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.
Bobby Hicks with a fiddle he bought from Birch Monroe – photo © Lincoln Hensley Fiddler Bobby Hicks, surely among the…
Mark Sanderford in his natural habitat – photo © Nancy Sluys This weekend during the 57th Annual Fries Fiddlers’ Convention, Galax,…
Cincinnati bluegrass vocalist, bandleader, and radio host Katie Laur died on August 3. For 27 years she had hosted Music From…
I hope you’re staying cool in this, the hottest stretch of summer. I’ve got a lot of travel this week and…
Since the International Bluegrass Music Association’s announcement last month that their signature events would be moving to Chattanooga, TN for 2025-27,…
Craig Morris, age 70, a banjoist and lover of bluegrass music from Spring Hill, TN, passed away on Saturday, July 27,…
Bob Underwood, owner of Satellite Beach, FL’s Banjo Man’s Old Tyme Pickin’ Parlor (in the 1970s and ’80s), local bluegrass radio…
David Parmley has announced the addition of a new bass player to his touring band. And it’s our very own John…
Mr. Bluegrass Manners has been away for an unusually long time, and he asked me to pass on his apologies. He…
Tennessee Bluegrass Band at The Station Inn – photo © Laci Mack The Tennessee Bluegrass Band welcomes three new members into…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
