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These charts are compiled weekly from actual airplay reported by over 50 independent contributing Bluegrass DJ’s. Only songs less than 18 months from date of original release appear here.
A weekly look at the most played songs of the week on radio.
A monthly aggregate of the most played bluegrass songs of the month on radio.
Weekly radio favorites focusing on the intersection between progressive bluegrass & Americana.
Weekly rundown of the most played bluegrass gospel tracks on radio.
Bill Emerson’s impact on the five string banjo cannot be overstated. A member of the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame, Emerson’s…
Bluegrass singer and bandleader Cliff Waldron, early musical partner of Bill Emerson, and one of the leading lights of the 1960s…
Marvelous news from Patuxent Music! The Maryland label run by Tim Mindte has brought back some classic tracks from the late,…
Pinecastle Records has released a second single from their upcoming celebration of instrumental bluegrass, Bluegrass 2022, featuring banjo master Scott Vestal with…
The memorial service for Bill Emerson (William Hundley Emerson, Jr.) will take place at Our Lady of Good Counsel Catholic Church…
Bluegrass Hall of Fame banjo player Bill Emerson passed away on August 21 from complications of pneumonia. He died surrounded by…
615 Hideaway Records has announced the signing of banjo legend Bill Emerson to the label, with plans for a new album…
Following an invitation that the International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) extended to its members that they share a memory from “75…
2019 Hall of Fame inductee Bill Emerson has been a bluegrass music icon for over 60 years. His youngest son Billy…
On this day ….. On January 22, 1938, Bill Emerson was born in Washington D.C., from where he went on to…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
