- Top album: Halfway Home By Morning by Matt Andersen
- = Albertan
- = Canadian
- Matt Andersen: Halfway Home By Morning (True North)
- Joey Landreth: Hindsight (Cadence)
- Norah Jones: Begin Again (Blue Note)
- Yola: Walk Through Fire (Easy Eye)
- The Budos Band: V (Daptone)
- Los Straitjackets: Channel Surfing (EP) (Yep Roc)
- Alma Afrobeat Ensemble: Monkey See, Monkey Do (Slow Walk)
- Andrew Bird: My Finest Work Yet (Loma Vista)
- Shovels & Rope: By Blood (Dualtone)
- Ibibio Sound Machine: Doko Mien (Merge)
- Wintersleep: In The Land Of (Dine Alone)
- Danielle Knibbe: The Ribcage & The Heart (Independent)
- Karen O & Danger Mouse: Lux Prima (BMG)
- Kronos Quartet: Placeless (Valley)
- Cass McCombs: Tip of the Sphere (ANTI-)
- Josh Ritter: Fever Breaks (Pytheas / Thirty Tigers)
- Harpdog Brown: For Love & Money (Dog House)
- Tanika Charles: The Gumption (Record Kicks)
- Emancipator & 9 Theory: Cheeba Gold (Independent)
- Broken Social Scene: Let’s Try The After Vol 1 & 2 (Arts & Crafts)
- Rupa & the April Fishes: Growing Upward (Electric Gumbo)
- Jimmy And The Sleepers: All That Money (Independent)
- Jaimie Branch: Fly or Die (International Anthem)
- Tedeschi Trucks Band: Signs (Fantasy)
- Leyla McCalla: The Capitalist Blues (Jazz Village / [PIAS])
- Neon Dreams: Neon Dreams (Independent)
- The Rolling Stones: Honk (Interscope)
- Mandolin Orange: Tides of a Teardrop (Yep Roc)
- The Cash Box Kings: Hail To The Kings! (Alligator)
- Kiwi Jr.: Football Money (Mint)