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.
On This Day ………….. On October 31, 1878, the first lady of the old-time banjo music Samantha Bumgarner was born. Sarah…
Here’s an interview with banjo man Bill Evans, conducted during IBMA week in Raleigh last month. We talked about his two…
We’ve written a lot about the banjo lately at Bluegrass Today, and why not? It is one of the central pillars…
We have some more information about stolen instruments in the bluegrass world, of the good news/bad news variety. First some good…
You don’t have to be a banjo or fiddle nerd to love Noam Pikelny Plays Kenny Baker Plays Bill Monroe, but…
Last week, on either October 9 or 10, two instruments were stolen from the home of Luke Monday in Goodlettsville, TN…
One of the most emotionally satisfying moments for me during last Thursday’s IBMA Awards presentation was seeing Mike Munford accept the…
On Saturday afternoon, as World of Bluegrass was circling the drain, David Morris caught up with Steve Martin and Jens Kruger…
Here’s our Special Bluegrass Correspondent – and a new assistant SBC – with another bonus edition of the Bluegrass Weather Report…
OK all you banjo pickers in Raleigh… A banjo flash mob has been declared for 2:00 p.m. on Saturday afternoon (9/28)…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
