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.
Next week there’s going to be a long overdue new Mr. Bluegrass Manners column, so to get you in the mood,…
Sequels are so often disappointing, Santa Clause 2 being a notable exception. Speaking of holiday classics, Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol…
I addressed the issue of name-dropping early on in the life of this column. Béla said he was pretty happy with…
We haven’t discussed haiku much lately, and I’m not sure with all that’s going on in the country and the world,…
We sometimes exaggerate in bluegrass music as a way of compensating for the fact that we aren’t generally playing music for…
Some time ago, I proposed a video game for songwriters that would allow them to experience simulated hardships to enable them…
AI is here to stay, and is gunning for every one of our jobs. White collar jobs, that is, in the…
How do we define “success” in the bluegrass music business? We certainly can’t do it by the standards used in the…
If you’re playing bluegrass music professionally, or even semi-professionally, at some point you’re going to have to endure that dreaded pre-hiring…
It’s always exciting when new research sheds some light on the mysterious origins of some of the songs we sing, and…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
