OFFICIAL FOLK ALBUMS CHART MARCH 2026
9 new releases have entered the March chart!
Brand new at No.1 is Grammy-award winners Mumford & Sons’ sixth studio album, Prizefighter (Island Records). The album enshrines collaborations old and new, with the recruitment of producer Aaron Dessner, who first worked on the band’s 2015 album Wilder Mind. Recorded in just 10 days in Dessner’s New York studio, Prizefighter also features artists such as Hozier, Chris Stapleton, Gracie Abrams and Gigi Perez.
Highly acclaimed British songwriter Katherine Priddy’s third studio album These Frightening Machines (Cooking Vinyl) lands at No. 2. The intriguing, sonically varied songs on Priddy’s new album explore what it means to keep going when things fall apart, to hold onto connections in a world that sometimes divides us and to figure out where we fit within the machines and systems we are part of.
At No. 7 enters Hen Ogledd’s confounding and haunting Discombobulated (Weird World). Their most complex and emotionally charged record to date, the album involves meditations on political tumult, personal crisis and mental wellbeing in a world gone mad, balanced by a warm sense of inclusivity. Discombobulated is as intricate and profoundly moving a record as one can expect from Richard Dawson & co.
Coming in at No. 12 is Catrin Finch’s Notes to Self (Bendigedig), a series of reflective and deeply personal new tracks she has composed for Katy, her 13-year-old self, and her first album of solo compositions in a decade. Notes To Self not only showcases Catrin’s evolution as a musician, but charts a remarkable career shaped by her experiences as a gay woman, a cancer survivor, a sister, daughter and a mother.
Experimental folk songwriter Joshua Burnside’s It’s Not Going to be Okay (Nettwerk) arrives at No. 14. Written and recorded in the wake of the death of Joshua’s closest friend, the album is his most stripped-back and unguarded work to date. Where previous works explored folklore, politics and myth through surreal, tense textures and offbeat folk supplemented by electronica, It’s Not Going to be Okay distils Burnside’s brilliance down with immaculate precision where each track serves like an entry into a grief journal.
Lucy Kitchen’s In the Low Light (Bohemia Rose) enters at No. 19. Written in the wake of her husband’s death in October 2022 the record explores themes of loss, grief, memory and transformation. Yet within its sorrow, there are glimpses of joy, gratitude and rediscovery. For Lucy, the act of creating became a lifeline; a way to process pain, honour love and slowly reassemble herself through music.
At No. 21 lands the self-titled album Hedera (Cuculi Records) by the Bristol-based chamber folk collective. The production and release of 'Hedera’ was supported by a hugely successful crowdfunding campaign in which the band’s community generated over £7000. The resulting album, chosen as The Guardian’s Folk Album of the Month, is a spellbinding collection of original and traditional pieces translated through a prism of experimental minimalism and contemporary classical influences.
At No. 30 is Fix Your Hearts by singer-songwriter Joe McCorriston. A labour of love and careful consideration, the album was recorded in Oxfordshire over a period of 18 months with producer and friend Dave Giles. McCorriston’s third studio album marks the independent artist’s first appearance in the Official UK Charts, reaching #29 in its first week.
Entering at No. 37 is Georgia Shackleton’s From The Floorboards, an album shaped by history, the sea and a set of extraordinary instruments. A distant relative of Sir Ernest Shackleton, Georgia commemorates through original compositions 125 years since her ancestor set sail aboard RRS Discovery with Captain Scott. Central to the album is the Shackleton violin, built from the original floorboards of Sir Shackleton’s former Edinburgh home.
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