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.
Banjo picker Anthony Howell has a Christmas single on offer this year, his version of the English carol, Hark The Herald…
Prolific bluegrass podcaster Evan Dickerson has just started a new show, which he calls Talking Bluegrass Albums or Songs. It takes…
Noted banjo instructor, and current banjo picker with Woody Platt and Zoe & Cloyd, Bennet Sullivan, has launched a new instructional…
Tim Ellis and his wife, Roxanne, celebrate his 65th birthday – photo © Bill Warren Southeast Michigan has been blessed with…
Mel Bay has released a new book that will be of interest to all players of old time string music. It’s…
The midwestern bluegrass community has been stunned and deeply saddened by the tragic death of talented young banjo player Mason Ruble,…
5-string banjo picker, down-home humorist, and entertainer extraordinaire Buck Trent passed away in Branson, Missouri, on October 9, 2023 (aged 85)….
Washington state banjoist Harley Worthington died on September 21 in Everett. He was 82 years of age. Though a native of…
Nechville Musical Products has announced a new signature artist model for Billy Failing, banjo picker with Billy Strings. It’s a Vintage…
Steve Bruce, the banjo pickin’ pastor from LaFollette, TN, has released another single from his all-instrumental project, What I Know Now….
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
