The Top 100 Americana Radio Airplay Albums of 2021


These reflect albums reported to the Americana Radio Airplay Albums Chart (powered by CDX) during the period of Jan. 11, 2021 through Dec. 14, 2021. Learn more here.
Year-End Position
Artist
Album
Chris Stapleton 
Starting Over 
Jade Bird 
Different Kinds of Light
Valerie June 
The Moon And Stars: Prescriptions For Dreamers
Yola 
Stand For Myself
5
Lake Street Dive 
Obviously
Hiss Golden Messenger 
Quietly Blowing It 
Lukas Nelson & Promise Of The Real 
A Few Stars Apart
8
Parker Millsap 
Be Here Instead
The Wallflowers
Exit Wounds
10 
Various Artists 
The Next Waltz - Volume 3
11 
Allison Russell 
Outside Child
12
Sturgill Simpson 
Cuttin' Grass Vol. 1 (The Butcher Shoppe Sessions)
13 
Kathleen Edwards 
Total Freedom
14
The Black Keys
Delta Kream
15
Charley Crockett 
Music City USA
16
Steve Earle & The Dukes 
J.T.
17 
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss 
Raise The Roof
18 
Jackson Browne 
Downhill From Everywhere
19
Sierra Ferrell 
Long Time Coming
20 
Rodney Crowell 
Triage
21 
Sturgill Simpson 
Cuttin' Grass Vol. 2 (The Cowboy Arms Sessions)
22 
Amythyst Kiah 
Wary + Strange
23 
The Flatlanders
Treasure Of Love
24 
Aaron Lee Tasjan 
Tasjan! Tasjan! Tasjan! 
25 
Paul Thorn 
Never Too Late To Call
26 
John Hiatt With The Jerry Douglas Band 
Leftover Feelings
27 
Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats 
The Future
28 
Son Volt 
Electro Melodier
29 
Brandi Carlile 
In These Silent Days
30 
The Lone Bellow
Half Moon Light (Deluxe Edition)
31 
Blackberry Smoke 
You Hear Georgia 
32 
Langhorne Slim 
Strawberry Mansion
33
Christone Kingfish Ingram 
662
34 
Dawes 
Good Luck With Whatever 
35 
Los Lobos 
Native Sons 
36 
James McMurtry 
The Horses and the Hounds
37 
Dave Alvin 
From An Old Guitar: Rare And Unreleased Recordings 
38 
Steep Canyon Rangers 
Arm In Arm
39 
Morgan Wade 
Reckless
40 
The Record Company
Play Loud
41 
Shannon McNally 
The Waylon Sessions
42 
Hayes Carll 
You Get It All
43 
The War And Treaty
Hearts Town
44 
Sarah Jarosz 
World On The Ground
45 
Maggie Rose 
Have A Seat
46
The Shootouts
Bullseye
47
Todd Snider 
First Agnostic Church Of Hope And Wonder
48
Cordovas 
Destiny Hotel
49
Billy Strings  
Renewal
50
Jim Lauderdale 
Hope
51
Great Peacock 
Forever Worse Better
52
The Avett Brothers
The Third Gleam
53
Various Artists 
Johnny Cash: Forever Words (Expanded Edition)
54
Southern Culture On The Skids 
At Home With Southern Culture On The Skids
55
Brent Cobb 
Keep 'Em On They Toes
56
Charley Crockett 
10 For Slim: Charley Crockett Sings James Hand
57
Oliver Wood 
Always Smilin'
58
Heartless Bastards 
A Beautiful Life
59
Margo Price 
That's How Rumors Get Started
60
Watchhouse 
Watchhouse
61
Sturgill Simpson 
The Ballad Of Dood & Juanita
62
Various Artists 
Broken Hearts And Dirty Windows: Songs of John Prine, Vol. 2
63
Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit 
Reunions
64
Rhiannon Giddens (With Francesco Turrisi) 
They're Calling Me Home 
65
Lucero 
When You Found Me
66
The Band Of Heathens
Stranger
67
Strand Of Oaks 
In Heaven
68
Barry Gibb 
Greenfields: The Gibb Brothers Songbook, Vol. 1
69
Loretta Lynn 
Still Woman Enough
70
Counting Crows 
Butter Miracle, Suite One
71
Jimbo Mathus & Andrew Bird 
These 13
72
Jack Ingram, Miranda Lambert, Jon Randall  
The Marfa Tapes
73
Robert Finley 
Sharecropper's Son
74
Zach Bryan 
Quiet, Heavy Dreams EP
75
Asleep At The Wheel 
Half A Hundred Years
76
Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit 
Georgia Blue
77
Neal Francis 
In Plain Sight
78
Waylon Payne 
Blue Eyes, The Harlot, The Queer, The Pusher & Me
79
The Brother Brothers
Calla Lily
80
Mipso 
Mipso
81 
Charlie Marie 
Ramble On
82
Mando Saenz 
All My Shame
83
Joachim Cooder 
Over That Road I'm Bound To Go
84
Tony Joe White 
Smoke from the Chimney
85
Melissa Carper 
Daddy's Country Gold
86
Carolina Story 
Dandelion
87
Mike And The Moonpies 
One To Grow On
88
Tim Easton 
You Don't Really Know Me
89
A.J. Croce 
By Request
90
Jason Eady 
To The Passage Of Time
91
Gary Louris 
Jump For Joy
92
Brigitte Demeyer 
Seeker
93
Strung Like A Horse 
WHOA!
94
Curtis Salgado 
Damage Control
95
Pokey Lafarge 
In The Blossom Of Their Shade
96
Ray Wylie Hubbard 
Co-Starring
97
Ida Mae 
Click Click Domino
98
Leftover Salmon 
Brand New Good Old Days
99
The Jayhawks
XOXO
100
Vincent Neil Emerson 
Vincent Neil Emerson