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.
Illinois fiddler and bluegrass promoter George Portz passed away on January 9, 2023, from a heart attack, just two days after…
The Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass Music of America (SPBGMA) has announced the nominees for their 2023 National Bluegrass Awards….
Longtime Ohio-based musician/singer/songwriter, Edward “Beanpole” Efaw, 92, passed away on January 17. He had led The Bluegrass Mountaineers for more than…
As promised last week, it’s time for what used to be referred to as our “annual new product review.” I called…
Back in the 1990s, one of the most popular young bluegrass acts was a band called New Tradition. Over their roughly…
Big news last week for one of the few nationally-syndicated television programs that regularly features live bluegrass music. Song of the…
The popular band, Sideline, featuring banjo beast, Steve Dilling, and his guitar guru son-in-law, Skip Cherryholmes, have announced that the band…
Rick Stanley and Donna Ulisse at Denton FarmPark – photo by Sandy Hatley Sunday morning, Rick Stanley suffered a serious heart…
Australian bluegrass singer Kristy Cox, now living in Nashville and recording for Billy Blue Records, has been named as an inductee…
The Malpass Brothers, host band of Denton FarmPark’s Mother’s Day weekend music festival (formerly hosted by Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver), has…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
