| Rank | Artist | Album | Label | YTD Spins |
| 1 | Lumineers | Cleopatra | Dualtone | 11663 |
| 2 | Avett Brothers | True Sadness | American/Republic | 10846 |
| 3 | Lake Street Dive | Side Pony | Nonesuch | 10094 |
| 4 | Record Company | Give It Back To You | Concord/CMG | 9985 |
| 5 | Andrew Bird | Are You Serious | Loma Vista/CMG | 9599 |
| 6 | Head and the Heart | Signs Of Light | Warner Bros. | 9280 |
| 7 | Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats | Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats | Stax/CMG | 9019 |
| 8 | Case-Lang-Veirs | Case-Lang-Veirs | Anti- | 8567 |
| 9 | Jayhawks | Paging Mr. Proust | Independent/Thirty Tigers | 8330 |
| 10 | Sturgill Simpson | A Sailor’s Guide to Earth | Atlantic | 8319 |
| 11 | Margaret Glaspy | Emotions and Math | ATO | 8224 |
| 12 | Bonnie Raitt | Dig In Deep | Redwing | 7844 |
| 13 | Band Of Horses | Why Are You OK | Interscope | 7626 |
| 14 | Wilco | Schmilco | Anti- | 7578 |
| 15 | Ray LaMontagne | Ouroboros | RCA | 7452 |
| 16 | Tedeschi Trucks Band | Let Me Get By | Fantasy/CMG | 7424 |
| 17 | Michael Kiwanuka | Love & Hate (Michael Kiwanuka) | Interscope | 7215 |
| 18 | Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals | Call It What It Is | Stax/CMG | 7171 |
| 19 | Paul Simon | Stranger To Stranger | Concord/CMG | 6958 |
| 20 | Radiohead | A Moon Shaped Pool | XL | 6669 |
| 21 | Frightened Rabbit | Painting of a Panic Attack | Canvasback/Atlantic | 6499 |
| 22 | Mavis Staples | Livin’ On A High Note | Anti- | 6254 |
| 23 | Cage The Elephant | Tell Me I’m Pretty | RCA | 6101 |
| 24 | Mudcrutch | 2 (Mudcrutch) | Reprise | 6012 |
| 25 | Charles Bradley | Changes (Charles Bradley) | Daptone | 5818 |
| 26 | Joseph | I’m Alone, No You’re Not | ATO | 5763 |
| 27 | St. Paul and the Broken Bones | Sea of Noise | Records | 5695 |
| 28 | M. Ward | More Rain | Merge | 5627 |
| 30 | Sam Beam & Jesca Hoop | Love Letter for Fire | Sub Pop | 5100 |
| 32 | Dylan LeBlanc | Cautionary Tale | Single Lock/Thirty Tigers | 5048 |
| 33 | Red Hot Chili Peppers | The Getaway (Red Hot Chili Peppers) | Warner Bros. | 5000 |
| 34 | Shovels & Rope | Little Seeds | New West | 4974 |
| 35 | Sunflower Bean | Human Ceremony | Fat Possum | 4918 |
| 36 | Norah Jones | Day Breaks (Norah Jones) | Blue Note/Capitol | 4885 |
| 37 | James Hunter Six | Hold On! (James Hunter Six) | Daptone | 4814 |
| 38 | Lucius | Good Grief | Mom + Pop | 4774 |
| 39 | Angel Olsen | My Woman | Jagjaguwar | 4755 |
| 40 | David Bowie | Blackstar (David Bowie) | Columbia | 4711 |
| 41 | Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros | PersonA | Community | 4688 |
| 42 | Josh Ritter | Sermon On The Rocks | Pytheas/Thirty Tigers | 4626 |
| 43 | Pete Yorn | ArrangingTime | Capitol | 4464 |
| 44 | Lissie | My Wild West | Independent/Thirty Tigers | 4417 |
| 45 | Adele | 25 (Adele) | Columbia | 4383 |
| 46 | Nada Surf | You Know Who You Are | Barsuk | 4265 |
| 48 | Dawes | We’re All Gonna Die | HUB | 4142 |
| 49 | Dr. Dog | The Psychedelic Swamp | Anti- | 4115 |
| 50 | Local Natives | Sunlit Youth | Loma Vista/CMG | 4092 |
| 51 | Nick Waterhouse | Never Twice | Innovative Leisure | 4059 |
| 52 | White Denim | Stiff | Downtown | 4036 |
| 53 | Colvin & Earle | Colvin & Earle | Fantasy/CMG | 4029 |
| 54 | Ra Ra Riot | Need Your Light | Barsuk | 3985 |
| 55 | Amos Lee | Spirit | John Varvatos/Republic | 3970 |
| 56 | Kurt Vile | B’lieve I’m Goin Down | Matador | 3932 |
| 57 | Coldplay | A Head Full Of Dreams | Parlophone/Atlantic | 3881 |
| 58 | Leon Bridges | Coming Home (Leon Bridges) | Columbia | 3841 |
| 59 | Mumford & Sons | Johannesburg | Glassnote | 3771 |
| 60 | City and Colour | If I Should Go Before You | Dine Alone | 3728 |
| 61 | Pretenders | Alone | BMG | 3681 |
| 62 | Iggy Pop | Post Pop Depression | Loma Vista/CMG | 3673 |
| 63 | Alabama Shakes | Sound & Color | ATO | 3651 |
| 64 | Bon Iver | 22, A Million | Jagjaguwar | 3564 |
| 65 | Warpaint | Heads Up | Rough Trade | 3561 |
| 66 | Car Seat Headrest | Teens Of Denial | Matador | 3545 |
| 68 | Revivalists | Men Amongst Mountains | Wind-Up/CMG | 3521 |
| 69 | Hiss Golden Messenger | Heart Like A Levee | Merge | 3454 |
| 70 | Blind Pilot | And Then Like Lions | ATO | 3453 |
| 71 | Thao & The Get Down Stay Down | A Man Alive | Ribbon | 3426 |
| 72 | PJ Harvey | The Hope Six Demolition Project | Vagrant | 3420 |
| 73 | Yeasayer | Amen & Goodbye | Mute | 3403 |
| 74 | Catfish & The Bottlemen | The Ride (Catfish & The Bottlemen) | Capitol | 3377 |
| 75 | El Vy | Return To The Moon | 4AD | 3359 |
| 76 | Beth Orton | Kidsticks | Anti- | 3357 |
| 77 | Arcs | Yours, Dreamily | Nonesuch | 3353 |
| 78 | Bob Mould | Patch The Sky | Merge | 3268 |
| 79 | Bastille | Wild World | Virgin/Capitol | 3223 |
| 80 | Lucinda Williams | Ghosts Of Highway 20 | Independent/Thirty Tigers | 3208 |
| 81 | Drive-By Truckers | American Band | ATO | 3129 |
| 82 | Parker Millsap | The Very Last Day | Okrahoma/Thirty Tigers | 3111 |
| 83 | Shearwater | Jet Plane And Oxbow | Sub Pop | 3086 |
| 84 | Borns | Dopamine (Borns) | Interscope | 3025 |
| 85 | Passenger | Young As The Morning, Old As the Sea | Nettwerk | 2998 |
| 86 | Various | Day Of The Dead | 4AD | 2994 |
| 87 | Ages and Ages | Something To Ruin | Partisan | 2950 |
| 88 | Strumbellas | Hope (Strumbellas) | Glassnote | 2932 |
| 89 | Regina Spektor | Remember Us To Life | Sire/Warner Bros. | 2917 |
| 90 | Boy & Bear | Limit Of Love | Nettwerk | 2905 |
| 90 | Basia Bulat | Good Advice | Secret City | 2905 |
| 92 | Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings | Miss Sharon Jones OST | Daptone | 2889 |
| 93 | Kings Of Leon | Walls (Kings Of Leon) | RCA | 2803 |
| 94 | Whitney | Light Upon The Lake | Secretly Canadian | 2790 |
| 94 | Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam | I Had A Dream That You Were Mine | Glassnote | 2790 |
| 96 | Last Shadow Puppets | Everything You’ve Come To Expect | Domino | 2772 |
| 97 | Cactus Blossoms | You’re Dreaming | Red House | 2759 |
| 98 | Sarah Jarosz | Undercurrent | Sugar Hill/CMG | 2723 |
| 99 | Ziggy Marley | Ziggy Marley | Tuff Gong | 2716 |
| 100 | Sara Watkins | Young In All The Wrong Ways | New West | 2697 |
| 101 | Sting | 57th & 9th | A&M/Interscope | 2637 |
| 102 | Florence & The Machine | How Big How Blue How Beautiful | Republic | 2634 |
| 103 | Dinosaur Jr. | Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not | Jagjaguwar | 2601 |
| 104 | Aoife O’Donovan | In The Magic Hour | Yep Roc | 2597 |
