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LW | TW | Artist / Song Title / Label | TW | LW |
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2 | 1 | NATHANIEL RATELIFF & THE NIGHT SWEATS / Heartless / Stax/Fantasy Records/Concord | 520 | 465 |
1 | 2 | KACEY MUSGRAVES / Cardinal / Interscope/MCA Nashville | 450 | 477 |
7 | 3 | CHARLEY CROCKETT / Solitary Road / Son of Davy / Thirty Tigers | 417 | 363 |
4 | 4 | OLD 97'S / Where The Road Goes / ATO Records | 397 | 405 |
5 | 5 | THE DECEMBERISTS / Burial Ground / YABBA Records/Thirty Tigers | 389 | 383 |
3 | 6 | LAKE STREET DIVE / Good Together / Fantasy Records/Concord | 381 | 412 |
6 | 7 | THE AVETT BROTHERS / Love Of A Girl / Ramseur/American/Thirty Tigers | 364 | 379 |
10 | 8 | WAXAHATCHEE (FEATURING MJ LENDERMAN) / Right Back To It / Anti- | 355 | 328 |
8 | 9 | SECRET SISTERS, THE (FEATURING RAY LAMONTAGNE) / All The Ways / New West Records | 346 | 363 |
12 | 10 | SIERRA FERRELL / American Dreaming / Rounder Records / Concord | 328 | 312 |
11 | 11 | IRON & WINE (FEATURING FIONA APPLE) / All In Good Time / Sub Pop Records | 326 | 319 |
9 | 12 | WAXAHATCHEE / Bored / Anti- | 319 | 359 |
13 | 13 | MARCUS KING / Delilah / Republic Records | 289 | 252 |
22 | 14 | MAVERICKS, THE (FEATURING NICOLE ATKINS) / Live Close By (Visit Often) / Mono Mundo / Thirty Tigers | 256 | 190 |
15 | 15 | CHARLIE PARR / Boombox / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings | 239 | 223 |
19 | 16 | SHANE SMITH & THE SAINTS / It's Been A While / Geronimo West Records/Thirty Tigers | 232 | 202 |
14 | 17 | CHARLEY CROCKETT / $10 Cowboy / Son of Davy / Thirty Tigers | 225 | 232 |
25 | 18 | CHRIS STAPLETON / I Should Have Known It / Big Machine Label Group | 220 | 180 |
17 | 19 | THE RED CLAY STRAYS / Wondering Why / HBYCO Records/Thirty Tigers | 218 | 217 |
28 | 20 | MAGGIE ROSE / Fake Flowers / Big Loud Records | 208 | 176 |
16 | 21 | POKEY LAFARGE / Sister Andre / New West Records | 196 | 222 |
20 | 22 | MARK KNOPFLER / Ahead Of The Game / British Grove Studios/EMI/Blue Note | 195 | 198 |
32 | 23 | AMOS LEE / Hold On Tight / Hoagiemouth Records/Thirty Tigers | 189 | 156 |
27 | 24 | BLACKBERRY SMOKE / Hammer And The Nail / 3 Legged Records/Thirty Tigers | 182 | 177 |
23 | 25 | JOHN MORELAND / Ain't Much I Can Do About It / Old Omens/Thirty Tigers | 180 | 190 |
29 | 26 | JOHNNY CASH / Well Alright / Mercury Nashville/UMe | 177 | 165 |
33 | 27 | LARRY CAMPBELL & TERESA WILLIAMS / The Way You Make Me Feel / Royal Potato Family | 172 | 151 |
30 | 28 | EMILY NENNI / Get To Know Ya / New West Records | 171 | 159 |
31 | 29 | HAYES CARLL & THE BAND OF HEATHENS / Nobody Dies From Weed / BOH Records | 169 | 157 |
36 | 30 | KAITLIN BUTTS / Hunt You Down / Soundly Music | 169 | 144 |
37 | 31 | AMERICAN AQUARIUM / Crier / Losing Side Records/Thirty Tigers | 166 | 137 |
50 | 32 | THE BLACK CROWES / Wilted Rose / Silver Arrow/Red Light | 164 | 104 |
24 | 33 | MIPSO / Carolina Rolling By / ONErpm | 160 | 183 |
21 | 34 | THE HIGH HAWKS / Somewhere South / LoHi Records | 159 | 192 |
26 | 35 | SARAH SHOOK & THE DISARMERS / Revelations / Abeyance Records/Thirty Tigers | 155 | 177 |
42 | 36 | CHRIS SMITHER / Time To Move On / Signature Sounds | 144 | 129 |
34 | 37 | SILVERADA / Anywhere But Here / Prairie Rose Records | 144 | 150 |
35 | 38 | DANIEL DONATO / Dance In The Desert / Retrace Music/Red Light Management | 142 | 144 |
38 | 39 | CODY JINKS / Change the Game / Late August Records | 138 | 135 |
39 | 40 | KELSEY WALDON (FEATURING S.G. GOODMAN) / Hello Stranger / Oh Boy / Thirty Tigers | 137 | 134 |
Debut | 41 | KATIE PRUITT / All My Friends / Rounder Records / Concord | 135 | 90 |
43 | 42 | CHARLES WESLEY GODWIN / Miner Imperfections / Big Loud Records | 128 | 129 |
45 | 43 | FLATLAND CAVALRY / Don't Have To Do This Like That / Flatland Cavalry Music | 118 | 116 |
46 | 44 | ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO / Bury Me / Yep Roc Records | 116 | 110 |
Debut | 45 | JADE BIRD / C'est La Vie / Glassnote Records | 115 | 71 |
44 | 46 | RHIANNON GIDDENS / The Ballad of Sally Anne / Oh Boy / Thirty Tigers | 115 | 125 |
Re-Entry | 47 | STEPHANIE LAMBRING / Two-Faced / Autonomous Records/Thirty Tigers | 115 | 95 |
41 | 48 | WILDER WOODS (FEATURING THE WAR & TREATY) / Be Yourself / Dualtone/MNRK | 115 | 130 |
47 | 49 | JESSE DAYTON / The Hard Way / Blue E'lan Records | 112 | 109 |
Re-Entry | 50 | KIMMI BITTER / My Grass Is Blue / Kimmi Bitter Music | 112 | 100 |
Most Added | Adds |
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STEVE EARLE / Yer So Bad / Big Machine Records | 14 |
GREENSKY BLUEGRASS / Born Again / Big Blue Zoo Records/Thirty Tigers | 9 |
JADE BIRD / C'est La Vie / Glassnote Records | 8 |
AMERICAN AQUARIUM / Crier / Losing Side Records/Thirty Tigers | 8 |
SUGARAY RAYFORD / Human Decency / Forty Below Records | 7 |
Bubblin' Up |
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SWAMP DOGG (FEATURING JENNY LEWIS) / Count The Days / Oh Boy Records/Thirty Tigers |
KYSHONA (FEATURING KEB' MO') / Carolina / Soundly Music |
STEVE EARLE / Yer So Bad / Big Machine Records |
HERMANOS GUTIERREZ / Low Sun / Easy Eye Sound/Concord |
WILL KIMBROUGH / Every Day / Soundly Music |
LW | TW | Artist / Album Title / Label | TW | LW |
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1 | 1 | WAXAHATCHEE / Tigers Blood / Anti- | 820 | 825 |
2 | 2 | CHARLEY CROCKETT / $10 Cowboy / Son of Davy/Thirty Tigers | 814 | 752 |
3 | 3 | KACEY MUSGRAVES / Deeper Well / Interscope/MCA Nashville | 639 | 697 |
4 | 4 | SIERRA FERRELL / Trail Of Flowers / Rounder Records / Concord | 635 | 625 |
5 | 5 | OLD 97'S / American Primitive / ATO Records | 566 | 533 |
6 | 6 | THE SECRET SISTERS / Mind, Man, Medicine / New West Records | 518 | 512 |
7 | 7 | IRON & WINE / Light Verse / Sub Pop Records | 480 | 461 |
8 | 8 | THE AVETT BROTHERS / The Avett Brothers / Ramseur/American/Thirty Tigers | 466 | 424 |
10 | 9 | THE BLACK CROWES / Happiness Bastards / Silver Arrow/Red Light | 386 | 350 |
9 | 10 | MARCUS KING / Mood Swings / Republic Records | 384 | 372 |
25 | 11 | THE MAVERICKS / Moon & Stars / Mono Mundo/Thirty Tigers | 367 | 239 |
12 | 12 | MARK KNOPFLER / One Deep River / British Grove Studios/EMI/Blue Note | 328 | 334 |
13 | 13 | CHARLIE PARR / Little Sun / Smithsonian Folkways | 324 | 306 |
18 | 14 | SHANE SMITH & THE SAINTS / Norther / Geronimo West Records/Thirty Tigers | 308 | 269 |
16 | 15 | LARRY CAMPBELL & TERESA WILLIAMS / All This Time / Royal Potato Family | 292 | 272 |
14 | 16 | BLACKBERRY SMOKE / Be Right Here / 3 Legged Records/Thirty Tigers | 284 | 291 |
11 | 17 | SARAH JAROSZ / Polaroid Lovers / Rounder Records/Concord | 282 | 341 |
23 | 18 | EMILY NENNI / Drive & Cry / New West Records | 275 | 254 |
15 | 19 | THE RED CLAY STRAYS / Moment of Truth / HBYCO Records/Thirty Tigers | 273 | 273 |
26 | 20 | MAGGIE ROSE / No One Gets Out Alive / Big Loud Records | 272 | 236 |
22 | 21 | CHRIS SMITHER / All About The Bones / Signature Sounds | 262 | 258 |
28 | 22 | KELSEY WALDON / There's Always a Song / Oh Boy/Thirty Tigers | 255 | 226 |
19 | 23 | SARAH SHOOK & THE DISARMERS / Revelations / Abeyance Records/Thirty Tigers | 244 | 267 |
21 | 24 | CODY JINKS / Change The Game / Late August Records | 240 | 260 |
27 | 25 | VARIOUS ARTISTS / My Black Country: The Songs of Alice Randall - / Oh Boy Records/Thirty Tigers | 233 | 235 |
17 | 26 | THE HIGH HAWKS / Mother Nature's Show / LoHi Records | 232 | 271 |
35 | 27 | CRIS JACOBS / One Of These Days / Soundly Music | 222 | 186 |
20 | 28 | JOHN CRAIGIE / Pagan Church / Zabriskie Point Records | 221 | 266 |
40 | 29 | JADE BIRD / Burn The Hard Drive EP / Glassnote Records | 220 | 171 |
33 | 30 | WYATT FLORES / Half Life / Island | 213 | 197 |
29 | 31 | JOHN MORELAND / Visitor / Old Omens/Thirty Tigers | 211 | 218 |
34 | 32 | CEDRIC BURNSIDE / Hill Country Love / Provogue/Mascot Label Group | 209 | 194 |
24 | 33 | CORB LUND / El Viejo / New West Records | 209 | 253 |
32 | 34 | KIMMI BITTER / Old School / Kimmi Bitter Music | 204 | 199 |
30 | 35 | WONDER WOMEN OF COUNTRY / Willis, Carper, Leigh / Bismeaux Records | 200 | 204 |
Re-Entry | 36 | KATIE PRUITT / Mantras / Rounder Records / Concord | 185 | 118 |
31 | 37 | MIPSO / Book of Fools / OneRPM | 180 | 202 |
39 | 38 | THE HAWTTHORNS / Zero Gravity / Red Parlor Records | 176 | 174 |
36 | 39 | VARIOUS ARTISTS / Live on Mountain Stage: Outlaws & Outliers / Oh Boy Records/Thirty Tigers | 170 | 180 |
38 | 40 | SAM MORROW / On The Ride Here / Copaco Records | 163 | 177 |
43 | 41 | ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO / Echo Dancing / Yep Roc Records | 161 | 153 |
42 | 42 | THE STEEL WHEELS / Sideways / Big Ring Records | 161 | 159 |
41 | 43 | JESSE DAYTON / The Hard Way Blues / Blue E'lan Records | 161 | 160 |
50 | 44 | KYSHONA / Legacy / Soundly Music | 160 | 131 |
46 | 45 | LIZZIE NO / Halfsies / Miss Freedomland/Thirty Tigers | 158 | 140 |
49 | 46 | BLITZEN TRAPPER / 100's of 1000's, Millions of Billions. / Yep Roc Records | 154 | 133 |
Debut | 47 | SHANNON & THE CLAMS / The Moon Is In The Wrong Place / Easy Eye Sound/Concord | 153 | 82 |
44 | 48 | JJ GREY & MOFRO / Olustee / Alligator Records | 152 | 147 |
45 | 49 | AOIFE O'DONOVAN / All My Friends / Yep Roc Records | 151 | 144 |
47 | 50 | ADEEM THE ARTIST / Anniversary / Four Quarters Records/Thirty Tigers | 139 | 138 |
Most Added | Adds |
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GREENSKY BLUEGRASS / The Iceland Sessions / Big Blue Zoo Records/Thirty Tigers | 10 |
SUGARAY RAYFORD / Human Decency / Forty Below Records | 7 |
KIM RICHEY / Every New Beginning / Yep Roc Records | 5 |
THE MAVERICKS / Moon & Stars / Mono Mundo/Thirty Tigers | 4 |
SHANNON & THE CLAMS / The Moon Is In The Wrong Place / Easy Eye Sound/Concord | 4 |
ANA EGGE / Sharing In The Spirit / StorySound Records | 4 |
KAIA KATER / Strange Medicine / Free Dirt Records | 4 |
Bubblin' Up |
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KIM RICHEY / Every New Beginning / Yep Roc Records |
WILL KIMBROUGH / For The Life Of Me / Soundly Music |
RICHARD THOMPSON / Ship To Shore / New West Records |
WADE BOWEN / Flyin / Bowen Sounds/Thirty Tigers |
WILLIE NELSON / The Border / Legacy Recordings/Sony Music |
There are two monitored Americana Airplay charts; a song-based Singles Chart and an Albums Chart. The software company, CDX TRACtion, monitors each radio station through the online stream of their signal to get their actual weekly spin counts for each album and each track. View reporting stations here. The monitored airplay charts will provide an accurate representation of all Americana albums and song tracks played by our radio reporters. All artist recordings will be fingerprinted into the CDX/Americana radio airplay database. The most expeditious way for albums and tracks to be fingerprinted is to engage CDX to handle the digital radio distribution – learn more here.
If you are an independent artist that is going to service your album to the Americana radio station reporting panel, your album will need to be “fingerprinted” in the CDX/Americana radio database. CDX TRACtion is your one-stop service for digital radio distribution and tracking services. CDX TRACtion only recognizes detections on songs that have been “fingerprinted.” The fastest, easiest and most effective way to get your albums to the radio stations and “fingerprinted” for the chart data-tracking system is with CDX TRACtion. This cost efficient method is the best way to service your music to radio without incurring postal costs for mailings. Please click here for details and pricing. Songs or albums serviced to Americana Radio through CDX digital distribution are “fingerprinted” automatically. The Americana Music Association® does not distribute music to stations.
If you have a direct question about radio development at the Americana Music Association, please send your email to Michele Rhoades at m.rhoades@americanamusic.org.
Can I purchase advertisements on the Americana Radio Airplay Charts?Yes! You can learn more about radio ad opportunities here. To inquire about ad space, please email Michele Rhoades at m.rhoades@americanamusic.org.
Please contact Joe Kelly (joe@cdxnashville.com) at CDX for tracking subscription information.
To become an Americana Radio Airplay reporter, please complete this form. You will need the following information:
-Radio station call letters
-City and state of the radio station
-Link to station’s broadcast stream
-Station’s broadcast radius
-How many hours of Americana music is broadcast each week and on which days (It is recommended that each station broadcast between 12-18 hours of Americana music per week)
-Copy of a current playlist
All Americana radio station reporters were initially sent an invitation from CDX inviting them to view the CDX TRACtion software system so that the monitored station reporters can log in, create an account, and begin using the tracking software as a programming tool.
Reporting stations are monitored through the online stream of their signal and must maintain a 90% uptime percentage weekly to avoid being automatically frozen for the week. If the radio station’s stream goes down for more than 10% during the seven (7) day reporting period, that station will be reported as frozen and the previous week’s detection data will be used for that station and be used in the chart calculations. If the station has a frozen report for three (3) consecutive weeks, the station may be removed from the reporting panel until the station’s stream is fully back up for a week’s time. Monitored stations should promptly inform the Americana Music Association or CDX at any time their streaming service provider or online stream address changes to minimize the monitoring disruption that such a change will cause.
Each Americana radio station reporter will be monitored over a seven (7) day period from Tuesday morning at 12:01 AM to the following Monday at 11:59 PM.
A newly fingerprinted album is allowed 20 weeks to debut on the Top 50 chart. If the album does not debut on the chart by its 20th week, it is moved to recurrent. Once an album debuts in the Top 50, it is guaranteed “current” status for at least 18 consecutive weeks. In the 18th week following its debut on the Top 50 (and every week thereafter), if the album has fallen out of the Top 50 it is moved to recurrent. If the album continues to chart in the Top 50 after 18 weeks, it is moved to recurrent once it experiences two consecutive weeks of spin and chart position loss and simultaneously fails to meet a required spin threshold. When an album goes recurrent, all of the tracks associated with that album also go recurrent with the exception of any active tracks on the Top 50 Americana Singles chart that do not meet the recurrent conditions for singles. Singles that remain current after an associated album goes recurrent will continue to be subject to the Top 50 Singles chart recurrent policy on an ongoing basis. There is no separate policy governing albums or singles in the Top 10. All actual detections for recurrent singles will still count towards the spins totals of a current album. In order for an album title to be eligible for the Americana Music Association’s album airplay chart, all tracks from the entire album must be sent in to be put in the database. If multiple singles are sent in, they will only be able to chart on the singles chart.
According to the Singles Chart policy and methodology, once a single enters the Top 50 it is protected until after 5 weeks of appearing in the Top 50, although not necessarily consecutive weeks (the single might appear 5 times over the course of 9 weeks). It is possible for a single to enter in and out of the Top 50 while it is gaining its legs, but starting on its 6th chart appearance the policy goes strictly performance based and any singles which then meet all of the following criteria will automatically go recurrent. Recurrent policy for a single occurs when current spins fail to meet a required spin threshold (65% of peak spins), there are two consecutive weeks of chart position decline and there are two consecutive weeks of spin decline.
In the event that an expanded or deluxe album with new tracks is released for a previously monitored album, the title of the original album in the CDX system will be updated to include an “expanded” or “deluxe” designation and the repertoire attached to the album will be “upgraded” to include any newly added recordings. The status of the album as a “current” or “recurrent” at the time of the upgrade shall remain unchanged. If the album status is “current,” all spins from both current and recurrent singles attached to the album, as well as spins from the newly added repertoire will all count towards the spin totals of the newly upgraded album. If an album is already recurrent, all of the album tracks that are already recurrent shall remain so and all of the newly added tracks will be eligible for the Singles Chart as currents (subject to the existing Singles Chart policies) with all spins from both current and recurrent singles counting towards the spin totals of the recurrent (but now upgraded) album. Upgrading albums in this way will allow the “deluxe” or “expanded” editions to inherit the original album’s release-to-date chart spins for recurrent chart and end-of-year chart reporting, rather than dividing the chart spins between two separate releases.
The decision to monitor airplay for compilations, live albums, or greatest hits packages for the Americana Radio Album Chart is left solely to the discretion of the Americana Music Association. As a rule, tracks submitted for monitoring should be new recordings or airplay focus tracks and not include any previously released music, including recordings with previous notoriety or chart successes and/or singles that have appeared on the Americana Radio charts since 2017. In the event that these types of album releases are accepted for inclusion on the Americana Radio Album chart, no more than 20 recordings that meet this criteria will be accepted for airplay monitoring.