Top Rock Album Chart for the Year of 2022

The Roots Music Report's
Top Rock Album Chart
for the Year of 2022

	Album Title	Band/Artist Name	Label	Sub Genre
1	Lucifer on the Sofa	Spoon	Matador	Alternative Rock
2	The Future	Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats	Stax	Roots Rock
3	Play Loud	The Record Company	Concord	Roots Rock
4	El Mirador	Calexico	Anti	Roots Rock
5	Downhill from Everywhere	Jackson Browne	Inside	Roots Rock
6	I Don’t Live Here Anymore	The War on Drugs	Atlantic	Alternative Rock
7	The Dream	Alt-J	Atlantic	Alternative Rock
8	The Boy Named if	Elvis Costello & The Imposters	Universal	Alternative Rock
9	Strictly a One-Eyed Jack	John Mellencamp	Republic	Roots Rock
10	Nashville Again	The Youngers	Let It Roll	Roots Rock
11	Established 1972	The Nighthawks	VizzTone	Roots Rock
12	Wet Leg	Wet Leg	Domino	Alternative Rock
13	Turn My Radio Up	The Coffis Brothers	Blue Rose	Roots Rock
14	Laurel Hell	Mitski	Dead Oceans	Alternative Rock
15	Together Alone (feat. Eric Ambel)	Sarah Borges	Blue Corn	Roots Rock
16	Things Take Time, Take Time	Courtney Barnett	Mom+Pop	Alternative Rock
17	Stardust and Satellites	Steve Poltz	Red House	Roots Rock
18	Dreamland	Amos Lee	Dualtone	Roots Rock
19	The Million Things That Never Happened	Billy Bragg	Cooking Vinyl	Roots Rock
20	Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You	Big Thief	4AD	Roots Rock
21	Glowing Lantern	The Mother Hips	Blue Rose	Alternative Rock
22	Remote Transmissions, Vol. 1	The Band of Heathens	BOH	Roots Rock
23	Exit Wounds	The Wallflowers	New West	Roots Rock
24	Late Night TV Gold	Shinyribs	Easy Street	Roots Rock
25	My Morning Jacket	My Morning Jacket	ATO	Alternative Rock
26	In a Roomful of Blood with a Sleeping Tiger	Bob Schneider	Shockorama	Roots Rock
27	Covers	Cat Power	Domino	Alternative Rock
28	Dreamland	Glass Animals	Polydor	Alternative Rock
29	Avondale Drive	Nicki Bluhm & The Gramblers	Compass	Roots Rock
30	Not Your Little Girl	Abby Bryant & The Echoes	Self-Release	Roots Rock
31	What Happens Next	Davy Knowles	Mascot	Roots Rock
32	Lucky 13	Babaux and The Peacemakers	Self-Release	Roots Rock
33	This is a Photograph	Kevin Morby	Dead Oceans	Alternative Rock
34	Songs of the Recollection	Cowboy Junkies	Proper	Roots Rock
35	One Last Thing	Jason Lee McKinney Band	Bonfire	Roots Rock
36	(watch My Moves)	Kurt Vile	Verve	Alternative Rock
37	Help…I'm Alive	The Boxmasters	Thirty Tigers	Roots Rock
38	If These Walls Could Talk	Luke Winslow-King	Ghost River	Roots Rock
39	In Heaven	Strand of Oaks	Thirty Tigers	Alternative Rock
40	Follow Your Heart	Michael Franti & Spearhead	Thirty Tigers	Alternative Rock
41	Bloodline Maintenance	Ben Harper	Chrysali	Roots Rock
42	Paper Hearts and Broken Arrows	Rod Picott	Welding Rod	Roots Rock
43	Welcome 2 Club XIII	Drive-By Truckers	ATO	Roots Rock
44	Texas Moon	Khruangbin	Columbia	Alternative Rock
45	Cool It Down	Yeah Yeah Yeahs	Secretly Canadian	Alternative Rock
46	Young Blood	Marcus King	American Recordings	Roots Rock
47	House to House	Matt Andersen	Sonic	Roots Rock
48	Sympathy for Life	Parquet Courts	Rough Trade	Alternative Rock
49	Time Skiffs	Animal Collective	Domino	Alternative Rock
50	The Million Masks of God	Manchester Orchestra	Loma Vista	Alternative Rock
51	Colder Streams	The Sadies	Yep Roc	Alternative Rock
52	Blood Harmony	Larkin Poe	Tricki-Woo	Roots Rock
53	External Combustion	Mike Campbell & Dirty Knobs	BMG	Alternative Rock
54	Ballads of the Broken	Jelly Roll	Stoney Creek	Roots Rock
55	WE	Arcade Fire	Self-Release	Alternative Rock
56	Skinty Fia	Fontaines D.C.	Partisan	Alternative Rock
57	When You See Yourself	Kings of Leon	RCA	Alternative Rock
58	Manticore	Shovels & Rope	Dualtone	Alternative Rock
59	Lava Lamp	Jonah Tolchin	Yep Roc	Roots Rock
60	Letter to You	Bruce Springsteen	Self-Release	Roots Rock
61	Wilderness of Mirrors	The Black Angels	Partisan	Alternative Rock
62	Going Places	Josh Rouse	Yep Roc	Roots Rock
63	Nightroamer	Sarah Shook & the Disarmers	Thirty Tigers	Roots Rock
64	Rich White Honky Blues	Hank Williams, Jr.	Easy Eye Sound	Roots Rock
65	Asphalt Meadows	Death Cab for Cutie	Atlantic	Alternative Rock
66	Love & Algorhythms	Seratones	New West	Alternative Rock
67	The Lost Year Part 1	Delta Generators	Self-Release	Roots Rock
68	Leftover Feelings	John Hiatt with The Jerry Douglas Band	New West	Roots Rock
69	Fear of the Dawn	Jack White	Third Man	Alternative Rock
70	Daylight	Grace Potter	Concord	Alternative Rock
71	The Overload	Yard Act	Zen F.C.	Alternative Rock
72	Obviously	Lake Street Dive	Nonesuch	Alternative Rock
73	Snail Rocks	Snail	Self-Release	Classic Rock
74	Seth Avett Sings Greg Brown	Seth Avett	Ramseur	Roots Rock
75	Floating Ghost Hotel	Slink Moss Explosion	Hi-Style	Rockabilly
76	Circles & the Flames	Anthony Arya	Self-Release	Roots Rock
77	Medicine at Midnight	Foo Fighters	Roswell	Alternative Rock
78	PRE PLEASURE	Julia Jacklin	Polyvinyl	Alternative Rock
79	This Machine Still Kills Fascists	Dropkick Murphys	Dummy Luck	Alternative Rock
80	Extreme Witchcraft	Eels	PIAS	Alternative Rock
81	By No Means	Jim Keller	Orange Mountain	Roots Rock
82	The Last Perfect Performance	Paul Bibbins	Self-Release	Classic Rock
83	Blessings and Miracles	Santana	BMG	Progressive Rock
84	Daddy's Home	St. Vincent	Loma Vista	Alternative Rock
85	Only the Strong Survive	Bruce Springsteen	Columbia	Roots Rock
86	Entering Heaven Alive	Jack White	Third Man	Alternative Rock
87	Lifetime Achievement	Loudon Wainwright III	StorySound	Roots Rock
88	Fun Machine: the Sequel	Lake Street Dive	UMG	Alternative Rock
89	Hair on Fire	Jake La Botz	Under the El	Roots Rock
90	Leave the Light on	Pillow Queens	Royal Mountain	Alternative Rock
91	In Plain Sight	Neal Francis	ATO	Alternative Rock
92	Waiting for the Daylight	Erja Lyytinen	Tuohi	Roots Rock
93	A Light for Attracting Attention	The Smile	Self Help Tapes	Alternative Rock
94	The Land That Time Forgot	Chuck Prophet	Yep Roc	Roots Rock
95	Mahal	Toro Y Moi	Dead Oceans	Alternative Rock
96	Milky Stars	Michael McArthur	Transoceanic	Roots Rock
97	Normal Isn't Normal Anymore	Rod Abernethy	Self-Release	Roots Rock
98	Never Too Late to Call	Paul Thorn	Thirty Tigers	Roots Rock
99	The Water Street Trilogy Pt. 1: Wild As the Wild Dogs	The Weber Brothers	Self-Release	Roots Rock
100	Bleed out	The Mountain Goats	Merge	Alternative Rock
101	Beware of Worthless Imitations Vol 1	Jeffrey Halford & the Healers	Continental Song Cit	Roots Rock
102	For the Sake of Bethel Woods	Midlake	ATO	Roots Rock
103	No Rules Sandy	Sylvan Esso	Loma Vista	Alternative Rock
104	Blue Skies	Dehd	Fat Possum	Alternative Rock
105	The Memphis Recordings	Justin Pickard & the Thunderbird Winos	Fun Guy	Rockabilly
106	The Astronaut	Jana Pochop	Patient Grasshopper	Roots Rock
107	Can I Take My Hounds to Heaven?	Tyler Childers	Sony	Roots Rock
108	All That You Can Dream	Grant Lee Phillips	Yep Roc	Roots Rock
109	Red, White and American Blues (it Couldn't Happen Here)	Nathan Bell	Singular	Roots Rock
110	Ants from Up There	Black Country, New Road	Ninja Tune	Alternative Rock
111	Omnium Gatherum	King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard	KGLW	Alternative Rock
112	The Other Side	Christian Lopez Band	Paradox	Roots Rock
113	Wild Loneliness	Superchunk	Merge	Progressive Rock
114	I Wanna Go with You	Wide Mouth Mason	We Are Busy Bodies	Roots Rock
115	CockadoodleDeux	The Legendary Shack Shakers	Alternative Tentacles	Rockabilly
116	Alvarado	The Wild Feathers	New West	Roots Rock
117	Emerald Blue	Andrew Duhon	Self-Release	Roots Rock
118	The Misfit	Rhett Miller	ATO	Roots Rock
119	LABYRINTHITIS	Destroyer	Merge	Alternative Rock
120	Spencer Gets It Lit	Jon Spencer & the HITmakers	Sony	Progressive Rock
121	NOESTÁSAQUÍ	Caramelo Haze	Nacional	Alternative Rock
122	First Agnostic Church of Hope and Wonder	Todd Snider	Thirty Tigers	Roots Rock
123	A Bit of Previous	Belle & Sebastian	Matador	Alternative Rock
124	Observatory	Aeon Station	Sub Pop	Alternative Rock
125	Everything Was Beautiful	Spiritualized	Fat Possum	Alternative Rock
126	Cave World	Viagra Boys	YEAR0001	Punk Rock
127	Marriage	Deap Vally	Cooking Vinyl Limited	Alternative Rock
128	Rose Pink Cadillac	Dope Lemon	BMG	Alternative Rock
129	Late Night Polaroids	Bruce Hughes	Broke Dick	Pop Rock
130	American Static, Vol. 1	Andrew Leahey & Homestead	Mule Kick	Roots Rock
131	Good People	Bob Malone	Delta Moon	Soft Rock
132	Dripfield	Goose	No Coincidence	Jam Band
133	See Through You	A Place to Bury Strangers	Dedstrange	Alternative Rock
134	Soberish	Liz Phair	Chrysalis	Alternative Rock
135	No Gods No Masters	Garbage	Infectious	Alternative Rock
136	Havasu	Pedro the Lion	Polyvinyl	Alternative Rock
137	Grizzly Peak	The Dodos	Polyvinyl	Alternative Rock
138	Surface Sounds	Kaleo	Electra	Alternative Rock
139	In the Game	Mick Flannery	Chart Room Media	Roots Rock
140	Ain't It Tragic	Dead Sara	Atlantic	Alternative Rock
141	The Day the Earth Stood Still	Willie Nile	River House	Roots Rock
142	Love Songs for Losers	The Lone Bellow	Dualtone	Roots Rock
143	Black Pumas (Deluxe)	Black Pumas	ATO	Alternative Rock
144	This is for the Barbarians	Mondo Cozmo	Last Gang	Alternative Rock
145	How Many Miles	Bo Ramsey	3527670	Roots Rock
146	Calling Cadence	Calling Cadence	hi-res	Roots Rock
147	Bummer Year	Good Looks	Keeled Scales	Alternative Rock
148	Reason in Decline	Archers of Loaf	Merge	Alternative Rock
149	Physical Thrills	Silversun Pickups	WMG	Alternative Rock
150	Excess	Automatic	Stones Throw	Alternative Rock
151	Projector	Geese	Partisan	Alternative Rock
152	Doggerel	Pixies	BMG	Alternative Rock

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The Roots Music Report's Top Rock Album Chart for the Year of 2022

The Roots Music Report's
Top Rock Album Chart
for the Year of 2022