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.
They’re back – for the fourth year in a row. That’s right, the Banjo Babes Calendar for 2017 is now available,…
Nechville Musical Products is the latest bluegrass-oriented company to lend a hand to the relief efforts following the east Tennessee wildfires…
Rounder Records has announced a March 2017 release for Universal Favorite, their first recording for Noam Pikelny. Noam’s last project, Noam…
Bud Bennett, archivist at Radford University in Virginia, has released another set of his interview videos with top banjo players. Over…
Most anyone who has worked to learn a musical instrument knows how useful it would be to have a buddy who…
Ron Block has a new album, Leiper’s Fork Christmas, just now released in time for December. For the second year in…
Given our relative obscurity in the mainstream world of pop music, it’s always something of a sensation when one of our…
Alton Tharse Batten, known widely as Al, passed away on Sunday, November 20. He was 68 years of age. Al was…
Ohio banjo player Jim Greer passed away on Tuesday, September 13, 2016, at Logan Acres Care Center, Bellefontaine, Ohio. He was…
The banjo is arguably the core of bluegrass music. For many folks, it’s the key to whether or not a song…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
