Top Rock Album Chart for the Year of 2024

The Roots Music Report's
Top Rock Album Chart
for the Year of 2024

	Album Title	Band/Artist Name	Label	Sub Genre
1	Olustee	JJ Grey & Mofro	Alligator	Roots Rock
2	Ohio Players	The Black Keys	Nonesuch	Alternative Rock
3	Tigers Blood	Waxahatchee	Anti	Alternative Rock
4	South of Here	Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats	Stax	Roots Rock
5	A LA SALA	Khruangbin	Dead Oceans	Alternative Rock
6	As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again	The Decemberists	YABB	Alternative Rock
7	Trail of Flowers	Sierra Ferrell	Rounder	Roots Rock
8	Bright Future	Adrianne Lenker	4AD	Alternative Rock
9	Can We Please Have Fun	Kings of Leon	LoveTap	Alternative Rock
10	News of the Universe	La Luz	Sub Pop	Alternative Rock
11	Memoir of a Sparklemuffin	Suki Waterhouse	Sub Pop	Alternative Rock
12	JPEG RAW	Gary Clark Jr.	Warner	Roots Rock
13	Hackney Diamonds	The Rolling Stones	Polydor	Roots Rock
14	Rhumba Country	Pokey LaFarge	New West	Soft Rock
15	Manning Fireworks	MJ Lenderman	Anti	Alternative Rock
16	Resurrection	Los Lonely Boys	BMG	Roots Rock
17	Snapshots from the Second Floor	The B. Christopher Band	Guitar One	Surf
18	One of a Kind	The Heavy Heavy	ATO	Alternative Rock
19	Romance	Fontaines D.C.	Partisan	Alternative Rock
20	Nite Owls	JD McPherson	New West	Roots Rock
21	Good Together	Lake Street Dive	Concord	Alternative Rock
22	Be Right Here	Blackberry Smoke	3 Legged	Roots Rock
23	Charm	Clairo	Self-Release	Alternative Rock
24	Unreal Unearth	Hozier	Columbia	Alternative Rock
25	Cartwheel	Hotline TNT	Third Man	Alternative Rock
26	Peacemaker	Vera Sola	City Slang	Alternative Rock
27	Stellar Evolution	Aaron Lee Tasjan	Blue Elan	Roots Rock
28	Frankie V and the Lonely Club	Frankie V and the Lonely Club	Self-Release	Roots Rock
29	Roots of the Rev. (Volume One)	The Reverend Horton Heat	Fun-Guy	Rock & Roll
30	Ship to Shore	Richard Thompson	New West	Roots Rock
31	What Now	Brittany Howard	Island	Alternative Rock
32	Mood Swings	Marcus King	Republic	Roots Rock
33	Only God Was Above Us	Vampire Weekend	Columbia	Alternative Rock
34	Parallel Realms	STRFKR	Polyvinyl	Alternative Rock
35	Weathervanes	Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit	Southeastern	Roots Rock
36	Happiness Bastards	The Black Crowes	Silver Arrow	Pop Rock
37	Woodland	Gillian Welch and David Rawlings	Acony	Roots Rock
38	Light Verse	Iron & Wine	Sub Pop	Alternative Rock
39	Revelations	Sarah Shook & the Disarmers	Thirty Tigers	Roots Rock
40	Hole in My Head	Laura Jane Grace	Polyvinyl	Alternative Rock
41	Homemade	Cody Dickinson	Strong Place	Roots Rock
42	Moment of Truth	The Red Clay Strays	Thirty Tigers	Roots Rock
43	All Born Screaming	St. Vincent	Loma Vista	Alternative Rock
44	Back to Moon Beach	Kurt Vile	Verve	Alternative Rock
45	Songs of a Lost World	The Cure	Polydor	Alternative Rock
46	Echo the Diamond	Margaret Glaspy	ATO	Alternative Rock
47	Big Top	Frankie V and the Lonely Club	VSM	Roots Rock
48	Festival Eyes	Lillie Mae	s\|\|c	Roots Rock
49	Lucky for You	Bully	Sub Pop	Alternative Rock
50	Alone at Sea	Jeff Plankenhorn	Blue Corn	Roots Rock
51	Critterland	Willi Carlisle	Signature Sounds	Roots Rock
52	The Devil Always Collects	Brian Setzer	Surfdog	Rockabilly
53	X's	Cigarettes After Sex	Spanish Prayers	Alternative Rock
54	Dr. Dog	Dr. Dog	We Buy Gold	Alternative Rock
55	Cutouts	The Smile	Self Help	Alternative Rock
56	No Name	Jack White	Third Man	Alternative Rock
57	Pour It out into the Night	The Revivalists	Concord	Roots Rock
58	The Land is Inhospitable and So Are We	Mitski	Dead Oceans	Alternative Rock
59	Five Dice, All Threes	Bright Eyes	Dead Oceans	Alternative Rock
60	Dotr	LP Giobbi	Counter	Alternative Rock
61	Nobody Owns You	Joan Osborne	Womanly Hips	Roots Rock
62	100's of 1000's, Millions of Billions	Blitzen Trapper	Yep Roc	Roots Rock
63	Evergreen	Soccer Mommy	Loma Vista	Alternative Rock
64	More Love	FreeWorld	Swirldisc	Roots Rock
65	Spiel	Office Dog	New West	Alternative Rock
66	What Do We Do Now	J Mascis	Sub Pop	Alternative Rock
67	The 4th Album	The Record Company	Round Hill	Alternative Rock
68	Strange Burden	Font	Acrophase	Alternative Rock
69	Lagos Paris London (feat. Tony Allen)	Yannis & The Yaw	Transgressive	Alternative Rock
70	Crooked Boy	Ringo Starr	UMe	Roots Rock
71	Halo	Bakar	Black Butter	Alternative Rock
72	Jenny from Thebes	The Mountain Goats	Merge	Alternative Rock
73	Wild God	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	Play It Again Sam	Alternative Rock
74	Still + Bright	Amythyst Kiah	Rounder	Roots Rock
75	Stories from a Rock and Roll Heart	Lucinda Williams	Highway 20	Roots Rock
76	Wild Birds Warble	Jubal Lee Young	7 Bridges Ent.	Roots Rock
77	Heart is the Hero	The Wood Brothers	Honey Jar	Roots Rock
78	Strangers No More, Vol. 2	Drew Holcomb & The Neighbors	Tone Tree	Roots Rock
79	Lucifer on the Sofa	Spoon	Matador	Alternative Rock
80	Mantras	Katie Pruitt	Rounder	Roots Rock
81	Into the Blue	Aaron Frazer	Dead Oceans	Alternative Rock
82	Viva Hinds	Hinds	Lucky Number	Alternative Rock
83	Where We've Been, Where We Go from Here	Friko	ATO	Alternative Rock
84	Letter to Self	Sprints	City Slang	Alternative Rock
85	The Universal Fire	Jeffrey Foucault	Fluff and Gravy	Roots Rock
86	Glasgow Eyes	The Jesus And Mary Chain	Fuzz Club	Alternative Rock
87	Untame the Tiger	Mary Timony	Merge	Alternative Rock
88	Flight B741	King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard	Self-Release	Alternative Rock
89	Everybody Needs a Hero	Orla Gartland	New Friends	Alternative Rock
90	The Last Perfect Performance	Paul Bibbins	Self-Release	Classic Rock
91	Boeckner!	Boeckner	Sub Pop	Alternative Rock
92	Vagabonds, Virgins & Misfits	Mike Campbell & Dirty Knobs	BMG	Roots Rock
93	Rough Time	Derrick Dove & the Peacekeepers	Self-Release	Roots Rock
94	Say Less	Raul Malo	Mono Mundo	Soft Rock
95	SHINBANGUMI	Ginger Root	Ghostly International	Pop Rock
96	TexiCali (feat. the Guilty Ones)	Dave Alvin & Jimmie Dale Gilmore	Yep Roc	Roots Rock
97	Frog in Boiling Water	DIIV	Fantasy	Alternative Rock
98	Coyote	Dylan LeBlanc	ATO	Roots Rock
99	Times Have Changed	Charlie Mars	Foxgate	Roots Rock
100	Sweet Critters	Caleb Caudle	Missing Piece	Roots Rock
101	Down There!	Folly Group	So Young	Alternative Rock
102	Something is Working Up Above My Head	Shovels & Rope	Dualtone	Alternative Rock
103	Ten Small Fractures	Human Drama	Bob Frank Ent	Alternative Rock
104	TANGK	IDLES	Partisan	Alternative Rock
105	Eyeball	Tom Mansi & The Icebreakers	Lunaria	Alternative Rock
106	EELS	Being Dead	Bayonet	Alternative Rock
107	Revelator	Phosphorescent	Verve	Alternative Rock
108	One of These Days	Cris Jacobs	Soundly	Roots Rock
109	Starlight Tour	Rod Picott	Welding Rod	Roots Rock
110	This Far South	Tommy Prine	Nameless Knight	Alternative Rock
111	Up on Gravity Hill	Metz	Sub Pop	Alternative Rock
112	Daniel	Real Estate	Domino	Alternative Rock
113	Dark Matter	Pearl Jam	Monkeywrench	Alternative Rock
114	Just Like That...	Bonnie Raitt	Redwing	Roots Rock
115	Live from the Ryman, Vol. 2	Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit	Southeastern	Roots Rock
116	Picasso's Villa	Anders Osborne	Missing Piece	Roots Rock
117	Lighthouse	Francis of Delirium	Dalliance	Alternative Rock
118	Changes All the Time	James Bay	Mercury	Alternative Rock
119	Change is Now: a Tribute to the Byrds	Christian Parker	Sub Cat	Roots Rock
120	On the Blind Side	Ray Bonneville	Self-Release	Roots Rock
121	Late Night Polaroids	Bruce Hughes	Broke Dick	Pop Rock
122	Final Summer	Cloud Nothings	Pure Noise	Alternative Rock
123	Searching for Strawberries: the Story of Jongo Bongo	Rare Americans	Crooked City	Alternative Rock
124	Starcatcher	Greta Van Fleet	Lava	Classic Rock
125	Hold Fast	Stuart Hamm	Guitar One	Progressive Rock
126	I Got Heaven	Mannequin Pussy	Epitaph	Alternative Rock
127	Ill Times	GUM & Ambrose Kenny-Smith	p(doom)	Alternative Rock
128	Where’s My Utopia?	Yard Act	Island	Alternative Rock
129	Simple Things	The Band of Heathens	BoH	Roots Rock
130	Movie of the Week	Shakey Graves	Dualtone	Alternative Rock
131	Trash and Glamour	Bad Mary	Dead Pill	Punk Rock
132	Souvenir	Omni	Sub Pop	Alternative Rock
133	Mimi	Corridor	Sub Pop	Alternative Rock
134	EELS TIME!	Eels	Play It Again Sam	Alternative Rock
135	Bloodline Maintenance	Ben Harper	Chrysali	Roots Rock
136	Between Time	Steve Louw	Self-Release	Roots Rock
137	Desert Pavement	Ismay	Self-Release	Alternative Rock
138	Strut of Kings	Guided By Voices	GBV Inc	Alternative Rock
139	My Method Actor	Nilufer Yanya	Ninja Tune	Alternative Rock
140	The Way of the World	T Bear	Quarto Valley	Roots Rock
141	I Ain’t Ever Growing Up Vol. II	Tom Ciurczak	Ludlow FTC	Roots Rock
142	What's Wrong with New York?	The Dare	UMG	Alternative Rock
143	Paradise Breakdown	Randall Bramblett	Strolling Bones	Roots Rock
144	Horror	Bartees Strange	4AD	Alternative Rock
145	Fronzoli	Psychedelic Porn Crumpets	What Reality?	Psychedelic
146	Shopping Cart	Carter Brady	Self-Release	Alternative Rock
147	Half Divorced	Pissed Jeans	Sub Pop	Alternative Rock
148	The Collective	Kim Gordon	Matador	Alternative Rock
149	The Moon is in the Wrong Place	Shannon & The Clams	Easy Eye Sound	Alternative Rock
150	Disenchantment at a Distance	Paul Bibbins	Self-Release	Classic Rock
151	Fat Cat Silhouette	Oliver Wood	Honey Jar	Roots Rock
152	Precious Dream	Hot Garbage	Mothland	Psychedelic
153	Get Behind the Wheel	Eilen Jewell	Signature Sounds	Roots Rock
154	Everything is Alive	Slowdive	Dead Oceans	Alternative Rock
155	Live at the Shamrock Lounge	Dustin Arbuckle & the Damnations	Self-Release	Roots Rock
156	Black and Gold	Thundermother	AFM	Hard Rock
157	Yard	Slow Pulp	Anti	Alternative Rock
158	Patterns in Repeat	Laura Marling	Chrysalis	Alternative Rock
159	Bando Stone & the New World	Childish Gambino	RCA	Pop Rock
160	All My Friends	Aoife O'Donovan	Yep Roc	Roots Rock
161	The Beginning of the End	The Pleasures	MGM	Roots Rock
162	Old Cane Back Rocker	Darrell Scott	Soundly	Roots Rock
163	Wall of Eyes	The Smile	XL Recordings	Alternative Rock
164	Head of Pomegranate	Flamingods	The Liquid Label	Alternative Rock
165	Wet Leg	Wet Leg	Domino	Alternative Rock
166	Zuma 85	Allah-Las	Innovative Leisure	Alternative Rock
167	Footprints	John Michael Hersey	Self-Release	Roots Rock
168	Underwater over There	Unwed Sailor	Current Taste	Alternative Rock
169	Expensive Air	Oneida	Joyful Noise	Alternative Rock
170	Lapse	Idaho	Arts & Crafts	Alternative Rock
171	1	bby	Glassnote	Alternative Rock
172	Million Voices Whisper	Warren Haynes	Fantasy	Roots Rock
173	God Games	The Kills	Domino	Alternative Rock
174	Poetry	Dehd	Fat Possum	Alternative Rock
175	Bite Down	Rosali	Merge	Alternative Rock
176	Little Songs	Colter Wall	Black Hole	Roots Rock
177	Little Rope (Deluxe)	Sleater-Kinney	Loma Vista	Alternative Rock
178	Howdies All Around	The Howdies	Normalltown	Roots Rock
179	What Occurs	Islands	Elf	Alternative Rock
180	Tracksuit Formal	Aris Paul Band	Red Caiman Media	Roots Rock
181	The Land That Time Forgot	Chuck Prophet	Yep Roc	Roots Rock
182	Stung!	Pond	Spinning Top	Psychedelic
183	Juliana Hatfield Sings ELO	Juliana Hatfield	American Laundromat	Pop Rock
184	Interplay	Ride	Wichita	Alternative Rock
185	Viva Ne'er-Do-Wells	Big State	Big Beard	Roots Rock
186	Good Time	DAIISTAR	Fuzz Club	Alternative Rock
187	The Future is Our Way out	Brigitte Calls Me Baby	ATO	Alternative Rock
188	Evolve	Phish	UMG	Rock
189	Sunshine	The Black Moods	STEELHORSE	Alternative Rock
190	1-800 FANTASY	Blk Odyssy	EARTHCHILD	Alternative Rock
191	Melt into You	Gurf Morlix	Crankbait Music	Roots Rock
192	Established 1972	The Nighthawks	VizzTone	Roots Rock
193	No Gods No Masters	Garbage	Infectious	Alternative Rock
194	The Breaks	Suuns	Joyful Noise	Alternative Rock
195	This House is Made of Corners	Brigitte Calls Me Baby	ATO	Alternative Rock
196	New American Language (Remastered)	Dan Bern	Grand Phony	Roots Rock
197	Hits and Misses	Eli "Paperboy" Reed	Yep Roc	Roots Rock
198	Mother	The Wandering Hearts	Chrysalis	Roots Rock
199	SORCS 80	Thee Oh Sees	Castle Face	Alternative Rock
200	Luck and Strange	David Gilmour	Sony	Progressive Rock

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The Roots Music Report's Top Rock Album Chart for the Year of 2024

The Roots Music Report's
Top Rock Album Chart
for the Year of 2024