The Roots Music Report's
Top 50 Contemporary Blues Album Chart
for the Week of Jan 3, 2026
| TW | LW | Album Title | Band/Artist Name | Label | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | 1 | 1 | New Southern Vintage | Candice Ivory | Nola Blue |
| ▲ | 2 | 7 | Seven Deadly Gins | Reckless And Blue | Self-Release |
| ▲ | 3 | 6 | Unequivocally Blue | Gina Coleman | Guitar One |
| ▼ | 4 | 3 | California Trap | Andrew Duncanson | Run It Back |
| ▲ | 5 | 9 | Other Side of Blue | Misty Blues | Guitar One |
| ▲ | 6 | 10 | Blues Factory | Mark Cameron | Overton Music |
| ▼ | 7 | 4 | Two Trains | Dave Keyes | Bue Heart |
| ▼ | 8 | 2 | One Hour Mama: the Blues of Victoria Spivey | Maria Muldaur | Nola Blue |
| ▲ | 9 | 45 | Just Stay High | The Alexis P. Suter Band | Big Mama |
| ▲ | 10 | 12 | Dead Blues Volume 1 (feat. Datrian Johnson) | Luther Dickinson | Strollin' Bones |
| ▲ | 11 | 14 | Blues in Hand | Al Basile | Sweetop |
| ▲ | 12 | 15 | Grown in Mississippi | John Primer | Blues House |
| ▲ | 13 | 18 | Don't Look Back | Mississippi Heat | Delmark |
| ▲ | 14 | 22 | Arrival | The Lucky Losers | Momojo |
| ▲ | 15 | 32 | Have Mercy! | Sean McDonald | Little Village |
| ▲ | 16 | 20 | The Blues is in the House | Robbin Kapsalis | Blues House |
| ▲ | 17 | 21 | Live in Clarksdale | Christopher Wyze & The Tellers | Big Radio |
| ▼ | 18 | 11 | I'm Just Johnnie | Johnnie Johnson | Missouri Morning |
| ▼ | 19 | 5 | Hammer & Chisel | Altered Five Blues Band | Blind Pig |
| ▲ | 20 | 25 | Blood Brothers: Help Yourself | Mike Zito & Albert Castiglia | Gulf Coast |
| ▲ | 21 | 88 | Downtown Ways | Citizen Jones | 7338611 Records DK |
| ▲ | 22 | 34 | Between Somewhere and Goodbye | Doug MacLeod | Reference |
| ▼ | 23 | 8 | Just a Little More Time | Greg Nagy | Self-Release |
| - | 24 | 24 | Bob Corritore & Friends: Doin' the Shout | Bob Corritore | VizzTone |
| ▲ | 25 | 37 | All My Love for You | Bobby Rush | Deep Rush |
| ▼ | 26 | 23 | Keep on Pushing | Kirk Fletcher | VizzTone |
| - | 27 | 27 | Right on Time | John Christopher Morgan | Self-Release |
| ▼ | 28 | 16 | Look out Highway | Charlie Musselwhite | Forty Below |
| ▼ | 29 | 28 | A Bluesman of Sorts | Reverend Freakchild | Treated & Released |
| ▲ | 30 | 54 | Homage to 4 Kings | Bryan Lee | EarRelevant |
| ▲ | 31 | 35 | Black & Gold | Joanne Shaw Taylor | Journeyman |
| ▲ | 32 | 57 | Light It Up | Long Tall Deb & Colin John | Vizztone |
| ▲ | 33 | 52 | One Mississippi | Eric Bibb | Repute |
| ▲ | 34 | 38 | Seattle to Greaseland | Joel Astley | Blue Heart |
| ▲ | 35 | 39 | Strange Things Happening | Kid Ramos | Nola Blue |
| ▲ | 36 | 84 | Not Holding Back | Kyle Rowland | Little Village |
| ▲ | 37 | 74 | Damn the Rent | The Dig 3 | Self-Release |
| ▲ | 38 | 69 | King Size | Big Shoes | Qualified |
| ▲ | 39 | 41 | The Hits Keep Coming | Rick Estrin & the Nightcats | Alligator |
| ▼ | 40 | 33 | It's My Time | Jimi 'Prime Time' Smith | New Folk |
| ▲ | 41 | 49 | Blame It on Eve | Shemekia Copeland | Alligator |
| ▲ | 42 | 72 | I Hear Thunder | Tab Benoit | Whiskey Bayou |
| ▼ | 43 | 29 | Heartbreak City | Larry McCray | The Blues Alive |
| ▲ | 44 | 82 | Breakthrough | Joe Bonamassa | J&R Adventures |
| ▲ | 45 | 77 | Our Time to Ride (feat. Annika Chambers & Paul Deslauriers) | Chambers Deslauriers | Forty Below |
| ▼ | 46 | 44 | Which Way Do We Go? | Brandon Santini | Momojo |
| ▼ | 47 | 46 | Shades of Trouble | Kyle Culkin | Tonebucker |
| ▼ | 48 | 47 | Everybody | Danny Liston | Blue House |
| ▼ | 49 | 48 | While You Were Gone | Diego Mongue Band | Self-Release |
| - | 50 | 50 | Back for Me | Janiva Magness | Blue Elan |
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