The Roots Music Report's
Top 50 Contemporary Folk Album Chart
for the Week of Aug 30, 2025
| TW | LW | Album Title | Band/Artist Name | Label | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ▲ | 1 | 2 | Crown of Roses | Patty Griffin | Thirty Tigers |
| ▼ | 2 | 1 | Shelby Means | Shelby Means | Self-Release |
| ▲ | 3 | 4 | Made to Wander | The Crowe Boys | EMI |
| ▼ | 4 | 3 | My One and Only | Nathan McEuen | Self-Release |
| - | 5 | 5 | Lost Dog | Olive Klug | Signature Sounds |
| ▲ | 6 | 7 | Delta Traces | Billy Jeter | House on Fire |
| ▲ | 7 | 9 | Hysteria | Billy Jeter | Shine Eye |
| - | 8 | 8 | So Many Wows | Lucie Blue Tremblay | Self-Release |
| ▲ | 9 | 10 | Flesh and Bone | Cynthia Marchant | Self-Release |
| ▲ | 10 | 11 | Beautiful Thing | Peach & Quiet | Self-Release |
| ▲ | 11 | 12 | Wilderness Within You | Parker Millsap | Okrahoma |
| ▲ | 12 | 13 | Sticks and Stones | Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real | 6 Ace |
| ▲ | 13 | 30 | A Teacher, a Preacher, and a Bad Farmer | Ernie Palmer | Self-Release |
| ▲ | 14 | 15 | You Never Can Tell | Diane Hubka & The Sun Canyon Band | Self-Release |
| ▲ | 15 | 52 | Hear My Call | Cristina Vane | Blue Tip |
| - | 16 | 16 | 1988 | Lori McKenna | Thirty Tigers |
| - | 17 | 17 | Worrying Boy | Chris Rosser | Self-Release |
| - | 18 | 18 | Time out #3 | The Accidentals | Self-Release |
| - | 19 | 19 | Ghost Town | Nate Currin | Archaic Cannon |
| - | 20 | 20 | I Only See the Moon | The Milk Carton Kids | Far Cry |
| ▲ | 21 | 23 | Dark Ages | Eliza Gilkyson | Realiza |
| ▲ | 22 | 26 | Love Unfettered | Marie-Rose | Self-Release |
| ▲ | 23 | 45 | Armageddon in a Summer Dress | Sunny War | New West |
| ▲ | 24 | 32 | Redwood Frame | Stephen Moore Project | Self-Release |
| ▲ | 25 | 35 | Plus One | The War and Treaty | Mercury Nashville |
| ▼ | 26 | 22 | What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow | Rhiannon Giddens & Justin Robinson | Nonesuch |
| ▼ | 27 | 6 | DAGGOMIT! | Max Wareham | Self-Release |
| ▼ | 28 | 24 | Field of Stars | John McCutcheon | Appalseed |
| ▲ | 29 | 47 | Anything at All | Denison Witmer | Asthmatic Kitty |
| ▲ | 30 | 37 | It Matters | C. Daniel Boling | Perfectly Stable |
| ▲ | 31 | 42 | Songs Worth Saving | Suzie Brown | Mule Kick |
| ▼ | 32 | 31 | The Wind Will Change Again | The Twangtown Paramours | Inside Edge |
| ▲ | 33 | 53 | Exploding Star | Heather Maloney | Signature Sounds |
| ▲ | 34 | 54 | As the Chaos Unfolds | Rhona Macfarlane | Self-Release |
| ▲ | 35 | 39 | Born into a Blizzard | Jefferson Berry & the UAC | Urban Acoustic |
| ▲ | 36 | 48 | Echolalia | Echolalia | Full Time Hobby |
| ▲ | 37 | 40 | If the Sky Fell | Michael Henchman | Self-Release |
| ▼ | 38 | 21 | Reclamation | Crys Matthews | Self-Release |
| ▲ | 39 | 46 | After Tale | Eva Rose King | Rose King |
| ▼ | 40 | 25 | Middle | Jesse Welles | Self-Release |
| ▲ | 41 | - | American Recordings | Truman Sinclair | R&R |
| ▲ | 42 | 55 | Run to the Center | Cornelia Murr | 22TWENTY |
| ▼ | 43 | 36 | Maybe New Mexico | Helene Cronin | Self-Release |
| ▼ | 44 | 41 | Volume 4 | Kieran Kane & Rayna Gellert | Dead Reckoning |
| ▲ | 45 | 50 | Vignettes | Steve and Kristi Nebel | Ice Bird |
| ▲ | 46 | 51 | Cracks | The Lowtimers | Alabama Sound Company |
| ▼ | 47 | 43 | Looking for the Thread | Mary Chapin Carpenter | Lambent Light |
| ▼ | 48 | 38 | Beware Wolves Volume 9 | Beware Wolves | Aqualamb |
| ▼ | 49 | 27 | Winter Grace | Shane Pendergast | Corran Ban |
| ▼ | 50 | 33 | Letters | The National Forest | Tiny House |
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