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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.
Here we are one month after the 2007 IBMA World of Bluegrass. If you followed along here on the blog you…
Two weeks ago at IBMA John and I, along with Brandi Hart of The Dixie Bee Liners, conducted a seminar, the…
GAC-TV was a primary sponsor of the IBMA Awards Show last week, and this week they are beginning a run of…
OK… here is our final photo gallery from the 2007 IBMA Awards show on October 4 in Nashville. Special thanks to…
As promised, we’ll have a couple more photo galleries from last week’s IBMA festivities in Nashville. Here is a batch of…
During an IBMA week conversation with John Eberle of Americana Mastering, an excellent suggestion for a new IBMA Award category came…
We’ve heard from a number of readers who were unable to view the photo galleries we had posted from IBMA last…
It’s time now for our annual recap of the IBMA Awards and a comparison to our unofficial poll. Here are the…
Missy Raines wrote in this morning to offer some additional thanks she was unable to give during the award show last…
Yesterday John and I had the chance to sit down with the guys from Steep Canyon Rangers and conduct a short…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music