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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.
Blue Grass Boogiemen at the 2024 Rotterdam Bluegrass Festival – photo © Victoria Zakharchuk The Rotterdam Bluegrass Festival was again held…
While we have lots of family bands in bluegrass music, we don’t seem to have as many husband and wife teams…
Lifelong fiddler Randall Collins died on June 27, surrounded by those he loved. He was 84 years of age. Randall was…
Hammertowne at the 2024 Stringbean Memorial Bluegrass Festival – photo © Roger Black The weekend of June 20-22 brought the ringing…
Nashville bluegrass artist Brandon Bostic has a new single to share, a song called Train, which he wrote with James Adkins….
Pinecastle Records is back with a new single for Nick Chandler & Delivered, a catching little number called Old Devil’s Dream,…
The American Heritage Music Festival has for over 25 years had the reputation of being high-spirited gathering where fiddles sing and…
What began as Josh Martin’s backing band for a series of acoustic shows in the Midwest, has morphed into an eclectic…
As mentioned last week, our recent discussion of epitaphs leads us right to a topic we’ve never tackled here before: the…
Bluegrass singer and bandleader Cliff Waldron, early musical partner of Bill Emerson, and one of the leading lights of the 1960s…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music