| Year-End Position | Artist | Album |
| 1 | Hayes Carll | What It Is |
| 2 | Josh Ritter | Fever Breaks |
| 3 | The Lumineers | III |
| 4 | Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real | Turn Off the News (Build a Garden) |
| 5 | Tedeschi Trucks Band | Signs |
| 6 | Jade Bird | Jade Bird |
| 7 | Mavis Staples | We Get By |
| 8 | Ryan Bingham | American Love Song |
| 9 | Yola | Walk Through Fire |
| 10 | The Avett Brothers | Closer Than Together |
| 11 | The Revivalists | Take Good Care |
| 12 | Molly Tuttle | When You’re Ready |
| 13 | Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats | Tearing At the Seams |
| 14 | Tyler Childers | Country Squire |
| 15 | Shovels & Rope | By Blood |
| 16 | Son Volt | Union |
| 17 | Brittany Howard | Jaime |
| 18 | Mandolin Orange | Tides of a Teardrop |
| 19 | Patty Griffin | Patty Griffin |
| 20 | Jamestown Revival | San Isabel |
| 21 | Bruce Springsteen | Western Stars |
| 22 | Kacey Musgraves | Golden Hour |
| 23 | Buddy & Julie Miller | Breakdown on 20th Ave South |
| 24 | Mark Knopfler | Down the Road Wherever |
| 25 | The Cactus Blossoms | Easy Way |
| 26 | Rosanne Cash | She Remembers Everything |
| 27 | Hiss Golden Messenger | Terms of Surrender |
| 28 | Willie Nelson | Ride Me Back Home |
| 29 | Justin Townes Earle | The Saint of Lost Causes |
| 30 | Lula Wiles | What Will We Do |
| 31 | Todd Snider | Cash Cabin Sessions, Vol. 3 |
| 32 | Christone Kingfish Ingram | Kingfish |
| 33 | Our Native Daughters | Songs of Our Native Daughters |
| 34 | The Infamous Stringdusters | Rise Sun |
| 35 | Keb’ Mo’ | Oklahoma |
| 36 | JJ Cale | Stay Around |
| 37 | Steve Earle & The Dukes | GUY |
| 38 | Black Pumas | Black Pumas |
| 39 | Delbert McClinton and Self-Made Men + Dana | Tall, Dark & Handsome |
| 40 | Dylan LeBlanc | Renegade |
| 41 | Rodney Crowell | TEXAS |
| 42 | Calexico and Iron & Wine | Years to Burn |
| 43 | Ruston Kelly | Dying Star |
| 44 | Various Artists | Muscle Shoals: Small Town, Big Sound |
| 45 | Grace Potter | Daylight |
| 46 | The Record Company | All of This Life |
| 47 | Gregory Alan Isakov | Evening Machines |
| 48 | Tanya Tucker | While I’m Livin’ |
| 49 | Bailen | Thrilled to Be Here |
| 50 | The Teskey Brothers | Run Home Slow |
| 51 | Eilen Jewell | Gypsy |
| 52 | Chuck Mead | Close to Home |
| 53 | Charley Crockett | Lil G.L.’s Blue Bonanza |
| 54 | The War and Treaty | Healing Tide |
| 55 | The Marcus King Band | Carolina Confessions |
| 56 | Jade Jackson | Wilderness |
| 57 | Jamie Lin Wilson | Jumping Over Rocks |
| 58 | Greensky Bluegrass | All for Money |
| 59 | Sean McConnell | Secondhand Smoke |
| 60 | Andrew Bird | My Finest Work Yet |
| 61 | Sheryl Crow | Threads |
| 62 | Nick Waterhouse | Nick Waterhouse |
| 63 | The Gibson Brothers | Mockingbird |
| 64 | Drew Holcomb & The Neighbors | Dragons |
| 65 | Orville Peck | Pony |
| 66 | Pistol Annies | Interstate Gospel |
| 67 | John Hiatt | The Eclipse Sessions |
| 68 | Ben Dickey | A Glimmer On the Outskirts |
| 69 | Whiskey Myers | Whiskey Myers |
| 70 | Blackberry Smoke | The Southern Ground Sessions EP |
| 71 | Paul Cauthen | Room 41 |
| 72 | Jason Eady | I Travel On |
| 73 | Robert Randolph & The Family Band | Brighter Days |
| 74 | The Highwomen | The Highwomen |
| 75 | Jim Lauderdale | From Another World |
| 76 | Allison Moorer | Blood |
| 77 | Amos Lee | My New Moon |
| 78 | Caroline Spence | Mint Condition |
| 79 | Rhett Miller | The Messenger |
| 80 | Joy Williams | Front Porch |
| 81 | Sarah Borges & The Broken Singles | ‘s Middle Name |
| 82 | Ian Noe | Between the Country |
| 83 | Vandoliers | Forever |
| 84 | Santana | Africa Speaks |
| 85 | The Mavericks | Play the Hits |
| 86 | Gary Clark Jr. | This Land |
| 87 | The Steel Woods | Old News |
| 88 | Rising Appalachia | Leylines |
| 89 | Robert Ellis | Texas Piano Man |
| 90 | Chatham County Line | Sharing the Covers |
| 91 | John Prine | The Tree of Forgiveness |
| 92 | Tyler Ramsey | For the Morning |
| 93 | Charley Crockett | The Valley |
| 94 | Will Kimbrough | I Like It Down Here |
| 95 | Brandi Carlile | By the Way, I Forgive You |
| 96 | Lake Street Dive | Free Yourself Up |
| 97 | Randy Rogers Band | Hellbent |
| 98 | The Allman Betts Band | Down to the River |
| 99 | The Suitcase Junket | Mean Dog, Trampoline |
| 100 | The Devil Makes Three | Chains Are Broken |
