Your authoritative and definitive news source for all things bluegrass, updated six days a week, with airplay charts, events directory, interviews, & puzzles.
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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.
Audio from a recent performance on Mountain Stage by Canadian banjoist Jayme Stone and Malian kora player Mansa Sissoko, is now…
Fiery flatpicker Cody Kilby has released a new solo project, Many Roads Traveled. It’s the third album under his name, but…
Missy Raines, seven-time IBMA Bass Player of the Year, has signed a multi-project deal with Compass Records, run by fellow IBMA…
Ralph Stanley II has just signed with Mike Drudge at Class Act Entertainment. Drudge will handle Stanley’s concert booking exclusively. Known…
Swedish bluegrass heartthrobs, G2, are making plans to spend substantial parts of the next few years touring in the US. In…
A benefit concert is scheduled for next weekend (11/16) for popular Kentucky musician and singer, Vicki Simmons, who suffered a stroke…
Rhonda Vincent’s management has just announced that two members of her band, Kenny Ingram and Darrell Webb, will leave The Rage…
Randy Kohrs’ record label, Left of Center Records, is soon to release a new resophonic guitar CD entitled, Hornography. Hornography serves…
Our own intrepid correspondent, Richard Thompson [bluegrassmercury], spent a week in Nashville in early October, having traveled from the UK to…
The November issue of Banjo NewsLetter marks the 35th Anniversary of continuous publication for this cherished 5-string monthly. And how appropriate…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
