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.
Jason Moore with Sideline at the Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival – photos by Frank Baker The bluegrass world is running short of…
Tributes to Hall of Famer Tom T. Hall are pouring in, deservedly, from all corners of the music world after his…
Coming up with rules for holding in-person events in the era of COVID isn’t easy, and no matter what organizers settle…
Bluegrass is one of the unheralded stars of the Summer Olympics in Tokyo, thanks to 17-year-old Alaskan, Lydia Jacoby. After she…
Donald Dowdy, whose powerful vocals helped fuel the The Bluegrass Brothers and The Dowdy Brothers, passed away Thursday. He was 34…
Sometimes we bid farewell to incredibly gifted musicians, once-in-a-generation talents who leave an indelible imprint on our music. And sometimes, we…
Missy Raines is getting ready to celebrate a return to post-pandemic normalcy with another return – to her roots. The nine-time…
I hear a lot of bluegrass music that is good but not necessarily different – do we really need, for instance,…
Here’s some of the best news we’ve reported in a while: hotel rooms and tickets for IBMA’s World of Bluegrass go…
Danny Paisley doesn’t wear fancy stage clothes and doesn’t add lots of gimmicks and adornments to his guitar playing. With a…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
