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.
In recent years, country music fans who can’t stand today’s rap-infused “bro-country” sound have found a home in bluegrass. Many modern…
For every headlining, nationally touring, IBMA Award-winning group out there, there are a dozen local or regional bluegrass acts keeping the…
I’m usually excited to see new groupings of my favorite musicians, if just for the chance to hear what artists who…
Ted Olson, a professor of Appalachian Studies at East Tennessee State University, has become known as a go-to person for information…
The Dappled Grays, an Atlanta-based band that has been together for just over sixteen years, is the kind of group that…
The debut album from the Po’ Ramblin’ Boys, Back to the Mountains, is music for people like my dad. Old school…
A new release from The Boxcars is, for many bluegrass fans, a time to celebrate. The group is one of the…
These days you never really know what a band is going to sound like when you hear them live, although you…
When I see young children hailed as musical prodigies in the bluegrass world, I usually wonder if their early technical skill…
As a follow-up to 2014’s well-received Dancin’ Annie, Bill Emerson & Sweet Dixie has released a compilation album of the group’s…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
