| 1 | Bonnie "Prince" Billy | |||
| 2 | Loretta Lynn | |||
| 3 | Richard Hell & The Voidoids | |||
| 4 | Slint | |||
| 5 | My Morning Jacket | |||
| 6 | Bill Monroe | |||
| 7 | Sturgill Simpson | |||
| 8 | Lionel Hampton | |||
| 9 | Jackie DeShannon | |||
| 10 | Red Foley | |||
| 11 | Meade Lux Lewis | |||
| 12 | Billy Ray Cyrus | |||
| 13 | Skeeter Davis | |||
| 14 | Joan Osborne | |||
| 15 | W.H. Stepp | |||
| 16 | Rosemary Clooney | |||
| 17 | Merle Travis | |||
| 18 | Tom T. Hall | |||
| 19 | Cage the Elephant | |||
Artists bubbling under: | ||||
| Archer Prewitt | ||||
| Billy Vaughn | ||||
| Chris Stapleton | ||||
| Exile | ||||
| Gastr del Sol | ||||
| Helen Humes | ||||
| Jim Ford | ||||
| Jim James | ||||
| Joan Shelley | ||||
| John Conlee | ||||
| Johnny Smith | ||||
| Joyce Harris | ||||
| Keith Whitley | ||||
| Knocked Loose | ||||
| Monsters of Folk | ||||
| Osborne Brothers | ||||
| Panopticon | ||||
| Pete Steele | ||||
| Sylvester Weaver | ||||