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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.
Thanks to a long term loan from the Grand Ole Opry, the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame & Museum now has…
This special anniversary remembrance of Bill Monroe is a contribution from Richard D. Smith, author of the definitive biography of Big…
Earlier this month during the 25th annual Podunk Bluegrass Festival in Goshen, CT, the winners of their Podunk Songwriters Contest were…
Bluegrass singer Brayden Williamson has long appreciated the legacy that Bill Monroe left, and has done much to build on that…
Over the last few decades there have been several books written about the Father of Bluegrass. While some such as Tom…
Roland and Clarence White/Roland White and Diane Bouska – photo by Nicole Christianson Pioneer, multi-instrumentalist and singer Roland White, primarily a…
We told you in November about the Gibson Bill Monroe Hall of Fame mandolin presented to Doyle Lawson at the Station…
One of the Blue Grass Boys of the mid-1970s, Bill Holden, passed away suddenly in Knoxville, Tennessee on November 15, 2021…
When, in June 1979, Chicago-born Mark Hembree approached Bill Monroe about taking over as the permanent replacement for Randy Davis, Hembree…
On September 16, 1946, Bill Monroe recorded for the first time with Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs. These two evening…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music