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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.
Prague-based banjo and mandolin builder, Rosťa Čapek, is having a double celebration in the spring – his 55th birthday, and the…
Hillbilly Fever is a band I first became acquainted with during my brief career as a booking agent. When I began…
North Carolina bluegrass singer and fiddler Carley Arrowood is back with a tease from her upcoming second album with Mountain Home…
Last week we unveiled some of the bluegrass laws contained in recently discovered ancient scrolls from 1978. So as not overwhelm…
Ed Leonard, John Meador, and Joe Dan Cornett with Billy Blue Publishing John Meador, tenor vocalist and guitarist, and one of…
Speaking of the SPBGMA International Band Championship, the 2022 winners, Retro 78, have signed a record deal and released their first…
When the 2023 SPBGMA International Band Championship was decided last month in Nashville, the The Waddington Brothers, from southwest North Dakota,…
Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road welcome a new fiddle player, Warren Blair, for their 2023 season. Jordan shared… “Matt Hooper, who…
Billy Blue Records has a new single for Jason Barie, fiddler with Joe Mullins & The Radio Ramblers, who is also…
This review is a contribution from bluegrass guitarist and educator, Tony Watt, who manages Bluegrass Tuesdays in Cambridge, MA. This past…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
