The Roots Music Report's
Top 50 Alternative Rock Album Chart
for the Week of May 18, 2019
| TW | LW | Album Title | Band/Artist Name | Label | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | 1 | 1 | By Blood | Shovels & Rope | Dualtone |
| ▲ | 2 | 4 | Jade Bird | Jade Bird | Glassnote |
| ▼ | 3 | 2 | III | The Lumineers | Dualtone |
| ▲ | 4 | 5 | Father of the Bride | Vampire Weekend | Columbia |
| ▼ | 5 | 3 | Delta | Mumford & Sons | Glassnote |
| ▲ | 6 | 9 | Violet Street | Local Natives | Loma Vista |
| - | 7 | 7 | Free Yourself Up | Lake Street Dive | Nonesuch |
| ▼ | 8 | 6 | On the Line | Jenny Lewis | Warner Bros. |
| ▲ | 9 | 17 | I Am Easy to Find | The National | 4AD |
| - | 10 | 10 | Take Good Care | The Revivalists | Concord |
| ▼ | 11 | 8 | "Let's Rock" | The Black Keys | Nonesuch |
| ▼ | 12 | 11 | Things Are Looking Up | The Walk-a-Bout | Ridge Hill |
| ▼ | 13 | 12 | My Finest Work Yet | Andrew Bird | Concord |
| ▲ | 14 | 20 | Egypt Station | Paul McCartney | Capitol |
| ▼ | 15 | 13 | Wasteland, Baby! | Hozier | Rubyworks |
| ▼ | 16 | 14 | Gold | Sister Sparrow & The Dirty Birds | Thirty Tigers |
| *NEW* | 17 | - | Let's Try the After (Vol. 1) | Broken Social Scene | Arts & Crafts |
| ▲ | 18 | 29 | Chorus | The Mother Hips | Blue Rose Music |
| ▲ | 19 | 32 | Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared? | Deerhunter | 4AD |
| ▲ | 20 | 34 | The Modern Lives Vol. 2 | Jackie Greene | Blue Rose |
| ▼ | 21 | 15 | Secondhand Smoke | Sean McConnell | Big Picnic |
| - | 22 | 22 | Press | Flora Cash | RCA |
| ▼ | 23 | 16 | Low Down Ways | Daddy Long Legs | Yep Roc |
| ▲ | 24 | 26 | Absolute Zero | Bruce Hornsby | Zappo |
| ▼ | 25 | 23 | In the Land of | Wintersleep | Dine Alone |
| ▼ | 26 | 19 | The Unseen in Between | Steve Gunn | Matador |
| ▼ | 27 | 24 | Titanic Rising | Weyes Blood | Sub Pop |
| *NEW* | 28 | - | Fishing for Fishies | King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard | ATO |
| ▼ | 29 | 21 | Designer | Aldous Harding | 4AD |
| ▲ | 30 | 36 | In Waves | Bay Ledges | S-Curve |
| ▲ | 31 | 35 | Look Alive | Guster | Nettwerk |
| ▲ | 32 | 33 | Watching It All Fall Apart | Fruition | Lohi |
| ▼ | 33 | 31 | Heard It in a Past Life | Maggie Rogers | Debay Sounds |
| ▲ | 34 | 37 | Carrie & Lowell | Sufjan Stevens | Asthmatic Kitty |
| ▼ | 35 | 27 | Remind Me Tomorrow | Sharon Van Etten | Jagjaguwar |
| ▲ | 36 | 40 | Mirror Master | Young The Giant | Elektra |
| ▲ | 37 | 45 | Politics of Living | Kodaline | Sony |
| ▲ | 38 | 41 | Busted Jukebox, Vol. 2 | Shovels & Rope | New West |
| ▼ | 39 | 18 | WARM | Jeff Tweedy | dBpm |
| ▼ | 40 | 25 | Mint | Alice Merton | Paper Plane |
| ▲ | 41 | 42 | Mystic Truth | Bad Suns | Epitaph |
| ▼ | 42 | 38 | Nina Cried Power | Hozier | Columbia |
| ▲ | 43 | 44 | The Atlas Underground | Tom Morello | MOM + POP |
| ▲ | 44 | 47 | Two Sides to Every Story | Allan Thomas | Self-Release |
| *NEW* | 45 | - | Oh My God | Kevin Morby | Dead Oceans |
| - | 46 | 46 | Thank You for Today | Death Cab for Cutie | Atlantic |
| ▲ | 47 | 48 | Goodnight Rhonda Lee | Nicole Atkins | Single Lock |
| ▲ | 48 | 52 | When I'm Alone: the Piano Retrospective | Lissie | Cooking Vinyl |
| ▼ | 49 | 30 | For the Morning | Tyler Ramsey | Fantasy |
| ▼ | 50 | 39 | Night of the Worm Moon | Shana Cleveland | Hardly Art |
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