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.
It’s been such an exciting development to see the growth of bluegrass music in higher education. Programs like those at ETSU,…
The Memorial Day weekend is sort of a milestone in the year. It’s the unofficial start of summer. The fashion people…
After writing 500 or so of these, I find that I occasionally tire of all the truth-telling (with the occasional lie…
There’s a tradition here of publishing at least one bluegrass haiku column per year. I’ve usually taken presidential election years off…
WIth Gen Z soaking up a lot of press right now (while not knowing what the antiquated term “press” even refers…
For your consideration: I might as well warn you that I’ll be opening all correspondence this way for the next two…
I’m traveling today, so this is actually a rerun from years gone by. Since the subject is taxes for musicians, though,…
We sometimes don’t like to think of it this way, but we live in a fiercely competitive and ever-changing business, with…
I never thought I’d find myself discussing video games in this space; I’m really more of a pinball guy, which I…
We in the bluegrass music community have our own vocabulary, like referring to the banjo as “the five,” an instrumental solo…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
