Folk Music Radio Airplay Chart
November 2025, Week 2

Compiled by Richard Gillmann
From Playlists Submitted to FOLKDJ-L

TOP ALBUMS of November 2025, Week 2
Compiled by Richard Gillmann from FOLKDJ-L playlists
Based on 2218 plays from 81 playlists from 66 Folk DJs

  1: "unentitled," John Gorka [Red House, 10/2025] (16)
        "Hold On" (4)
        "Particle & Wave" (3)
        "No Time To Cry" (2)
        "Hope Doesn't Fall" (2)
        "A Light Exists in Spring" (2)
        "First Snow On The Mountain" (2)
  2: "Safe, Sensible & Sane," Alison Brown & Steve Martin [Compass, 10/2025] (14)
        "New Cluck Old Hen" (2)
        "Michael" (2)
        "Let's Get Out Of Here" (2)
        "Dear Time" (2)
  2: "Voisinages," Le Vent Du Nord [La Compagnie du Nord, 10/2025] (14)
        "Bienvenue" (3)
        "Le Pari de Jeanne" (2)
        "Fleur Radieuse" (2)
        "Carillon" (2)
        "Du Nord au Sud" (2)
        "Par-Dessus le Pont" (2)
  4: "Workin' Man: Willie Sings Merle," Willie Nelson [Legacy, 11/2025] (13)
        "Tonight the Bottle Let Me Down" (2)
        "Okie From Muskogee" (2)
        "Workin' Man Blues" (2)
        "Swinging Doors" (2)
  5: "The Man With A Rhyme," Archie Fisher [Folk-Legacy, 1976] (12)
        "Witch of the West-mer-lands" (5)
        "Western Island" (3)
  6: "The Breathing Room," Cosy Sheridan [Self, 10/2025] (11)
        "All The Pretty Horses Want To Go" (2)
        "Here's The Rain" (2)
        "I'm Feeling like Seattle" (2)
        "The Breathing Room" (2)
  6: "From Here to the Sea," Meredith Moon [Compass, 10/2025] (11)
        "Poseidon" (3)
        "The Willow" (3)
        "East City Blues" (2)
  6: "Hill Country Folk Music," Terry Klein [Self, 11/2025] (11)
        "The Job Interview Song" (3)
        "Try" (3)
        "If You Go" (2)
        "I Used To Be Cool" (2)
  6: "Songs From a Secret Room," Chris Rusin [Rushing River, 11/2025] (11)
        "Cinders" (2)
        "Life Is Easy" (2)
  6: "Sunsets I've Galloped Into," Archie Fisher [Red House, 1986] (11)
        "All That You Ask Me" (2)
        "Archie Fisher" (2)
 11: "Keep Me In Your Heart: The Songs of Warren Zevon," Various Artists [Paradiddle] (10)
        "Empty Hearted Town," Claudia Jacobs (1)
 11: "A Silent Song," Archie Fisher [Red House, 2015] (10)
        "The Parting Glass" (6)
        "Waltz Into Winter" (2)
 11: "Windward Away," Archie Fisher [Red House, 2008] (10)
        "Final Trawl" (3)
        "Ride Through the Rainbow" (2)
        "Windward Away" (2)
 11: "You Climb the Mountain," The Onlies [Self, 8/2025] (10)
        "Gold Watch and Chain" (2)
        "Cluck Old Hen" (2)
 15: "Long Journey Home," Various Artists [Appalsongs, 9/2025] (9)
        "What You Gonna Do with the Baby?," Old Crow Medicine Show (2)
        "House Carpenter," Jake Blount (2)
 16: "The Kasambwe Brothers," The Kasambwe Brothers [Hen House Studios, 11/2025] (8)
        "Getu" (2)
 16: "Together on a Rock," The Pairs [Self, 4/2025] (8)
        "Self Aware then Self Obsessed" (2)
        "Honey i" (2)
        "Everything Ends" (2)
 18: "Avec Elodie," Eloise & Co [Self, 10/2025] (7)
        "Deux De Vitteaux/Queen's Bath" (1)
 18: "The Best Times After All," Archie Fisher & Garnet Rogers [Snow Goose, 2019] (7)
        "Archie Fisher and Garnet Rogers" (2)
        "Ride Through the Rainbow" (2)
 18: "Further From the Country," William Prince [Six Shooter, 10/2025] (7)
        "Thousand Miles of Chain" (3)
        "Flowers on the Dash" (2)
        "All the Same" (2)
 18: "Kindred Spirits," John Flynn [Self, 11/2025] (7)
        "The Victim Tree" (7)
 18: "The Light Still Shines on the Main," Jory Nash [Self, 9/2025] (7)
        "Come Alive" (3)
        "The Light Still Shines on the Main" (2)
 18: "Meet You Where You Are," David Roth [Stockfisch] (7)
        "They Do Not Speak for Me" (7)
 18: "The Other Evening In Chicago," Bob Franke [Waterbug, 2005] (7)
        "Thanksgiving Eve" (1)
 18: "Shelter From the Storms," Lennie Gallant [Gallant Effort, 7/2025] (7)
        "Shelter From The Storms" (2)
 26: "Bones of Better Days," The Whispering Tree [Eyelash Soup, 10/2025] (6)
        "By My Side" (3)
 26: "Every Town," Anne Hills [Hand & Heart, 10/2025] (6)
        "Crazy Mary" (2)
        "Ballad Of Elizabeth Dark" (2)
 26: "The Immigrant," Tony Furtado [Yousay Furtado] (6)
        "The Immigrant" (6)
 26: "The Lies The Poets Tell," Laurie MacAllister [Self, 2018] (6)
        "Birches" (4)
 26: "Look to the Moon," Patty & Craig [Larrea, 9/2025] (6)
        "You're The River" (1)
 26: "Memory Mountain," Max Gomez [Marveltone, 11/2025] (6)
        "New Mexico" (2)
 26: "Night A," Nitty Gritty Dirt Band [NGDB Records, 11/2025] (6)
        "Nashville Skyline" (2)
        "For All the Good it Did" (2)
 26: "Off The Map," Archie Fisher & Garnet Rogers [Snow Goose Songs] (6)
        "Archie Fisher and Garnet Rogers" (2)
 26: "Summertime Dream," Gordon Lightfoot [Reprise, 1976] (6)
        "The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald" (6)

TOP SONGS of November 2025, Week 2
Compiled by Richard Gillmann from FOLKDJ-L playlists
Based on 2218 plays from 81 playlists from 66 Folk DJs

1. "The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald" (10)
     from "Summertime Dream" (Gordon Lightfoot)
2. "They Do Not Speak for Me" (7)
     from "Meet You Where You Are" (David Roth)
2. "The Victim Tree" (7)
     from "Kindred Spirits" (John Flynn)
4. "The Immigrant" (6)
     from "The Immigrant" (Tony Furtado)
4. "The Parting Glass" (6)
     from "A Silent Song" (Archie Fisher)
6. "Coming for You Next" (5)
     from "Coming for You Next - single" (Crowes Pasture)
6. "Witch of the West-mer-lands" (5)
     from "The Man With a Rhyme" (Archie Fisher)
8. "Birches" (4)
     from "The Lies The Poets Tell" (Laurie MacAllister)
8. "Final Trawl" (4)
     from "Windward Away" (Archie Fisher)
8. "Going Nowhere Tonight" (4)
     from "Going Nowhere Tonight" (Dave Gunning)
8. "Hold On" (4)
     from "unentitled" (John Gorka)
8. "Republicans In '25" (4)
     from "Republicans In '25 - single" (D. C. Anderson)
8. "We Are Better Than This" (4)
     from "We Are Better Than This - single" (Kim Eaton)
14. "Bienvenue" (3)
     from "Voisinages" (Le Vent Du Nord)
14. "By My Side" (3)
     from "Bones of Better Days" (The Whispering Tree)

TOP ARTISTS of November 2025, Week 2
Compiled by Richard Gillmann from FOLKDJ-L playlists
Based on 2218 plays from 81 playlists from 66 Folk DJs

1. Archie Fisher (46)
        "The Man With A Rhyme" (11)
        "A Silent Song" (10)
        "Windward Away" (10)
        "Sunsets I've Galloped Into" (9)
2. John Gorka (19)
        "unentitled" (16)
3. Willie Nelson (16)
        "Workin' Man: Willie Sings Merle" (13)
4. Bob Franke (15)
        "The Other Evening In Chicago" (7)
        "In This Night" (3)
5. Alison Brown & Steve Martin (14)
        "Safe, Sensible & Sane" (14)
5. Le Vent Du Nord (14)
        "Voisinages" (14)
5. The Onlies (14)
        "You Climb the Mountain" (10)
8. Chris Rusin (11)
        "Songs From a Secret Room" (11)
8. Cosy Sheridan (11)
        "The Breathing Room" (10)
8. Gordon Lightfoot (11)
        "Summertime Dream" (6)
8. John Flynn (11)
        "Kindred Spirits" (7)
        "Two Wolves" (3)
8. Meredith Moon (11)
        "From Here to the Sea" (11)
8. Terry Klein (11)
        "Hill Country Folk Music" (11)
14. Archie Fisher & Garnet Rogers (9)
        "The Best Times After All" (5)
        "Off The Map" (3)
15. David Roth (8)
        "Meet You Where You Are" (7)
15. The Kasambwe Brothers (8)
        "The Kasambwe Brothers" (8)
15. The Mammals (8)
        "Touch Grass, Vol. 1" (3)
        "Touch Grass, Vol. 2" (3)
15. The Pairs (8)
        "Together on a Rock" (8)
15. William Prince (8)
        "Further From the Country" (7)
20. Anne Hills (7)
        "Every Town" (6)
20. John Prine (7)
        "John Prine" (3)
20. Jory Nash (7)
        "The Light Still Shines on the Main" (7)
20. Lennie Gallant (7)
        "Shelter From the Storms" (7)
20. Paul Kelly (7)
        "Seventy" (5)
20. Tony Furtado (7)
        "The Immigrant" (6)

TOP LABELS of November 2025, Week 2
Compiled by Richard Gillmann from FOLKDJ-L playlists
Based on 2218 plays from 81 playlists from 66 Folk DJs

1. Red House (47)
2. Compass (42)
3. Rounder (33)
4. Columbia (21)
5. Greentrax (20)
6. Smithsonian/Folkways (17)
7. Legacy (16)
7. Thirty Tigers (16)
9. Appalsongs (13)
9. RCA (13)
11. Elektra (12)
11. Nonesuch (12)
11. Waterbug (12)
14. New West (11)
14. Reprise (11)
16. Flying Fish (10)
16. Warner (10)
18. Folk-Legacy (9)
18. Signature Sounds (9)
18. Snow Goose (9)
18. Yep Roc (9)

FOLK DJs - November 2025, Week 2
Compiled by Richard Gillmann from FOLKDJ-L playlists
Based on 2218 plays from 81 playlists from 66 Folk DJs

Al Kniola (WVPE-FM, IN)
Allen Larman (KPFK-FM, CA)
Art Menius (WHUP-LP, NC)
Artie Martello (folkmusicnotebook.com & mixcloud.com, NY)
Bill "Rusty" Crowell & Jan Alba (WPPM-FM & mixcloud.com, PA)
Bill Revill (WESU-FM, CT)
Bob Weiser (WOMR-FM & WFMR-FM, MA)
Bruce Cameron (2MCE-FM, Australia)
Bruce Swan (WSFM-LP, NC)
Carolyn VandeWiele (WFHB-FM, IN)
Charlie Backfish (WUSB-FM, NY)
Chris Kocher (WHRW-FM, NY)
Chris McGill (WSPN-FM, NY)
Colin Fielding (3INR-FM, Australia)
Craig Huegel (WMNF-FM, FL)
Dave Aton (WRFG-FM & mixcloud.com, GA)
David Sears (WBGU-FM & syndicated, OH)
Dick Hermans (WKZE-FM, NY)
Don Jacobson (KBOO-FM, OR)
Doug Tucker (KWVA-FM, OR)
Eureka Mike (thesonicplanet.com, FL)
Gerry Goodfriend (CKUT-FM, QC)
Graham Dean & Barbara Dean (WBCR-LP, MA)
Harlon Joye (WRFG-FM, GA)
Helen Leicht (folkmusicnotebook.com, PA)
Jack Dugan (WIOX-FM, NY)
Jan Vanderhorst (justusfolk.com, ON)
Jenny Flux (2BBB-FM, Australia)
Jim Gilliland (WRUW-FM, OH)
Jim Marino (CFMU-FM, ON)
Joe Pszonek (folkmusicnotebook.com, SC)
John Weingart (WPRB-FM, NJ)
Johnny Bazzano (KRCB-FM, CA)
Jon Stein (WTBQ-FM, NY)
Kai Schafft (WVBR-FM, NY)
Kate McNally (New Hampshire Public Radio)
Katrina Knight (mixcloud.com)
Kejo Buchanan (CJTM-AM, ON)
Kevin Elliott (WEFT-FM, IL)
Laurie DesJardins (KVMR-FM, CA)
Len Holton (KUAR-FM & mixcloud.com, NY)
Marc Albert (KMUZ-FM & mixcloud.com, OR)
Marilyn Rea Beyer (WFMT-FM, IL)
Mark Michaelis (WGDR-FM, VT)
Menachem Vinegrad (Radio Upper Galilee & folkmusicnotebook.com, Israel)
Michael Alzo (WSLU-FM, NY)
Michael Benson (WESU-FM, CT)
Michael Park (mixcloud.com & PRX, NY)
Michael S. Stock (WLRN-FM, FL)
Mike Regenstreif (CKCU-FM, ON)
Mitch Park (Radio Hawke's Bay & Radio Kidnappers, New Zealand)
Nick Noble (WICN-FM, MA)
Paul Hartman (WTMD-FM, MD)
Peter Kernast (WTSR-FM, NJ)
Richard Gillmann (KBCS-FM & mixcloud.com, WA)
Richard Howard (KZMU-FM, UT)
Ron Cooke (KTAL-LP, NM)
Steve Edge (CiTR-FM, ON)
Stu Weaver (WFCF-FM, FL)
Taylor Caffery (WRKF-FM, LA)
Terry B. Moses & Naomi Soule (KCLC-FM, MO)
Tom Coxworth (CKUA-FM, AB)
Tom Druckenmiller (WDIY-FM & podcast, PA)
Tom Funk (KGLP-FM, NM)
Wally Bowen (KOCF-LP, OR)
Wayne Greene (KEOS-FM, TX)