The Top Americana Radio Airplay Albums of 2018

Year-End Position Artist Album
1 Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats Tearing at the Seams
2 Brandi Carlile By the Way, I Forgive You
3 John Prine The Tree of Forgiveness
4 The Wood Brothers One Drop of Truth
5 The Record Company All Of This Life
6 Kacey Musgraves Golden Hour
7 Margo Price All American Made
8 Lukas Nelson & Promise Of The Real Lukas Nelson & Promise Of The Real
9 Lake Street Dive Free Yourself Up
10 Chris Stapleton From A Room: Volume 2
11 Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit The Nashville Sound
12 JD McPherson Undivided Heart and Soul
13 Willie Nelson Last Man Standing
14 Old Crow Medicine Show Volunteer
15 I'm With Her See You Around
16 Dave Alvin and Jimmie Dale Gilmore Downey to Lubbock
17 First Aid Kit Ruins
18 Anderson East Encore
19 Sam Morrow Concerte and Mud
20 Parker Millsap Other Arrangements
21 Various Artists Johnny Cash: Forever Words
22 Ben Harper and Charlie Musselwhite No Mercy In This Land
23 Blackberry Smoke Find a Light
24 Trampled By Turtles Life is Good on the Open Road
25 The War and Treaty Healing Tide
26 Tommy Emmanuel Accomplice One
27 Kelly Willis Back Being Blue
28 Boz Scaggs Out Of The Blues
29 Elvis Costello & The Imposters Look Now
30 Calexico The Thread That Keeps Us
31 Ashley Monroe Sparrow
32 Turnpike Troubadours A Long Way From Your Heart
33 Brent Cobb Providence Canyon
34 Lori McKenna The Tree
35 Various Artists Strange Angels: In Flight with Elmore James
36 Ry Cooder The Prodigal Son
37 Mavis Staples If All I Was Was Black
38 Paul Thorn Don't Let the Devil Ride
39 Leftover Salmon Show Me Something Higher
40 Josh Ritter Gathering
41 The Devil Makes Three Chains Are Broken
42 American Aquarium Things Change
43 Courtney Marie Andrews May Your Kindness Remain
44 Rayland Baxter Wide Awake
45 Kim Richey Edgeland
46 Amanda Shires To the Sunset
47 John Hiatt The Eclipse Sessions
48 Lee Ann Womack The Lonely, The Lonesome & The Gone
49 Joshua Hedley Mr. Jukebox
50 Steep Canyon Rangers Out in the Open
51 Jim Lauderdale Time Flies
52 Shemekia Copeland America's Child
53 Charley Crockett Lonesome as a Shadow
54 Paul Cauthen Have Mercy EP
55 Glen Hansard Between Two Shores
56 Hiss Golden Messenger Hallelujah Anyhow
57 The Milk Carton Kids All the Things That I Did and All the Things That I Didn't Do
58 Langhorne Slim Lost at Last, Vol. 1
59 Tyler Childers Purgatory
60 Cody Jinks Lifers
61 The Jayhawks Back Roads and Abandoned Motels
62 Motel Mirrors In the Meantime
63 Mike Farris Silver & Stone
64 Alejandro Escovedo The Crossing
65 Israel Nash Lifted
66 Robert Plant Carry Fire
67 Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings Soul of a Woman
68 Various Artists King of the Road: A Tribute to Roger Miller
69 Richard Thompson 13 Rivers
70 Various Artists Muscle Shoals: Small Town, Big Sound
71 Sam Lewis Loversity
72 Nicki Bluhm To Rise You Gotta Fall
73 Dan Auerbach Waiting on a Song
74 Jackie Greene The Modern Lives Vol. 2
75 Samantha Fish Belle of the West
76 Aaron Lee Tasjan Karma for Cheap
77 The Revivalists Take Good Care
78 Ruston Kelly Dying Star
79 The Black Lillies Stranger to Me
80 Mary Gauthier Rifles & Rosary Beads
81 David Rawlings Poor David's Almanack
82 The Marcus King Band Carolina Confessions
83 The Band of Heathens A Message from the People Revisited
84 Jason Boland & The Stragglers Hard Times Are Relative
85 Birds of Chicago Love in Wartime
86 The Lone Bellow Walk into a Storm
87 Chris Smither Call Me Lucky
88 Wade Bowen Solid Ground
89 Gretchen Peters Dancing With The Beast
90 Lindi Ortega Liberty
91 Darlingside Extralife
92 Van William Countries
93 Mark Knopfler Down The Road Wherever
94 Chris Hillman Bidin' My Time
95 The Secret Sisters You Don't Own Me Anymore
96 Folk Soul Revival
Folk Soul Revival
97 Nick Lowe Tokyo Bay
98 Mike and the Moonpies Steak Night at the Prairie Rose
99 Janiva Magness Love is an Army
100 The Mammals Sunshiner