Top 30 July 30 – August 5
| 1 Grant Hart | The Argument | Domino |
| 2 Gregory Alan Isakov | The Weatherman | |
| 3 Mavis Staples | One True Vine | Anti |
| 4 Vampire Weekend | Modern Vampires of the City | XL |
| 5 Portugal the Man | Evil Friends | Atlantic |
| 6 Shannon and the Clams | Dream in the Rat House | Hardly Art |
| 7 Sigur Ros | Kveikur | XL |
| 8 Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros | S/T | Vagrant |
| 9 Gauntlet Hair | Stills | Dead Oceans |
| 10 Deerhunter | Monomania | 4AD |
| 11 National | Trouble Will Find Me | 4AD |
| 12 Queens of the Stone Age | Like Clockwork | Matador |
| 13 Iron & Wine | Ghost on Ghost | Nonesuch |
| 14 Robert Pollard | Honey Locust Honky Tonk | GBV Inc. |
| 15 Colfax Speed Queen | Satisfaction Intended | |
| 16 Iggy & the Stooges | Ready To Die | Fat Possum |
| 17 Kurt Vile | Wakin On A Pretty Daze | Matador |
| 18 Daft Punk | Random Access Memories | Columbia |
| 19 Steve Earle | The Low Highway | New West |
| 20 Junip | Junip | Mute |
| 21 A. Tom Collins | Stick and Poke | |
| 22 Fitz and the Tantrums | More Than Just A Dream | Elektra |
| 23 Mikal Cronin | MCII | Merge |
| 24 Southwire | Southwire | Chaperone |
| 25 Lorde | The Love Club [EP] | Republic-Lava |
| 26 Dessa | Parts Of Speech | Doomtree |
| 27 Smith Westerns | Soft Will | Mom and Pop |
| 28 Salvia Plath | The Bardo Story | Weird World |
| 29 Alela Diane | About Farewell | Rusted Blue |
| 30 Ebony Bones | Behold, A Pale Horse | 1984 |
