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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.
The music world yet lost another legend this evening with the passing of guitar virtuoso Doc Watson, who was 89. The…
A year or two back in Virginia, the renowned jam band Phish and a bluegrass festival shared a parking lot between…
Another bluegrass legend is gone. Doug Dillard, 75, died Wednesday night after being rushed to a hospital in Nashville. Doug co-founded…
IBMA’s World of Bluegrass will leave Nashville and move to Raleigh, NC, for the 2013 business conference and Fan Fest. An…
You might not agree with all of the song selections and artist choices on Putumayo’s Bluegrass Collection, which comes out May…
Bluegrass has lost another pioneer. Everett Lilly, who played with Flatt & Scruggs but is best known for joining his brother…
Is IBMA’s World of Bluegrass moving from Nashville to Raleigh, NC? There are reports circulating that the weeklong conference and Fan…
The May/June issue of American Songwriter magazine has a lot to offer bluegrassers, although not on the songwriting front. The country…
Editor’s Note: This is the latest in an occasional series of articles examining the International Bluegrass Music Association’s finances. IBMA’s expenses…
The first time Sam Bush heard Akira Otsuka and his friends in the Japanese band the Bluegrass 45, he remembers a…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music