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.
Mountain Faith, a young family bluegrass Gospel group from western North Carolina, has signed on with Mountain Home Music to release…
Sierra Hull has a number of major milestones coming up this year. On March 8, Daybreak, her sophomore CD from Rounder…
Bill Graham is reporting over at Mandolin Cafe that plans for the Bill Monroe film biography we have discussed previously seem…
Popular Virginia group Nothin’ Fancy was among the many recording acts left homeless when Pinecastle Records closed their doors a year…
Mike Scott is known to most bluegrass fans as a banjo picker, having spent lengthy stints with Danny Davis & The…
You don’t have to follow the music industry closely to encounter news reports about the continuing decline in sales of recorded…
I had a chance to catch up last week with banjo monster Jim Mills, and was immediately curious about what he…
We have just learned that banjo pioneer JD Crowe took a fall last night as he was stepping off the bus…
Shannon Slaughter has been one of my favorite bluegrass guitarists since I first met him in the mid-1990s. At the time,…
We have lauded several times the efforts of Rebel and County Records in getting their deep back catalog into digital distribution….
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
