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.
For some reason, pandemic nostalgia perhaps, there has been a whole new round of comments about an editorial written by David…
Last week I was preoccupied with another side business I have, which is the raising of prize miniature llamas (one of…
People that are new to bluegrass music sometimes need some help in translating our jargon. Hearing that someone is “tearing it…
I’ll admit that, perhaps because of my radio day job, I listen more intently than I should to radio advertising. I’m…
This is my 500th column for Bluegrass Today. This has taken me a little by surprise; I thought I had run…
The IBMA is in the midst of a membership drive which has been christened, “Catch the Bluegrass Wave.” Before going any…
We have an annual(ish) tradition here, which is to compile some of bluegrass music’s most uninteresting stories of the past year,…
Last week we unveiled some of the bluegrass laws contained in recently discovered ancient scrolls from 1978. So as not overwhelm…
Last week there was a rerun of my bluegrass rules column, which made for an appropriate setup for this one, which…
“I like the rules. I think you know how I feel about that.” – Fake Santa in Santa Clause 2 In…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
