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.
Carolina Detour at the 2025 Tony Rice Memorial Day MusicFest – photo © G. Nicholas Hancock Camp Springs Blue Grass Park…
Pammy Lassiter and Never Too Late at Pickin’ in the Park – photos © G. Nicholas Hancock High Lonesome Strings Bluegrass…
The Isaacs and The Malpass Brothers at the 2025 Malpass BrothersBluegrass & Country Music Festival – photo © Sandy Hatley 2025…
Authentic Unlimited at The Malpass Brothers Festival in Denton, NC (5/8/25) – photo © Sandy Hatley The Malpass Brothers Bluegrass &…
Today, Tennessee Bluegrass Band debuts their first single, Nolichucky, with their new band configuration. Lincoln Hensley, banjoist, and Tim Laughlin, mandolinist,…
Bobby Joe “Pop” Baldridge, 79, patriarch of the Goldwing Express, passed away on May 2 in Ozark, Missouri after a courageous…
Last night in Cary, NC, Alison Krauss & Union Station performed their sixth show out of 78 on a six-month tour…
The Wilkes Acoustic Folk Society has been involved with MerleFest since 2001, when the newly formed music club was invited by…
Valley Flower, an Austin, TX-based band, drops a single today. It is their version of It Rains Everywhere I Go, based…
Big Lick Bluegrass Festival’s performers, attendees, and promoter, Jeff Branch, literally weathered the storm this past weekend near Oakboro, NC. The…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
