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.
If you follow the bluegrass church calendar at all, you know this week is known as the Feast of the Second…
We’re all adjusting to a world in which recordings and other music projects are being funded in new ways. Even established…
I have to say, as objectively as I can, that one of the things I like best about satellite radio is…
Back in the days when I served on the IBMA Board, as I think I’d mentioned in a previous column, it…
I’m over in Scotland for the next week or so on what is supposed to be an actual vacation (I’ve never…
Last week’s column about Facebook fan pages generated a few reader questions, and I wanted to field those before moving on…
Ever since Facebook came on the scene, making people in vast portions of the world up to 58% less productive in…
Last week, I experimented with changing lyrics to some of our time-honored murder ballads, and most agreed with me that the…
I heard recently from a SiriusXM listener who was bothered by the fact that we seem to play a lot of…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
