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.
Our own intrepid correspondent, Richard Thompson [bluegrassmercury], spent a week in Nashville in early October, having traveled from the UK to…
We still have a lot of folks checking out the 2008 IBMA Red Carpet interview videos, but since they have moved…
We had a lot of fun producing the Red Carpet videos from IBMA, along with all the other video interviews that…
The fifth, and final, installment of our IBMA Red Carpet interviews (watch episode 1, episode 2, episode 3, and episode 4),…
The fourth installment of our IBMA Red Carpet interviews (watch episode 1, episode 2, and episode 3), finds our hostess Katy…
Here is the third installment of our IBMA Red Carpet interviews (watch episode 1 and episode 2). Our hostess Katy Daley,…
Another stolen instrument report. This one is from Bryan Turner of Cumberland Gap Connection. It seems someone swiped his bass Tuesday…
Here is the second installment of our IBMA Red Carpet interviews (watch episode 1). Katy Daley, of BluegrassCountry.org, continues as our…
We know a lot of our readers didn’t have the opportunity to attend this year’s IBMA Awards Show in Nashville. We…
The IBMA has posted the text of the Keynote Address delivered by Berklee College of Music President Roger Brown at last…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music