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.
We reported last week on Ernie Evans undergoing surgery on November 17. A pair of tumorous growths were successfully removed, along…
The town of Marion, Virgina has become a familiar one to fans of bluegrass music based on the popularity of Song…
Several readers have asked us on Facebook, in comments to our recent articles, and in direct communications, to try and explain…
It’s time for Jon Weisberger to resign as the chairman of IBMA’s board of directors. I don’t say that lightly. As…
How well do you know your bluegrass, both contemporary and historic? Check your knowledge of trivia with the questions below. I…
Close your eyes and imagine this: an upright radio with a big round dial on the front, with fiddle tunes coming…
Earlier today, At-Large representative Henri Deschamps, Treasurer Elizabeth Wightman, and Agents/Managers/Publicists representative Brian Smith resigned from the Board of Directors of…
John Dopyera, Jr, son of the inventor of the Dobro guitar, John Sr, passed away on November 12. He was 85…
Those of us who are self-employed players of bluegrass music do something on a regular basis that Lester Flatt, Carter Stanley,…
The Board of Directors of the International Bluegrass Music Association has suffered another resignation, this time that of David Smith, the…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
