Adds denoted in Red.

 

Rank Artist / Album Spins
1 Arthur Alexander
Arthur Alexander (expanded reissue) 26
2 Various: Twelve String High Vol 2
Twelve String High Vol 2 25
3 Peter Case
On The Way Downtown: Recorded Live on Folkscene 21
4 Chip Taylor
The Warner Brothers Years 20
5 Sharon Jones and The Dap Kings
Soul Of A Woman 19
6 Gun Outfit
Out of Range 18
7 Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile
Lotta Sea Lice 17
Tie 7 Dori Freeman
Letters Never Read 17
Tie 7 Chris Difford
Let’s Be Combe Avenue (Demos, 1972) 17
10 The Feelies
In Between 16
Tie 10 The Margraves
Primitive Beat 16
Tie 10 The Red Button
Now It’s All This! 16
Tie 10 King Leg
Meet King Leg 16
Tie 10 Shilpa Ray
Door Girl 16
Tie 10 Dreaming Spires Present Paisley Overground
Paisley Overground 16
Tie 10 The Flamin Groovies
Fantastic Plastic 16
Tie 10 Margo Price
All American Made 16
Tie 10 El Goodo
By Order of the Moose 16
Tie 10 The Vulgar Boatmen
Wide Awake 16
Tie 10 Josh Ritter
Gathering 16
Tie 10 Lilly Hiatt
Trinity Lane 16
22 Kacy and Clayton
The Siren’s Song 15
Tie 22 Joseph Childress
Joseph Childress 15
Tie 22 The Hanging Stars
Over the Silvery Lake 15
Tie 22 Kim Wilson
Blues and Boogie Vol. 1 15
Tie 22 Danny Dodge
Baby, Let Me Be Your Mess 15
Tie 22 Actual Wolf
Faded Days 15
Tie 22 Hiss Golden Messenger
Hallelujah Anyhow 15
Tie 22 Wynntown Marshals
After All These Years 15
Tie 22 The On and Ons
Welcome Aboard 15
Tie 22 AJ Croce
Just Like Medicine 15
Tie 22 The Strypes
Spitting Image 15
Tie 22 Whitney Rose
Rule 62 15
Tie 22 Together Pangea
Bulls and Roosters 15
Tie 22 Eilen Jewell
Down Hearted Blues 15
Tie 22 The Dials
That Was the Future 15
Tie 22 NHD
And the Devil Went up to Portland 15
Tie 22 JD McPherson
Undivided Heart and Soul 15
Tie 22 Nicole Atkins
Goodnight Rhonda Lee 15
Tie 22 Jessica Lea Mayfield
Sorry Is Gone 15
Tie 22 Dan Auerbach
Waiting on a Song 15
Tie 22 The Primary 5
Go 15
Tie 22 Robyn Gibson
Free!  Bob of the Pops Vol. 2 15
Tie 22 The Rubs
Impossible Dream 15
Tie 22 Ryan Koenig
Two Different Worlds 15
Tie 22 The Texas Gentlemen
TX Jelly 15
Tie 22 Scott Miller
The Ladies Auxiliary 15
Tie 22 The Weather Station
The Weather Station 15
Tie 22 Groovy Movies
Groovy Movies 15
Tie 22 Van Morrison
Roll With The Punches 15
Tie 22 Shelby Lynne and Allison Moorer
Not Dark Yet 15
Tie 22 Daniel Wylie Cosmic Rough Riders
Scenery for Dreamers 15
Tie 22 Lucinda Williams
This Sweet Old World 15
Tie 22 Los Straitjackets
Sing Along With (reissue) 15
55 Hayley Thompson King
Psychotic Melancholia 14
Tie 55 The Carousels
Sail Me Home, St. Clair 14
Tie 55 NRBQ
Happy Talk 14
Tie 55 Various: This Is Rock n Roll Radio
This Is Rock ‘n’ Roll Radio, Vol. 4 14
59 Ultimate Painting
Dust On My Eyes 13
Tie 59 Dead Rock West
More Love 13
Tie 59 Jon Langford
Four Lost Souls 13
Tie 59 Bash and Pop
Friday Night Is Killing Me (Expanded Reissue) 13
Tie 59 Gregg Allman
Southern Blood 13
Tie 59 Various: Follow The Sun
Follow The Sun 13
65 Mel O Madnezz
What You Getting High On 12
Tie 65 Kimon Kirk
Baby Who Knows / Powerstroke 12
Tie 65 The Heartache State
Last of the Buffalo 12
Tie 65 Rob Martinez
Today My Mind Tomorrow The World 12
Tie 65 Stone Ridge
Stone Ridge Covered 12
Tie 65 Chris Bell
Looking Forward: The Roots Of Big Star 12
Tie 65 The Flat Five
The Raven 12
Tie 65 EZTV
High in Place 12
Tie 65 The Singles
Sweet Tooth 12
Tie 65 Ryan Wong
More Milk 12
Tie 65 Replacements
For Sale: Live At Maxwell’s 1986 12
Tie 65 Sapin
Dark is the Night…On is the Party 12
Tie 65 Buffalo Killers
Alive and Well In Ohio 12
Tie 65 Scott Gagner
Pins & Needles 12
Tie 65 Chris Pierce
You’ve Got To Feel It! 12
Tie 65 Various: Cheap Old Wine and Whiskey
Cheap Old Wine and Whiskey 12
Tie 65 Jack Cooper
Sandgrown 12
Tie 65 King Khan
Murderburgers 12
Tie 65 The Pengwins
Box Set, Vol. 4 12
Tie 65 Daniele Luppi and Parquet Courts
MILANO 12
Tie 65 Jim Lauderdale
London Southern 12
Tie 65 Lost Film
Broken Spectre 12
Tie 65 Arvidson and Butterflies
Blank Season EP 12
Tie 65 Dan Reeder
Nobody wants to be you 12
Tie 65 Sounding Arrow
Loving Is Breathing 12
Tie 65 Fastball
Step Into Light 12
Tie 65 Widowspeak
Expect the Best 12
Tie 65 Gerry Devine and the Hi Beams
Fire Lane (Remastered with Bonus Tracks) 12
Tie 65 Sitcom Neighbor
Shag 12
94 Dennis Johnson
Rhythmland 11
Tie 94 Joan Osborne
Songs of Bob Dylan 11
Tie 94 Charley Crockett
Lil GL’s Honky Tonk Jubilee 11
Tie 94 Zephaniah OHora
This Highway 11
Tie 94 Jolie Holland and Samantha Parton
Wildflower Blues 11
Tie 94 Steelism
ism 11
Tie 94 Various: Songs of Steve Forbert
An American Troubadour The Songs Of Steve Forbert 11
Tie 94 Steve Earle and The Dukes
So You Wannabe an Outlaw 11
Tie 94 Sammy Brue
I Am Nice 11
Tie 94 Len Price 3
Kentish Longtails 11
Tie 94 Joecephus and The George Jonestown Massacre
Five Minutes To Live: A Tribute To Johnny Cash 11
Tie 94 Randy Newman
Dark Matter 11
Tie 94 Tyler Childers
Purgatory 11
Tie 94 The Deslondes
Hurry Home 11
Tie 94 Casey James
Strip It Down 11
Tie 94 Chris Hillman
Bidin’ My Time 11
Tie 94 Bootsy Collins
World Wide Funk 11
Tie 94 Leon Russell
On A Distant Shore 11
Tie 94 Samantha Fish
Belle Of The West 11
Tie 94 Rick Estrin and The Nightcats
Groovin’ In Greaseland 11
Tie 94 The Sweetback Sisters
King Of Killing Time 11
Tie 94 David Rawlings
Poor David’s Almanack 11
Tie 94 Joe Henry
Thrum 11
Tie 94 Willie Watson
Folksinger Vol. 2 11
Tie 94 Timmy The Teeth
Ain’t That Bad 11
Tie 94 Langhorne Slim
Lost at Last Vol. 1 11
Tie 94 Travis Meadows
First Cigarette 11
Tie 94 The Kaisers
Wishing Street 11
Tie 94 Lydia Loveless
Boy Crazy and Single(s) 11
Tie 94 Jackie Greene
The Modern Lives Vol1 11
Tie 94 Various Red Hot
A Memphis Celebration of Sun Records 11
Tie 94 Cory Chisel and Adriel Denae
Tell Me True 11
Tie 94 Moot Davis
Hierarchy Of Crows 11
Tie 94 Lee Ann Womack
The Lonely, The Lonesome & The Gone 11
Tie 94 Cash Box Kings
Royal Mint 11
Tie 94 Jeff Rymes
Even if the Sun Dont Shine 11
Tie 94 Dan Mills
Something Good 11
Tie 94 Jenny Dont and The Spurs
Call of the Road 11
Tie 94 Nora Jane Struthers
Champion 11
Tie 94 Blind Boys of Alabama
Almost Home 11
Tie 94 Legendary Shack Shakers
After You’ve Gone 11
135 Bette Smith
Jetlagger 10
Tie 135 The Deep Dark Woods
Yarrow 10
Tie 135 Derek Hoke
Bring The Flood 10
Tie 135 Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams
Contraband Love 10
Tie 135 Iron and Wine
Beast Epic 10
Tie 135 Tommy Castro and The Painkillers
Stompin’ Ground 10
141 Matthew Sweet
Tomorrow Forever 9
Tie 141 Nick Heyward
Woodland Echoes 9
Tie 141 Deer Tick (2)
Deer Tick Vol. 2 9
Tie 141 WFMU Michael Shelley’s Pure Dyn-o-mite!
Super Hits Of The Seventies: Pure Dyn-O-Mite 9
145 Chris Lund
Great Event Syndrome 8
Tie 145 The Soap Opera
Eggs to Hach / No Name No Packdrill 8
Tie 145 Alvvays
Antisocialites 8
Tie 145 Brent Cobb
Aint A Road Too Long 8
Tie 145 Chase Hamblin
Fools 8
Tie 145 Bronco Bullfrog
Marmalade 8
Tie 145 Radney Foster
For You To See The Stars 8
Tie 145 Christian Lopez
Red Arrow 8
Tie 145 Mavis Staples
If All I Was Was Black 8
Tie 145 Calexico
The Thread That Keeps Us 8
Tie 145 Bash and Pop featuring Nicole Atkins
Too Late 8
Tie 145 The Connection
(It’s A) Monsters’ Holiday 8
Tie 145 Nick Capaldi
Neon Heart 8
Tie 145 Lee Fields and The Expressions
Time 8
Tie 145 Oister
Pre-Dwight Twilley Band 1973-74 Teac Tapes 8
Tie 145 Greg Ashley
Pictures of Saint Paul Street 8
Tie 145 The Elders
TRUE 8
Tie 145 Winterpills
Colorblind 8
163 Courtney Barnett (2)
Three Packs a Day 7
Tie 163 The Lost Ragas
Where James Once Played / I’ll Be Gone 7
Tie 163 The Brixton Riot
Close Counts 7
Tie 163 Courtney Barnett (1)
How to Boil an Egg 7
Tie 163 Wild Ponies
Galax 7
168 Elizabeth Erin Kemler
The Weight of Mortal Skin 6
Tie 168 Bob and Gene
If This World Were Mine… 6
Tie 168 Justin Townes Earle
Kids In The Street 6
Tie 168 Dion
Kickin’ Child: The Lost Album 1965 6
Tie 168 Richard Thompson
Acoustic Classics II 6
Tie 168 Marty Stuart and his Fabulous Superlatives
WAY OUT WEST 6
174 Wesley Fuller
Inner City Dream 5
Tie 174 Hurray For The Riff Raff
The Navigator 5
Tie 174 Larkin Poe
Peach 5
Tie 174 Alex Williams
Better Than Myself 5
178 Whiskey Shivers
Some Part of Something 4
Tie 178 TimeWhys
Autumn of Love 4
Tie 178 Michael Blessing
Infinite Tuesday: Autobiographical Riffs 4
Tie 178 Blank Range
Marooned With The Treasure 4
Tie 178 Various: Life and Songs of Kris Kristofferson
The Life & Songs of Kris Kristofferson 4
Tie 178 Bruce Cockburn
Bone On Bone 4
Tie 178 Heirs Of Fortune
Circus Of Mirth 4
Tie 178 Eli Fox
Tall Tales 4
Tie 178 Jeff Mix and The Songhearts
Lost Vegas Hiway 4
Tie 178 Dan Baird and Homemade Sin
Rollercoaster 4
Tie 178 Jillette Johnson
All I Ever See In You Is Me 4
Tie 178 Sammy Kershaw
Swamp Poppin’ 4
Tie 178 Cotton Mather
Wild Kingdom 4
Tie 178 Elliott Brood
Ghost Gardens 4
Tie 178 Max Wareham
Nobody Knows Anything 4
Tie 178 Eyelids
Or 4
Tie 178 India Ramey
Snake Handler 4
Tie 178 AJ and The Rockin Trio
Rockin’ The Blues 4
Tie 178 Mike Eldred Trio
Elvis Unleaded 4
Tie 178 Shake Some Action
Crash Through or Crash 4
Tie 178 The White Buffalo
Darkest Darks, Lightest Lights 4
Tie 178 Juanita Stein
America 4
Tie 178 Boris McCutcheon
I’m Here Let Me In 4
Tie 178 Will Hoge
Anchors Aweigh 4
Tie 178 Bela Fleck and Abigail Washburn
Echo In The Valley 4
Tie 178 Randy Casey
RC 4
Tie 178 Big Star
Complete Third 4
Tie 178 Fred Wickham
Mariosa Delta 4
Tie 178 Lee Roy Parnell
Midnight Believer 4
Tie 178 Dan Whitaker and The Shinebenders
Anything You Wanted To 4
Tie 178 Copilgrim covers
Co-vers 4
Tie 178 Stanton Moore
With You In My Mind – The Songs of Allen Toussaint 4
Tie 178 The Naturals
We Are The Naturals 4
Tie 178 Lou Reed and Kris Kristofferson
In Their Own Words with Vin Scelsa 4
Tie 178 Rob Clarke and The Wooltones
Better Times 4
Tie 178 GospelbeacH
Another Summer of Love 4
Tie 178 Boris Garcia
Around Some Corner 4
Tie 178 Tex Rubinowitz and Bob Newscaster
The Old Man Mississippi 4
Tie 178 The Surfin Burritos
The Surfin Burritos 4
Tie 178 The Americans
I’ll Be Yours 4
Tie 178 Mike Penny and his Moonshiners
Rock Me Daddy-O 4
Tie 178 Andrew Taylor
From The Outside Looking In 4
Tie 178 The Wailin Jennys
Fifteen 4
Tie 178 Great Willow
Find Yourself In Los Angeles 4
Tie 178 The Yawpers
Boy in a Well 4
Tie 178 The Coffis Brothers and The Mountain Men
Roll With It 4
Tie 178 Tom Irwin
All That Love 4
Tie 178 Country Lips
Till the Daylight Comes 4
Tie 178 Twin Brother
Alone In Austin 4
Tie 178 Arcade Fire
Everything Now 4
Tie 178 Valerie June
The Order Of Time 4
Tie 178 Green Circles
No room for squares 4
Tie 178 Ben Vaughn Quintet
Piece de resistance 4
Tie 178 Offa Rex
The Queen Of Hearts 4
Tie 178 Lazer Lloyd
Freedom’s Child 4
Tie 178 Blake Berglund
Realms 4
Tie 178 Various: Tribute to John D Loudermilk
A Tribute to John D Loudermilk 4
Tie 178 Captain Storm
On The Waterfront 4
Tie 178 Robert Kuhn
Maria the Gun 4
Tie 178 Peter Lewis
Just Like Jack 4
Tie 178 WFMUzac with Bob Brainen
Bob Brainen’s WFMUzac 4
Tie 178 Hannah Aldridge
Gold Rush 4
Tie 178 Dusty Dave and The Heart Attacks
One Beer Left 4
Tie 178 The Infamous Stringdusters
Undercover 2 4
Tie 178 Fairbanks and The Lonesome Light
Nothing To Escape 4
Tie 178 Willie Nile
Positively Bob: Willie Nile Sings Bob Dylan 4
Tie 178 Sherman Holmes Project
The Richmond Sessions 4
Tie 178 First Aid Kit
It’s a Shame 4
Tie 178 Chuck Prophet
Bobby Fuller Died For Your Sins 4
247 The Doughboys
Front Street Rebels 3
Tie 247 Ray Wylie Hubbard
Tell The Devil I’m Gettin’ There As Fast As I Can 3
Tie 247 Wesley Stace
Wesley Stace’s John Wesley Harding 3
Tie 247 The Pesos
Casual Encounters #2 3
Tie 247 Jim Byrnes
Long Hot Summer Days 3
Tie 247 Slaid Cleaves
Ghost on the Car Radio 3
Tie 247 Calico the band
Under Blue Skies 3
Tie 247 Deer Tick (1)
Deer Tick Vol. 1 3
Tie 247 Chuck Berry
CHUCK 3
Tie 247 The Rolling Stones
Sticky Fingers Live At The Fonda Theatre 3
Tie 247 Mike Gent
Phillis The Tastemaker 3
Tie 247 Richard X Heyman
Incognito 3
Tie 247 Beach Fossils
Somersault 3
Tie 247 Isley Brothers and Santana
Power Of Peace 3
Tie 247 Plasticsoul
Therapy 3
Tie 247 Lukas Nelson and Promise of the Real
Lukas Nelson and Promise of the Real 3
Tie 247 The Forty Nineteens
Good Fortune 3
Tie 247 Chandler Travis
Bud and Froony 3
Tie 247 Diesel Park West
Summer Of Love 3
Tie 247 Gill Landry
Love Rides A Dark Horse 3
Tie 247 Ray Davies
Americana 3
Tie 247 Rick Shea and The Losin End
The Town Where I Live 3
Tie 247 Chad VanGaalen
Light Information 3
Tie 247 Terry Anderson
Jimmy’s Arcade 3
Tie 247 Devin Sinha
Our Fathers Were Lions 3
Tie 247 Bill Carter
Bill Carter 3
Tie 247 Matt Urmy
Out Of The Ashes 3
Tie 247 Brian Lisik and The Unfortunates
We’re Sorry 3
Tie 247 Chris Church
Limitations of Source Tape 3
Tie 247 Cheap Trick
We’re All Alright! 3
Tie 247 The Eddies
Return 3
Tie 247 The Beginners Mynd
Don’t Lose Your Mind 3
Tie 247 Greg Townson
Back To My Old Self Again 3
Tie 247 Billy Burnette
Crazy Like Me 3
Tie 247 Radiophonic Tuckshop
Running Commentary EP 3
Tie 247 Brace Cooper Jutz
Profiles in Courage, Frailty, & Discomfort 3
Tie 247 Mitch Woods
Friends Along The Way 3
Tie 247 Jeffrey Martin
One Go Around 3
Tie 247 Modern Mal
The Misanthrope Family Album 3
Tie 247 Chicano Batman
Freedom Is Free 3
Tie 247 Happyness
Write In 3
Tie 247 Larissa Tandy
The Grip 3
Tie 247 Bye Bye Blackbirds
Take Out The Poison 3
Tie 247 Matt Patershuk
Same as I Ever Have Been 3
Tie 247 The Mock Turtles
Turtle Soup: Expanded Edition 3
Tie 247 BB and The Blues Shacks
Reservation Blues 3
Tie 247 Coke Belda
A Tribute to the Bee Gees 3
Tie 247 Trip Wire
Cold Gas Giants 3
Tie 247 Turnpike Troubadours
A Long Way From Your Heart 3
Tie 247 Game Theory
Supercalifragile 3
Tie 247 Action Skulls
Angels Hear 3
Tie 247 Legends Of Country
Anything But Country 3

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