The Roots Music Report's
Top United Kingdom Album Chart
for the Year of 2023
| Album Title | Band/Artist Name | Label | Sub Genre | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Heavy State Loving Blues | Mississippi MacDonald | Another Planet | Contemporary Blues |
| 2 | Live at Köniz Castle | Kyla Brox | Pigskin | Soul Blues |
| 3 | Sundancer | Will James | Self-Release | Soul Blues |
| 4 | Memphis Calling | Emma Wilson | Self-Release | Contemporary Blues |
| 5 | The Blues, Man, the Blues | Mick Clarke | Rockfold | Blues Rock |
| 6 | Hackney Diamonds | The Rolling Stones | Polydor | Roots Rock |
| 7 | My Soft Machine | Arlo Parks | Transgressive | Alternative |
| 8 | Nobody's Fool | Joanne Shaw Taylor | Keeping The Blues Alive | Contemporary Blues |
| 9 | The Blues Album | Joanne Shaw Taylor | Keeping The Blues Alive | Blues Rock |
| 10 | The Blues, Man, Rides Again!! | Mick Clarke | Rockfold | Blues Rock |
| 11 | First and Last Stop | Jimmy Regal & The Royals | Lunaria | Contemporary Blues |
| 12 | Wet Leg | Wet Leg | Domino | Alternative Rock |
| 13 | Banjophonics | Damien O'Kane & Ron Block | Pure | Contemporary Bluegrass |
| 14 | Pushing Against the Flow | Andrew Riverstone | Atlantic Highway | Contemporary Blues |
| 15 | Everything is Alive | Slowdive | Dead Oceans | Alternative Rock |
| 16 | Blue Credentials | Malaya Blue | Blue Heart | Contemporary Blues |
| 17 | I Am Not There Anymore | The Clientele | Merge | Alternative Rock |
| 18 | 24 Nights: Blues | Eric Clapton | Reprise | Classic Blues |
| 19 | Time's Arrow | Ladytron | Cooking Vinyl | Progressive Rock |
| 20 | Crash and Burn (feat. Mike Thomas) | The Cadillac Kings | 33 JAZZ | Blues Rock |
| 21 | Black Rainbows | Corinne Bailey Rae | Self-Release | Soul |
| 22 | Moving on Skiffle | Van Morrison | Virgin Music | Alternative Folk |
| 23 | God Games | The Kills | Domino | Alternative Rock |
| 24 | Come Around and Love Me | Jalen Ngonda | Daptone | R&B |
| 25 | Darkadelic | The Damned | earMUSIC | Punk Rock |
| 26 | I Inside the Old Year Dying | PJ Harvey | Partisan | Alternative |
| 27 | Siempre | Ags Connolly | At The Helm Publishing | Americana Country |
| 28 | 1982 | A Certain Ratio | Mute | Alternative |
| 29 | Sonic Mojo | Foghat | Self-Release | Blues Rock |
| 30 | Now | Graham Nash | BMG | Folk Rock |
| 31 | Life and Life Only | The Heavy Heavy | ATO | Alternative |
| 32 | Devil May Care | Dave Arcari | Buzz | Acoustic Blues |
| 33 | Cracker Island | Gorillaz | Warner | Alternative Rock |
| 34 | Accentuate the Positive | Van Morrison | Exile | Alternative Folk |
| 35 | Joyful Sky | Robin Trower | Mascot | Blues Rock |
| 36 | Gulp! | Sports Team | Bright Antenna | Alternative Rock |
| 37 | The Instrumental Sounds Of... | Ruzz Guitar's Blues Revue | Self-Release | Jump Blues |
| 38 | The Deplar Effect (feat. Eddie Roberts) | New Mastersounds | Color Red | Jazz |
| 39 | In the End It Always Does | The Japanese House | Dirty Hit | Alternative Rock |
| 40 | Blues, Ballads & Barnstormers | Pistol Pete Wearn | Footstomping | Contemporary Blues |
| 41 | Death Roll Blues | The Curse of K.K. Hammond | Self-Release | Delta Blues |
| 42 | Where’s My Utopia? | Yard Act | Island | Alternative Rock |
| 43 | Late Developers | Belle & Sebastian | Matador | Alternative Rock |
| 44 | Last Night in the Bittersweet | Paolo Nutini | Atlantic | Alternative |
| 45 | Tracey Denim | bar italia | Matador | Alternative Rock |
| 46 | Ten Paces | Ruen Brothers | Yep Roc | Roots Rock |
| 47 | No Thank You | Little Simz | AWAL | Rap |
| 48 | Stand for Myself | Yola | Easy Eye Sound | Folk Rock |
| 49 | Volcano | Jungle | ORCHARD | Dance |
| 50 | I'll Never Forget | Allan Clarke | BMG | Rock & Roll |
| 51 | Snake Sideways | Do Nothing | Exact Truth | Alternative Rock |
| 52 | Everything is Going to Be OK | GoGo Penguin | XXIM Records | Modern Jazz |
| 53 | Space Heavy | King Krule | XL Recordings | Alternative Rock |
| 54 | The Ballad of Darren | Blur | Parlophone | Alternative Rock |
| 55 | The Boy Named if | Elvis Costello & The Imposters | Universal | Alternative Rock |
| 56 | The Million Things That Never Happened | Billy Bragg | Cooking Vinyl | Roots Rock |
| 57 | Black Bay | Silver Moth | Bella Union | Alternative Rock |
| 58 | The Great Regression | DITZ | Alcopop! | Punk Rock |
| 59 | Road to the Blues | Dave Thomas | Blonde On Blonde | Contemporary Blues |
| 60 | The Cycle | Raz Olsher | Mawimbi | World |
| 61 | The WAEVE | The WAEVE | Transgressive | Alternative Rock |
| 62 | Black Classical Music | Yussef Dayes | Nonesuch | Modern Jazz |
| 63 | The Slow Blues Sessions | Mick Simpson | Mad Ears Productions | Contemporary Blues |
| 64 | Drop 7 | Little Simz | AWAL | Hip-hop |
| 65 | Social Lubrication | Dream Wife | Lucky Number | Alternative Rock |
| 66 | Big Plans for a Blue World | Wylderness | Succulent | Alternative Rock |
| 67 | Head of Pomegranate | Flamingods | The Liquid Label | Alternative Rock |
| 68 | Do Right, Say Right | Mississippi MacDonald | Another Planet | Contemporary Blues |
| 69 | Everything Was Beautiful | Spiritualized | Fat Possum | Alternative Rock |
| 70 | Forty's the New Thirty | Anton O'Donnell | Gypsy Heart | Americana Country |
| 71 | Dance Fever | Florence + the Machine | Universal | Alternative |
| 72 | Songs of Surrender | U2 | Island | Adult Contemporary |
| 73 | A Light for Attracting Attention | The Smile | Self Help Tapes | Alternative Rock |
| 74 | North Sea Breeze | C Bone | APM | Contemporary Blues |
| 75 | With You in My Life | Sheila K. Cameron | Glalell | Contemporary Folk |
| 76 | The Dream | Alt-J | Atlantic | Alternative Rock |
| 77 | We're Not in Kansas Anymore | Kansas Smitty's | Ever | Jazz |
| 78 | 1 | bby | Glassnote | Alternative Rock |
| 79 | Con El Ritmo Del Tambo | Orquesta Mayómbe | Jazz Room | Jazz |
| 80 | London Brew | London Brew | Concord | Jazz |
| 81 | Point of No Return | Malcolm Strachan | Self-Release | Modern Jazz |
| 82 | Stories | Nicolas Meier | Self-Release | Americana Country |
| 83 | The Great White Sea Eagle | James Yorkston, Nina Persson & The Second Hand Orchestra | Domino | Alternative |
| 84 | Twenty-First Century Times | Joe Astley | Self-Release | Folk Rock |
| 85 | Bluesdaddy | Will Johns | Galetone | Blues Rock |
| 86 | Onliness | Josienne Clarke | Self-Release | Contemporary Folk |
| 87 | Gog Magog | The Trials of Cato | Self-Release | Traditional Folk |
| 88 | The Birds, the Stars & the Chimney Sweeps | Frontier Station | Self-Release | Folk Rock |
| 89 | Telegram | Mick Clarke | Rockfold | Blues Rock |
| 90 | Revolutions Go in Circles | Mark Mulholland | Ports of Call Music | Folk Rock |
| 91 | Down Tools | Mush | Memphis Industries | Alternative Rock |
| 92 | Mo Country Rockin' | Mick Clarke | Rockfold | Country Blues |
| 93 | The Car | Arctic Monkeys | Domino | Alternative Rock |
| 94 | Made of Three | The Zac Schulze Gang | Flatiron | Blues Rock |
| 95 | Electricity | Ibibio Sound Machine | Merge | Fusion |
| 96 | Ants from Up There | Black Country, New Road | Ninja Tune | Alternative Rock |
| 97 | The Journey, Pt. 2 | The Kinks | BMG | Blues Rock |
| 98 | On the Run: 1984-2013 | Mick Ralphs | Cherry Red | Blues Rock |
| 99 | One of a Kind | The Heavy Heavy | ATO | Alternative Rock |
| 100 | Shake the Blues | Sonic Blue | APM | Contemporary Blues |
| 101 | Into You | Incognito | Shanachie | Contemporary Jazz |
| 102 | Riverwoods | Salt House | Hudson | Contemporary Folk |
| 103 | Small Voyages | Chloe Matharu | Self-Release | Celtic |
| 104 | Where I'm Meant to Be | Ezra Collective | Partisan | Jazz |
| 105 | Happy Xmas | Eric Clapton | EPC | Christmas |
| 106 | Nothing Lasts Forever | Teenage Fanclub | Merge | Roots Rock |
| 107 | Weather Alive | Beth Orton | Partisan | Alternative Rock |
| 108 | No More Worlds to Conquer | Robin Trower | Provogue | Blues Rock |
| 109 | Lee's Blues | Oliver Darling | APM | Contemporary Blues |
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