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

Billboard.com ^[2]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 ^[3] 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 ^[3]
2. Rare Bird Alert – Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers
3. Up On The Ridge – Dierks Bentley ^[4]
4. The Goat Rodeo Sessions – Yo-Yo Ma/Stuart Duncan/Edgar Meyer/Chris Thile
5. Follow Me Down – Sarah Jarosz ^[5]
6. The Grascals and Friends: Country Classics With A Bluegrass Spin – The Grascals ^[6]
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 ^[7]
17. Dailey & Vincent Sing The Statler Brothers – Dailey & Vincent
18. The Isaacs Naturally: An Almost A Cappella Collection – The Isaacs
19. Taken – Rhonda Vincent ^[8]
20. Country Hits Bluegrass Style – Ricky Skaggs ^[9]
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 ^[10]
30. Song Up In Her Head – Sarah Jarosz ^[5]
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 ^[6]
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 ^[11]
42. Reason and Rhyme: Bluegrass Songs By Robert Hunter & Jim Lauderdale – Jim Lauderdale ^[12]
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 ^[9]
50. The All-Star Jam – Various Artists

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