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Top 50 bluegrass songs of 2024

Here is a look at the most played songs on bluegrass radio for the year 2024. These numbers are compiled from our weekly bluegrass playlist charts, adding total spins for the year to determine the songs played most frequently during the year.

Thanks again to all of our radio hosts who report their playlists each week, and congratulations to everyone who made the top 50 for ’24!

	ARTIST	SONG TITLE	LABEL	SONGWRITER(S)	SPIN TOTAL
1	Wood Box Heroes	Cross The Line	Independent	Josh Martin	4471
2	Ashby Frank	Knee Deep In Bluegrass	Mountain Home	Terry Baucom	4284
3	Jason Carter & Michael Cleveland	Outrun The Rain	Fiddleman	Terry Herd, Jimmy Yeary	3525
4	Travelin’ McCourys	Runaway Train	McCoury Music	Del McCoury, Ronnie McCoury, Pat McLaughlin	3370
5	Darin & Brooke Aldridge w/ John Jorgenson	Price I Pay	Billy Blue	Christopher Hillman, Bill Parker Wildes	2994
6	Lonesome River Band	Blues Of The Night	Mountain Home	Harold L Parsons	2910
7	Bronwyn Keith Hynes	Will You Ever Be Mine	Sugar Petunia	Reed Gulick-Stutz	2789
8	Authentic Unlimited	Big Wheels	Billy Blue	Jerry Cole	2687
9	Daniel Grindstaff w/ Trey Hensley	Looking At The World Through A Windshield	Pinecastle	Jerry Chesnut, Mike Hoyer	2608
10	Blue Highway	North Side	Down The Road	Shawn Lane, Chad Lane, Gerald Ellenburg	2487
11	Sister Sadie	Cannonball	Mountain Home	Dani Flowers, Paul Sikes	2454
12	Daniel Grindstaff	Finnland	Pinecastle	Daniel Grindstaff	2449
13	Darren Nicholson	Big Sky	Mountain Home	Darren Nicholson, Charles Humphrey III	2413
14	Del McCoury Band	If You Talk In Your Sleep	McCoury Music	Red West, Johnny Christopher	2359
15	Lonesome River Band	Hang Around For The Heartbreak	Mountain Home	Barry Hutchens, Will Hutchens, Jerry Salley	2234
16	Unspoken Tradition	Weary Town	Mountain Home	John Cloyd Miller	2094
17	Bronwyn Keith Hynes w/ Dierks Bentley	Trip Around The Sun	Sugar Petunia	Al Anderson, Stephen Turner Bruton, Sharon Vaughn	2071
18	Red Camel Collective	Roll On Mississippi	Pinecastle	Kye Fleming, Dennis Morgan	1984
19	Andy Leftwich	Behind The 8 Ball	Mountain Home	Andy Leftwich	1974
20	Milan Miller	Ghosts Of Galway Bay	Melton & Miller Music	Milan Miller, Beth Husband	1964
21	Sister Sadie	All Will Be Well	Mountain Home	Gabriel Barry Dixon, Dodd Wilson	1933
22	Kenny & Amanda Smith	Good Thing Gone Wrong	Farm Boy	Robert Earl Davis	1912
23	Authentic Unlimited	Fall In Tennessee	Billy Blue	John Meador, Bob Minner	1878
24	Wood Box Heroes	Cannonball	Independent	Barry Bales & Chris Stapleton	1866
25	Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out	Heading East To West Virginia	Independent	Tim Raybon	1777
26	Bronwyn Keith Hynes w/ Jason Carter	I Built A World	Sugar Petunia	Matthew Parsons	1704
27	Woody Platt w/ Tim O’Brien	Toe The Line	Compass	Barrett Davis, Josh Carter	1702
28	Steve Thomas & The Time Machine	Get Love	Bonfire	Steve Thomas, Jody Harris	1688
29	Chris Jones & The Night Drivers	What If You’re Wrong	Mountain Home	Chris Jones, Jon Weisberger	1676
30	Danny Burns w/ Sam Bush	Dirty Old Town	Pinecastle	Ewan McColl	1638
31	Missy Armstrong	Crickets	Melton & Miller Music	Beth Husband, Milan Miller	1634
32	Unspoken Tradition	I’m In A Hurry (And Don’t Know Why)	Crossroads	Roger Murrah, Randall Van Warmer	1624
33	Milan Miller	The Hour Of The Owl	Melton & Miller Music	Beth Husband, Milan Miller	1621
34	Balsam Range	Marshall McClain	Mountain Home	Milan Miller, Beth Husband	1603
35	Wyatt Ellis w/ Marty Stuart	Blue Smoke	Knee High	Wyatt Ellis	1575
36	Jason Carter & Michael Cleveland	Give It Away	Fiddle Man	Tim O’Brien, Matt Combs	1545
37	Milan Miller	New Songs And Old Guitars	Melton & Miller Music	Milan Miller	1532
38	Ashby Frank	God Gave Me Horses	Mountain Home	Connie Rae Harrington, Leigh Anne Nash	1508
39	Balsam Range	We’ll All Drink Money	Mountain Home	Adam Wright	1499
40	Bronwyn Keith-Hynes	Can’t Live Without Love	Sugar Petunia	Jamie Hartford	1493
41	Andy Leftwich	Aced	Mountain Home	Andy Ray Leftwich	1487
42	Eddie Sanders	Chasing That Midnight Moon	True Lonesome	Eddie Sanders & Glen Duncan	1468
43	Balsam Range	Evergreen	Mountain Home	Michael Hearne, Susan Gibson, Monica Smart	1435
44	Ashby Frank	Blue Night	Mountain Home	David Kirk McGee	1417
45	Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway	San Joaquin	Nonesuch	Songwriter credits cannot be found online	1395
46	Authentic Unlimited	Goodbye	Billy Blue	Jerry Cole	1383
47	Junior Sisk w/ Dan Tyminski	A Man Like Me	Mountain Fever	Roger Miller	1359
48	Amanda Cook	Last Road Going Home	Mountain Fever	Harley Allen	1356
49	Unspoken Tradition	Georgia In Her Eyes	Mountain Home	Saravanan Sankaran	1337
50	Kenny & Amanda Smith	Last Summer	Farm Boy	Kenny Smith, Brett Trout Jr.	1305

You can hear all 50 top songs from last year o n Spotify, and samples below.

Top 50 bluegrass songs of 2022

Here is a look at the most played songs on bluegrass radio for the year 2022. These numbers are compiled from our weekly bluegrass playlist charts, adding total spins for the year to determine the songs played most frequently over the last twelve months.

Thanks again to all of our radio hosts who report their playlists each week, and congratulations to everyone who made the top 50 for ’22!

	ARTIST	SONG TITLE	LABEL	SONGWRITER(S)	Spin TOTAL
1	Woody Platt	One Last Goodbye	Melton & Miller Music	Chris Stapleton, Barry Bales	4171
2	Lonesome River Band	Mary Ann Is A Pistol	Mountain Home	Dennis Linde	4039
3	Buddy Melton	A Diamond Took My Place	Melton & Miller Music	Milan Miller	3884
4	Blue Highway	On The Roof Of The World	Rounder	Tim Stafford	3735
5	Kenny & Amanda Smith	Everything To Me	Farm Boy	Dalton Harper	3492
6	Lonesome River Band	Heyday	Mountain Home	Barry Hutchens, Will Hutchens	3273
7	Irene Kelley	Lonely	IRK	Irene Kelley, Mark Irwin	3114
8	Ashby Frank	Midnight Highway	Mountain Home	Peter Rowan, Gary Nicholson	3096
9	Terry Baucom’s Dukes Of Drive	Hello Blues	Driving Duke	Aaron Bibelhauser, Mark Brinkman	3001
10	Volume Five	What I Didn’t Say	Mountain Fever	Glen Harrell	2944
11	Larry Cordle	East Kentucky Blues	Mighty Cord	Larry Cordle	2630
12	Appalachian Road Show	Blue Ridge Mountain Baby	Billy Blue	Barry Abernathy, Jim Van Cleve	2565
13	Milan Miller	Trout Don’t Live In Ugly Places	Melton & Miller Music	Beth Husband, Milan Miller	2549
14	Tim Raybon Band	Leaving Cleveland	Pinecastle	Tim Raybon	2493
15	David Parmley	All Dressed Up	615 Hideaway	Linda Buell, Geoff Buell, Jody Emerson	2469
16	Billy Droze	That Sweet Gal Of Mine	RBR	Billy Droze, Paul Staggs	2455
17	Terry Baucom’s Dukes of Drive	Here In The Country	Driving Duke	Jamie Dailey, Devin McGlamery	2403
18	Volume Five	Losing My Religion	Mountain Fever	Josh Miller	2349
19	Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver	That Train Don’t Stop Here Anymore	Billy Blue	Michael Henderson, John Scott Sherill	2305
20	Don Rigsby	Misty	RBR	Erroll Garner, Johnny Burke	2291
21	Marija Droze	The Night We Fell	RBR	Billy Droze, Heather Alley, David Norris	2273
22	Bluegrass 2022	EMD	Pinecastle	David Grisman	2270
23	Authentic Unlimited	Before You Miss Me	Billy Blue	Jerry Douglas Cole	2109
24	Chris Jones & The Night Drivers	Bed Of Snow	Mountain Home	Chris Jones, Thomm Jutz	2107
25	Grascals	Maybelle	Mountain Home	Milan Miller	2067
26	Audie Blaylock & Redline	Better Angels Fly Away	615 Hideaway	Reed Jones	2041
27	Milan Miller	Talking To Myself	Melton & Miller Music	Beth Husband, Milan Miller	1984
28	Russ Carson	Bugle Call Rag	Engelhardt Music Group	Earl Scruggs	1967
29	Tim Raybon	Ilene Baker	Pinecastle	Tim Raybon	1960
30	Billy Strings	Know It All	Rounder	Apostol, Weisberger, Allen	1928
31	Seth Mulder And Midnight Run	My, My, My	Mountain Fever	Rich Wilbur	1922
32	Ben James	Teardrops In Tennessee	RBR	Ben James	1889
33	The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys	Take My Ashes to the River	Smithsonian Folkways	Mark Erelli	1812
34	Shannon Slaughter	Common Ground	Elite Circuit	David Stewart, Linda Buell	1808
35	Irene Kelley	Carolina Special	IRK Records	Terry Herd, Irene Kelley, Ronnie Bowman	1786
36	Nick Dumas	Riding The Boston And Maine	Skyline	Tim Stafford, Rick Lang	1783
37	Missy Armstrong	Buttons	Melton & Miller Music	Beth Husband, Milan Miller	1757
38	Jeremy Garrett	What’s that You’re Doin’	Organic	Jeremy Garrett & Benny ‘Burle’ Galloway	1748
39	Billy Strings	Red Daisy	Rounder	Walker, Ward	1747
40	Tim Raybon Band	Sally Johnson	Pinecastle	Tim Raybon	1740
41	Balsam Range	Highway Side	Mountain Home	Timothy R Carroll, David F Coleman	1662
42	Dave Adkins	We’re All Crazy	Mountain Fever	Aaron Goodvin, Skip Black, Catt Gravatt	1638
43	Del McCoury Band w/ Vince Gill	Honky Tonk Nights	McCoury Music	Songwriter credits cannot be found online	1601
44	Chris Jones & The Night Drivers	Everybody’s Got A Line	Mountain Home	Chris Jones	1584
45	Tommy Buller	6 Feet Under And Still Going Down	RBR	Tommy Buller, Barton Hansen	1576
46	Junior Sisk	Patches On My Heart	Mountain Fever	Sonny Burns, Walter M. Breeland, Buddy Word	1575
47	Chris Davis	Down South In New Orleans	RBR	Johnny Right, Jim Anglin, Jack Anglin	1565
48	Andrew Crawford w/Josh Shilling	Had My Share of Heartache	Bonfire	Andrew Crawford	1554
49	Shannon Slaughter	Plus One More Day	Elite Circuit	Tim Stafford, Bobby Starnes	1549
50	Buddy Melton	I Win	Melton & Miller Music	Adam Wright	1548

You can hear all 50 top songs from last year on Spotify, and samples below.

Top 30 bluegrass songs for 2019

Here is a year end run down of the most played songs on bluegrass radio for the year 2019. These numbers are compiled from our weekly bluegrass playlist charts, adding total spins to determine the songs played most frequently over the last twelve months.

We will publish the 2019 Top 30 charts for Gospel and grassicana over the next two days.

	ARTIST	TITLE	LABEL	SONGWRITERS	TOTAL
1	Buddy Melton & Milan Miller	Who Are You Redbird	Melton & Miller Music	Milan Miller, Beth Husband	6334
2	Irene Kelley	Bluegrass Radio	Mountain Fever	Irene Kelley, Jerry Salley	5459
3	Missy Armstrong	I Ain’t Going Down To The River	Melton & Miller Music	Beth Husband, Milan Miller	4657
4	Blue Moon Rising	Louisville Rambler	Mountain Fever	Jerry Dill	4352
5	Chris Jones & The Night Drivers	Looking For The Bridge	Mountain Home	Chris Jones, Jon Weisberger	4213
6	Rhonda Vincent	Like I Could	Upper Management	Bobby Tomberlin, Erin Enderlin, Jeannie Seely	4180
7	Missy Armstrong	Broke Down In Arkansas	Melton & Miller Music	Cindy Baucom, Milan Miller, Beth Husband	4137
8	Steven Curtis Chapman w/Ricky Skaggs	Dive	SCSEE	Steven Curtis Chapman	4045
9	Ronnie Bowman	Looking For A Reason	Engelhardt Music Group	Ronnie Bowman, Shawn Camp	3929
10	Kenny & Amanda Smith	Feeling Of Falling	Farm Boy Records	Zachary Alvis and Jonathan Buckner	3682
11	The Grascals	Haggard	Mountain Home	Harley Allen	3533
12	Lonesome River Band	Little Magnolia	Mountain Home	Adam Wright, Milan Miller	3474
13	Larry Sparks	Take Me Back To West Virginia	Rebel	Daniel Crabtree	3403
14	Volume Five	15th Of October	Mountain Fever	Jeff McClellan	3364
15	Billy Droze	Coal Fed Train	RBR Entertainment	Billy Droze, Ronnie Bowman, Will Hiatt	3328
16	Irene Kelley	Thunderbird	Mountain Fever	Irene Kelley, Billy Smith	3311
17	Edgar Loudermilk & Jeff Autry	Lonesome Riverboat Blues	Rural Rhythm Records	Edgar Loudermilk, Jeff Autry, Zack Autry	3302
18	Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver	Living Like There’s No Tomorrow	Billy Blue	Jim McBride, Roger Alan Murrah	3223
19	Joe Mullins w/Del McCoury	The Guitar Song	Billy Blue	Bill Anderson, Jamey Johnson, Vicky McGehee	3012
20	Christian Davis w/Rhonda Vincent	Rosine I Cry	Turnberry/The 615 Hideaway	Michael Monroe	3003
21	Marija Droze	Listen To Your Heart	RBR Entertainment	Billy Droze, Marija Droze, Dave Norris	3000
22	Jason Barie (Featuring Paul Williams & Del McCoury)	I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry	Billy Blue	Hank Williams	2973
23	Sideline	Crash Course In The Blues	Mountain Home	Steve Wariner, John Barlow Jarvis, Don Cook	2948
24	Rick Faris	Breaking In Lonesome	Dark Shadow	Rick Faris	2922
25	Seldom Scene	Everybody’s Talking	Rounder	Fred Neil	2908
26	Big Country Bluegrass	Country Boy, Banjo and Flat Top Guitar	Rebel	Jarold McIntosh	2894
27	Audie Blaylock & Redline	Love Is An Awful Thing	615 Hideaway Records	R. Jones	2877
28	Irene Kelley	Something About A Train Sound	Mountain Fever	Irene Kelley, Billy Droze, Terry Herd	2798
29	Blue Moon Rising	Fallen Star Saloon	Mountain Fever	Shawn Camp, Herb McCullough	2783
30	Gena Britt	Over and Over	Pinecastle	Eli Johnston & Kevin McKinnon	2782

Poll: does chart action affect purchase decisions?

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Here at Bluegrass Today, we publish both a weekly and a monthly chart that measures how often new bluegrass songs get played on the radio. Other publications, like Billboard, publish charts based on sales reported to Soundscan, and still others measure how popular new songs are with radio programmers.

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