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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.
At long last… Bluegrass justice from Nashville. This morning it was announced that The Stanley Brothers have been inducted into the…
Tom Markham at Warehouse Studio (2020) – photo © Bob Self Jacksonville, FL recording engineer Tom Markham, who tracked The Stanley…
Tomorrow, May 1, 2025, the Birthplace of Country Music Museum in Bristol, VA is offering a rare treat for lovers of…
Compass Records is preparing an 80th Anniversary Stanley Brothers Tribute project for 2025, and are releasing a debut single this week…
The Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame & Museum in Owensboro, KY has opened a special exhibit featuring the personal instruments played…
The state of Tennessee has chosen November 4 for the dedication of a new historical marker in Johnson City commemorating the…
The Stanley Brothers, from Dickenson County, Virginia, formed their band, the Clinch Mountain Boys, in the month of November 1946. Carter…
Lester Woodie passed away on March 23, 2018, at Lynchburg General Hospital Lynchburg, Virginia. He was 86 years old and had…
Since last year, SamJam Bluegrass festival organizers Sam Karr and Rick Greene have helped promote the festival in a uniquely Kentucky…
The Stanley Brothers’ 1951 Columbia release of the classic song, I’m A Man of Constant Sorrow, is among the 2020 Grammy Hall…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music