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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.
Over one thousand fans of the five-string gathered in Shelby, North Carolina on Saturday, January 11, 2014 to experience the grand…
As I write this, bluegrass followers, and banjo pickers in particular, are acknowledging what would have been Earl Scruggs’ 90th birthday…
The Twelve Days of Christmas A song most people love to hate. It is never picked when church groups go Christmas…
The City of Shelby, NC has given a lot to the rest of the US. A handful of NASCAR drivers, NFL…
Much of Nashville, and all of country music, was absorbed yesterday with the memorial service for George Jones held at the…
This tribute to Earl Scruggs on the anniversary of his passing is a contribution from Jim Mills, a life-long student of…
Billboard has released their year-end list of the top albums in bluegrass music. As always for the magazine’s charts, these are…
Punch Brothers are one of those acts that help define the dividing line between what is and isn’t bluegrass music. Folks…
Our friends at Music City Roots have posted a video from the first part of the Earl Scruggs tribute during last…
One of the special features of this year’s IBMA World of Bluegrass event in Nashville next week – Monday, September 24…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
