The Roots Music Report's
Top 50 Alternative Rock Album Chart
for the Week of Dec 15, 2018
| TW | LW | Album Title | Band/Artist Name | Label | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ▲ | 1 | 2 | Wanderer | Cat Power | Domino |
| ▼ | 2 | 1 | Egypt Station | Paul McCartney | Capitol |
| - | 3 | 3 | Take Good Care | The Revivalists | Concord |
| - | 4 | 4 | Look Now | Elvis Costello & The Imposters | Concord |
| - | 5 | 5 | Nina Cried Power | Hozier | Columbia |
| ▲ | 6 | 7 | Everything I Could Never Say... | lovelytheband | Another Century |
| ▲ | 7 | 12 | Delta | Mumford & Sons | Glassnote |
| - | 8 | 8 | Free Yourself Up | Lake Street Dive | Nonesuch |
| - | 9 | 9 | The Modern Lives Vol. 2 | Jackie Greene | Blue Rose |
| ▲ | 10 | 14 | WARM | Jeff Tweedy | dBpm |
| ▼ | 11 | 10 | Bottle It in | Kurt Vile | Matador |
| ▲ | 12 | 13 | Thank You for Today | Death Cab for Cutie | Atlantic |
| ▼ | 13 | 6 | Gold | Sister Sparrow & The Dirty Birds | Thirty Tigers |
| ▲ | 14 | 15 | Mt. Joy | Mt. Joy | Dualtone |
| ▲ | 15 | 31 | SHINY and OH SO BRIGHT, VOL. 1 / LP: NO PAST. NO FUTURE. NO SUN. | The Smashing Pumpkins | Napalm |
| - | 16 | 16 | All Damn Day | Nick Dittmeier & the Sawdusters | Eastwood |
| ▲ | 17 | 18 | Staying at Tamara's | George Ezra | Sony |
| ▼ | 18 | 11 | That Santa Fe Channel | Cordovas, Corderas | ATO |
| ▲ | 19 | - | Life Love Flesh Blood | Imelda May | Decca |
| ▼ | 20 | 19 | Chorus | The Mother Hips | Blue Rose Music |
| ▼ | 21 | 20 | Elastic Days | J Mascis | Sub Pop |
| ▼ | 22 | 21 | Wildness | Snow Patrol | Polydor |
| ▼ | 23 | 22 | Fooled Again | Teresa Eggertsen Cooke | Self-Release |
| ▼ | 24 | 23 | Watching It All Fall Apart | Fruition | Lohi |
| ▼ | 25 | 24 | The Atlas Underground | Tom Morello | MOM + POP |
| ▼ | 26 | 25 | Upside Down Flowers | Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness | Fantasy |
| ▼ | 27 | 26 | Heard It in a Past Life | Maggie Rogers | Debay Sounds |
| ▲ | 28 | 44 | And Nothing Hurt | Spiritualized | Fat Possum |
| ▼ | 29 | 27 | More or Less | Dan Mangan | Arts & Crafts |
| ▼ | 30 | 28 | The Mystery of Me | Danielia Cotton | Cottontown |
| ▼ | 31 | 29 | High As Hope | Florence + the Machine | Universal |
| - | 32 | 32 | Between Two Shores | Glen Hansard | Plateau |
| - | 33 | 33 | Goodbye Sunshine, Hello Nighttime | Family Of The Year | Reprise |
| ▼ | 34 | 17 | Part of the Light | Ray LaMontagne | Sony |
| ▲ | 35 | 37 | Wide Awake | Rayland Baxter | ATO |
| ▼ | 36 | 34 | First Flower | Molly Burch | Captured Tracks |
| ▲ | 37 | 38 | Devotion: Songs About Rivers and Spirits and Children | Hiss Golden Messenger | Merge |
| ▼ | 38 | 30 | The Now Now | Gorillaz | Parlophone |
| *NEW* | 39 | - | Young Sick Camellia | St. Paul & The Broken Bones | Columbia Red |
| ▼ | 40 | 35 | Pillar of Na | Saintseneca | Anti |
| ▼ | 41 | 36 | Bon Iver | Bon Iver | Jagjaguwar |
| ▼ | 42 | 39 | Until the Dawn | Joy Zimmerman | Self-Release |
| ▼ | 43 | 40 | Sore | Dilly Dally | Partisan |
| *NEW* | 44 | - | Part of Us | Good Old War | Nettwerk |
| ▼ | 45 | 41 | Expectations | Wild Child | Dualtone |
| *NEW* | 46 | - | Triage | Methyl Ethel | 4AD |
| ▼ | 47 | 42 | Half the City | St. Paul & The Broken Bones | Single Lock Records |
| ▼ | 48 | 45 | Tell Me How You Really Feel | Courtney Barnett | Mom+Pop |
| *NEW* | 49 | - | Lilac Everything | Emma Louise | Henry's Castle Pty |
| ▼ | 50 | 48 | Life in the City | Turkuaz | Electric Habitat Music |
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