The Roots Music Report's
Top 50 Alternative Rock Album Chart
for the Week of Aug 1, 2020
| TW | LW | Album Title | Band/Artist Name | Label | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | 1 | 1 | XOXO | The Jayhawks | SHAM |
| ▲ | 2 | 5 | Work Hard and Be Nice | Michael Franti & Spearhead | Boo Boo Wax |
| - | 3 | 3 | Bitter Better | Laura Cortese & The Dance Cards | Compass |
| ▼ | 4 | 2 | Self Made Man | Larkin Poe | Trick-Woo |
| ▲ | 5 | 6 | Monovision | Ray LaMontagne | RCA |
| ▲ | 6 | 11 | Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent | Lewis Capaldi | Vertigo Berlin |
| ▲ | 7 | 9 | Rearrange Us | Mt. Joy | Dualtone |
| *NEW* | 8 | - | The Waterfall II | My Morning Jacket | ATO |
| ▲ | 9 | 20 | Broken at the Break of Day | Fruition | Fruition |
| ▲ | 10 | 27 | New Age Norms 1 | Cold War Kids | AWAL |
| ▲ | 11 | 16 | Texas Sun | Khruangbin | Dead Oceans |
| ▼ | 12 | 7 | Mordechai | Khruangbin | Dead Oceans |
| ▼ | 13 | 4 | Gigaton | Pearl Jam | Monkey Wrench |
| ▼ | 14 | 13 | Holiday | Jennah Barry | Forward Music |
| ▼ | 15 | 14 | The Slow Rush | Tame Impala | Island |
| ▼ | 16 | 10 | III | The Lumineers | Dualtone |
| ▼ | 17 | 15 | Daylight | Grace Potter | Concord |
| ▼ | 18 | 8 | Color Theory | Soccer Mommy | Loma Vista |
| ▼ | 19 | 18 | 20/20 | The Walk-a-Bout | Shred The Evidence |
| ▼ | 20 | 17 | Imploding the Mirage | The Killers | Island |
| ▲ | 21 | 39 | Black Pumas (Deluxe) | Black Pumas | ATO |
| ▼ | 22 | 19 | Free Yourself Up | Lake Street Dive | Nonesuch |
| ▲ | 23 | 36 | Punisher | Phoebe Bridgers | Dead Oceans |
| ▼ | 24 | 22 | Beginners | Christian Lee Hutson | Anti |
| ▼ | 25 | 23 | The Modern Lives Vol. 2 | Jackie Greene | Blue Rose |
| ▼ | 26 | 12 | Black Hole Rainbow | Devon Gilfillian | Capitol |
| ▼ | 27 | 21 | Women in Music Pt. III | Haim | Sony |
| - | 28 | 28 | Fetch the Bolt Cutters | Fiona Apple | Epic |
| ▲ | 29 | 34 | FEVER DREAM | Of Monsters and Men | Republic |
| - | 30 | 30 | The New Abnormal | The Strokes | RCA |
| ▼ | 31 | 24 | Jaime | Brittany Howard | ATO |
| ▲ | 32 | 41 | The Magic | Deerhoof | Polyvinyl |
| ▲ | 33 | 42 | Like So Much Desire | Flock Of Dimes | Sub Pop |
| ▲ | 34 | 35 | The Unseen in Between | Steve Gunn | Matador |
| ▼ | 35 | 32 | Living Mirage | The Head and The Heart | Warner Brothers |
| ▼ | 36 | 29 | Our Two Skins | Gordi | Jagjaguwar |
| ▲ | 37 | 48 | Hyperspace | Beck | Capital |
| ▼ | 38 | 25 | The Juice | G. Love & Special Sauce | Thirty Tigers |
| ▼ | 39 | 37 | Carrie & Lowell | Sufjan Stevens | Asthmatic Kitty |
| ▲ | 40 | 70 | Song for Our Daughter | Laura Marling | Chrysalis |
| ▼ | 41 | 40 | Still Flying | Bridget Kearney & Benjamin Lazar Davis | Verve Forecast |
| ▲ | 42 | 43 | SOUND & FURY | Sturgill Simpson | Elektra |
| ▲ | 43 | 46 | New Medicine | Mondo Cozmo | Last Gang |
| ▲ | 44 | 47 | Automatic Changer | Dead Ghosts | Burger |
| ▲ | 45 | - | There is No Other… | Isobel Campbell | Cooking Vinyl |
| ▲ | 46 | 49 | Oh Alright | Lily Vakili Band | SoundKlaxon |
| ▲ | 47 | 51 | Bon Iver | Bon Iver | Jagjaguwar |
| ▲ | 48 | 52 | All Your Favorite Bands | Dawes | HUB Records |
| ▲ | 49 | 53 | Babel | Mumford & Sons | Universal |
| ▲ | 50 | 55 | True Care | James Vincent McMorrow | Self-Release |
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