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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 area including Baltimore, Washington DC and surrounding region, Maryland and northern Virginia, is noted for a power-packed style of bluegrass…
Another personality whose death we missed initially is that of Judith McCulloh. A pivotal figure in the fields of folklore and…
Blue Highway’s Wayne Taylor started playing guitar when he was 13. Due to some health problems he spent a couple years…
Bluegrass enthusiasts of a certain preference and/or of a certain age will be familiar with the name Monroe Fields. His musicianship…
Every year since 1991 the IBMA initiates the induction of deserving personnel into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame (first…
Dixie Hall passed away on January 16 (2015). She had been ill for much of the previous year. She was born…
Robert Billy ‘Bill’ Yates Sr., who passed away on January 26, 2015, was born on April 30, 1936, in Big Rock,…
Julia Mainer, wife and long-time musical partner of old-time country music artist the late Wade Mainer, passed away on January 21,…
Ozarks bluegrass DJ and MC Ray Hicks passed away yesterday, Wednesday, January 14, 2015. He was 68 years old. Born August…
Hard-core bluegrass duo Vern Williams and Ray Park, from Arkansas, were a tremendous influence on bluegrass music in California. Ever since…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
