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.
Announcements were made yesterday by SiriusXM that as many as 475 people would be laid off this month as part of…
After a spell of declining health, prolific bluegrass song writer Bill Castle passed away at Maysville Nursing and Rehabilitation, in Maysville,…
Those of us who were following bluegrass music in the 1970s were most fortunate to watch the emergence of a true…
The East Tennessee State University Bluegrass, Old-Time, and Roots Music Studies program, which is included in the school’s Appalachian Studies department,…
The 12 Bar Blues Pickups company in Connecticut has announced their latest model, a banjo pickup endorsed by Todd Taylor. 12…
CBA Bluegrass Breakdown editor/graphic designer, Jason and Gina Dilg Long-time readers of the California Bluegrass Association member’s monthly newsletter, the Bluegrass…
Like so many bluegrass artists during the recent pandemic shutdowns, Jake Workman, hot shot guitar slinger with Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky…
Scott Memmer, who runs the Charmed Life Guitar Picks company in Los Angeles, has introduced a new set of items to…
Turnberry Records is getting into the music education market through a new partnership with noted fiddle and strings instructor Annie Savage….
Greg Rich and Carl Jackson with the Carl Jackson Signature banjo at SPBGMA – photo by Robin Jackson Recording King has…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
