Country
14	You Hear Georgia	Blackberry Smoke	3 Legend	Americana Country
15	Sayin' What I'm Thinkin'	Lainey Wilson	Broken Bow	Hot Country
16	Raise a Banner	Zach Schmidt	Boss Dawg	Americana Country
17	Hurricane	Danny Burns	Bonfire	Americana Country
18	Bullseye	The Shootouts	Soundly	Americana Country
19	J.T.	Steve Earle	New West	Americana Country
20	Strawberry Mansion	Langhorne Slim	Dualtone	Americana Country
21	Ten Thousand Roses	Dori Freeman	Blue Hens	Americana Country
22	Working Woman	Grace Pettis	MPress	Americana Country
23	Co-Starring	Ray Wylie Hubbard	Big Machine	Alternative Country
24	Waiting out the Storm	Jeremy Ivey	Anti	Americana Country
25	Beyond These Walls	Jesse Daniel	Die True	Honky Tonk
26	Blonde on the Tracks	Emma Swift	Tiny Ghost	Americana Country
27	Daddy's Country Gold	Melissa Carper	Self-Release	Americana Country
28	I'll Meet You Here	Dar Williams	Renew	Americana Country
29	Rise	Roger Street Friedman	Playroom	Americana Country
30	29: Written in Stone	Carly Pearce	Big Machine	Hot Country
31	Migrants	Hayde Bluegrass Orchestra	Unknown	Americana Country
32	Restless	Wild & Blue	New Favorite	Americana Country
33	Glitter & Grits	Deborah Silver	NTL	Western Swing
34	Goldmine (Deluxe)	Gabby Barrett	Warner Nashville	Hot Country
35	When I Wait for You	Dirk Powell	Compass	Americana Country
36	Hope	Jim Lauderdale	Yep Roc	Americana Country
37	Depreciated	John R. Miller	Rounder	Americana Country
38	Good at Being Lonely	Hank & Ella with the Fine Country Band	Self-Release	Americana Country
39	Eden and Her Borderlands	Anya Hinkle	Organic	Americana Country
40	These 13	Jimbo Mathus & Andrew Bird	Thirty Tigers	Americana Country
41	Hey World	Lee Brice	Curb	Hot Country
42	Country Again (Side A)	Thomas Rhett	Big Machine	Hot Country
43	To the Passage of Time	Jason Eady	Old Guitar	Americana Country
44	Play the Hits	The Mavericks	Mono Mundo	Americana Country
45	Bettie James	Jimmie Allen	Stoney Creek	Hot Country
46	That's How Rumors Get Started	Margo Price	Loma Vista	Americana Country
47	Pohorylle	Margo Cilker	Fluff & Gravy	Americana Country
48	In the Blossom of Their Shade	Pokey LaFarge	New West	Americana Country
49	Music City USA	Charley Crockett	Thirty Tigers	Americana Country
50	A Thousand Turns	The Delevantes	Moon River	Americana Country
51	Half a Hundred Years	Asleep At The Wheel	Home	Americana Country
52	Just a Little Rain	Ray Cardwell	Bonfire	Americana Country
53	Real to Me	Callista Clark	Big Machine	Hot Country
54	Keep 'Em on They Toes	Brent Cobb	Thirty Tigers	Americana Country
55	Choose Your Own Adventure	The Weber Brothers And Timothy Bracken	Self-Release	Americana Country
56	First Time Feeling	Leah Blevins	Crabtree	Americana Country
57	Music City Joke	Mac Leaphart	Self-Release	Americana Country
58	The Ballad of Dood & Juanita	Sturgill Simpson	High Top Mountain	Americana Country
59	When You Found Me	Lucero	Liberty & Lament	Americana Country
60	Jordan Davis	Jordan Davis	MCA Nashville	Hot Country
61	The Highwomen	The Highwomen	Low County/Elektra	Hot Country
62	Prairie Love Letter	Brennen Leigh	Self-Release	Americana Country
63	Heartache Medication	Jon Pardi	Capitol	Hot Country
64	THE SPEED of NOW Part 1	Keith Urban	Capitol Nashville	Hot Country
65	A Few More Miles to Go	Lee Sims	Adelphos	True Country
66	Jameson Rodgers	Jameson Rodgers	Sony	Hot Country
67	See You Next Time	Joshua Ray Walker	State Fair	Honky Tonk
68	Tullahoma	Dustin Lynch	Broken Bow	Hot Country
69	Gettin' by on Gettin' Down	Sam Morrow	Forty Below	Americana Country
70	Plastic Bouquet	Kacy & Clayton	New West	Americana Country
71	Dandelion	Carolina Story	Black River	Americana Country
72	Cold Rain and Snow	Jared Rabin	Self-Release	Americana Country
73	Could Have Loved You	Fretland	Soundly Music	Americana Country
74	October in the Railroad Earth	Tom Russell	Frontera	Americana Country
75	Turning Tides	Grayson Jenkins	Self-Release	Americana Country
76	Church of Better Daze	Boy Golden	Six Shooter	Americana Country
77	Nothing to Do Town	Dylan Scott	Curb	Hot Country
78	Wildcard	Miranda Lambert	Vanner	Hot Country
79	Solitaire	Ted Russell Kamp	PoMo	Americana Country
80	Real Me	Brit Taylor	Cut A Shine	Americana Country
81	Mixtape, Vol. 1	Kane Brown	Sony	Hot Country
82	Buy Dirt - Single	Jordan Davis	MCA Nashville	Hot Country
83	The Wildmans	The Wildmans	Mountain Fever	Americana Country
84	Now and then	Shaye Zadravec	Indelible Music	Americana Country
85	Greetings From...Jake	Jake Owen	Big Loud	Hot Country
86	Boots No. 2: the Lost Songs, Vol 1.	Gillian Welch	Acony	Americana Country
87	Seven Cities of Gold	Moot Davis	Boot Knife	Americana Country
88	Half Moon Light (Deluxe Edition)	The Lone Bellow	Dualtone	Americana Country
89	Kelsea	Kelsea Ballerini	Black River	Country
90	Blue Blue Blue	Noel McKay	Self-Release	Americana Country
91	9	Jason Aldean	Broken Bow	Hot Country
92	Ride Me Back Home	Willie Nelson	Sony	Outlaw Country
93	Tiny Little Movies	Will Hoge	EDLO	Americana Country
94	Gasoline	Grain Thief	Self-Release	Americana Country
95	Solace in the Wild	Erin Ivey	Self-Release	Americana Country
96	Born Here Live Here Die Here	Luke Bryan	Capitol Nashville	Hot Country
97	Singing River	Chad Elliott	Self-Release	Americana Country
98	Ramble on	Charlie Marie	Self-Release	Americana Country
99	Lady Like	Ingrid Andress	Warner	Hot Country
100	Getting over Him	Lauren Alaina	Mercury	Hot Country
101	The Panhandlers	The Panhandlers	The Next Waltz	Americana Country
102	The Piano Sessions	Parmalee	Stoney Creek	Hot Country
103	Rollin' on	Jesse Daniel	Die True	Honky Tonk
104	That Kind of Life	Michigan Rattlers	Massasauga	Americana Country
105	How They Remember You	Rascal Flatts	Big Machine	Hot Country
106	Diamond Stone	Toria Richings	Self-Release	Americana Country
107	Reckless	Morgan Wade	Ladylike	Americana Country
108	Almost Daylight	Chris Knight	Thirty Tigers	Americana Country
109	Love, Heartbreak, & Everything in Between	Tenille Arts	Reviver	Hot Country
110	SOUTHSIDE	Sam Hunt	MCA	Hot Country
111	Flames to Ashes	Elissa Pernu	Self-Release	Americana Country
112	Pelago	Ryan Hurd	Sony	Hot Country
113	Hourglass	Murray McLauchlan	True North	Americana Country
114	All Alone	Steven Graves	One Essence	Americana Country
115	World Full of Blues	Rob Ickes & Trey Hensley	Compass	Americana Country
116	Behind the Bar	Riley Green	Big Machine	Hot Country
117	First Rose of Spring	Willie Nelson	Sony	Country
118	Once in a Blue Moon	Dave Goddess Group	Emotional	Americana Country
119	Jump for Joy	Gary Louris	Thirty Tigers	Americana Country
120	Bright Lights, Long Drives, First Words	Nora Jane Struthers	Blue Pig	Americana Country
121	Hello from the End of the World	Trae Sheehan	Self-Release	Americana Country
122	Long Rider	3 Pairs of Boots	Self-Release	Americana Country
123	Reckless Saints	Roy Schneider & Kim Mayfield	Shiny Gnu	Americana Country
124	Island Creek	David Massey	Poetic Debris	Americana Country
125	The People You Love	Robbie Mangiardi	Self-Release	Americana Country
126	Can't Say I Ain't Country	Florida Georgia Line	Big Machine	Hot Country
127	Here and Now	Kenny Chesney	Blue Chair	Hot Country
128	Ghosts of West Virginia	Steve Earle	New West	Americana Country
129	Down in the Den	Ted Russell Kamp	PoMo	Americana Country
130	CHICKABOOM!	Tami Neilson	Outside	Americana Country
131	Can't Change It	The Mystix	Joe Lilly	Outlaw Country
132	Alive	Fred Eaglesmith	Sawdust	Americana Country
133	What You See is What You Get	Luke Combs	Sony	Hot Country
134	The Incredible Heat Machine	TK & The Holy Know-Nothings	Mama Bird	Americana Country
135	Between Us	Ana Egge	Story Sound	Americana Country
136	Reclaiming My Time	John Hall	Sunset Blvd	Americana Country
137	Arm in Arm	Steep Canyon Rangers	Yep Roc	Americana Country
138	Yard Sale	Suzanne Santo	Soundly	Americana Country
139	GOOD TIME	Niko Moon	Sony	Hot Country
140	Such a Long Way	Jess Jocoy	Self-Release	Americana Country
141	Sins We Made	Harrow Fair	Roaring Girl	Americana Country
142	Rose Songs	Clint Roberts	Carry-On Music	Americana Country
143	Peso in My Pocket	Toby Keith	Show Dog	Hot Country
144	Leftovers	Le Ren	Secretly Canadian	Americana Country
145	Heart	Eric Church	EMI Nashville	Hot Country
146	Hold My Beer, Vol. 2	Randy Rogers & Wade Bowen	Lil' Buddy Toons	Hot Country
147	Borrowed Time	Joe Troop	Free Dirt	Alternative Country
148	Every Single Star	Dori Freeman	Blue Hens Music	Americana Country
149	The Marfa Tapes	Jack Ingram, Miranda Lambert, Jon Randall	Vanner	Americana Country
150	Dan + Shay	Dan + Shay	Warner Music	Hot Country
151	Half Moon Light	The Lone Bellow	Dualtone	Americana Country
152	Start It over	Riley Downing	New West	Americana Country
153	Rock Botom Rhapsody	Pokey LaFarge	New West	Americana Country
154	Not That Fast	Bryan Haraway	Part Time Criminal	Americana Country
155	Stage Fright at 50 - an Ovation from Nashville	The Rock House All Stars	Pure	Americana Country
156	What We Believe	Rusty Gear	Self-Release	Americana Country
157	A Whole Lot of Nothin'	The Royal Hounds	Self-Release	Americana Country
158	American Siren	Emily Scott Robinson	Oh Boy	Americana Country
159	Your Life is a Record	Brandy Clark	Warner	Americana Country
160	The Tightening of the Screws	Gurf Morlix	Rootball	Americana Country
161	Texas to Tennessee	Clay Walker	Show Dog	Hot Country
162	Skeletons	Brothers Osborne	EMI Nashville	Hot Country
163	Blood	Allison Moorer	Thirty Tigers	Americana Country
164	A Horrible Beautiful Dream	Sean McConnell	Silent Desert	Americana Country
165	Agricultural Tragic	Corb Lund	New West	Americana Country
166	Come Along	Mac Gayden	ArenA	Americana Country
167	Dreaming Again	Lizzy Long	Vine	Americana Country
168	While You're Gone	Drew Parker	Warner Nashville	Hot Country
169	Big Road	David Bromberg	Red House	Americana Country
170	Boots No. 2: the Lost Songs, Vol. 3	Gillian Welch	Acony	Americana Country
171	Pauline	Ashley Ray	Soundly	Americana Country
172	Everyone a Song Vol. One	The Steel Wheels	Big Ring	Americana Country
173	Fever Breaks	Josh Ritter	Pytheas	Americana Country
174	Mileposts	Doug Schmude	Lost Hubcap	Americana Country
175	Wilderness	Jade Jackson	Anti	Americana Country
176	Recollections	Wynonna	Anti	Americana Country
177	They'll Never Keep Us Down	Kelsey Waldon	Oh Boy	Americana Country
178	My Name is Suzie Ungerleider	Suzie Ungerleider	Stella	True Country
179	Secret	Billy Simard	Ki-Keek	Americana Country
180	Two	Matthew Austin Hunt	Edgewater Music Group	Americana Country
181	Young Man	Jamestown Revival	Thirty Tigers	Alternative Country
182	From Dreams to Dust	The Felice Brothers	Yep Roc	Americana Country
183	Lufkin	Randy C Moore	Highway 59	True Country
184	I'd Trade It All for a Little More	Jimmy Hefferan	Self-Release	Americana Country
185	Rediscovered	Dulcie Taylor	Mesa/Blue Moon	Americana Country
186	All of Your Stones	The Steel Woods	Thirty Tigers	Contemporary Country
187	Goodbye L.A.	Jeremy Pinnell	Sofaburn	Americana Country
188	Waltz for Abilene	Cindy Cashdollar	Silver Shot	Americana Country
189	Dirty Camaro	Zachary Williams	Dualtone	Americana Country
190	Songs from the Briarpatch	Will Jackson	Mile Marker 14	Americana Country
191	Frame by Frame	T. Buckley	Falle Tree	Americana Country
192	Body Language (Deluxe)	Blake Shelton	Warner Bros Nashville	Hot Country
193	Gaslighter	The Chicks	Columbia	Hot Country
194	Blue Eyes, the Harlot, the Queer, the Pusher & Me	Waylon Payne	Carnival	Americana Country
195	Riddy Arman	Riddy Arman	La Honda	Americana Country
196	Dangerous: the Double Album	Morgan Wallen	Big Loud	Hot Country
197	Butter Miracle Suite One	Counting Crows	BMG	Americana Country
198	Other Arrangements	Parker Millsap	Okrahoma	Americana Country
199	Color Outside the Lines	Jim Stanard	Manatee	Americana Country
200	Life on the Flip Side	Jimmy Buffett	Mailboat	Americana Country

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The Roots Music Report's Top Country Album Chart for the Year of 2021

The Roots Music Report's
Top Country Album Chart
for the Year of 2021