Billboard‘s Top 50 Bluegrass Albums of 2011

Alison Krauss & Union Station's 2011 CD, Paper Airplane. Photo courtesy of Rounder Records.

Billboard.com has released their list of the Top 50 Bluegrass Albums of 2011. Albums were ranked by sales data as compiled by Nielsen SoundScan. Congratulations to Alison Krauss & Union Station for having the Top Bluegrass Album of the year with Paper Airplane! What do you think of this ranking? Who’d top YOUR Top 50 list? Leave us a comment below!

1. Paper Airplane – Alison Krauss & Union Station
2. Rare Bird Alert – Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers
3. Up On The Ridge – Dierks Bentley
4. The Goat Rodeo Sessions – Yo-Yo Ma/Stuart Duncan/Edgar Meyer/Chris Thile
5. Follow Me Down – Sarah Jarosz
6. The Grascals and Friends: Country Classics With A Bluegrass Spin – The Grascals
7. Palomino – Trampled By Turtles
8. Bright Morning Stars – The Wailin’ Jennys
9. Genuine Negro Jigs – Carolina Chocolate Drops
10. Best of Bluegrass – Steve Ivey
11. Antifogmatic – Punch Brothers
12. City of Refuge – Abigail Washburn
13. Christmas – The Isaacs
14. Sleep With One Eye Open – Chris Thile & Michael Daves
15. Reckless – The SteelDrivers
16. Daybreak – Sierra Hull
17. Dailey & Vincent Sing The Statler Brothers – Dailey & Vincent
18. The Isaacs Naturally: An Almost A Cappella Collection – The Isaacs
19. Taken – Rhonda Vincent
20. Country Hits Bluegrass Style – Ricky Skaggs
21. Carolina Chocolate Drops/ Luminescent Orchestrii – Carolina Chocolate Drops/Luminescent Orchestrii
22. American Legacies – Preservation Hall Jazz Band & The Del McCoury Band
23. Legacy – Peter Rowan Bluegrass Band
24. Bluegrass Gospel – Steve Ivey
25. O Brother, Where Art Thou? Soundtrack – Various Artists
26. Best of Bluegrass – Steve Ivey
27. The Great Divide – Tommy Shaw
28. Bluegrass Christmas – Dr. Elmo
29. Mother’s Prayer – Ralph Stanley
30. Song Up In Her Head – Sarah Jarosz
31. Why Can’t We – The Isaacs
32. Stomp And Smash – The Devil Makes Three
33. Handguns – Greensky Bluegrass
34. Beat The Devil and Carry A Rail – Noam Pikelny
35. Sounds of Home – Blue Highway
36. Chicken & Egg – Tim O’Brien
37. Dance Til Your Stockings Are Hot and Ravelin’ – The Grascals
38. Live At The Mauch Chunk Opera House – The Wailin’ Jennys
39. Echo Boom – The Farewell Drifters
40. Guts N’ Teeth – Old Man Markley
41. Lonesome Whistle – The Roys
42. Reason and Rhyme: Bluegrass Songs By Robert Hunter & Jim Lauderdale – Jim Lauderdale
43. Tall Grass & Cool Water: Cowboy Songs – Michael Martin Murphy
44. The Heart of a Song – Junior Sisk & The Ramblers Choice
45. The Brick Album – The Greencards
46. An Appalachian Christmas – Mark O’Connor
47. Songs of the Grateful Dead – Jesse McReynolds & Friends with David Nelson & Stu Allen
48. Live At The Down Home – NewFound Road
49. A Skaggs Family Christmas – Ricky Skaggs
50. The All-Star Jam – Various Artists

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